Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1961. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [112]-115).

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D)--Ohio State University, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-189). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on October 5, 2009). Thesis advisor: Professor Byron Scott. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-121). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

This thesis explores oral communication in St. Gallen through the lens of the linen merchant Johannes Rütiner (1501-1556/7). By reconstructing Rütiner's network of informants and probing four genres of communication within their respective social contexts - jokes, gossip, rumour, and memory narratives -, it explores early modern sociability, the circulation of information, and the relationship between oral testimony, manuscript, and print. Sixteenth-century St. Gallers relied heavily on informal, oral networks to provide them with news and information of all kinds. An individual's access to information was thus to a large degree determined by the social networks within which they spent their life. As St. Gallers sought to secure a place for themselves in such circles, they in turn used jokes, gossip, and information of all kinds as a form of "communicative social capital", allowing them to present themselves as witty, well-connected, and knowledgeable. Rather than treating the instability of oral narratives as evidence of the inherent unreliability of the spoken word, this study proposes to analyse their evolution as a key to early modern mentalities. It also calls into question some of the dominant narratives regarding the printing revolution. Not only did oral communication continue to play a central role in the dissemination of information in the first half of the sixteenth century, but existing systems of "source criticism", developed in the context of dominantly oral networks, moreover cast doubt on the reliability of anonymous prints: because they made their trust in a piece of news conditional on their trust in the messenger, Rütiner and his fellow citizens often preferred oral narratives provided by familiar, trustworthy informants.

El Perú se encuentra en el cinturón de fuego del Pacífico, por lo que los sismos son un riesgo latente. Ante ello, el director de INDECI, reveló que 3 de cada 10 peruanos no participan de los simulacros de prevención. Por ello, se realizó una investigación a 17 limeños, divididos en cinco sesiones de focus group para identificar los comportamientos de los limeños entre 25 a 35 años con respecto a la prevención de sismos y su relación con la gestión de la comunicación de prevención. Debido a las características que se desea estudiar, el enfoque más apropiado es cualitativo con diseño fenomenológico. A partir de ello, se concluyó que existen dos tipos de percepción del riesgo: percepción de riesgo nula y percepción de riesgo no constante, debido a que los mensajes de comunicación no han sido interiorizados dando como resultado comportamientos asociados a la ausencia de compromiso y responsabilidad. / Peru is located in the fire belt of the Pacific, so tremors and earthquakes are a latent risk. Despite this, the director of the national civil defense institute revealed that 3 out of 10 Peruvians do not participate in the prevention drills. For this reason, a qualitative research was carried out, where 17 people from Lima participated, divided into five focus group sessions to identify the behaviors of Lima residents between 25 and 35 years old with respect to earthquake prevention and its relationship with the management of communication prevention. It was concluded that there are two types of risk perception: null risk perception and non-constant risk perception, due to the fact that communication messages have not been internalized, resulting in behaviors associated with the absence of commitment and responsibility. / Tesis