Preserving a Sinking Culture: An Investigative Report on the Kiribati Community in New Zealand and Fiji

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Ryan Turner and Steven Thomsen, Department of Communications For thousands of years the peoples of the Pacific have been a people of exploration and travel. However, with the small country of Kiribati its people are now traveling to escape climate change and overpopulation¹. With such a small population at risk of relocating to another country […]

The Working LDS Mother: A Cultural Anomaly

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Erica Palmer and Quint Randle, Department of Communications Introduction The week after I graduated with my bachelor’s degree I gave birth to my first child. The idea of being a stay-at-home mom (SAHM) appealed to me, but I wasn’t ready to give up my professional goals and aspirations to be a SAHM just because that […]

The SMC Matrix Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Strategic Communications and Digital Media

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Rebecca Winchel and Dr. Kenneth Plowman, Communications As digital media communications continue to grow and become an integral part of organizations’ business strategy, there is a significant gap between traditional strategic communications and the current strategies employed by social media practitioners. In order to address this gap, we wrote a book based upon Wilson and […]

Images of Rail: An Exercise in Writing for Niche Media

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Emma Penrod and Dr. Quint Randle, Dept. of Communications Beginning in 1908, the Tooele Valley Railroad played a key role in bringing this dusty desert community up to speed with the Industrial Revolution. A collection of mining companies in the Bingham area, known then as Utah Consolidated, incorporated the railroad company and funded the construction […]

Freedom of Information: What can We Learn from Our Mother Country?

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Whitney Evans Introduction American newspapers and journalists seem to be trending toward less investigative journalism, including stories that involve the use of freedom of information requests. This can be attributed to public demand for instant information, limited budgets and non-compliance of those who respond to freedom of information requests. The United States implemented the Freedom […]

Advertising Ethical Products: Measuring the Effect of Efficacy and Consumer Benefits in Ethical Advertisements

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David Matthew Godfrey and Dr. John Davies, Department of Communications Summary As more and more brands attempt to position themselves as socially responsible, this research attempted to discover the impact of “ethical” advertising messages on sales. The world needs solutions to complex social problems and corporations can contribute, but can “ethical” branding increase profit by […]

Law Schools Environments Study

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Jacob S. Walker and Alf Pratt, Communications; Eileen Crane, Pre-law Advisor The researchers aimed to establish a set of criteria for judging the environments at various law schools, and then apply these criteria to five national law schools. The students specifically examined the academic and social environments at each school as they relate to a […]

A Comparative Study of Playground Behavior of Typically Developing Children And Children With Specific Language Impairment

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Melissa Parry & Catherine Ballif with Dr. Martin Fujiki, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology The purpose of this study is to determine the differences in social behaviors of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and typically developing children. Children with SLI are known to be more withdrawn in structured social situations. However, to date, there […]

FEMALE ARGUMENTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE UTAH WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE DEBATES OF 1880 AND 1895 AS REPRESENTED IN OPPOSING UTAH WOMEN’S NEWSPAPERS

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Janika Isakson, Department of Communications The fight for woman’s suffrage in the Utah Territory, where many citizens supported the practice of polygamy, was full of contradictions from the very beginning. Following the Civil War, various groups, including Congress in 1868, proposed woman’s suffrage as a possible solution for terminating polygamy in Utah.1 Following Wyoming’s lead […]

Public Relations and Communication Changes Made by Pacific Islanders in Immigrating to America

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Romney M. Stewart and Dr. Allen W. Palmer, Communications Utah’s large population of Pacific Islanders has continued to grow during the course of the past few years. However, it seemed to me that the majority of Polynesians I knew and saw worked in landscaping, cement or brick work, or other forms of manual labor. Why […]