Finishing the semester
These last two papers I'm writing are practically killing me. It's not just the papers, but I seem to have too much on my plate in addition to what I have to do with my classes. I blew off a forensics party this evening that I did kind of want to go to, but I had to finish my references list for one of my papers so I could continue the research and finish writing the whole thing tomorrow. My other paper needs a reworking of my newly designed Repeated Message Model. I worked with one of my professors today to put the model into more of a path model, but it wasn't the model I wanted, which kind of ended up watering it down into something unspectacular.
So what am I working on?
For Interpersonal Communication, I'm finishing a compliance-based, foot in the door literature review to show how a new approach can be used to assist patients to participate in smoking cessation activities.
For my other grad class, I took Axelrod's Adaptive Culture Model, utilizing Kennedy's opinion spin to the model (replacing culture with opinion and ideologies) and then incorporated Shibanai, Yasuno and Ishiguro's 2001 extension of the model which replaces local neighbors with international "neighbors" made local by the usage of mass media and then incorporated it into my own path model of repeated messages that continue to influence one's opinion until one leaves the experiment either with the same opinion or a changed opinion which then feeds into a new socialization. I integrated influence with persuasion and attitude change to explain why message boards that communicate with international actors now have an international messaging impact that was previously unattainable in the past except in limited circumstances involving travel to other countries or with tiny effects involving exchange students and other such visitor phenomena.
You might get the idea that I kind of like what I'm doing now. And you'd be right. This field is very open for my brand of exploratory science. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Stumble It!
So what am I working on?
For Interpersonal Communication, I'm finishing a compliance-based, foot in the door literature review to show how a new approach can be used to assist patients to participate in smoking cessation activities.
For my other grad class, I took Axelrod's Adaptive Culture Model, utilizing Kennedy's opinion spin to the model (replacing culture with opinion and ideologies) and then incorporated Shibanai, Yasuno and Ishiguro's 2001 extension of the model which replaces local neighbors with international "neighbors" made local by the usage of mass media and then incorporated it into my own path model of repeated messages that continue to influence one's opinion until one leaves the experiment either with the same opinion or a changed opinion which then feeds into a new socialization. I integrated influence with persuasion and attitude change to explain why message boards that communicate with international actors now have an international messaging impact that was previously unattainable in the past except in limited circumstances involving travel to other countries or with tiny effects involving exchange students and other such visitor phenomena.
You might get the idea that I kind of like what I'm doing now. And you'd be right. This field is very open for my brand of exploratory science. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Stumble It!
posted by Duane @ 12:11 AM
1 Comments:
At 4:42 PM,
Anonymous said…
I quake in terror, sir. I quake. :)
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