Kentucky
Journal
of Communication
VOLUME 25
Fall 2006
Number 2
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Kentucky Journal of Communication
VOLUME 25 FALL 2006 NUMBER 2
ARTICLES
KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF 1932: The Neglected Heritage
delivered by Rupert Cortright
Mental Hygiene and Speech Training
Martin M. White
The article address five specific questions: 1) What are the most often observed speech defects?; 2) Is there a difference between stuttering and stammering?; 3) What is the psychologist's general attitude toward speech disabilities?; 4) How does teh psychologist go about changing speech responses?; 5) Should one call on students to recite when in the presence of other students if his speech handicap is great?.
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What is Your Child Watching? A Content Analysis of Disney Animated Films: Scene I
Kimberly Everhart and Philip J. Aust
An extensive amount of research has been conducted on the effects of media violence on children. Deswpite its wholesome image, Walt Disney Studios, a major producer of cildren's media, has often been criticized for the content of its films. This content analysis examines the amount of violent incidents in 24 Disney G-rated, animated, full-length feature films released between 1937 and 2000. Since research indicates that television violence tends to impact child behavior, Disney films were assessed three ways for their violent content: (1) the number of violent incidents per film, (b) the types of weapons used for violence per film, and (c) the acceptance or rejection of vilent acts by characteristics as appropriate behavior in each film. This analysis found 464 violent incidents portrayed in Disney films and 564 weapons used in these incidents. Moreover, this analysis found an increas in violence with each successive decade of Disney films.
Repeal the Smoking Ban: An Analysis of a Tobacco Industry Front Group Website
Sarah E. Cavendish
Over the last decade, the United States has experienced a groundswell of smoke-free laws across the country. This study considers teh message boards of a tobacco industry front group opposed to a local smoke-free law on Repeal the Smoking Ban (www.repealthesmokingban.com) drawing upon a theoretical background of conflict theory. Posts to the message board from its inception in July 2004 until November 2004 were analyzed using textual analysis, totaling mor than 200 indivudla posts created by 22 individuals and viewed 3, 604 times.
Picture This: The Effect of Communication on Athletic Imagery
David Gesler and Timothy S. Todd
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference between an intrapersoanl communication facilitation and an interpersonal communication facilitation of an imagery exercise on athletes' perceived imagery abilities. A total of 161 participants (39 high school and 122 collegiate athletes) were asked to respond to the Sport Imagery Questionnaire (Vealy & Walter, 1993) via two channels of communication facilitation, an interpersonally facilitated channel and an intrapersonal channel. The results showed no difference between communication facilitations of an imagery exercise. Howeve, between genders, males reported a higher ability to image than females on the collapsed auditory, emotional, and image controllability sub-scales. Males were found to be statistically more vivid imagers than females in various imagery situations.
Pillow Talking: A Lifespan Approach to Contextualized Conversational Themes
Wesley T. Durham and Karla J. Bergen
In the present study, the authors analyzed how married couples shift conversational themes as tehy progress through te life course. "Pillow talk," or discussions in the bedroom, represented the context for this anasis. The authors completed in-depth interviews with particiapnts who ranged in age from early twenties to late seventies. The results presented in the present study suggest that younger couple suse pillow talk to engage in mundane, everyday talk, talk about others, and future life plans. Midlife couples engage in pillow talk to discuss every day activities, children, and work life stress, and older couples use pillow talk to discuss everyday activities, health concerns, sexual topics, and friends and families.
Social Scientific Interviewing: Issues of Facework and Turn-taking
Ryan S. Beisel
This study examined issues of facework and turn-taking in social scientific interviewing practices. Discourse analytic research in legal contexts suggests participants respond to questioning by playig the unofficial rules of facework. Additionally, conversation analytic research in business contexts suggests highly structured interviews restrict repair functions of everyday conversation, and thus, limit informaiton gathering. Conversation alaysis of two, previously collected interviews suggests that implicit rules of facework were relevant for interactants. Additionally, analysis also suggests that because of follow-up questioning techniques, repair functions of everyday conversation were not restricted. However, follow-up questioning created a few points of face threat for both participants and interviewer. Implications for future study on follow-up questioning techniques conclude the essay.
INSTRUCTIONAL FORUM
Teaching Hybrid Communication Courses Online: Like Riding a Wave
Jayne L. Violette and Fred Fitch
Teaching basic hybrid communication courses online has its challenges and rewards. Using the surfing metaphor of "riding a wave," this essay offers instructional insights on the fundamental processes involved with teaching this course online, using recent past instructional communication research and theory as the foundation for discussion. Suggestions on planning, preparation, and execution of effective online teaching and learning activities are included, as well as acknowledgement of the shifting roles, qualities, and responsibilities of both online instructors and their students. Specific ideas on how to troubleshoot common challenges associated with teaching basic communication courses online are also offered.
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