Investigates three social network models of employee turnover: a structural equivalence model, a social influence model, and an erosion model. Administers a communication network questionnaire to all 170 employees of an organization. Finds support for all three models of turnover, with the erosion model explaining more of the variance than do the…

Describes the use of black communication style by African Americans in an organized environment. Uses a research method involving a multimethod approach of field data collection using direct observation and semi-structured interviews. Shows that, although the black employees felt they were changing their communication style to fit organizational…

Builds a theoretical argument to explain both why human beings are interested in news and why much news content involves the identification of environmental threats and deviance. Argues that the desire to receive and transmit information is biologically and culturally derived, and that both biology and culture have a profound impact on the form…

Examines the work and the life of German public opinion expert Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. Shows that the attitudes and analytic tools she forged during her youth and brought to bear in her work as a Nazi Collaborator and apologist shaped her later thinking, including her articulation of the "spiral of silence" model of mass communication…

Cognitive, role, and access distance affects both conventional and virtual classrooms. Analysis of teacher-student communication patterns in distance (e-mail and postal mail) and traditional courses showed that communication time in the distance course was 29% greater, especially in the quantity of individual communication. (Contains 15…

Examines how computer-mediated communication partners (undergraduate students) exchange personal information in initial interactions, focusing on the effects of communication channels on self-disclosure, question-asking, and uncertainty reduction. Illuminates some microstructures previously asserted but unverified within social information…

Considers if the very principles of freedom of expression and the First Amendment that underlie much of the scholarship in journalism and mass communication education is placed at risk by federal regulations that require prior approval of research designs. Presents four senior scholars' deliberations on the rationale, contradictions, ethics, and…

Notes that when making requests, speakers often pursue an influence goal and a secondary goal. Examines whether effects of situation features on the importance of secondary goals depend on the kind of request being made. Finds the effect of situation features on the importance of secondary goals often depends on request type. Suggests implications…

Analyzes the discourse during a meeting of three diverse organizations as they attempt to resolve conflicting organizational interests. Explains that the three diverse groups were a waste disposal business, a grass-roots community organization, and a state regulatory agency. Notes that discourse analysis suggests that organizations with different…

Compares thought patterns, perceptions of interaction (perceived interaction smoothness and interaction involvement), and conversation orientation of U.S. students in dyadic interaction with a partner who is either another American or a non-American nonnative speaker of English. Finds U.S. participants with nonnative-speaking partners perceived…

Discusses the distinct purposes of principal components analysis (PCA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), using two data sets as examples. Reviews the use of each technique in three major communication journals: "Communication Monographs,""Human Communication Research," and "Communication Research." Finds that the…

Notes that "variance accounted for"--calculated by squaring one of the various measures of association--is the most common estimate of experimental effect or strength of association reported in communication studies. Focuses on the basic principles and arguments underlying the use of unsquared measures of association, and the…

Offers three "unabashedly normative" considerations for translating organizational communication scholarship to practice: identifying a problem, incorporating participant voices, and presenting research to practitioners. Suggests that by engaging in these practices scholars can create alternative organizational stories and in doing so create space…

Considers how the argument that communication is a "practical discipline" is compelling because it suggests that educators should be finding ways to make their research and teaching relevant to the world. Discusses a need to work through what the ideal of engagement is. Identifies 10 strategies that are most important to the authors, and considers…

Explains a comprehensive, prescriptive, situational approach for responding to crises and protecting organizational reputation: the situational crisis communication theory (SCCT). Notes undergraduate students read two crisis case studies from a set of 13 cases and responded to questions following the case. Validates a key assumption in SCCT and…