Reviews stereotypes of Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) in television news. Investigates the significance to image-making of stereotypes, visual deconstruction and reconstruction, close-up shots and spectator positioning, as well as news recycling and repetition. Argues that such strategies reify a mediated collective memory of HRC which is…

Examines the formation of group norms in computer-mediated communication (CMC) among students who used e-mail as part of a course. Shows that norms prescribing a particular use of technology are socially constructed over time at the level of locally defined groups, and also shows that the influence of these norms is limited to the boundaries of…

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication. Examines how journalists construct their authority to tell moralizing stories. Shows how journalists construct a discursive strategy asserting their right to serve as moral agents on two levels: as "institutional we," determining the "facts," and as…

Compares the scientific papers produced by two research teams during the AIDS virus hunt. Investigates the "fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications." Demonstrates that going too far across the line in either direction…

Analyzes Antoinette Brown Blackwell's Oberlin College correspondence with Lucy Stone. Explores how these 19th-century women developed a shared feminist consciousness, how they explored their identity as women, became aware that others shared their experiences, and felt empowered to enact specific changes in society. Argues that…

Describes reflective spectator judgment with respect to political judgment and rhetorical theory, and then proposes a method of stylistic analysis that may help to identify discursive features enabling reflective spectator judgment. Illustrates these discursive features (described as participatory forms) by performing a stylistic analysis of…

Illustrates how the marketplace metaphor has multiple referents within and across different levels and subcultures in the organization (using a case study of micro-economic practices within a medium-sized four-year undergraduate college). Highlights interplay between organizational structure and symbolic actions, illustrating ways in which gender…

Reports a study involving five groups of stake holders who used the two different electronic meeting techniques to discuss ways of improving a local private school. Finds that participants preferred electronic gallery writing over electronic poolwriting because of the former's ability to show users all of the groups' comments at the same time. (SR)

Reviews the impact of the Association for Business Communication on development of business communication as an academic discipline in areas such as nurturing teachers; establishing advanced courses, majors, and PhDs in business communication; providing access to communicators in business; providing a voice for the profession; and facilitating…

Investigates verbal adaptive strategies employed for mutual orientation and management of role relationship in dyadic conversations involving undergraduate students (American and East-Asian nonnative speakers of English). Finds that dyad types were differentiated by significantly different levels of interaction involvement, different amounts and…

Investigated effects of stuttering on gesture for adults and children. Found through transcription of videotaped narratives that during bouts of stuttering, the coexpressed gesture always waits for fluent speech to resume. Also found that the lower ratio of spoken words to coexpressed gestures for children may be due to lower attentional/cognitive…

Offers a demographic profile of the typical graduate-student protege and faculty mentor. Outlines 10 communication strategies with which students initiate such a relationship. Finds that students (1) felt their initiation attempts were somewhat ineffective and unduly difficult; (2) report mentors provide primarily psychosocial rather than career…

Replicates and extends the authors' previous research on instructor attire on classroom dynamics. Indicates lesser effects of attire on person perceptions in live interaction as opposed to photographs. Reports that the influence of attire was limited to ratings of instructor extroversion, with no statistically significant interaction between…

Examines how corporate entities use the Web to present themselves as socially responsible citizens and to advance policy positions. Samples randomly "Fortune 500" companies, revealing that, although 90% had Web pages and 82% of the sites addressed a corporate social responsibility issue, few corporations used their pages to monitor…

Presents data from an ethnographic case study that describes how an administrator in a theater organization manipulated language by using the minutes from a board of directors meeting to influence board members to vote to disband the organization. Discusses implications for teachers, researchers, and practitioners of business communication. (SG)