Recently added articles from Communication Studies:
Suburban American punks and the musical rhetoric of Green Day's "Jesus of Suburbia".(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Punk has changed since the days of the Sex Pistols. With the band Green Day, punk became a commercial success, but what happened to punk in the process? Green Day has been dubbed by some as "innately suburban" (Loftus, 2004, [paragraph] 1), playing to an "audience of teens and tweens ...
Tattling on the teacher: a study of factors influencing peer reporting of teachers who violate standardized testing protocol.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Teacher cheating on standardized tests is a grave problem for public schools. Nichols and Berliner (2005) documented allegations and actual instances of cheating on standardized tests in 30 states implicating administrators, principals, and teachers. Gay (1990) found that 35% of teachers ...
Inventional repertoires and written messages.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Theories of message production (Greene, 1997a) are mainly dominated by the goals-plan-action (GPA) model (Dillard, 2004), although an important exception is the local management of meaning (LMM) theory posited by O'Keefe and Lambert (1995). The GPA model says that, upon coming into contact ...
Convergent validity of the communication based emotional support scale.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Researchers from multiple disciplines have investigated emotional support and its role in human interaction (Cohen & Hoberman, 1983; Manne, Ostroff, Sherman, Heyman, Ross, & Fox, 2004; Riegel & Carlson, 2004; Xu & Burleson, 2004). Although definitions vary, scholars agree that emotional ...
Talking smack: verbal aggression in professional wrestling.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Reservations about the type of verbal exchange often found in televised professional wrestling are perhaps best illustrated by the discourse of Degeneration X, who popularized the catch phrase "suck it!" No doubt, many parents are concerned when they hear this type of talk on television, ...
"Katie was not only a girl, she was terrible": Katie Hnida, body rhetoric, and football at the University of Colorado.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... In their review of scholarship on the body, Patterson and Corning (1997) argue that from the perspective of rhetoric, we must "read the body as the site of cultural inscription, self-regulation, and resistance" (p. 7). In the subsequent decade, rhetorical scholars increasingly have ...
Surveillance/discipline/resistance: Carly Fiorina under the gaze of The Wall Street Journal.
Apr 01, 2008; ... In July 1999, Carly Fiorina was named president and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Company, becoming the first woman to lead one of the 20 largest public corporations in the United States. In addition to being female, she was the first outsider to run the traditional, well-established ...
Communicating forgiveness in friendships and dating relationships.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Given forgiveness is believed to be a critical component of successful interpersonal relationships (McCullough, Rachal, Sandage, Worthington, Brown, & Hight, 1998) and good mental and physical health (Witvliet, Ludwig, & Vander Laan, 2001), it is surprising some elements of the forgiveness ...
The rules-based process of revealing/concealing the family planning decisions of voluntarily child-free couples: a communication privacy management perspective.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Over the last few decades, researchers have started to focus on the incidence (Paul, 2001; Thornton & Young-DeMarco, 2001) and characteristics (Clausen, 2002; Ganong, Coleman, & Mapes, 1990; Heaton & Jacobson, 1999; Morrell, 1993; Park, 2002) of couples who willingly remain child flee. The ...
Modal expressions in refusals of friends' interpersonal requests: politeness and effectiveness.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Politeness is important across many social contexts, including personal relationships, business interactions, and institutionalized forms of communication such as international diplomacy. It is little wonder, then, that even the smallest children are routinely advised to "say please and ...
Metaphor and intra-attitudinal structural coherence.(Report)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Metaphor has a long history of study as a rhetorical tool. Derived from the Greek words, "meta" meaning "over" and "pherein" meaning "to carry," a metaphor is traditionally considered a linguistic expression of the form "A is B" consisting of two parts A and B, such that the comparison ...
A computer-based educational intervention to address potential negative effects of Internet pornography.(Author abstract)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... There has been much debate over the potential negative effects of exposure to sexually explicit media (SEM), and a considerable amount of research has been devoted to this issue. Empirical findings regarding the assertion that exposure to pornography may have negative effects on men's ...
Apologia, antapologia, and the 1960 Soviet U-2 incident.(Author abstract)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... When individuals and organizations are forced to explain their behavior, they will typically account for the undesirable action by lessening responsibility for the act or by lessening the significance of the harm caused by the act. Ryan (1982) argued that self-defense discourse involves ...
Spanning the boundaries of work: workplace participation, political efficacy, and political involvement.(Author abstract)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Workplace participation has seen increased attention in the past decades (e.g., Cheney et al., 1998; Deetz, 1992, 1995; Harrison, 1994; McLagan & Nel, 1995; Seibold & Shea, 2001; Stohl & Cheney, 2001). However, organizational communication research on workplace participation has been ...
Do loss-framed persuasive messages engender greater message processing than do gain-framed messages? A meta-analytic review.(Author abstract)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The amount of processing that message recipients give to persuasive messages has been identified as an important determinant of the nature of persuasive processes and effects. Dual-process models of persuasion, such as the elaboration likelihood model (Petty & Cacioppo, 1986; Petty & ...
Meet the (ideal) candidate: how viewers interpret political advertising during the "invisible primary".(Author abstract)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Before any ballots are cast--and even before most candidates run their 30-second TV ads--presidential campaigns produce "meet the candidate videos" to begin the process of presenting a candidate's personality and platform to potential voters (Parmelee, 2002). The videos usually run about ...
Chain versus independent television station ownership: toward an investment model of commitment to local news quality.(Author abstract)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In June 2003 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 to relax ownership restrictions of broadcast and print media, allowing a single company or individual to own up to three television stations, eight radio stations, one daily newspaper, and one cable operation in the largest ...
The influence of race, heuristics, and information load on judgments of guilt and innocence.
Dec 01, 2007; ... This study applies the heuristic-systematic model to explore the influence of race and judicial-system heuristics on jury decision-making. In a mock-jury investigation, a 3x2 experimental design varied a trial descriptions information load (high, medium, low) and defendant's race ...
An investigation of the relationship between implicit personal theories of communication and community behavior.
Dec 01, 2007; ... A waning sense of community has been well documented and widely accepted as among the most significant problems of our time. Both social capital (trust in others and civic participation) and interpersonal acts of assistance (or helping) are considered to be common indicators of community ....
The push and pull of stepfamily life: the contribution of stepchildren's autonomy and connection-seeking behaviors to role development in stepfamilies.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Role negotiation in stepfamilies is an important process that involves and affects all family members. Although researchers have focused on stepparent role development and the influence of stepparents' behaviors, less attention has been given to the influence and experience of stepchildren ...