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The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the role of prayer and relationship with God for parents who experienced the death of a child. In-depth interviews were conducted with eighteen parents (N = 18) who fall under the Protestant...
LIS literature suggests that the information norms of immigrants are situated in information poverty, gatekeeping, and the digital divide—all of which inhibit access to information. The canon primarily addresses how insufficient...
Socialization of doctoral students refers to the learning and adjustment process through which they acquire information and knowledge about their work, department, university, and discipline. This dissertation explores characteristics...
This dissertation research aims to provide a better understanding of people's credibility assessment of online information (i.e., Web credibility assessment), which is an important part of their information behavior. In particular, this...
Established standards and guidelines promote school librarian leadership in technology integration. Despite the imperatives implicit in professional guidelines and standards, school librarians' active engagement as leaders is not...
In previous scholarly research, the relationship between family connectedness and mobile phone usage has mixed results, with some research touting phones as a relationship enhancer and other admonishing its role in the interpersonal...
In this dissertation, it is proposed that presence is a mechanism overlooked by previous work on video games and guilt. Presence is a multidimensional construct which broadly reflects the feeling of “being there” in a mediated space. One...
Personal virtual assistants (PVAs) allow users to place phone calls, start timers, play media, and order pizza all with just the call of their voice and the popularity of this technology is growing rapidly. However, little academic...
This study examined the quantity and quality of language interactions between young Spanish-English speaking children and their caregivers during book sharing in two conditions: with and without feedback on quantity of adult language...
Critical political economic methods are used in this study to examine climate change editorials published by prestige press newspapers in the United States between the years 2014 to 2017. This includes exploring elements of corporate...
This dissertation examines the religious rhetoric of Ronald Reagan as part of a strategy to rebuild his political base following a disappointing level of support after his first two years in office. In particular, this examination will...
When John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, the United States entered a new era of Cold War diplomacy. During the era ridden with propaganda and imminent nuclear apocalypse, the presidential address served as a powerful tool to...
Perceptual-training paradigms offer a promising platform for improving intelligibility of dysarthric speech by offsetting the communicative burden from the speaker onto the listener. Much of the research to date has utilized young adults...
This study examined the role of variety and frequency of dialectal features in relation to dialect awareness of African American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) forms. Participant data was derived from oral and written...
Capitalizing on Protective Factors: Establishing a Child and Youth Care Worker-Implemented Language Intervention for Use in Child and Youth Care Centers in South Africa
The purpose of the present study was to determine if naturalistic language intervention could be effective in a Child and Youth Care Center (CYCC) in South Africa to prevent and to treat potential impairments in orphan's communication....
Research based on the affective approach has established that political partisans' emotional responses to identity-threatening news content, particularly that of anxiety and anger, will affect their subsequent information seeking (e.g., ...
Along with the concepts of corporate responsibility and sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received significant attention and has become a global trend that challenges the role of business. The purpose of this...
Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that affects various aspects of speech production, such as breath support, speech rate, articulation, and prosody. Traditional speech therapy involved behavioral changes to how a person with...
This research investigated South Korean citizens' political information behaviors on Twitter during the 2014 Seoul Mayoral election. By using the mixed methods design of network analysis, tweet content analysis, and interviews, this...
We Could Do Better: The Presence, Absence, and Librarian Perceptions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Resources in Small and Rural Public Libraries in Alabama
Although the LGBTQ community, from all appearances, maintains a strong connection to libraries as safe spaces, it is unclear whether the libraries themselves are providing relevant resources and services to the community. In addition, ...
Interdisciplinary research is often problem-based, arising to serve needs that cannot be fulfilled without crossing domain boundaries. Interdisciplinary researchers face a number of issues such as poor communication, methodological...
Global politics is a complex game, particularly when conflict dominates the relationship between countries. South Asia is no different as both India and Pakistan have fought four wars since achieving independence from the British in 1947...
The gap in academic achievement between English learners (ELs) and their monolingual peers is of increasing concern in the United States. Despite efforts to identify effective strategies to support ELs’ development and reduce this...
This dissertation focused on the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library, located in the Harlem neighborhood. It focused on the library under the leadership of Ernestine Rose, who was the head librarian from 1920-1942. During...
There has been growing discussion that distinguishes meaningful media entertainment, eudaimonic media experiences, and self-transcendent positive emotions from pleasurable media entertainment, hedonic media experiences, and non...
The purpose of this study is to understand public library users' health information seeking behaviors and what factors may influence the intention of an individual to use the public library as their health information resource. This...
This thesis aims to explore the impact that YouTube, as a social media platform, has in facilitating Parasocial Interactions (PSI) and Relationships (PSR) between consumers and YouTubers. This thesis looks at the predictors of PSR, the...
The Leadership Role of School Librarians in the Adoption of Digital Textbooks: Evaluating School Librarians' Stages of Concern in Florida and South Korea
In our fast-paced, high-tech society, school librarians' leadership role in technology integration has been receiving particular attention. Because school libraries are usually the first place to introduce new educational technologies, ...
Social media have altered various aspects of society, including identity management, collective action, and civic engagement. One of the more recent social media to enter the scene is Snapchat, an application that allows users to create...
Rhetoric, Religion, and Representatives: The Use of God in Presidential Inaugural Addresses from 1933-2009 as Reflections of Trends in American Religiosity
The purpose of this study is to explore the rhetorical functions of references to God and the Bible in the first presidential inaugural addresses from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama. The Inaugural Address serves to reunite the...
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is one of the largest movements in America, with the mission of ending police brutality and other racial injustices affecting the Black community. The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in...
This study is a content analysis of China-related research published in three prominent communication peer-viewed journals, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Communication, and Communication Research between 1979, the...
This research investigates the adoption of smartwatches within the running community. By using a mixed methods design consisting of quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews, this study asks runners what factors influence their...
This dissertation examines the Disney-produced Star Wars films from a Posthumanist lens to determine if Star Wars is an example of a Posthuman popular culture franchise. A multiperspectival research approach to media studies is utilized...
The growing multicultural population in the United States has resulted in more and more individuals negotiating multiple ethnic identities in their daily lives. Despite the increasingly multicultural nature of the U.S. populations, ...
The advent of high-throughput techniques has led to exponential increase in the size of biological data encoded in various formats and stored in different databases. This has posed challenges for biological scientists to retrieve, use, ...
The Role of Social Media in Romantic Relationships: Examining the Association between Active Social Media Use and Relationship Conflict, Stress, and Satisfaction
With the evolving normalcy of communication technology in society, more research is required concerning the processes and effects of social media within the context of health and interpersonal outcomes. By examining Facebook, Twitter, ...
Reading comprehension emerges as an important skill set in the early elementary grades. It is supported by component skills including decoding, linguistic knowledge including vocabulary and syntactic knowledge, as well as more complex, ...
This research aims to synthesize the psychological distance on social media marketing of luxury brands. At the same time, this study sheds light on consumers’ online engagement behavior on social media brand pages, so that managerial...
Veganism is a growing dietary trend in the U.S. and scientific evidence is showing that it may be necessary for more people to make the lifestyle change in the near future. However, previous research shows predominantly negative...
Every year, millions of Americans get sick from foodborne illness and it is estimated half of all reported instances occur at restaurants. To protect the public, regulators are encouraged to conduct restaurant inspections and disclose...
Self-Efficacy and Sense of Belonging: A Comparative Analysis of Factors That Affect Differences in Participation in Information Technology Education by Gender
The recruitment and retention of women is a continuing problem in the Information Technology (IT) profession. Despite positive labor statistics for the IT field, American women are underrepresented. The belief that their skill sets are...
A mixed-method explanatory sequential design utilizing surveys and interviews conducted at three Florida library systems examines caregivers’ perceptions of emergent literacy programming, how these perceptions compare with the National...
This case study used activity theory to explore how members participate in Wikidata and how they organize their work. This study addresses the need to have greater understanding of knowledge curation work in a large-scale peer-curated...
Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have gained increased scholarly attention due to their increased popularity as a social and communication phenomenon. SNSs have altered the expectations and standards for interpersonal and intrapersonal...
School librarians are uniquely qualified to become technological leaders in their schools, which is supported by current research. Not only are they qualified, but current American Association of School Librarians standards and the...
Implementation of Succession Planning and Management Programs in Academic Libraries: A Mixed-Method Study about Leadership and Other Factors That Contribute to Deans’ Decisions
The purpose of this study was to identify and explain the factors that contribute to the implementation of succession planning and management programs (SP&MPs) in academic libraries as a means of addressing the lack of planning for and...
The rising trend of end-users to bypass the central IT system at the workplace using technologies often unsanctioned by the organizational network policy has challenged the authority to control IT use. This study examines the risks...
The pandemic of COVID-19 has been devastating around the world, especially in the US. Despite that wearing a face mask has been proven to be effective at preventing the coronavirus, there are still a large amount of people who would not...
This dissertation analyzes written language samples from fifth grade students with limited English proficiency from Spanish home language backgrounds. Written language sample holistic quality scores and Florida Assessments for...
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