Communication Studies articles from September 2000

Communication Studies archives from September 2000

CHARACTERIZING ORGANIZATIONAL SPIRITUALITY: AN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION CULTURE APPROACH.
September 22, 2000... Contemporary organizations are characterized by continuous change. In this time of change and uncertainty, long-standing approaches to organizing can become less useful. New perspectives are necessary for improving our understanding of...

CONTEXTUALIZING MUSICAL RHETORIC: A CRITICAL READING OF THE PIXIES' "ROCK MUSIC".
September 22, 2000... That popular music is a significant site of rhetorical exchange has become a commonplace assumption of rhetorical scholars (see, for example, Sellnow, 1996; Watts, 1997; Meister, 1996). Critics who study this communication form, however, face a...

CREATING A POCKET UNIVERSE: "SHIPPERS," FAN FICTION, AND THE X-FILES ONLINE.
September 22, 2000... Increasingly, studies of fan culture have explored Internet activity and/or particular phenomena such as "fanfic" (fan fiction) based on the characters and premises of a given text (see, for examples, Clerc, 1996; Jenkins, 1992; Wooley, 1999)....

EXAMINING VERBAL STYLE IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SPOTS.
September 22, 2000... In a presidential campaign, political television spots constitute the candidates' most visible and direct means of influencing voters. As a candidate attempts to persuade and motivate the American public to accept that his/her vision is the...

A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL ADVERTISING ACROSS MEDIA, 1998.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Much has been written about political advertising (see, e.g., Aden, 1989; Kaid, Nimmo, & Sanders, 1986; Louden, 1989, 1998). This is hardly surprising given the huge amounts of money devoted to political spots (commercials or advertisements;...

THE PERSUASIVE EFFECTS OF STATISTICAL EVIDENCE IN THE PRESENCE OF EXEMPLARS.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Persuasion scholars have long attended to the suasory impact of evidence, the materials designed to buttress the premises of arguments. Some contemporary theories of persuasion predict that including evidence of high quality in a persuasive...