• Big Data Analysis of Twitter-Based Sports Fandom: Celebrating Our Achievements Together During the 2019 Fifa Women World Cup 

  Fan, Minghui (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  ABSTRACT Social identification theory suggests that individuals try to categorize themselves into one group with people who shared similarities with them. While this premise applies to sports fans, nations, teams, and ...
• Blackballed: An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Race, Gender, and Identity on the Sports Image Repair Process 

  Rush, Stephen Wesley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  The spectacle of sports in America has consistently been shown to be a financial powerhouse (PwC, 2019). However, when there is a huge potential for financial gain, there also comes the risk of a huge potential financial ...
• Hostile Media Perception in the Age of Social Media: The Role of Social Identity 

  Cooks, Eric (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  In an effect known as hostile media perception (HMP), a perceptual bias believed to be driven by social identity processes, partisans tend to view objective news media as hostile towards their position. As advances in ...
• Civil Rights Collecting Institutions and the Facilitation of Public Engagement in the American South 

  Hirschy, Jeff (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Across the American South, civil rights memory institutions created by city and state governments and private organizations, preserve and communicate complex civil rights histories. Each of these institutions, for different ...
• Representation, Public Practices, and Women of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians 

  Willis, George Paul (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  On the Poarch Band of Creek Indians reservation, men are publicly recognized in the community on a frequent basis. Informed by Indigenous feminist theory, the purpose of this research is to understand how women of the ...
• Effectiveness of Persuasive Attacks on Perceptions of Blame and Offensiveness for a Sexual Assault on a College Campus 

  Cordingly, Lindsay Megan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Benoit and Dorries (1996) identified strategies known as kategoria, or persuasive attacks, used to initiate attacks against a person or organization that has engaged in wrongdoing, affording researchers a framework for ...
• “No Plan B Whatsoever”: Student Perception of Vocational Preparedness with Career Ambiguous Majors 

  George, Hannah K (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Organizational socialization is the process of “becoming” within a defined group. This process begins with Anticipatory Socialization and the initial exposure to norms, behaviors, culture, and expectations of a defined ...
• “I Pledge Allegiance”: Examining Motivations for Sport Fanship and Fandom in the American South 

  Towery, Nathan A. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  There are a number of motivations that exist in the formation of collegiate fanship and fandom. Through a mixed-method approach, this dissertation provides an in-depth examination into the motivations individuals have when ...
• A Brand New Game: a Phenomenalogical Study of How Student-Athletes and Mentors are Managing Personal Branding 

  Adamson, Alyssa C (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how student-athletes are guided and mentored to develop and manage their personal brands within their respective athletic departments. With the introduction of Name, ...
• "The World Ain't All Sunshine and Rainbows": Enacting the Athlete Identity Narrative in Stigmatizing Mental Health Communication 

  Zengaro, Elisabetta (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how athletes construct mental health by researching how mental health is communicated to athletes and the role of athlete identity in contributing to stigma of mental health. ...
• "Hardly Home But Always Reppin'": Celebrity Transnational Athletes and Representations of National Identity 

  Anderson, Johnathan S (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Expanding on national identity literature that tends to focus its analysis on sports mega-events such as the Olympics or the World Cup, this project sought to examine the ways that certain athletes are both presented and ...
• Engaging Youth in the Hybrid Media Environment: Media Technological Attributes' Effects on Young People's Internet Political Efficacy During Second Screening 

  Liu, Yiben (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Young people’s political engagements are important to the development of democracy. Though described as reluctant to engage in politics, when young people are invited to participate in politics on their own terms, they are ...
• Gathering, Lathering, and Rathering Through the Pandemic: Comparing Theory of Planned Behavior and Expectancy Violations Theory Through the Lens of the College Student Experience 

  Baldinelli, Sharon E. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  COVID-19 offered an unprecedented opportunity to apply two well-established theories in the context of a pandemic within a specific environment. The theory of planned behavior and expectancy violations theory brought insight ...
• In-Group Versus Out-Group: Examining Truth-Bias and Language Use in Inter-Group Communication 

  Fan, Xiaoti (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This dissertation is guided by the central premise of truth-default theory that examined whether truth-bias holds for communication with out-group members compared to communication with in-group members. Additionally, this ...
• Politics-Free in the Sports World?: an Empirical Examination of the Social and Marketing Implications of Athlete Activism 

  Park, Bumsoo (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Despite countless arguments pertaining to the desired separation of political elements from sports, the intersection of sports and politics can be found more visibly and frequently through athletes and their involvement ...
• Brushes with Stardom: Interpreting Interpersonal Interactions Between Athletes and Fans 

  Hakim, Samuel David (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This dissertation explored the impacts of interpersonal interactions between sports fans and famous sports figures (FSFs) and how these meaningful interactions may transform fan identity. A total of 531 participants ...
• Transition, Turbulence, and Relationship-Focused Coping During Pregnancy After Perinatal Loss 

  Opayemi, Oluwadamilola (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The findings of clinical studies reveal that the subsequent pregnancy after perinatal loss (PAL) is a stressful experience for parents. However, these studies have mainly focused on stressors related to the pregnancy itself. ...
• Bridging Self-Concept Maintenance and Truth-Default Theories 

  Laningham, Andrew Jospeh (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The present research examines the effects of topic intensity, categorization, and the raising of attention to moral standards have on honesty in communication. This study sought to extend a theory of deception from behavioral ...
• A Public Health Emergency: Using the Cause Model to Understand Journalists' Implementation of Suicide Reporting Guidelines 

  Eckhart, Nicholas (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The present dissertation uses the framework of social cognitive theory’s environmental determinant to understand the World Health Organization’s suicide reporting guidelines implementation as a public health intervention. ...
• Post-truth and rhetorical citizenship in the Philippines: campaigns against truth and how to fight back 

  Tatcho, Orville (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The Oxford English Dictionary declared “post-truth” the 2016 Word of the Year, an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to ...

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