This collection highlights the research and creative activity of the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University.

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Submissions from 2020

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Debunking Eurocentrism in Organizational Communication Theory: Marginality and Liquidities in Postcolonial Contexts, Joëlle Cruz and Chigozirim Utah

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1000 Ways to Die: A Televisual Template for Commodifying Tragedy and Vilifying the Deceased, Scott Walus and Connor Wilcox

Submissions from 2019

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Case Study of Organizational Crisis Communication: Oxfam Responds to Sexual Harassment and Abuse Scandal, Claudia Danyi

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Our Communication, Our World: An Introduction to Communication Studies, Richard Jones

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Through Being Cool, David Gracon

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You’re Nothing: Punk and Death, David Gracon

Submissions from 2018

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Strategic Social Media Management for NGOs, Claudia Danyi and Vidhi Chaudhri

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Kara Alaimo, Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street: How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication, Claudia Danyi

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An Extension of the Extended Parallel Process Model to Promote Healthy Heart Behaviors, Rashmi Thapaliya

Submissions from 2017

Natural's Not In It: The Transformative Impact of Punk, DIY Media Production and Critical Pedagogy, David Gracon

Through Being Cool: The Political Economy of iTunes, David Gracon

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The Comparative Method of the Most Similar and Most-Different Systems for Crisis Communication Research, Claudia Janssen Danyi and Paul Danyi

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The Family Environment of “Quick-Witted” Persons: Birth Order, Family Communication Patterns, and Creative Facility, Elizabeth Hall, John Greene, Lindsey Anderson, La Reina Hingson, Elizabeth Gill, Brenda Berkelaar, and Melanie Morgan

Submissions from 2016

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“I Can’t Think of a More Unlikely Rock Star than Me”: Representations of “Averageness” in the Myth of Rock, Scott Walus and Melissa Click

Submissions from 2015

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The German plagiarism crisis: Defending and explaining the workings of scholarship on the front stage, Claudia Janssen Danyi, Howard Notthaft, and Birte Faehnrich

Queering the Body Politic: Intersectional Reflexivity in the Body Narratives of Queer Men, Richard Jones

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For the Unity of All: A Prayer Worth Reviewing (Book Review), Ryan McDaniel

Migrant Diaries: Communicating in Pop Culture Nation, Chigozirim Utah

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The Negotiated Identities of Long-Term Inmates: Breaking the Chains of Problematic Integration, Jacquelyn Frank and Elizabeth Gill

Submissions from 2014

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Formative Communication Experiences and Message Production Ability in Adulthood: Family Communication Patterns and Creative Facility, John Greene, Melanie Morgan, Lindsey Anderson, Elizabeth Gill, Elizabeth Hall, Brenda Berkelaar, Lauren Herbers, and LaReina Hingson

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Critiques of Popular Cultural Representations of 9/11, Marita Gronnvoll

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A Crisis in Counseling: Questioning the Role of Crisis Counselors Within Police Departments, Angela Jacobs

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Between Jennings and Jones: Jamey Johnson, Hard-Core Country Music, and Outlaw as Authenticating Strategy, Stephen A. King

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Innovation through Diversity: We Aren't Post-Politics, Samantha Szczur

Confronting Critical Thinking Challenges “in” the College Classroom, Chigozirim Utah and Alexis Waters

Collaborative Reviews: Increasing the learning potential of post-quiz reviews, Chigozirim Utah

Elevating cultural awareness as an instructional resource: A reflection and dialogue promoting intercultural pedagogy and instruction for non-native English speaking students, Chigozirim Utah

Enabling community organizing through dialogic research: The case of Lagos roadside food traders, Chigozirim Utah

Common sense or common senses: Reconsidering doxa in fragmented contexts, Chigozirim Utah

Submissions from 2013

The Tough Stuff from the Buff Film and Video Tour, David Gracon

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The ever-evolving reporter: Examining an organizational culture inspired effect on the psychological climate of television reporters in the digital age, Angela Jacobs

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Corporate Historical Responsibility (CHR): Addressing a Past of Forced Labor at Volkswagen, Claudia Janssen Danyi

Revolutionary Words: Reggae’s Evolution from Protest to Mainstream, Stephen King and P. Renee Foster

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The mediated myth of rock and roll, Scott Walus

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Review Essay: Material Rhetorics Meet Material Feminisms, Marita Gronnvoll

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Walls of Sound— A Look Inside the House of Records, David Gracon

Ryan Ashley Caldwell Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib 2012 Ashgate Publishing 217 pp. £55.00 (hardback), Marita Gronnvoll

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Caldwell, Ryan Ashley Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib 2012 Ashgate Publishing 217 pp. £55.00 (hardback), Marita Gronnvoll

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Bodies that Shatter: A Rhetoric of Exteriors, the Abject, and Female Suicide Bombers in the “War on Terrorism”, Marita Gronnvoll and Kristen McCauliff

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Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination:, Marita Gronnvoll

You’re doing fine! As a matter of fact, you make this look easy, Angela Jacobs

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Cross Border Community Research, Opportunities and Challenges: Case Study Analyses, Paulette Meikle and Stephen King

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Cross Border Community Research, Opportunities and Challenges: Case Study Analyses, Paulette Meikle and Stephen A. King

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Book Review: Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal Perspective, Samantha Szczur

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Book Review: Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal PerspectiveDancygierB.SweetserE. (Eds.). (2012). Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal Perspective. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 241 pp. ISBN: 978-1-107-01783-2, Samantha Szczur

Submissions from 2012

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Addressing Corporate Ties to Slavery: Corporate Apologia in a Discourse of Reconciliation, Claudia Janssen

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Addressing Corporate Ties to Slavery: Corporate Apologia in a Discourse of Reconciliation, Claudia Irene Janssen

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Contesting Neoliberalism through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative: Queer Tales of Academia, Richard Jones and Bernadette Calafell

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Contesting Neoliberalism through Critical Pedagogy, Intersectional Reflexivity, and Personal Narrative: Queer Tales of Academia, Richard G. Jones and Bernadette Marie Calafell

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Did U Get My Txt Msg?: Graduate Students’ Text Messaging Uses and Gratifications, Cathy Marie Quast Sowa and Rodney Marshall

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Older Parents and Adult Daughters: A Comparison of Communication and Coping During the Decision to Move to a Care Facility, Elizabeth Gill and Melanie Morgan

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Did U Get My Txt Msg?: Graduate Students’ Text Messaging Uses and Gratifications, Cathy Sowa and Rodney Marshall

Equipping teachers: Strategies for parent/teacher interactions, Angela Jacobs

Submissions from 2011

I’m Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen King

Office Space: Governmentality, the Corporate Campus, and Subject Position, Samantha Szczur

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Home Sweet Home: Conceptualizing and Coping With the Challenges of Aging and the Move to a Care Facility, Elizabeth Gill and Melanie Morgan

Submissions from 2010

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Exiled records and over-the-counterculture: A cultural political economic analysis of the independent record store, David Gracon

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From Viruses to Russian Roulette to Dance: A Rhetorical Critique and Creation of Genetic Metaphors, Marita Gronnvoll

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From Viruses to Russian Roulette to Dance: A Rhetorical Critique and Creation of Genetic Metaphors, Marita Gronnvoll

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Theorizing the Transcendent Persona: Amelia Earhart’s Vision in The Fun of It, Robin Jensen, Erin Doss, Claudia Janssen, and Sherrema Bower

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Theorizing the Transcendent Persona: Amelia Earhart’s Vision in The Fun of It, Robin E. Jensen, Erin F. Doss, Claudia Irene Janssen, and Sherrema A. Bower

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Putting Privilege into Practice Through "Intersectional Reflexivity:" Ruminations, Interventions, and Possibilities, Richard Jones

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Putting Privilege into Practice Through "Intersectional Reflexivity:" Ruminations, Interventions, and Possibilities, Richard G. Jones

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Blues Tourism in the Mississippi Delta: The Functions of Blues Festivals, Stephen King

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Blues Tourism in the Mississippi Delta: The Functions of Blues Festivals, Stephen A. King

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A Phrase Well Turned: Creative Facility in Narrative Production, John Greene, Melanie Morgan, Jennifer McCullough, Elizabeth Gill, and Angela Graves

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Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11, Marita Gronnvoll

Submissions from 2009

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Believing in both genetic determinism and behavioral action: a materialist framework and implications, Celeste Condit, Marita Gronnvoll, Jamie Landau, Lijiang Shen, Lanelle Wright, and Tina Harris

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Believing in both genetic determinism and behavioral action: a materialist framework and implications, Celeste Condit, Marita Gronnvoll, Jamie Landau, Lijiang Shen, Lanelle Wright, and Tina M. Harris

The Independent Record Store as a Site of Cultural Resistance and Anti-McDonaldization — A Case Study of The House of Records, David Gracon

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Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib (review), Marita Gronnvoll

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The Creative Character of Talk: Individual Differences in Narrative Production Ability, Melanie Morgan, John Greene, Elizabeth Gill, and Jennifer McCullough

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A Review of: “Vande Berg, L., & Trujillo, N. (2008). Cancer and death: A love story in two voices.”, Elizabeth Gill

Submissions from 2007

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Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and Changing Military Culture (review), Marita Gronnvoll

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GENDER (IN)VISIBILITY AT ABU GHRAIB, Marita Gronnvoll

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GENDER (IN)VISIBILITY AT ABU GHRAIB, Marita Gronnvoll

Family interactions within the context of organized youth sports: An examination of the sporting family identity, Angela Jacobs

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To Hope or to Know: Coping with Uncertainty and Ambivalence in Women's Magazine Breast Cancer Articles, Elizabeth Gill and Austin Babrow

Submissions from 2006

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Memory, Mythmaking, and Museums: Constructive Authenticity and the Primitive Blues Subject, Stephen King

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Memory, Mythmaking, and Museums: Constructive Authenticity and the Primitive Blues Subject, Stephen A. King

An instrument to measure information competency, Rodney Marshall

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Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear, Marita Gronnvoll

Submissions from 2005

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GENDERED PERFORMANCES OF FEMAL POLICE OFFICERS, Samantha Szczur

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Race and Blues Tourism: A Comparison of Two Lodging Alternatives in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Stephen King

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Race and Blues Tourism: A Comparison of Two Lodging Alternatives in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Stephen A. King

Submissions from 2002

Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control, Stephen King

Submissions from 2001

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“No Problem, Mon”: Strategies Used to Promote Reggae Music as Jamaica’s Cultural Heritage, Stephen A. King and P. Renee Foster

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“No Problem, Mon”: Strategies Used to Promote Reggae Music as Jamaica’s Cultural Heritage, Stephen King and P. Renee Foster

Submissions from 2000

“So Whad’ you do at school today?” Parent-child storied interactions, Angela Jacobs

Submissions from 1999

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The Co-optation of a ‘‘Revolution’’: Rastafari, Reggae, and the Rhetoric of Social Control, Stephen King

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The Co-optation of a ‘‘Revolution’’: Rastafari, Reggae, and the Rhetoric of Social Control, Stephen A. King

Submissions from 1998

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International reggae, democratic socialism, and the secularization of the Rastafarian movement, 1972–1980, Stephen King

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International reggae, democratic socialism, and the secularization of the Rastafarian movement, 1972–1980, Stephen A. King

Submissions from 1996

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Supplier driven commerce transaction processing system and methodology, Edward Hafner, Jay Steinberger, Robert Humphrey, and David Gracon

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Communication apprehension and college retention: A focus group study, Rodney Marshall