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The effects of media framing of political conflicts on party identification and political participation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Prior research identified the logical chain from strategic coverage to cynicism to demobilization. Considering the fact that party identification anchors ...
Standards of objectivity : a comparison between daily and alternative newsweekly papers in three Ohio cities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
and framing of each article. Semi-structured interviews with the reporters and editors behind those articles allowed for a more in-depth look at how those journalists defined objectivity, as well as the choices those journalists had to make while putting...
A quantitative content analysis of shifting dependency patterns in U.S. foreign news content
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
in the last decade. Stories were analyzed as internal foreign news stories (those reported by internal members of the newspaper staff) or external foreign news stories (those from external or outsourced content providers such as wire services). The findings...
Interviews with founders of twenty-four-hour local cable news channels: why and how they started the business
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
instances, ChicagoLand TV and Orange County Newschannel, the cable channels were located inside the newspaper's newsroom. The local cable news channels have developed a national reputation for hyper-local news coverage, political reporting, morning news...
Journalists' role conceptions in covering sexual violence post-Weinstein
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Since the publication of The New York Times article on Harvey Weinstein, journalists across the United States have had to adapt to a new reporting climate as it has evolved under the influence of the #MeToo movement. This thesis explores...
A starting point for identifying perpetrator genocidal messaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The purpose of this research was to determine whether a consistent messaging strategy could be identified in three recent outbreaks of violence or if genocidal messaging will show tremendous variances that are unique to ...
Understanding the impact of Artificial Intelligence on newsroom social culture and journalistic performative roles : a qualitative case study of AI as an emerging digital innovative technology in newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
technology may influence sociocultural perceptions and behavior in U.S. and UK-based news reporters and their semi-automated newsrooms by comparing present-day news reporters and newsrooms against the behavior of news reporters and newsrooms at the start...
Understanding the change to integration : an organizational analysis of a small newspaper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This multimethod study examined change efforts to integration at a mid-sized family-owned newspaper as a new content-management system was implemented. Using the open systems model, the organization was analyzed through ...
The role of product category involvement when stealing thunder during organizational crises
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Today's media landscape, which is based on instant news dissemination, allows a crisis to quickly be brought upon an individual or an organization. It ...
The strength of weak ties in online social networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The use of online social networks such as Facebook.com are hypothesized to be affecting Robert Putnam's (1995) theory of social capital. The research method is modeled after Dhavan Shah's (2005) Information Communication Participation model...
Framing theory and operation Iraqi freedom: an analysis of news frames and the 2003 conflict in Iraq
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This master's thesis analyzes newspaper coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the conflict in Iraq that officially began on March 19, 2003 and ended on ...
The tale of "Two Voices" : an oral history of women communicators from Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 and a new black feminist concept
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study developed a new concept of Black Feminist thought and employs it to examine the intersection of press and communication practices among women involved in Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964. The study draws on oral ...
Examining media coverage of the subprime mouurtgage [sic] phenomenon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
the subprime mortgage collapse would reveal more evidence of a favorable bias toward capitalism than those reported after the crash. Attitudes toward the regulation of markets were treated as the clearest indicator of attitudes toward capitalism; positive...
Net gains: potential citizen journalists use traditional media often and have a strong need for news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Even after more than 10 years, the Internet has not replaced the newspaper. In fact, research suggests a strong complimentary relationship between online and printed news. Information seekers or newshounds will seek out ...
The evolution of a beat: a case study of changes in environmental reporting from the 1970's to today as evident in coverage of three disastrous oil spills
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The field of environmental journalism has significantly advanced since environmental issues emerged as topics of social and journalistic importance in the 1970's. Environmental reporters have become essential investigators of the human...
Framing African genocide: location, time and gender in the coverage of genocide in Rwanda and Sudan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This paper explored how genocides in Rwanda in 1994 and Sudan in 2004 were framed in three American midwestern newspapers, namely the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Wisconsin State Journal. ...
Ease the résistance : the role of narrative and other-referencing in attenuating psychological reactance to persuasive diabetes messages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Reactance theory (Brehm, 1966; Brehm & Brehm, 1981; Dillard & Shen, 2005) explains that persuasion may fail by inducing threats to individuals' perceived autonomy; this study provides evidence of pathways through this resistance to enhance message...
Blogging for participants: framing the candidate blog for mobilization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
viewed the strategy-framed blog posts reporter greater significantly higher intent to participate than those exposed to issue-framed blog posts. These effects were particularly strong among participants with high levels of partisan intensity. Contrary...
The route to persuasion: gaining/maintaining local support for the hometown Air Force mission
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Each Air Force Base throughout the world has a Public Affairs team dedicated to communicating information about a base's specific mission and, ultimately, ...
Explicating journalism-as-a-conversation : two experimental tests of online news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The concept of journalism as a conversation has been richly explored in descriptive studies for decades. Largely missing from the literature, though, are clear operationalizations that allow theory building for purposes ...