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American Football, Flags, and "Fun": The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl and the Rhetorical Production of Militarism - 2 weeks ago
The Armed Forces Bowl provides a troubling integration of commercial sport and the American culture...
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The Strict Maze of Media Tie-In Novels - 2 weeks ago
This article examines the production of media tie-in novelizations in the context of contemporary...
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Foiling the Intellectuals: Gender, Identity Framing, and the Rhetoric of the Kill in Conservative Hate Mail - 2 weeks ago
This article introduces the concept of identity framing by foil. Characteristics of this...
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"I am the Woman Next Door": The Clothesline Project as Woman Abuse Survivors' Societal Critique - 2 weeks ago
The Clothesline Project, an international grassroots public art project, offers survivors of woman...
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The Power of Beauty in Reality Plastic Surgery Shows: Romance, Career, and Happiness - 2 weeks ago
This study explores the dominant meanings of plastic surgery television programs via utilizing...
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The Video Game Experience as "True" Identification: A Theory of Enjoyable Alterations of Players' Self-Perception - 1 month ago
This article introduces an explication of video game players' identification with a game character...
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An Economic Theory of Political Communication Effects: How the Economy Conditions Political Learning - 1 month ago
Politics and economics are inextricably linked. This article argues that the economy has been an...
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Theorizing Flow and Media Enjoyment as Cognitive Synchronization of Attentional and Reward Networks - 1 month ago
This article reconceptualizes the psychological concept of "flow" as it pertains to media...
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Understanding Spatial Differentiation of Social Interaction: Suggesting a Conceptual Framework for Spatial Mediation - 1 month ago
Urban planning is a means for artificially differentiating urban space. It also shapes social...
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Communication as a Dynamical Self-Sustaining System: The Importance of Time-Scales and Nested Context - 1 month ago
This article examines the utility of modeling communication as dynamic nesting of self-sustaining...
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Positive Illusions, Perceived Control and the Free Will Debate - 3 weeks ago
It is a common assumption among both philosophers and psychologists that having accurate beliefs...
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The Nature of Symbols in the Language of Thought - 3 weeks ago
The core of the language of thought program is the claim that thinking is the manipulation of...
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The Meaning of 'Most': Semantics, Numerosity and Psychology - 3 weeks ago
The meaning of 'most' can be described in many ways. We offer a framework for distinguishing...
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The Pervasive Impact of Moral Judgment - 3 weeks ago
A series of recent studies have shown that people's moral judgments can affect their intuitions as...
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The Vernacular Concept of Innateness - 3 weeks ago
The proposal that the concept of innateness expresses a 'folk biological' theory of the 'inner...
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Features of Success in Engineering Design Presentations: A Call for Relational Genre Knowledge - 2 months ago
This study explores design presentations that were graded by engineering faculty in order to assess...
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The First Weeklong Technical Writers' Institute and Its Impact - 2 months ago
Rensselaer’s Technical Writers’ Institute, the first program of its kind, had a profound...
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Understanding Public Policy Development as a Technological Process - 2 months ago
This article discusses public policy writing as a genre of technical communication and, specifically...
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''Sort of Set My Goal to Come to Class'': Evoking Expressive Content in Policy Reports - 2 months ago
This article documents a novel yet theory-informed process of preparing research reports designed...
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Book Review: Book Review Editor: Jeffrey Jablonski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Zachry, Mark, and Thralls, Charlotte (Eds.). (2007). Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations. Amityville, NY: Baywood. 280 pages - 2 months ago
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