Dans ce mémoire sera présenté un cycle conceptuel de six pièces pour ensembles variés gouvernées par deux thématiques principales: le sentiment collectif et la conscience historique. La démarche est d’évoquer ces thèmes et leurs sous-thèmes respectifs par tous les moyens possibles dans le contexte donné par chaque pièce. Ainsi, l’analyse révèlera comment les textes sur lesquels la musique est basée servent à provoquer une réflexion sur les thèmes et comment le lien avec la musique circonscrit la réception du message aux sujets connexes aux thématiques choisies. L’objectif est que la musique crée un contact entre les interprètes et l’auditoire pour les amener à s’approprier le message qu’ils perçoivent à travers les oeuvres et qu’elle canalise les interprétations possibles pour qu’elles soient en ligne avec les thèmes. De plus, il sera examiné comment des procédés extra-musicaux invitent l’auditoire à se sentir interpellé par les oeuvres, soit par sa participation, soit par l’interdisciplinarité qui débloque de nouveaux canaux pour stimuler son écoute. La démarche créatrice dans son ensemble vise à être cohérente avec les thèmes choisis, parfois simplement en tant que prise de position en relation aux styles abordés. Par exemple, l’omniprésence de procédés issus de la musique folklorique et d’emprunts à différents sous-genres de musique metal, le choix des auteur.es et un hommage assumé à Claude Vivier servent à situer l’oeuvre dans notre contexte historique actuel en relation à l’histoire précédente et à aiguiser la conscience que nous appartenons à une communauté, en plus de questionner ce que cela implique. Les pièces seront traitées en un chapitre par oeuvre : Les poules à Jenny, Joco musicam ergo sum, Poussière de cèdre, Résonances, et Je ne suis pas née pour servir un mâle. / This memoir will present a conceptual cycle of six pieces for different ensembles governed by two main themes: the collective sentience and historical consciousness. The procedure of the research is to evoke these themes and their respective sub-themes through the means possible in the context given by each piece. Therefor, the analysis will reveal how the texts upon which the music is based are used to provoke a reflection on the treated subjects and how the link with the music limits the reception of the message to the chosen subjects. The objective is for the music to channel a direct contact between the performers and the audience to bring them to appropriate themselves the message they perceive in the works, but to orient those reflections on the chosen subjects. Furthermore, the research will examine how extra-musical processes invite the audience to feel engaged by the works, either by their participation or by their interdisciplinarity which unlocks new channels to stimulate listening. The entire creative process aims to be coherent with the subjects, sometimes simply by taking position in relation to the themes discussed. For example, the omnipresence of characteristics of traditional music, the imitation of different subgenres of metal music, the choice of authors and a deliberate tribute to Claude Vivier help situate the work in our current historical context in rapport to previous history and to sharpen the consciousness that we belong to a given community, questioning what that implies. The pieces will be treated as one chapter per work: Les poules à Jenny, Joco musicam ergo sum, Poussière de cèdre, Résonances, and Je ne suis pas née pour servir un mâle.

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Studies have identified links between anxiety and couple communication, anxiety and pronoun use as well as pronoun use and communication. The current study investigated the association between pronoun use and communication in the context of anxiety. One hundred and fifteen couples rated their communication with their partner and participated in two seven-minute problem-solving discussions, which were analyzed using a linguistic word count program. Results indicate that the use of I was not associated with ratings of communication whereas use of You by either partner was related to lower ratings of communication by both men and women. Moreover, the results of several moderation analyses suggest the association between women's (but not men's) ratings of communication and men's and women's use of You and men's I was moderated by both men's and women's anxiety. Women's anxiety moderated the relationship between both partner's use of You and women's rating of couple communication and men's anxiety moderated the relationship between men's use of You and I and women's view of couple communication. The hypothesis that pronoun use mediates the relationship between anxiety and couple communication was not supported. Implications are discussed.

The following study examined identity construction and community formation within the comic book fan community on the social media website, Twitter It had three objectives It investigated how comic book fans constructed their respective identities on Twitter, explored how fans came to identify with the comic book community and why it formed, and aimed to discover how the community was maintained and expanded The study applied an ethnographic method that relied on the analysis of dialogue Ten comic book fans (five males, five females) that frequently used Twitter to communicate with other fans were video interviewed It was found that comic book fans constructed their identities using their Twitter biography and profile picture and they all believed they were communicating their true and genuine selves The biography, profile picture, and tweets reinforced the rhetoric of what it meant to be a comic book fan It was this visual and written rhetoric that enabled comic book fans to identify with one another and bring the community into being Without this rhetoric, there is no community The community maintained itself through the continued reinforcement of this rhetoric It expanded itself by bringing comic book fans from different backgrounds, locations, and nationalities together online around a shared interest The study also found that the relationships formed within the community could develop into real friendships, the same caliber of friendship that individuals would normally have with those they knew and met in real life.

This study investigated the relationship between Chinese young adults' usage of micro-blog and their cultural values. Data was collected from a group-administered survey, which was constituted by 484 students aged from 17 to 30 in variety majors in five colleges in Beijing. Results answered two research questions, indicating that there is a strong relationship between traditional cultural values' changes in Chinese young adults and micro-blog usage. The results also indicated that the more Chinese young adults engaged in micro-blog usage, the more likely they would show distinctive features in both Eastern and Western cultural values. In other words, highly active Chinese micro-blog users have crossed the Eastern and Western cultural boundaries and are developing bicultural identity due to globalization in media environment.

This study describes cultural values and communication patterns that are attributable to Ugandans and U.S. Americans in Kampala, Uganda. Value patterns are described within this paper, a mixture of self-attributed and ascripted based on survey and interview data. This information was examined to better understand degrees of variations of communication styles and value orientations and how they contribute to intercultural misunderstanding and potential conflict in a professional setting. The purpose of the study is not merely to contrast Ugandan and U.S. American culture, but to create knowledge to allow better adaption for cross-cultural encounters and add to the scant communication based literature within the African context.

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In recent years there has been a marked shift from face-to-face communication to computer-mediated communication. This shift has also led to changes in the way families communicate as, more often than ever, social media sites are becoming a primary means of communication for a number of groups. The relationship between family communication patterns and offline interaction has long been studied. However, there is a marked scarcity in research examining the relationship between family communication patterns and online interaction. Data collected from a group-administered survey of 246 undergraduate students was used to examine eleven hypotheses related to family communication patterns, self-esteem, social media use, and online/offline family interaction. Family communication patterns were labeled as either high conversation-orientation or high conformity-orientation. Existing research suggests that these communication patterns are inversely related and a correlation analysis in this study supports this notion. The results indicate that there is a positive correlation between high conversation-orientation families and both online and offline family interaction as well as measures of self-esteem. Additionally, the results indicate that there is a negative correlation between high conformity-orientation families and offline family interaction. No significant correlations were found between high conformity-orientation families and either self-esteem or online family interaction. Future research should consider motivations behind actions as this may significantly impact how respondents view and evaluate their interaction patterns.

Caregivers of persons with dementia often struggle to sustain meaningful communication and reciprocal emotional connection due to the deterioration in functional memory and the resulting diminishment of social-interactive abilities in their loved one. The very personhood of the care recipient is also often compromised by the reduction in those socio-communicative capacities, which in turn, can impact the function of the caregiving relationship. Emotional, as well as social isolation can increase for the familial caregiver just as it often does for the care recipient. This thesis examines the impact that an individualized, home-based music therapy program had on the emotional connection and reciprocal interactions of four familial caregiving dyads. Data were collected over a month-long period using qualitative research methods including pre and post interview, a caregiver's journal log, researcher's journal log, participation, direct observation, and the observations of the caregiver respondents themselves as they engaged in the therapeutic process with their familial care recipient. Through a cross-case analysis of data collected, four main themes emerged to reflect the experiences of the participants. These were: 1) a longing for reciprocity, 2) the experience of emotional reciprocity, 3) the emergence of personhood through shared musical experiences, and 4) perseverance in the pursuit of meaningful communication. Sub-themes, and themes relating to the researcher's participatory experiences are also included. Implications for further research are discussed.