The year of 2017 brought challenges to London in the form of the four terror attacks that occurred throughout the year, negatively affecting London’s image and industries while creating a precarious environment for crisis management. The purpose of this project was to closely examine the effects of terrorism on London’s...
In this paper, the researchers examine the influence of environmental brand activism as green advertising on U.S. millennials’ green purchasing and recycling behavior intentions. The influences of gender, environmental knowledge, advertisement attitude and brand attitude are also analyzed. Researchers conducted an experiment through an online survey and randomly exposed each...
Fake news is an increasingly significant problem in American society today. However, little scholarly research has been done to understand what affects a person’s ability to identify fake news. This study aimed to explore factors of political socialization that are related to young adults’ ability to identify fake news and...
The moments of terror, emergency, and helplessness that unfold during a crisis extend beyond their initial occurrence through narrative. The stories that emerged from the December 13, 2013, Arapahoe High School shooting in news articles written by The Denver Post and in the survivor-authored play Thirteen provided different narratives about...
Since television has had the ability to entertain, it has also had the ability to persuade us about how we ought to perceive the world. To do so, television has long relied on stereotypes, whether they are of gender, race, or class, and research across media and communication disciplines have...
This study examines representations of Amy Winehouse’s death in mass and social media to better understand the ritual of collective mourning in regards to celebrity death. It uses the concept of mediatization to characterize this ritual and the ways that media culture shapes representations and the formation of community within...
The purpose of this project was to examine the impact of a generalized anxiety disorder diagnosis in the romantic relationships of emerging adults. By applying the Relational Turbulence Model (RTM), my goal was to uncover how relational confidence and partner interference were affected by the diagnosis as a turbulent event....
A prevalent issue on U.S. college campuses is the complex relationships between international and domestic student roommates. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how domestic dorm residents and resident advisors narrate disputes they have with their international roommates or residents. The communication practice of narration served as...
Alcohol use on college campuses, especially in campus residence halls, has a significant impact on students. In order to help build community and provide support to college students who live on-campus, universities often employ current students as resident advisors. Resident advisors are also charged with enforcing campus and residence hall...
One underexplored category of adoption is intrafamily adoption, which occurs when an adult adopts a child who is also a relative. Using a relational dialectics theory framework, this study examined online posts from 40 intrafamily adoptive families to identify communicative tensions and struggles within the family following the adoption. This...