Dissertation Information for Michael NilanNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Complete - Except Indecipherables Title: STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS AND SITUATIONAL INFORMATION SEEKING: A TEST OF TWO PREDICTORS IN A SENSE-MAKING CONTEXT
Abstract: "This study examines the existing controversies of mechanistic versus non-mechanistic and individual versus structural conceptualizations of human information seeking behavior in communication research. In examining traditional, structuralist, and interpretivist approaches, these two issues seem to have similar bases. Rather than abandon a focus on individual behavior in favor of structural concerns, the purpose of the study is to try to address these concerns using actor assessments of structure rather than observer assessments of structure. After a discussion of these two controversies, an interpretivist approach (Sense-Making) is chosen as a base line for beginning to address structuralist concerns within an interpretivist framework. |
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Students under Michael Nilan
ADVISEES:
- Gregory B. Newby - Syracuse University (1993)
- Howard Rosenbaum - Syracuse University (1996)
- Kyunghye Yoon - Syracuse University (2002)
- Stephen Paling - Syracuse University (2004)
- Christina Leigh Deitz - Syracuse University (2011)
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Halim Bin Shafie - Syracuse University (1988)
- Barbara H Kwasnik - Rutgers University (1989)
- Ruth Ann Palmquist - Syracuse University (1990)
- Linda Schamber - Syracuse University (1991)
- Carol L. Barry - Syracuse University (1993)
- Ann Bishop - Syracuse University (1995)
- Carol A. Hert - Syracuse University (1995)
- Herbert Ward Snyder - Syracuse University (1998)
- Hsiang Chen - Syracuse University (2000)
- Woojin Paik - Syracuse University (2000)
- Charmaine Barreto - Syracuse University (2003)
- Nelson Massad - Syracuse University (2003)
- Nasriah Zakaria - Syracuse University (2006)
- Benjamin Kwasi Addom - Syracuse University (2010)
- Todd E Marshall - Syracuse University (2011)