Towards a Theory of Electronic Communication and Protest (open access)

Towards a Theory of Electronic Communication and Protest

Paper seeks to explore the impact of electronic communication on social protest movements and how individuals petition for redress of grievances against the government.
Date: 2012
Creator: Stoner, Byron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communication through Mathematics: The Effects on Mathematic Reasonableness (open access)

Communication through Mathematics: The Effects on Mathematic Reasonableness

Paper describes a study focused on the efficiency of using prescribed tools to aid in justification and reasonableness in solving mathematical problems.
Date: 2014
Creator: Lopez, Lorraine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners (open access)

Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners

Paper discusses recurring themes in cross-cultural communication between medical practitioners and refugees, specifically Vietnamese refugees who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, at the Dallas County Health Services Refugee Clinic, including substitution, omission, editorialization with the use of an interpreter, and nonverbal communication expressed by both populations.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haynes, Kayla Marie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anachronistic Anarchy: A Linguistic Character Analysis of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo (open access)

Anachronistic Anarchy: A Linguistic Character Analysis of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo

Paper analyzes how linguistic tokens contribute to character design, personality, and development in the Japanese anime Samurai Champloo.
Date: 2014
Creator: Park, Macy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
According to the Goal: How Eliyahu Goldratt Helps Organizations Examine Their Processes to Achieve Maximum Results (open access)

According to the Goal: How Eliyahu Goldratt Helps Organizations Examine Their Processes to Achieve Maximum Results

Paper analyzes Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints and discusses how it's proposed business model has helped companies who implement it.
Date: 2005
Creator: Winter, Chrisitan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
YouTube Commentary: Social Interaction in Online Publics (open access)

YouTube Commentary: Social Interaction in Online Publics

Paper explores how conversation, particularly interpretation of meaning and tone, occurs in online communities, specifically in Youtube comments.
Date: 2011
Creator: Lanius, Candice
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spanish and the Workplace: How Language Affects Community Formation (open access)

Spanish and the Workplace: How Language Affects Community Formation

Paper examines community formation in the context of persons of various linguistic backgrounds who share a workplace.
Date: 2009
Creator: Reeder, Ranata L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Erasing Mexico. Notes on the Upper Rio Grande: Documentation for the Sake of Future Exploitation (open access)

Erasing Mexico. Notes on the Upper Rio Grande: Documentation for the Sake of Future Exploitation

Paper examines the text and images in Bryant Tilden’s Notes on the Upper Rio Grande and analyzes how Mexicans are misrepresented in order to justify Manifest Destiny.
Date: 2016
Creator: Reyes, Christianna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hurricane Katrina: Survivors’ Perceptions of a Social Disaster (open access)

Hurricane Katrina: Survivors’ Perceptions of a Social Disaster

Paper discusses research attempting to identify communication gaps between survivors and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Date: 2009
Creator: Gregory, Sarah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
When Will People Learn? Democracy Just Doesn’t Work (open access)

When Will People Learn? Democracy Just Doesn’t Work

Paper explores questions about the efficacy of democracy in America.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wood, Justin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Folk Concepts and Cultural Constructs of the Flu among College Students (open access)

Folk Concepts and Cultural Constructs of the Flu among College Students

Paper examines college student perceptions of the flu, and how these perceptions are influenced by other conditions with similar names, such as the "stomach flu".
Date: 2007
Creator: Garcia, Joy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contextualizing Effects of Public Spheres on Community Socialization (open access)

Contextualizing Effects of Public Spheres on Community Socialization

Paper discusses the changing role of public spaces in community socialization, with a focus on coffee shops serving as work environments.
Date: 2009
Creator: Portillo, Jacqueline
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performing in the Public Sphere: Flash Mobs and Their Participants (open access)

Performing in the Public Sphere: Flash Mobs and Their Participants

Paper explores how the motivations of participants shape the meaning and significance of flash mobs.
Date: 2010
Creator: Atilano, Rodriguez
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Candy Jernigan’s Rejectamenta: Collage, Photography, and (Discarded) Body Memory (open access)

Candy Jernigan’s Rejectamenta: Collage, Photography, and (Discarded) Body Memory

Paper discusses how Candy Jernigan Blood of a Vagrant uses the mixture of text, photography, and collage to explore remembrance of a subject that could otherwise remain anonymous.
Date: 2012
Creator: Garcia, Jonathan A. Molina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Mediation as a Rhetorical Situation: Connecting Context, Actors, and Strategy for Mediation Success (open access)

International Mediation as a Rhetorical Situation: Connecting Context, Actors, and Strategy for Mediation Success

Paper examines the relationship between characteristics of conflict situations, the participants in mediation processes, and mediation strategies and the influence of these characteristics on mediation success.
Date: 2011
Creator: Harroff, Lindsay
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Globalization and Indigenous Group Violence in Latin America (open access)

Globalization and Indigenous Group Violence in Latin America

Paper investigates the relationship between levels of globalization and indigenous conflict in Latin America.
Date: 2010
Creator: Rojas, Jacqueline I.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Play and the Subculture of Larping: Gender, Motivations, and Self (open access)

Play and the Subculture of Larping: Gender, Motivations, and Self

Paper analyzes perceptions of gender, motivations, and self of people who participate in the subculture of Live Action Role-Playing, or LARPing, to better understand the importance of play for adults.
Date: 2010
Creator: Lee, Mai Cha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconciliation and Relapse: The Case for the Inclusion of Women (open access)

Reconciliation and Relapse: The Case for the Inclusion of Women

Paper investigates the effect that women’s inclusion in the public sphere has on reconciliation in post-civil conflict countries.
Date: 2012
Creator: Daggett, Jena
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas (open access)

The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas

Paper discusses how language use reflects the identity of Mexican-American college students in Texas.
Date: 2011
Creator: Grady, Khalia Nicole
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Puerto Rican Feminist Discourse: Culture through Narratives (open access)

Puerto Rican Feminist Discourse: Culture through Narratives

Paper examines Puerto Rican national identity through the lens of stories by women and feminist discourse.
Date: 2008
Creator: Velazquez, Magaly
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explanations for Mass Provincial Protest in China (open access)

Explanations for Mass Provincial Protest in China

Paper explores the evolution of mass local protests in China and the factors that contribute to the likelihood of mass protest in a province.
Date: 2010
Creator: Chan, Victor Cheung Yin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Action of Action Research: A Case Study of Four Projects in a Professional Development School (open access)

The Action of Action Research: A Case Study of Four Projects in a Professional Development School

Introductory paper to the special section on education in the 2010 edition of The Eagle Feather, which examines the viability of action research as a meaningful form of research applicable to social settings, such as schools.
Date: 2010
Creator: Tunks, Jeanne L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Schizophrenia: Biology, Korean Culture, and Joe’s Story (open access)

Schizophrenia: Biology, Korean Culture, and Joe’s Story

Paper explores a case study of a schizophrenia patient, the writer's uncle, and discusses perspectives on his case through a biological and cultural lens.
Date: 2014
Creator: Kim, Mikayla
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
You Like That, Pledge? Displays of Normalizing Sexual Rhetoric in Haze Him (open access)

You Like That, Pledge? Displays of Normalizing Sexual Rhetoric in Haze Him

Paper critically examines the rhetorical construction and implications of the gay pornography franchise, Haze Him, on queer bodies.
Date: 2014
Creator: Dionne, Terrell Jake
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library