Faculty Research
ThinkTech is an online publishing and archival service for the Texas Tech University community that scholars may use to distribute and archive their scholarly works with no limitations on content or format. ThinkTech also provides access to materials that traditional publications cannot. Users may access:
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Recent Submissions
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Natural philanthropy: A new evolutionary framework explaining diverse experimental results and informing fundraising practice
(Palgrave Communications, 2017-06-20)Philanthropic decision-making is important both for its potential to provide insight into human behaviour and for its economic significance. In recent years, investigations of charitable-giving behaviour have expanded ... -
Soundwriting Pedagogies
(Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2018)The availability of digital tools has made it easier than ever to record and edit sound, and teachers of composition have noticed. We’re entering an age of soundwriting, where the affordances of sound intersect the pedagogies ... -
Contextualizing Students’ Media Ideologies and Practices: An Empirical Study of Social Media Use in a Writing Class
(The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2017) -
An Annotated Bibliography of LGBTQ Rhetorics
(Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 2015) -
How To Be Gay with Locative Media: The Rhetorical Work of Grindr as a Platform
(Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 2018) -
E-Book Issues in Composition: A Partial Assessment and Perspective for Teachers
(Composition Forum, 2011)E-book devices (and devices that support e-books) are increasingly being integrated into the working lives of students and teachers. We discuss our pedagogical and institutional experiences with the Sony Reader in composition ... -
Building Rhetoric One Bit at a Time: A Case of Maker Rhetoric with littleBits
(Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2018)In this webtext, we share our experiences in a new media graduate course in which students played and experimented with littleBits (modular circuitry designed for easy invention). Students created three-dimensional objects ... -
A Multisensory Literacy Approach to Biomedical Healthcare Technologies: Aural, Tactile, and Visual Layered Health Literacies
(Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2018)In this webtext we borrow Kelli Cargile Cook's (2002) concept of layered literacies in technical communication to argue that health literacy is an embodied, multisensory experience that is invariably mediated by healthcare ... -
Remediating the CCCC Chair’s Address for Video
(Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2017)This webtext shares our inventional processes of remediating Joyce Locke Carter's 2016 College on Composition and Communication (CCCC) Chair's Address as a video to be posted on YouTube. We first historicize remediations ... -
Building an Athlete Community Service Motivation Model: Investigating the Relationship Between Athletic Identity, Student Involvement, and Community Service
(The College Sport Research Institute, 2018-08-02)A recent study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) found that approximately 90% of college athletes participate in community service and nearly 60% of college coaches require community service as a team ... -
Cholesterol-dependent cytolysins impair pro-inflammatory macrophage responses
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Economic Responsiveness and the Political Conditioning of the Electoral Cycle
(University of Chicago Press, 2018-02)Understanding the drivers of party issue emphasis and the speci c role of public opinion is important to shed light on the mechanisms of contemporary party competition, and to assess the quality of representation in ... -
Economic Performance and Center-Periphery Conflicts in Party Competition
(Emerald, 2018)The reasons pushing parties to politicize non-economic dimensions of competition, and the consequences of this for the representation of public opinion,are badly understood in the party competition literature. This is a ... -
The Potential of Mindfulness in Managing Emotions in Libraries
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017)This study investigates the potential of utilizing mindfulness practices to regulate emotions in libraries. Libraries are emotionally stressful environments characterized by continuous change and uncertainty. Working with ... -
Transnationality as a fluid social identity
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-03-22)How does the concept of transnationalism fit within the framework of social identity? What is the relationship between ‘diaspora’ and ‘transnationalism’? Do transnational migrants define themselves as such, or are they ... -
Before Crisis: Gender and Economic Outcomes of the Two Largest Immigrant Communities in Spain
(Wiley, 2012-03-20)In this study, we compare labor force outcomes of the two largest immigrant communities in Spain (Moroccans and Romanians) before the economic crisis hit. We are interested in understanding if and how gender influences the ... -
Where do we go from here? Climate change as a human affair
(SAGE Publications, 2013-08-27)Although climate change has slowly emerged in academic, media and political debates as an important social issue, it might be too slow for something to change significantly before it is too late. As such, it is probably a ...
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