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Reference Services In Liberal Arts Libraries, Emma R. Oxford Dec 2016

Reference Services In Liberal Arts Libraries, Emma R. Oxford

Libraries

This study addresses a gap in the literature regarding reference services at liberal arts institutions. The author conducted a literature review to examine the existing body of research on reference services and distributed a survey to the 80 member libraries of the Oberlin Group in February 2015. The study found that a wide range of reference practices are in place at liberal arts libraries and focused especially on the use of a designated reference desk, which is widespread. However, there is a correlation between higher librarian satisfaction with reference services and the absence of a desk. Comments from respondents are …

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The Case For Personal Interaction: Drop-Off/Pick-Up Methodology For Survey Research, Carla Koons Trentelman, Jessica Irwin, Kyle A. Petersen, Nallely Ruiz, Caitlin S. Szalay Dec 2016

The Case For Personal Interaction: Drop-Off/Pick-Up Methodology For Survey Research, Carla Koons Trentelman, Jessica Irwin, Kyle A. Petersen, Nallely Ruiz, Caitlin S. Szalay

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Researchers have struggled with decreases in response rates in surveys using traditional methods. Dropoff/pick-up (DOPU) surveys are an alternative that performs well in some research situations. For studies in small or compact geographic areas, DOPU has achieved higher response rates than mail surveys, although typically at higher costs due to labor and transportation. Other benefits include increased local awareness of research projects and improved outcomes for complex survey projects. Social exchange theory would explain the success of DOPU as due to the method’s personal interaction. Many researchers are unfamiliar with DOPU and prior instructive works are now dated. In an …

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Mending Invisible Wounds: The Efficacy And Legality Of Mdma-Assisted Psychotherapy In United States' Veterans Suffering With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Jonathan Perry Dec 2016

Mending Invisible Wounds: The Efficacy And Legality Of Mdma-Assisted Psychotherapy In United States' Veterans Suffering With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Jonathan Perry

Journal of Law and Health

Though Veteran Affairs has provided crucial life sustaining—and often lifesaving—treatments to returning soldiers, the substantial and ever-increasing rates of veteran suicides, drug addictions, and criminal behavior indicate a need for broader options in treatment. One of the most profound discoveries uncovered through MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research is MDMA’s facilitation of the alleviation of addictive behavior in subjects, and, as a result, an alleviation of addictions in general. Addiction is one of the key symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and drug abuse plays a large role in the other afflictions suffered by veterans, namely criminal activity and a high rate of …

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Mixed-Mode Surveys Compared With Single Mode Surveys: Trends In Responses And Methods To Improve Completion, Virginia M. Lesser, Lydia D. Newton, Daniel K. Yang, Jean C. Sifneos Dec 2016

Mixed-Mode Surveys Compared With Single Mode Surveys: Trends In Responses And Methods To Improve Completion, Virginia M. Lesser, Lydia D. Newton, Daniel K. Yang, Jean C. Sifneos

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This article reviews recent trends in modes of conducting surveys and presents results from a series of experiments comparing different approaches for collecting survey data and improving response rates in general population studies. The modes examined include the telephone, mail, and a mixed-mode method which combines mail with Web data collection. A series of studies were conducted by the Oregon State University Survey Research Center from 2006-2014 using probability samples of Oregon residents. Response rates and the percent of respondents completing the questionnaires by Web were compared. The results showed that response rates were increased by modifying the cover letter …

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Fashion And Female Beat Identity In The Writing Of Jones, Johnson, And Di Prima, Raven J. See Dec 2016

Fashion And Female Beat Identity In The Writing Of Jones, Johnson, And Di Prima, Raven J. See

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Fashion and Female Beat Identity in the Writing of di Prima, Johnson, and Jones" Raven J. See discusses how the women writers of the Beat Generation have become iconically defined by their fashion choices. Clothing and accessories offer Beat women a means to construct and express their identity and Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, and Hettie Jones write about fashion in their narratives of self-creation. Like their male contemporaries, Beat women make style choices that allow them to reject mainstream culture and identify within Beat subculture. However, these women write about their decisions to accept or reject …

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Tangier And Kerouac's Oriental Experience In Liminality, Peggy Pacini Dec 2016

Tangier And Kerouac's Oriental Experience In Liminality, Peggy Pacini

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Tangier and Kerouac's Oriental Experience in Liminality" Peggy Pacini discusses Kerouac's production derived from his Tangerian experience. Since the Tangier narratives have no existence of their own in the Duluoz Legend and are included in larger volumes about traveling and passing through, Pacini examines how this production cohered within the entire Legend and the terminology and world vision Kerouac had already fashioned. Focusing on two texts, "Big Trip to Europe" and "Passing through Tangiers, France and London," Pacini considers Kerouac's and his alter ego Duluoz's visions of Tangier and their journey to Tangier as many thresholds or …

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The 2016 Analysis Of Information Remaining On Computer Hard Disks Offered For Sale On The Second Hand Market In The Uae, Thomas Martin, Andy Jones, Mohammed Alzaabi Dec 2016

The 2016 Analysis Of Information Remaining On Computer Hard Disks Offered For Sale On The Second Hand Market In The Uae, Thomas Martin, Andy Jones, Mohammed Alzaabi

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

This research describes our survey of data remaining on computer hard disks sold on the second hand market in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is a repetition of the first survey conducted in 2012 (Jones, Martin, & Alzaabi, 2012). Similar studies have been carried over the last ten years in the United Kingdom, Australia, USA, Germany and France: (Jones, Mee, Meyler, & Gooch, 2005), (Jones, Valli, Sutherland, & Thomas, 2006), (Jones, Valli, Dardick, & Sutherland, 2008), (Jones, Valli, Dardick, & Sutherland, 2009). This research was undertaken to gain insight into the volumes of data found on second-hand disks purchased …

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Leveraging The Windows Amcache.Hve File In Forensic Investigations, Bhupendra Singh, Upasna Singh Dec 2016

Leveraging The Windows Amcache.Hve File In Forensic Investigations, Bhupendra Singh, Upasna Singh

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The Amcache.hve is a registry hive file that is created by Microsoft® Windows® to store the information related to execution of programs. This paper highlights the evidential potential of Amcache.hve file and its application in the area of user activity analysis. The study uncovers numerous artifacts retained in Amcache.hve file when a user performs certain actions such as running host-based applications, installation of new applications, or running portable applications from external devices. The results of experiments demonstrate that Amcache.hve file stores intriguing artifacts related to applications such as timestamps of creation and last modification of any application; name, description, publisher …

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The Impact Of Sha-1 File Hash Collisions On Digital Forensic Imaging: A Follow-Up Experiment, Gary C. Kessler Dec 2016

The Impact Of Sha-1 File Hash Collisions On Digital Forensic Imaging: A Follow-Up Experiment, Gary C. Kessler

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

A previous paper described an experiment showing that Message Digest 5 (MD5) hash collisions of files have no impact on integrity verification in the forensic imaging process. This paper describes a similar experiment applied when two files have a Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1) collision.

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Consideration Of Financial Satisfaction: What Consumers Know, Feel And Do From A Financial Perspective, Ann Sanders Woodyard, Cliff A. Robb Dec 2016

Consideration Of Financial Satisfaction: What Consumers Know, Feel And Do From A Financial Perspective, Ann Sanders Woodyard, Cliff A. Robb

Journal of Financial Therapy

Financial satisfaction has long been considered an important component to consumer life satisfaction and well-being. Using data from the 2012 National Financial Capability Study (NFCS), financial satisfaction is explored in the context of personal characteristics related to financial knowledge (both objective and subjective) as well as self-reported financial behaviors. Ordinary Least Squares Regression is applied to a predictive model of financial satisfaction, and results indicate that measures associated with what people do (behaviors related to recommended practice) and how they feel (subjective knowledge) may be more salient factors to consider with regard to satisfaction than measures related to what individuals …

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Building Financial Peace: A Conflict Resolution Framework For Money Arguments, Sarah D. Asebedo Dec 2016

Building Financial Peace: A Conflict Resolution Framework For Money Arguments, Sarah D. Asebedo

Journal of Financial Therapy

This paper presents a well-known and highly utilized conflict resolution framework from the mediation profession and demonstrates how to apply this framework to money arguments. While conflict resolution skills have been identified as important to communication within the financial planning context, an integrated conflict resolution framework has yet to be recognized and understood within the financial planning literature. This paper aims to fill this gap. Ultimately, both mental health professionals and financial planners can benefit from an interdisciplinary approach to resolving money arguments by combining training in personal financial strategies and conflict resolution principles.

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Practitioner Profile: An Interview With Beth Crittenden, Martie Gillen Dec 2016

Practitioner Profile: An Interview With Beth Crittenden, Martie Gillen

Journal of Financial Therapy

Beth Crittenden offers financial wellness coaching to people who want growth both professionally and personally. Beth has been working with finances as a focus since 2009, after training in somatic psychology, healthy communication in relationship, and mindful meditation practices and theory.

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Money And Emerging Adults: A Glimpse Into The Lives Of College Couples’ Financial Management Practices, Jennifer K. Rea, Virginia S. Zuiker, Tai J. Mendenhall Dec 2016

Money And Emerging Adults: A Glimpse Into The Lives Of College Couples’ Financial Management Practices, Jennifer K. Rea, Virginia S. Zuiker, Tai J. Mendenhall

Journal of Financial Therapy

Being in a romantic relationship is a transition that many college students enter while earning a college degree. Twenty-four students between the ages of 19 to 29 years old who self-identified as being in a committed relationship participated in this study. They completed an online survey that included both quantitative and qualitative (open-ended) questions pertaining to money management practices. Key findings suggest that participants believe in communicating about their individual and combined finances so as to prevent or solve financial challenges. They also discussed the importance of having similar perspectives about financial values within their relationship. Financial therapists, counselors, and …

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Book Review: The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work, Neal Van Zutphen Dec 2016

Book Review: The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work, Neal Van Zutphen

Journal of Financial Therapy

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is a relationship self-help book for individuals who have chosen to be in a relationship and also those who aspire to be in a relationship. This book has proven helpful to those in relationship counseling and coaching professions as well. The book covers why marriages work and why they fail. The seven principles provide the roadmap to ways of being together and methods for resolving conflicts and solving problems, including money.

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Bowles's Up Above The World As Beatnik Murder Mystery, Greg Bevan Dec 2016

Bowles's Up Above The World As Beatnik Murder Mystery, Greg Bevan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Bowles's Up Above the World as Beatnik Murder Mystery" Greg Bevan discusses Paul Bowles's fourth and final novel, which at the time of its publication was met with mixed reactions from reviewers and its creator alike, and has seen relatively scanty critical attention in the years since. Gena Dagel Caponi perceives in the novel a reflection of Bowles's struggle for control, during the time of its writing, in the face of his wife Jane's terminal illness. Building on this insight, the current essay notes the same tension in the writings of the Beats—a movement with which Bowles …

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Kerouac And Burroughs In Tangier, Regina Weinreich Dec 2016

Kerouac And Burroughs In Tangier, Regina Weinreich

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Kerouac and Burroughs in Tangier" Regina Weinreich discusses the two authors' and their friends' lives in Tangier. Given Burroughs's need for collaboration as a significant part of his method of weriting, Kerouac's more solitary approach to writing, and taking into account unpublished journals and new scholarship on this subject, Weinreich explores their time together in Tangier in order to shed some light on the two writers in an "interzone" of their processes of creation.

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Analisis Segmentasi Penonton Bioskop Yogyakarta, Dyna Herlina Suwarto Dec 2016

Analisis Segmentasi Penonton Bioskop Yogyakarta, Dyna Herlina Suwarto

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After the long period of the cinema industry decline, the number of audience who visit
cinema increases significantly. However, the research to examine the phenomena of
audience segmentation is very few. Therefore the study aim is to investigate cinema
audience segmentation in Yogyakarta on the basis of the aspects that affects the
audience film choice. Furthermore the mix-method approach combining qualitative and
quantitative method in sequence was employed to attain the research objective. For the
first step, three focus group discussions that involve 20 informants. The second step,
survey was conducted involving 454 respondents. The result indicates that there are …

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Analisis Strategi Humas Pdam Kota Ternate Dalam Penanganan Keluhan Dan Komplain Warga Kecamatan Kota Ternate Utara Dan Kotaternate Tengah Terhadap Dampak Eksploitasi Sumber Mata Air Ake Gaale, Mutia Dewi, Laily Wahyuni Djalaluddin Dec 2016

Analisis Strategi Humas Pdam Kota Ternate Dalam Penanganan Keluhan Dan Komplain Warga Kecamatan Kota Ternate Utara Dan Kotaternate Tengah Terhadap Dampak Eksploitasi Sumber Mata Air Ake Gaale, Mutia Dewi, Laily Wahyuni Djalaluddin

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Based on the results of research, Public Relations of water supply company Ternate
city in complain handling Ake Gaale water source, they perform of internal an external
function. Public Relations of water supply company Ternate city excecutes four important
steps started fact finding and defining the problem, planning and programming, action
and communication, and evaluation. In the evaluation step, Public Relation of water
supply company Ternate city found that each of the programs was not effectively done.
Alternative step taken by Public relation was engaging the Government of Ternate to be
involved in the follow-up meeting about problems at Ake …

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Analisis Framing Dalam Riset Public Relations, Narayana Mahendra Prastya Dec 2016

Analisis Framing Dalam Riset Public Relations, Narayana Mahendra Prastya

Informasi

This paper aims to give description about how to use frame analysis in Public Relations
(PR) research. The author use two framing models: Entman and Pan & Kosicki. The
object is organization official statement about particular issue. Frame analysis method
rarely used in Public Relations research. This methods commonly use in journalism
study, to analyse the news in media. Meanwhile, the key word of framing is the social
construction of reality. Organization can make social construction of realty in their
official statement. In acacemic term, frame analysis in PR research is useful to know
how organization positioned themselves in particular …

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Pengaruh Kepuasan Komunikasi Organisasi Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai Di Sekretariat Dprd Kota Singkawang, Agus Triyono, Kurnia Riyantini Dec 2016

Pengaruh Kepuasan Komunikasi Organisasi Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai Di Sekretariat Dprd Kota Singkawang, Agus Triyono, Kurnia Riyantini

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In an effort to achieve a success, then the satisfaction of organizational communication is a very important factor, it 'caused communication satisfaction is the result of a number
of processes that are internal and external.Employees is one of the most important assets who participate in helping in the achievement effortof organizational goals that is realization of the vision and mission of the organization. Therefore, good cooperation between the organization and all employees are indispensable so that common goals can be realized. This research aims to find the influence of communication organizational satisfaction to employees performance in Secretariat Legislature Singkawang city. …

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Corporate Decision Making Dalam Komunikasi Organisasi, Rebekka Rismayanti Dec 2016

Corporate Decision Making Dalam Komunikasi Organisasi, Rebekka Rismayanti

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In an organization, decision making is anessential factor to achieve its goals. The decision-making process is a process of selecting the best alternative from many alternatives that systematically chosen as a way to resolve the problem. The decision is seen as a "choice between the alternatives" as well as a form of communication that fulfills the social expectations of the organization's members. So the goal setting, onflow of information as well as individual's values within the group affect the decisions made by the group itself. Then, the leadership-participation style in decision-making is the most important factor for creating the mutual …

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Kreativitas Digital Dalam Masyarakat Risiko Perkotaan: Studi Tentang Ojek Online "Go-Jek" Di Jakarta, Fania Darma Amajida Dec 2016

Kreativitas Digital Dalam Masyarakat Risiko Perkotaan: Studi Tentang Ojek Online "Go-Jek" Di Jakarta, Fania Darma Amajida

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Emergence of apps-based modes of transportation marks a technological advancement, and is a reaction to the flaw of public transportation services. This article argues that technology allows the society to overcome the problems of uncertainty lying under the system of public transportation in Jakarta. This study shows that the apps used by "online ojeks" Go-Jek is capable to minimize the risks concerning time, convenience, cost, and
security. This idea diverges from previous studies that failed to mention the variable of certainty as a strategy to minimize the risks commonly found in urban transportation system. Qualitative methods are used for data …

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Pictorical Warning Pada Kemasan Rokok: Komunikasi Persuasif Dalam Kampanye Kesehatan, Sherly Hindra Negoro Dec 2016

Pictorical Warning Pada Kemasan Rokok: Komunikasi Persuasif Dalam Kampanye Kesehatan, Sherly Hindra Negoro

Informasi

Smoking has became the serious problem which always to be the classical dynamic of
health communication's field. Through health campaign by using pictorical warning in
cigarette packs, Indonesian Government has priority to reduce the number of smokers
in Indonesia. Pictorical warning in cigarette packs was regard as one of communication
strategic for implementing. Health campaign has outcome that could change the
health behavior for the persuadee. Visualization by using image becomes persuasive
communication tools cigarette packs as the communication media. EPPM model was
used to analysis this case. This paper was using literature study to understand this
problem.

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Pesan Komunikasi Dalam Penggalangan Dana Melalui Website, Drina Intyaswati Dec 2016

Pesan Komunikasi Dalam Penggalangan Dana Melalui Website, Drina Intyaswati

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A website is widely used as a means of fundraising (fundraiser) . The purpose of this study was to determine how the communication message conveyed in fundraising efforts through media website. By taking samples of the two types of websites as Fundraiser, wanted to also see each similarities and differences in communication strategies do. The analysis used is content analysis which analyzes the results of observations of the website Kitabisa.com and GandengTangan.org. Thus this type of research is qualitative descriptive. In conclusion there are similarities in general body of the message from
both the website, there are differences in the …

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Kritik Terhadap Teori Spiral Of Silence: Komunikasi Masyarakat Madura Dalam Konflik Sunni-Syi'ah Di Sampang, Ferry Adhi Dharma Dec 2016

Kritik Terhadap Teori Spiral Of Silence: Komunikasi Masyarakat Madura Dalam Konflik Sunni-Syi'ah Di Sampang, Ferry Adhi Dharma

Informasi

The sunni-shiite conflict that occurred in Sampang, Madura has yet to be resolved.
Therefore, this study aims to determine the process to fight the opinion that a conflict
occurred between the two. The research was conducted in the Karanggayam village,
Omben and Blu'uran village, Karang Penang, Sampang, Madura and mansions Puspa
Agro Sidoarjo with the phenomenological method. That is, the phenomenon under
study will be illustrated by personal experience of informants through interviews. To
determine the validity of the data, then the triangulation on the data obtained. Results
are the conflicts caused by differences of opinion between the two groups …

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Relasi Internet Dan Media Sosial Dalam Pembentukan Brand Awareness, Image Dan Experience Produk Asing, Ina Nur Ratriyana Dec 2016

Relasi Internet Dan Media Sosial Dalam Pembentukan Brand Awareness, Image Dan Experience Produk Asing, Ina Nur Ratriyana

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The effect of globalization on communication process appears especially in digital media which made communication exchange faster. Cultural process also create homogenization of product choice, when global brand looks more familiar than local brand. Internet and social media give an opportunity for consumer to access the product information and interact with them. Interactivity as part of digital media offers unlimited access and the power of word of mouth in terms of internet and social media. In the end, it will affect the brand awareness, image and attitude about product, especially in Generation Y who are close with media digitalization itself …

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Hubungan Kerja Dalam Industri Fast Fashion: Analisis Isi Terhadap Fenomena Eksploitasi (Studi Kasus Film The True Cost Dan Nike Sweatshops), Tri Apriliani Dec 2016

Hubungan Kerja Dalam Industri Fast Fashion: Analisis Isi Terhadap Fenomena Eksploitasi (Studi Kasus Film The True Cost Dan Nike Sweatshops), Tri Apriliani

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The fast-fashion industry is one of the manufacturing industry that is associated with the developing countries as a producer of their products. Authors carriying an issue of labor relations in the fast-fashion industry which is very important to be studied due to exploitation issues. The main focus of the study is to assess the film "The True Cost" which describes the fast-fashion industry in Bangladesh and "Nike Sweatshops" which describes the fast-fashion industry in Indonesia. This study sought to answer whether
the exploitation occurs in fast-fashion industry are presented in the movie "The True Cost" and "Nike Sweatshops" and how …

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Komunikasi Dalam Kegiatan Public Relations, Rumsari Hadi Sumarto Dec 2016

Komunikasi Dalam Kegiatan Public Relations, Rumsari Hadi Sumarto

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Organizations in maintaining the sustainability of life requires communication. Good established communication will affect the harmonious and harmony relations between the organization and its publics. A positive image is represented if there is a harmonious interaction between an organization and its publics. Imaging of an
organization is usually attached to public relations. Imaging can be awakened/built if there is a harmonious and pleasant communication between an organization and its publics. To support public relations activities, organization requires communication to be able to interact with the public in two-way communication. A PR practitioner should be able to make other people understand …

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Interaksionisme Simbolik Santri Terhadap Kiai Melalui Komunikasi Di Pondok Pesantren Al Munawwir Klrapyak Yogyakarta, Muhammad Hamam Alfajari Dec 2016

Interaksionisme Simbolik Santri Terhadap Kiai Melalui Komunikasi Di Pondok Pesantren Al Munawwir Klrapyak Yogyakarta, Muhammad Hamam Alfajari

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This research aims to determine the perspective of symbolic interactionism students to
kiai in the communication process in Al Munawwir Islamic Boarding School Krapyak
Yogyakarta. To achieve the objectives of the study, researchers used a qualitative
approach, with qualitative descriptive type. The subjects in this study were students
at Al Munawwir Boarding School Krapyak Yogyakarta. Data retrieval is done through
interviews and observation. Results found is that symbolic interactionism students
are not deterministic. That is, what is done by the students of the kiai is a subjective
awareness of students who interpret certain symbols through interaction. The fact
then that …

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Terbentuknya Identitas Fans Sepak Bola Sebagai Budaya Massa Dalam Industri Media, Iswandi Syahputra Dec 2016

Terbentuknya Identitas Fans Sepak Bola Sebagai Budaya Massa Dalam Industri Media, Iswandi Syahputra

Informasi

Nowadays football is not merely sport. It has become industry, even popular culture.
This happen because on the same time mass media grows into mass culture industry.
The union of football and mass media as industry has melted few social and culture
boundaries. Socially"”through mass media"”football had joined many social
background into football fans identity, and it even connect all over the world. Football
had transformed into popular culture that always moves in instability that drain its
fans's emotion. The football fans emotion in turn polarised into fans club which was
created based on imaginary bound. Fans is the most …

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