Abstract This research seeks to conceptualize how the communication messages that women received as they entered the workplace during the tumultuous seventies have impacted their own self-images, their perceptions of reality and, by extension, their lives. The aim of this research is not just to provide an overview of the lives of women in male-dominated professions nor to encourage young women to enter non-traditional occupations. Rather, this study seeks to recognize and understand the reasons...

Introduction [excerpt] Animal shelter volunteers represent an interesting group to study for several reasons. These volunteers often work in stressful surroundings. They are caretakers for the very animals they sometimes must put to death. Resources are often scarce. There never seems to be enough money, enough space, enough time. And yet these unpaid lovers of animals keep coming back, day after day,...

Introduction [excerpt] The way a person copes with the death of a loved one may be influenced by many factors, including personality, family relationships, previous death experiences, ethnicity and culture. What about gender? Does being a man or women [sic] affect our grieving process? Much research has noted that gender contributes to communication differences that men and women exhibit. This research studies whether those communication differences carry through to the grieving...

Introduction [excerpt] As humans, we tend to be social creatures and because of our social nature we are inclined to want to create and sustain relationships. It is no surprise then that when the Internet emerged people found ways to utilize this new medium to communicate with one another. By transcending the elements of time and location, Computer Mediated Communiciation (CMC) has forever changed the way in which people communicate. CMC is thought to be weak in comparison to face to face (FTF) communication...

Abstract The study of the perceived existence of gendered communication styles among male and female managers has been the focus of much organizational communication research. With a growing number of women occupying middle and upper management positions, feminist scholars are working to dispel the myth that female managers use ineffective communication styles compared to their male counterparts. The purpose of this study is to analyze the gender-identified communication styles used by male...

Introduction [excerpts] The current study involves a textual analysis of the trial transcripts from United States of America v. Charles Novak and Henry Ach. This methodology involves a systematic description and analysis of fantasy themes, or mythic stories, and underlying rhetorical visions, or interpretive themes about reality, contained in the prosecution's opening statements, summation, and rebuttal summation.... [Ernest G.] Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT)...

Abstract The aim of this study was to explore the quality and credibility of personal relationships in a CMC environment, as well as examine the emergence of information overload as a byproduct of interpersonal communication that takes place in a virtual atmosphere, namely through the pervasive use of e-mail. Through its use and acceptance, communication behavior in the 21st Century looks completely different than it did 50 years ago. Basic to the research is an understanding of the differences...