April A Kedrowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 143083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | April A Kedrowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | April A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kedrowicz |
| SIGNATURE | KEDROWICZ A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6464-2294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Investigating the Association between Demographic Characteristics and Beliefs about Animal Afterlife
The purpose of this research was to explore American’s beliefs about animal afterlife based on key demographic factors such as sex, race/ethnicity, age, geographic region, religion/faith, and pet ownership. We attained a large and diverse sample of respondents (n = 800) using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and attempted to make the data fairly representative of the United States population by applying post-stratification weights based on auxiliary sta…
Professional identity on the Web: Engineering blogs and public engagement
Blogs offer a space where engineers can engage with public audiences about engineering topics, challenging and surpassing a deficit model of science communication. Communication that is adapted for a broad audience, discusses topics that are socially relevant, and facilitates participation and dialogue is more likely to be engaging. We examined 14 top engineering blogs to see how engineers present themselves and how they communicate with the publ…
Gendered tensions: Engineering Student's Resistance to Communication Instruction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw from the authors’ experiences, as women teaching Communication in a College of Engineering and mechanical engineering students’ evaluations, to highlight student resistance to both practices and bodies deemed “feminine.” Design/methodology/approach The authors examine how the masculine discipline of engineering might construct a learning environment that is incompatible with feminist ideals. This is il…
Self-direction or social support? nonprofit empowerment and the tacit employment contract of organizational communication studies
In organizational communication studies, empowerment has come to connote flatter structures, participation programs, and other techniques thought to enhance member competence and control through increased self-direction. We contend that this model-and, arguably, organizational communication studies more broadly-presumes a particular employment contract. We report a study of a different contract: staff-volunteer relations at a nonprofit organizati…
Self-direction or social support? nonprofit empowerment and the tacit employment contract of organizational communication studies
In organizational communication studies, empowerment has come to connote flatter structures, participation programs, and other techniques thought to enhance member competence and control through increased self-direction. We contend that this model-and, arguably, organizational communication studies more broadly-presumes a particular employment contract. We report a study of a different contract: staff-volunteer relations at a nonprofit organizati…
Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Investigating the Association between Demographic Characteristics and Beliefs about Animal Afterlife
The purpose of this research was to explore American’s beliefs about animal afterlife based on key demographic factors such as sex, race/ethnicity, age, geographic region, religion/faith, and pet ownership. We attained a large and diverse sample of respondents (n = 800) using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and attempted to make the data fairly representative of the United States population by applying post-stratification weights based on auxiliary sta…
Self-direction or social support? nonprofit empowerment and the tacit employment contract of organizational communication studies
In organizational communication studies, empowerment has come to connote flatter structures, participation programs, and other techniques thought to enhance member competence and control through increased self-direction. We contend that this model-and, arguably, organizational communication studies more broadly-presumes a particular employment contract. We report a study of a different contract: staff-volunteer relations at a nonprofit organizati…
Professional identity on the Web: Engineering blogs and public engagement
Blogs offer a space where engineers can engage with public audiences about engineering topics, challenging and surpassing a deficit model of science communication. Communication that is adapted for a broad audience, discusses topics that are socially relevant, and facilitates participation and dialogue is more likely to be engaging. We examined 14 top engineering blogs to see how engineers present themselves and how they communicate with the publ…
Gendered tensions: Engineering Student's Resistance to Communication Instruction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw from the authors’ experiences, as women teaching Communication in a College of Engineering and mechanical engineering students’ evaluations, to highlight student resistance to both practices and bodies deemed “feminine.” Design/methodology/approach The authors examine how the masculine discipline of engineering might construct a learning environment that is incompatible with feminist ideals. This is il…
Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Investigating the Association between Demographic Characteristics and Beliefs about Animal Afterlife
The purpose of this research was to explore American’s beliefs about animal afterlife based on key demographic factors such as sex, race/ethnicity, age, geographic region, religion/faith, and pet ownership. We attained a large and diverse sample of respondents (n = 800) using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and attempted to make the data fairly representative of the United States population by applying post-stratification weights based on auxiliary sta…
Sociology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Afterlife (1 works) · Alternative medicine (1 works)