By Bill Sharkey, Editor, Communication Reports
American Indian activism and audience: Rhetorical analysis of Leonard Peltier?s response to denial of clemency. Danielle Endres
This essay focuses on the movement to free Leonard Peltier to better understand the relationship between the rhetoric of American Indian activism and non?American Indian audiences. A rhetorical analysis of Peltier?s response to denial of clemency in 2001 reveals how Peltier appealed to non?American Indian supporters to join in a broader struggle for American Indian social justice revealing a rhetorical strategy of 10 transference from individual to collective. The essay challenges assumptions of previous research and adds more complexity to our understanding of the rhetoric of American Indian activism.
The strength of strong ties: Media multiplexity, communication motives, and the maintenance of geographically close friendships. Nathan Miczo, Theresa Mariani, & Crystal Danahue
Media multiplexity proposes that tie strength drives patterns of media use, more so than the reverse. This study examined connections between friendship quality, CMC motives, and relational maintenance. Participants (N1/4350) completed measures of maintenance behaviors, CMC motives, friendship satisfaction and solidarity. Number of channels was weakly related to solidarity. Satisfaction and solidarity had relationships with some of the 10 motives and all of the maintenance behaviors. Support and distance motives were positively and negatively related to maintenance behaviors, respectively.
Dropping out of high school: Assessing the relationship between supportive messages from family and educational attainment. Renee E. Strom & Franklin J. Boster
The purpose of this study is to assess the potential impact of various aspects of supportive messages from parents-primary caregivers on the decision to stay in or drop out of high school. Specifically, the relationships between the number, valence, and helpfulness of the messages, as well as type of support and message framing with educational achievement were investigated. Eighty respondents completed in-depth interviews about their experiences in high school. Ordinal regression was used to assess the relationships posited in the three research questions. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed
Everyday expressions of commitment and relational uncertainty as predictors of relationship quality and stability over time.??Daniel J. Weigel, Camille Brown, & Cailin O?Riordan
Although research shows that people use everyday behaviors to express their commitment, the contribution it makes over time to relationship well-being is unknown. Individuals in romantic relationships (N1/4230) completed two questionnaires, 4 months apart. Results indicated that people are more positive about their relationships and stay in those relationships when they use commitment indicators more often, are more highly committed, and have lower relationship uncertainty. Commitment indicators also mediated the associations of commitment level and relational uncertainty with future relationship quality but not relationship status. The findings add to our understanding of communication which facilitates committed, stable relationships.
Source: http://wscanews.org/2011/05/25/communication-reports-vol-24-issue-1/
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