Prospective Students Current Students Faculty Alumni & Parents Research Centers & Programs
Print
Email a Friend
Ph.D. Dissertations and Master's Theses in the ARC

Ph.D. Dissertations

(Master's Theses are listed after Dissertations)
AYDIN, Carolyn Elizabeth, Bringing Social Worlds Together: Information Systems as Catalysts for New Interaction in Health Care Organizations, 1989. 

BAKER, Barbara Louise, Reaffirmation and Transformation of Gender in Popular Film: A Feminist Approach to Mythic Rhetoric, 1990. 

BOOTH, Herbert Wesley, Supporting and Blocking Behavior in Dyadic Discussions Involving Individuals With High and Low Interpersonal Attraction and Similar and Discrepant Attitudes Toward a Topic, 1972. 

BOYD, Brian Keane, Perceived Uncertainty and Environmental Scanning: A Structural Model, 1990. 

BUEHLER, Mary Fran, Rhetorical Foundations of Technical Communication, 1983. 

BURHANS, David T., The Development and Field Testing of Two Internal Communication Measuring, 1970. 

CARLSON, Adina Cheree, Order, the Secret, and the Kill: The Rhetoric of the Know-Nothing Party, 1985. 

CHEN, Ying-Chung Annie, The Diffusion of Cable TV in the United States, 1987. 

CLINE, Carolyn Garrett, Our Neglected Naighbors: How the U.S. Elite Media Covered :atin America in 1977, 1981.

COLLINS-JARVIS, Lori Anne, Communication, Consensus and Commitment in Collective Action Organizations, 1993. 

CONTRACTOR, Noshir S., A Dynamic Reformation of Perception of Inequity: Their Organizational Antecedents and Outcomes, 1988. 

COZZENS, Michael, Information, Social Pressure, and Instrumental Beliefs as Predictors of Organizational Involvement: An Application of Theory of Reasoned Actions, 1988. 

DAVIS, Barry Craig, Senator Daniel Ken Inouye's Speaking on Minority Rights in the United States, 1963-1973, 1976. 

DEARING, James William, Communication among Researchers in a Science City: Tsukuba, Japan, 1990. 

DIESTAL, George Edward, An Experimental Test of Fishbein's Behavioral Intentions Model in the Prediction of Interpersonal Communication Acts, 1971. 

DING, Zhon, Technology Transfer in China: Manufacturers' Market Dependence and Technology Pursuit, 1990. 

DUNCAN, Stewart Scott, The Relationship between Organizational Feedback Mechanisms, Employee Use, and Organizational Outcomes, 1978. 

EASTMAN, Harvey Albert, Correlates of Children's Responses to an Affective Television and Print Package Designed to Reduce Sex and Sex-Role Stereotyping, 1979. 

EISENSTOCK, Barbara Ann, Television as a Source of Career Awareness for Children: Effects of Sex and Sex-Role Preferences, 1979. 

EK, Richard Almo, A Historical Study of the Speechmaking at Cooper Union 1859-1897, 1964. 

EPSTEIN, Robert Henry, Communicative Performance with Media: Effects and Implications of Television and Adult-Child Interaction on Preschooler's Language, 1977. 

EVANS, Nicola, Making Metaphors Out of People: Fag Hags, Cyborgs, Mulattos and Cross Dressers, 1994. 

FAITH, William Robert, Bob Hope and the Popular Oracle Tradition in American Humor, 1976. 

FELLOW, Anthony Raymond, Computers and Political Communication: Innovation in Political Campaign Organizations, 1987. 

FILLOY, Richard Anthony, The Religious and Political Views of John Seldon: A Study in Early Stuart Humanism, 1977. 

FINK, Mark A., An Early American Model of Nonresistant Rhetoric as Illustrated by the Life and Writings of Christopher Sauer, Sr., 1972. 

FINET, Dayna, The Role of Communication in Equity Perception and Response: Implications for Social Justice Theory and Research, 1989. 

FLYNN, Patricia, Just Decisions: Moral Ordering and the Social Construction of Bioethics, 1991. 

FUMAGALLI, Orazio, The Television Medium and Television Programs on Art, 1963. 

GOLDMAN, Ronald Jay, Factors of Influencing Acceptance of Telecommunications Innovations: A Study of Vocational Rehabilitation Practitioners, 1979. 

GONZALEZ, Ibarra Manuel, Utilization Patterns of Hi-Ovis Interactive Broadcasting System in Higashi Ikoma, Japan, 1986. 

GOODMAN, Gary Scott, Rhetoric of Meir Kahane of the Jewish Defense League, 1978. 

GRANT, August Edwin, Exploring Patterns of Television Viewing: A Media System Dependency Perspective, 1988. 

GUTHRIE, Katherine Kendell, The Politics of Citizen Access Technology: The Development of Community Communication and Information Utilities in Four Cities, 1991. 

HART, Paul Jason, The Use and the Role of Commercial On-line Databases in Four Organizations, 1987. 

HENKIN, Alan Harvey, The Moral argumentation of Four Reform rabbis: A Study in the Logic of Moral Discourse, 1985. 

HERBST, Susan, Numbered Voices: The Rationalization of Public Opinion from Ancient Greece to Modern Times, 1989. 

JACOBSON, Denise Brooke, Regional Film: A Resistance to Cultural Dominance, 1989. 

JEFFERIES, Renan Bayard, The Influence of Communication Network Centrality and Information Capacity Organizational Performance, 1983. 

JUN, Suk-Ho, Public Uses of Interactive Television, 1986. 

KING, Stephen William, An Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Message Type, Degree of Interpersonal Similarity on Attitude Change and Ratings of Source Credibility, 1971. 

KLUVER, Alan Randolph, Legitimating Economic Reform in China, 1978-1992: A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy, 1993. 

KOMSKY, Susan Holland, Communication and the Implementation of Information Systems: The Case of Word Processing in State and Local Governments, 1984. 

KOVARIC, Peter Michael, Children's Judgments of the Similarity of Television Series and the Similarity of Gratifications Associated with Television Series, 1985. 

KUNKLE, Dale Lyman, Children's Understanding of Television Advertising: The Impact of Host-Selling, 1984. 

LIEVROUW, Leah Annie, The Communication Network as Interpretive Environment: "Sense-Making" among Bio-medical Research Scientists, 1986. 

LOGAN, Christie Ann, Adaption Of Narrative Fiction to Readers Theatre Performance, 1977. 

LOGES, William Earl, Canaries in the Coal Mine: Perceptions of Threat and Media System Dependency Relations, 1992. 

LUM, Patricia Janet, Demand Characteristics for Telephone among a Community of Senior Citizens: A Communications Approach, 1986. 

MAILOUX, Steven John, Interpretive Conventions and Recent Anglo-American Literary Theory, 1977. 

MANI, Sirish S., An Organizational Culture Approach to the Study of Individual Power and Its Uses, 1988. 

MANROSS, George Gary, Confirming Media Effects in Voting Behavior: A Media Dependency Perspective, 1988. 

MANTEI, Marilyn M., Disorientation Behavior in Person-Computer Interaction, 1982. 

MARSHAL, Eric R., Playwriting Contests in the Age of Jackson: 1829-1841, 1983. 

MASON, James Lester, Origen's Rhetoric, 1969. 

McDONNELL, Joseph W., John Dewey and Martin Buber on Communication and Community, 1978. 

METZGER, Janet G., Narration as a Construct for Understanding Third-Culture Building: Exploring Missionaries' Success and Effectiveness as Cosmological Change Agents, 1987. 

MILLER, Katherine Irene, A System of Participation and Allocation Preferences in Organizations, 1985. 

MILLER, Roxanne Town, City Manger and Assistant City Manager Perceptions of the Municipal Public Relations Function, 1979. 

MONAHAN, Jennifer Lynn, Information Processing Differences of Conversational Participants and Observers: The Effects of Self Presentation Concerns and Cognitive Load on Evaluation, 1993. 

MORELAND, James Porter, The Ontological Status of Qualities and Quality-Instances: A Defense of Realism, 1984. 

NELSON, Stephanie Jean, Synanon Women's Narratives: A Bakhtinian Ethnography, 1994. 

NICOL, John Hewitt, The Influence of Communication and Leadership Emergence in Small Groups, 1983. 

PEASE, Pamela Sue, Factors Influencing the Use of Video-Conferencing by Managers, 1988. 

PHILLIPS, Amy Friedman, Communicative Features of Educational Computer Software, 1985. 

POWER, James Gerard, Mass Communication of Otherness and Identification: An Examination of the Portrayal of Homeless People in Network Television News, 1990. 

PYLES, Raymond Allen, Using Computer Based Information: How Information Systems Types Affect Decision Makers' Uncertainties, 1981. 

ROTHENBUHLER, Eric Walter, Media Events, Civil Religion, and Social Solidarity: The Living Room Celebration of the Olympic Games, 1985. 

RUCHINSKAS, John Edward, Communicating in Organizations: The Influence of Context, Job, Task, and Channel, 1982. 

SCHIECHTER, Russell, Iron Cage Aesthetics: Rationalization and Revisionism in Post modern Popular Culture, 1992. 

SCHMITZ, Joseph Albert, Social Information, Media Richness, and Media Choice: The Perception and Selection of Electronic Media, 1991. 

SCHWALBE, Ted, A Multidimensional Approach to Political Information Seeking and Political Participation, 1980. 

SCHOREDOS, John Alan, A Comparison of Real Time and Post Hoc Evaluation of Media Presentation, 1980. 

SHOOK, Douglas Edward, A Structural Equivalence and Contingency Theory Perspective on Media Usage and Communication Performance: The Case Study of Voice Messaging, 1988. 

SINGHAL, Arvind, Entertainment-Education Communication Strategies for Development, 1990. 

SOBOTKA, Mildred, Susan B. Anthony The Reformer, 1983. 

SPITZBERG, Brian Howard, Relationally Competent Communication: A Review, Synthesis, and Empirical Test of a Predictive Model, 1981. 

STEINFELD, Charles William, Communicating via Electronic Mail: Patterns and Predictors of Use in Organizations, 1983. 

STEWART, John Robert, Rhetoricians on Language Philosophy Critique, 1970. 

TORBIN, Jack, Media Style: A New Perspective on the Use and the Implementation of Media for Interpersonal Communication in Organizations, 1987. 

VALENTE, Thomas W., Thresholds and the Critical Mass: Mathematical Models of the Diffusion of Innovations, 1991. 

VAN-TASSEL, Joan-Marie, Interactive Television: The Effects of Self-Disclosure on Viewer Response to Media Messages, 1988.

WANG, Mei-Wen, The Diffusion of Telephones in the United States, 1988. 

WATERS, Kenneth Eugene, Toward the Successful Christian Publication: A Descriptive Analysis of Four Independent Evangelical Christian Periodicals, 1982. 
WHITE, Dale Timothy, The Storytelling in the Story: Understanding the Narrativity in News Text, 1994. 

WILSON, Elizabeth, Leading the Communicty Chorus: the Role of Organizations in Society, 2001.

YEAGER, Deborah Dunn, Recovering the Discourse: Genres of Sexual Harassment in Organizations, 1996.

YUM, June Oak, Communication Patterns and Information Acquisition of Korean Immigrants in Hawaii, 1979. 

ZMUD, Johanna P., Ethnic Identity, Language, and Mass Communication: An Empirical Investigation of Assimilation among U.S. Hispanics, 1993. 


 

Master's Theses

Tsai, Eva. Online Journalism: How Newspapers Tell Stories on the Internet, 1998.