During the age of Jackson, freedom of expression benefited Native Americans and African-Americans in the United States, as it helped them to battle against misrepresentation and controls of information and to develop a ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if the structural features and emotional content of negative news images affected viewers' responses. A pair of within-subjects experiments manipulated the color and size of the ...

This dissertation examined the relationship among four exposure conditions in marketing communications (pure advertising, advertising priming, publicity priming, and pure publicity) that include either advertising or ...

This study examines the attitudes of journalists at small newspapers toward market-driven journalism. The researcher queried 29 journalists at nine small Missouri newspapers. The author employed qualitative method using ...

This thesis explores how the print media used references to music to indicate "red state" and "blue state" identity during the 2004 presidential campaign. Through a textual analysis of more than 30 newspaper and magazine ...

This paper explores the effectiveness of banner advertising on the Web and they hold for users, based on their previous experiences. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with several Web users to understand what makes ...

The role of Globo Internacional, a transnational channel, for Brazilians is examined in South Florida and Toronto using the lens of cultural studies. Until the last century, immigrants were arguably forced to assimilate ...

This current study aims to define and describe the relationship between individuals' Internet dependency and social support as they function in one specific information environment. How the immigrants' acculturation attitude ...

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 ...

This study investigated how the embedding program used by the American military during the second Persian Gulf War affected the coverage of six print reporters who participated in it. This qualitative study analyzed eight ...

This study explores how newspaper reporters become attached to their organizations, specifically focusing on the dynamics between attachment, professional sentiments and workplace relationships. Attachment is defined as a ...

The purpose of this research is to study how newspapers, an important outlet from which individuals seek health information, frame fad diets. This study examines coverage of the Atkins diet, one of the most popular fad ...

Some social scientists note that Westerners have become disenchanted with their society, which they see as promoting industrial development and a soul less consumerism that are out of control and destroying the natural ...

This study investigates whether gender of the reporter or the source has an impact on the metaphors that are used in media reports on the 2003 war in Iraq. War metaphors previously exposed by other research are explored ...

As the Hispanic population in the United States tops 40 million people, it is important to look at ways in which American and Latino cultures compare and interact. More than any other U.S. immigrant group, Hispanics rely ...

Communication professionals must find ways to recruit more donors to give blood more times to continue meeting the demand for a safe and adequate blood supply. Young people could supply blood for years to come if they ...

This study examines the 1964 Supreme Court case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its influence on the Court's modern commercial speech doctrine. Although Sullivan is mostly remembered for revolutionizing libel law, as a ...

This study sought to explore how personal medical crises are narrated in Glamour, a popular women's magazine. The study employed Kenneth Burke's dramatism, specifically his pentad and the concepts of guilt and redemption ...

The late 1990's represented a time of unprecedented economic growth. However, the economic bubble ultimately burst and the nation entered into a recession. Following the crash, there was speculation that the media were ...

This study examined the effects of online content structure on attention and memory as indicators to overall communication effectiveness. For the purposes of this study, content structure was defined as either Bite-Snack-Meal ...