Browsing Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences by Author "Eble, Michelle F., 1974-"
-
BRANDING THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART : PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A PUBLIC IDENTITY
Cranford, Christine (East Carolina University, 2013)This dissertation examines the North Carolina Museum of Art's planning and implementation of a brand identity. To understand the planned identity, I studied the intentions of the Museum's leadership, of the architect who ... -
Collaborative Course Design in Scientific Writing: Experimentation and Productive Failure
Combs, D. Shane; Frost, Erin A.; Eble, Michelle F., 1974- (2015)English 3820: Scientific Writing, a writing-intensive (WI) course offered by the Department of English at East Carolina University (ECU), serves primarily science majors. According to the course catalog, it provides ... -
Hierarchies and Communication : Analyzing Negotiated Power Relationships in a Small Software Company
Buchko, Robert D. (East Carolina University, 2013)This dissertation examines chatroom data gathered over the course of approximately five months at a small software organization to determine whether the power hierarchy in such organizations diverges from the org chart ... -
Memetic Rhetorical Theory in Technical Communication: Re-Constructing Ethos in the Post-Fact Era
Davis, Carleigh J (East Carolina University, 2018-07-20)This dissertation interrogates existing interpretations of ethos by analyzing the spread of misinformation through online communities. In particular, this dissertation argues that the rhetorical concept of ethos should ... -
The Need for Educating Technical Communicators on the Changing Face of Copyright and its Impact on the Public Domain and Fair Use
Williams, Karen J. (East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis presents a framework for understanding the historical basis of copyright in the United States and the impact that recent events have had upon the public domain and fair use. The necessity of technical communicators ... -
PERFORMATIVE SYMBOLIC RESISTANCE: EXAMINING SYMBOLIC RESISTANCE EFFORTS OF BLACK PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES THROUGH A NEW METHODOLOGICAL ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
Hatcher, Alicia K (East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)This dissertation introduces the concept of Performative Symbolic Resistance (PSR) as a way to describe and analyze the individual acts and performed by activists in their efforts to bring awareness to and combat social ... -
Power and Place : A Case Study Approach to Rethinking Crisis Communication
Dunn, Carolyn Kusbit (East Carolina University, 2010)This dissertation examines a 2003 explosion at a pharmaceutical plant in Kinston, North Carolina against the framework of both crisis communication theory and critical discourse analysis theory. In the wake of the explosion, ... -
The rhetoric of climate change: Using Latour to compose a nonmodern approach to our modern climate crisis
Lundgren, Zachary B (East Carolina University, 2019-07-23)Climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity in the 21st century. Scientists from a variety of specialized fields, from biology and chemistry, to climatology and geology, are currently conducting research to ... -
Y’all Call it Technical and Professional Communication, We Call it #ForTheCulture: The Use of Amplification Rhetorics in Black Communities and their Implications for Technical and Professional Communication Studies
Mckoy, Temptaous T (East Carolina University, 2019-07-23)This project seeks to define and identify the use of Amplification Rhetorics (AR) in the social movement organization TRAP Karaoke and at three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In highlighting the AR ...