UWM Digital Commons

Rural Masculinities in American Scripted Television Series of the 2010s, Paul Doro
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Meaning Making Over a Lifetime: A Case Study of Pat Boone, Samuel Wisneski
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Hot Licks and Rhetoric: Collecting, Community, and Disruptive Literacies, Joseph P. Serio
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Seeking Justice and Effecting Organizational Change: Kategoria as a Form of Rhetorical Leadership, Marnie Lawler McDonough
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Communicative Constitutions of Identity and Emotions Within a Virtual Support Group for Disenfranchised Bereaved Individuals, Michael Cody Coker
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Why Can't We Be Friends: The Legitimization of Police Violence in the Buddy-cop Film Genre, Briah Baker
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To Disclose or Not Disclose: the Proposition and Test of the Sexual Self-Disclosure Decision Model (SS-DDM), Riley Richards
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“Mirrors Can Give Us Space to Imagine…” Representations of Gender and Sexuality in BBC’s Dracula (2020), Riana S. Slyter
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Pick a Horse, Ditch the Goat: the Rise of the Spoiler Frame in a Bipartisan Election Discourse, Barbara Alexandra Raftes Dahlgren
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Social Movement and Reaction: the Joe Rogan Experience and Making Sense of #MeToo with Standup Comedian Podcasters, Daniel James Russo
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Improving Neurodiverse Relationships: Comparing Relational Quality and Maintenance Channels in Individuals with and Without ADHD, Jessica A. Kahlow
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Twining : Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives, Anastasia Salter, Stuart Moulthrop
English Faculty Books

Parent-Child Sexual Communication and Sexual Risk: A Meta-Analytic Review, Brittnie Star Peck
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Are They Really Just Cosmetic? the Impact of Cosmetic Items on Fortnite's Gameplay and Game Design, John Joseph Fennimore
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Factors That Push Bangladeshi Media to Exercise Self-Censorship, Abu Taib Ahmed
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Digital Mediation of Dissent: The Stories of Unveiled Women from Turkey, Atinc Gurcay
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The New State: Self-Governance & Self-Expression Through the Exploration of Youth Social Spaces in Today’s Mediated Society, Alexia Samira Brunson
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Memes and Copyright: Article 13, Branding, and Digital Remix Culture, Yasemin Beykont
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Communicating About Routine Childhood Vaccines: Meta-Analysis of Parental Attitudes, Behaviors, & Vaccine Hesitancy, Angela Victor
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Beyond the Game: an Exploratory Study of Virtual Communication, Self-disclosure, and Social Support on Live Streaming Platforms, Nicholas Hemschemeyer
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Image, Industry, and Ink: Communication of Tattoo Policies By Human Resource Professionals, Sabrina A. Fuller
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Maternal Healthcare Experiences of African American Women in Milwaukee : A Relational Dialectics Perspective, Comfort Tosin Adebayo
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Lifestyle TV for Men: the Nostalgic Fantasy of History Channel's Blue-Collar Infotainment, Stephanie Ann Menders
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“Being Cute and Hella Gay:" Pokémon Reborn, Fan Labor, and Queering the Pokémon World, David Peter Kocik
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Serendipitous News Discovery Increases News Consumption in News Recommender Systems, Zhixin Pu
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Production of Native Advertising in the New Media Economy, Siddhant Dwivedee
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The Business of the Girl: Celebrity and the Professionalization of Girlhood in Early Twenty-First Century Media Culture, Jessica Elizabeth Johnston
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Superhero TV– Analyzing the Narrative Techniques of the CW’s the Flash (2014 - Present) & the Netflix Original Program Daredevil (2015 - 2018), Dasmond R. McMillan
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How Do Social Comparison and Self-efficacy Influence Diabetic Patients’ Motivation Toward a Nutrition Regimen?, Youngjee Ko
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To Meme, or Not to Meme: Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management to the Provision of Support After Depressed Individuals Share Suicidal Memes, Jacki Paige Willenborg
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CW Is Open to All: Post-Difference Representation and Hegemonic Time-Travel Narratives in DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Claire Elizabeth Hackett
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“Where Are We Now?” The Image Construction of Arabs and Muslims in Bodyguard, Safa K. Khairy
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Bi the Wayside?: Shifts in Bisexual Representations in Teen Television, Analise Elle Pruni
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We Can Go the Distance: Communicating Through Conflicts in Long-distance Friendships, Lindsay Faith Kelpinski
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"It Can Never Be Just One Thing": Constructing a Grounded Theory of Coming Out, Kristy Jagiello
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Agency at the Seams: A Posthuman Approach to Disability in Family Interactions with Communication Technologies, Mary Jean Clinkenbeard
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Conformity Among College Students: The Effect of Gender on Sexually Violent Beliefs, Hanna Christine Klecka
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Green Energy at Any Cost: How Ethanol Producer Magazine Uses Science to Frame Ethanol Production, Ashley Kappers
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Culture and Code: The Evolution of Digital Architecture and the Formation of Networked Publics, Geoffrey Gimse
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Course Goals and Feedback Workflows: Examining Instructors' Pedagogy in Professional Communication Service Courses, Sara C. Doan
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Contextualizing the News: Newspaper Front Pages in the Age of Fact-Checking Journalism., Srijan Sen
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“Because He Is Different”: Shifts in Discourse and the Increasing Presence of Autism in Fictional Television, Sierra Wolff
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The Great War and Motherhood: Possibilities for Agency Within Motherhood Rhetoric 1915-1920, Terra Rasmussen Lenox
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User Experience as Organizational Ethos Focused on Quality: a Case Study of UX-Receptive and UX-Reluctant Workplace Cultures, Kimberly Schnaderbeck Baker
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Rhetorics of Opacity, Social Change, and Communal Cultivation: Case Studies of GLBTQ Christian Advocacy During the 1960s and Early 1970s, Joshua Holman Miller
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The Value of Internships in Radio Broadcasting, Anthony Mandella
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Drama, Low Wages, Fugitives, and Eviction: A Qualitative Analysis of the American Underclass as Presented in Books and Trash TV, Derrick Johns Jr.
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The Labor of Play: the Political Economy of Computer Game Culture, Justin Schumaker
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What Should Be Said or Silenced: Opinions of Necessary and Inappropriate End-of-life Communication Between the Living and the Dying, Mary Chris Dantzler
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Understanding the Discourses of Traumatic Birth and the Transition to Motherhood Using Relational Dialectics Theory, Valerie Fisher
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Computer-mediation Communication and Changing Expectations of Romantic Couples, Samantha F. Quinn
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Masculinity in American Television from Carter to Clinton, Bridget Kies
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Where’s the Fair Use? Participatory Culture, Creativity, and Copyright on Youtube, Joseph Daniel Barden
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Lesbian Patients Using Online Video Profiles to Find Doctors: How Cues Inform the Decision-making Process, Karina L. Willes
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Continuing to Advance Warranting Theory: Weight, Time, and Testing the Warranting Value Scale, Maura R. Cherney
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Old World, New Experiences: an Investigation of the Cognitive Complexity of Older Adults in an Online Dating Environment, Jennifer Akwi Awah-Manga
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Agents of Change: Scholarly Intervention at the Science-Policy Nexus, Daniel Card
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Negotiating Matters of Concern: Expertise, Uncertainty, and Agency in Rhetoric of Science, Danielle DeVasto
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Amplifying Lgbtqia+ Presence Through Queer Legal Worldmaking: the Role of Affect in Renegotiating Value Hierarchies in Political Argument, Hilary Ann Rasmussen
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What Motivates International Students to Acculturate? Exploring Acculturative Beliefs Using the Theory of Planned Behavior as Framework, Seokhoon Ahn
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How Working in Local TV News Affects Journalists' Personal Lives, Danielle Stobb
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How Individuals Disclose Health Information: a Study Examining the Choices Made When Sharing Health Information, Jessica Marie Samens
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What Should Be Included in a Measure of Communicative Participation? Perspectives of Speech-language Pathologists, Natalie Kelly Graceffa
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"Don't Be Such a Girl, I'm Only Joking!" Post-alternative Comedy, British Panel Shows, and Masculine Spaces, Lindsay Anne Weber
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“Superman’s Editor Mortimer Weisinger”: the Success and Extension of the Superman Brand in the Silver Age of Comics, Justin Engelbart
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Non-Native Foreign Language Instructors’ Teaching Expectations Concerning Intercultural Communication Competence: Communicative Practices in the Classroom., Richard A. Draeger Jr
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Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking, Leslie J. Harris
Communication Faculty Books

Uncertainty Appraisal in First Career Employment Information Seeking, Chang shik Choi
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The Cycle of Exclusion in Local Print News: How News Content Reflects and Reinforces Patriarchy, Emily Wright
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Now You're Playing with Power: Nintendo and the Commodification of Nostalgia, Steven Cuff
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Cross Cultural Meta-analysis of Personality and Leadership Effectiveness and Evaluation of Changes Over Time, Laura Lynn Motel
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Bodily Boundaries: Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Rhetorical Enactments of Self, Molly Margaret Kessler
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Enacting a Path from Despair to Happiness: A Critical Analysis of the It Gets Betters Project, Lindsey Marie Harness
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Agility Within Higher Education It Organizations: a Loosely Coupled Systems Perspective, Thomas E. Bunton
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An Exploration of Coworker Dismissal: Uncertainty, Message Characteristics, and Information Seeking, Bailey Carolanne Benedict
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An Exploratory Study of Learning Transfer from the Online Technical Communication Course to the Workplace, Richard Scott Schnoll
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College Students and Career Information Seeking: Applying the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to Career Preparation, Michelle Andrea Fetherston
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Bidding on a “biddie”: Social Exchange and Online Dating, Arrington Stoll
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Exploring the Discourses of Marriage, Family, and Fatherhood in Married Gay Parents' Relational Talk, Benjamin Michael Alex Baker
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Farm Aid: a Case Study of a Charity Rock Organization, Andrew Palen
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Elections Matter: the Politics of Prosecuting Deceptive Advertising in Wisconsin, Courtney Vander Veen Mich
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Gay Liberation Is One Thing, but Nobody Likes a Dyke: Emerging Frames in Queer Radio, Ryan Charles Sugden
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Gender Norm Conformity, Uncertainty, Communication, and Satisfaction Within Romantic Relationships: a Dyadic Model, Ashley Kristine Billig
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Growing Food Equity: a Participant Observation Exploring the Role of Communication in a Nonprofit Organization’s Work to Improve Food Access in Urban Areas, Samantha Jane Kaufman
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A Hero a Minute: the Manufacture of Aura and Rarity in the World of Sports Memorabilia and Rapid Commemoration, Roger C. Draeger
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Sound and Vision: Marketing Recorded Music in the Age of Radio, Daniel Martin Murphy
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The Feminist Voice in Mainstream News Discourse, Rachel Kinnard
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Relationships to Video Game Streamers: Examining Gratifications, Parasocial Relationships, Fandom, and Community Affiliation Online, Michael G. Blight
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Navigating the Noise: an Examination of the Relationship Between Introversion, Family Communication Patterns, Family Satisfaction, and Social Self-efficacy, Kristine Nicolini
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The Dangerous Side of Social Media: Manipulating Bystander Aggression and Support to Cyberbullying Victims Through an Application of Side, Clare M. Gross
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Communicating Identity in the Workplace and Affinity Groups Spaces, Megan Mary Lambertz-Berndt
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The Rhetorical Ties That Bind (or Divide): President Barack Obama's Attitude of Tolerance in an Age of Ultra-partisanship, Thomas Archie Salek
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“To Each Their Own”: Comparing Satisfaction, Money Management, and Financial Communication Across Couple Types, Anne Nicole Zmyslinski-Seelig
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The Ambience of Innovation: a Material Semiotic Analysis of Corporate and Community Innovation Sites, Reed Stratton
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Collective Management in a Cooperative: Problematizing Productivity and Power, Avery Edenfield
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Institutional Influence on Documentary Form: an Analysis of PBS and HBO Documentary Programs, Mark Joseph Irving
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Understanding the Nature and Impact of Early Pregnancy Loss Through Women's Stories, Jennifer Lynne Morey Hawkins
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Rhetorical Lessons in Advocacy and Shared Responsibility: Family Metaphors and Definitions of Crisis and Care in Unpaid Family Caregiving Advocacy Rhetoric, Rachel Diana Davidson
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Relationship-Based Care: a Test of the Quality Caring Model's Association with Nurses' Perceptions of Work and Patient Relationships, Kristopher Heindel
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"Anne Rice for Kids" and Twilight for TV: Young Adult Media Franchising and the Vampire Diaries, Megan Corinne Connor
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"Bring the Fan to the Game:" Football, Baseball, and the Transformation of Sports Television into Entertainment, Ethan Collins
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Materiality, Craft, Identity, and Embodiment: Reworking Digital Writing Pedagogy, Kristin Prins
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"Boredom Is Always Counter-revolutionary": Affective Political Activism in Participatory Online Communities, Paromita Sengupta
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Old Ideas in New Skins: Examining Discourses of Diversity on the Websites of 10 Urban-Serving Universities, Simone Smith
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"Be a Sturdy Oak:" the Art of Manliness and Rebranding Masculinity in 21st Century America, Leslie J. Peckham
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Balancing Business and Art in Music: Gazing into the Star Texts of Michelle Branch and Regina Spektor, Max Neibaur
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Performing Private Life on the Public Stage: Tracing Narratives of Presidential Family Lives, Leisure and Masculinities in US News Media, Kathryn Michele Kallenberger
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A Partial Reading of the Stones: a Comparative Analysis of Irish and Scottish Ogham Pillar Stones, Clare Jeanne Connelly
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"Everything Remains Uncertain": Theorizing Parents' Communication About Uncertainty, Hope, and Hopelessness While Managing Complex Pediatric Chronic Conditions, Katherine Ann Rafferty
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Family Connections: The Impact of Self-disclosure, Solidarity, and Stereotyping on Relational Satisfaction in Grandparent-adult Grandchild Dyads, DeAnne Priddis
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Containing Fatness: Bodies, Motherhood, and Civic Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture, Ruth J. Beerman
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VCRs: The End of TV as Ephemera, Shawn Michael Glinis
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Informational Power on Twitter: A Mixed-methods Exploration of User Knowledge and Technological Discourse About Information Flows, Nicholas John Proferes
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Motivational Interviewing in Primary Care and General Health Care Settings: a Meta-Analysis, Michele Kathryn Olson
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Thinking Systemically: a Study of Course Communication and Social Processes in Face-to-Face and Online Courses, Tanya Joosten
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The Transition to College: an Acculturation Comparison of Domestic and International Students, Kim Omachinski
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Constructing Loyalty, Citizenship, and Identity: a Rhetorical History of the Japanese American Incarceration, Kaori Miyawaki
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College Student Lay Health Information Mediary Behavior: an Examination of eHealth Literacy and Unrequested Health Advice, Andrew William Cole
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Mind & Matter: the Discursive Construction of the iPhone in Apple's Advertising, Nicholas Stratton
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"So, Are We Good?" the Emerging Sensitive New Man Movement in the Boys' Club of Stand-up Comedy, Stephen Kohlmann
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Redefining News in the Face of Economic Crises: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Transition to a Watchdog Journal, Aras Coskuntuncel
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The Impact of Culture and Religion on the Perception of Freedom of Expression Between Older and Younger Generations in South Africa and State of Kuwait: an International and Comparative Study, Dalal Albudaiwi
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The Development of an Eye-Tracking Method to Assess Cognitive Flexibility Using a Switching-Task Paradigm, Melissa Lu Pinke
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Does Stigma Against Smokers Really Motivate Cessation? A Moderated Mediation Model on the Effect of Anti-smoking Campaigns Promoting Smoker-Related Stigma on Cessation Intentions, Jinyoung Kim
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Balancing Work and Life in a Virtual World: the Impact of Boundary Management, Virtuality, and Climate on Organizational Identification, Kimberly Smith
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When Breast Cancer Is All About the Boobs: Postfeminist Culture's Influence on Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigning, Robin Frances Turnblom
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The Newest Vital Sign's Impact on Provider Communication, Adam Drent
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Marketing Post-Feminism Through Social Media: Fan Identification and Fashion on Pretty Little Liars, Anna Donatelle
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Health Information Behavior and Paternal Involvement of Low-Income Expectant and Recent Fathers, Emily M. Cramer
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Student's Perception of Teacher Immediacy Behaviors on Student Success and Retention, Rebecca Rae Mullane
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A Rhetorical Analysis of Catholic Feminism: Understanding Prophetic and Deliberative Responses to the Institutional Catholic Church, Mridula Mascarenhas
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Japanese Public's Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Deborah DeCloedt Pinçon
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Promotive and Preventive Health Practice and Self-construal, Jonathan Bryce Dellinger
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Coverage of the Euro Crisis in Spanish, German, British, and American Elite Newspapers, Katrina Schwarz
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Vicarious and Source Credibility: A Cross Cultural Explanation, Keith Edward Dilbeck
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Identity, Value, and Power: a Qualitative Study of the Complexity of the Working Relationship Between Technical Communicators and Subject Matter Experts, Tammy JoAnn Rice-Bailey
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Cultural Differences in Self-Presentation on Social Networking Sites: A Cross-cultural Comparison Between American and Japanese College Students, Kikuko Omori
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Resolving Public Records Disputes in Wisconsin: the Role of the Attorney General's Office, Jonathan Anderson
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Giving to Be Seen: the Influence of Facebook Charitable Advertisements on Conspicuous Donation Behavior, Lei Jia
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Understanding Wisconsin Legislators' Use of Social Media, Christian T. Moran
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Cyberbullying in 'Left 4 Dead 2': a Study in Collaborative Play, Kimberly L. Kulovitz
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How Lego Constructs a Cross-promotional Franchise with Video Games, David Robert Wooten
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The Effects of Online Advertisements and News Images on News Reception, Minchul Kim
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Political Culture, Policy Liberalism, and the Strength of Journalist's Privilege in the States, Casey James-Michael Carmody
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The Rhetorical Construction of Female Empowerment: The Avenging-Woman Narrative in Popular Television and Film, Lara C. Stache
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Nonresidential Parenting: Parental Roles and Parent/child Relationships, Falon F. Kartch
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Global Technical Communication and Content Management: A Study of Multilingual Quality, Tatiana Batova
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Parent-Child Communication About Marriage and the Displacement of Marital Myths, Jennifer Anne Jackl
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Race, Crime and Athletes: A Qualitative Analysis of Framing in Local Newspaper Coverage of NFL Quarterbacks Michael Vick and Ben Roethlisberger, Kristi Grim
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Encouraging Healthy Body-Image: Are Parents Sending Effective Messages to Children?, Anna Herrman
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Facebook as a Facilitator of Organizational Identification in Colleges and Universities: Exploring Relationships Among Educational Institutions, Student Tenure, and Interaction with Multiple Organizational Targets, Aimee Lau
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Breaking the Silence: The Role of Online Community in the Transition to Motherhood, Alice Leigh Gattoni
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Be Honest with Me: An Exploration of Lies in Relationships, Arrington Stoll
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An Anaylsis of Patient-Physician Discourse: Comparing Physician Diagnostic Scripts to Patient Social Script Expectations, Denis Grimes
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Articulating the "L" Word Online: A Study of Chinese Slash Fandom of Super Girl, Jing Zhao
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Exploring Alcohol Expectancies in Korea and America Using the Holism Theory, Seokhoon Ahn
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The enclosure and alienation of academic publishing: Lessons for the professoriate, Wilhelm Peekhaus
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Pronouns - A How To Guide, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee LGBT Resource Center
LGBT Resource Center Instructional Materials

Monsanto discovers new social media, Wilhelm Peekhaus
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The neoliberal university and agricultural biotechnology: Reports from the field, Wilhelm Peekhaus
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Primitive accumulation and re-appropriation of the information commons, Wilhelm Peekhaus
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Personal health information in Canada: A comparison of citizen expectations and legislation, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Wilhelm Peekhaus

Privacy for sale - Business as usual in the 21st century: An economic and normative critique, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Wilhelm Peekhaus

Examination of asynchronous volumetric and frequency communication patterns in online courses and their impact on adult learner satisfaction, Robert W. Treat
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