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Generational differences in the news media regarding an individual's right to privacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Throughout the research component of my master's professional project, I sought to effectively gauge the generational differences that may ...
Social Media's Credibility: A Step Towards Literacy?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This project aimed to look at how social media could or could not give citizens the voice to change the content of news and also how it could or could not hurt a given news organization's credibility. I used two focus ...
How indigenous women filmmakers engage with representation of indigenous peoples in film
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Throughout the history of cinema and television, white male perspectives and false narratives of ‘vanishing Indians’ have remained persistent (Maurribo, ...
Group ideology of foreign conflict journalists : values and professional role
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Media scholars argue that journalistic values for a long time were analyzed within a Western framework where media is perceived as contributing to ...
How filmmakers' role conceptions and socialization influence the contested conceptualization of documentary film
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The debate over how exactly to characterize a documentary film is one that has seen extensive play in academic circles. Delineating the ...
The best of Ricardo Lopez: The ethics and expression of recorded memories in documentary filmmaking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
When Ricardo Lopez killed himself in September 1996, he would leave behind twenty hours of videotaped diaries documenting the building of an acidic spray device he intended to use in a letter bomb that would disfigure pop ...
Notes from Jefferson County
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This professional project sets out to illustrate the stories, struggles and characters within two small farming communities in rural Nebraska through the vehicle of documentary journalism. The film's director used immersion ...
Documentary cinema and the fictions of reality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The research portion of this project was motivated by the desire to understand the concepts in documentary films that address themes similar to those of my own film, namely the spatial perspective of development and ...
How do American audiences interpret Chinese documentaries? : a reception study on tie xi qu: west of the tracks and fortune teller
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research is aimed at exploring American audiences' reception of two Chinese documentaries, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003) and Fortune Teller ...
What is it like to be a foreign journalist in China? : micro-documentaries of China-based journalists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
What it is like to be a foreign journalist in China? This is the central question this project tries to answer. Through three micro-documentaries and eight in-depth interviews, this project tries to get a glimpse of foreign ...
When Africa cries : exploring the gatekeeping decisions of local U.S. TV news producecrs in reporting on African tragedies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Looking at the world through the lens of American local television news, one might forget that there is more to it than the USA. You might ...
Political engagement among religious leaders and their relationships with the media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Religious leaders have a unique societal position when it comes to political engagement and media representation. The degree in which it is appropriate for religious leaders to engage in political events and activity varies ...
A content analysis of word choice in social media news coverage of mass shootings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examined how news organizations utilized Twitter to report on the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. ...
Tapping into community conversations : how broadcast journalists' social media routines influence content and sourcing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Broadcast journalists serve two masters: the long-reigning broadcast and its digital brother. Digital journalism encompasses many things: it is just as much a Facebook post as it is free standing websites made of HTML. ...
Interaction Between Traditional Media and Social Media Coverage on Social Issues in China: A Content Analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
To what extent does online public opinion and traditional media coverage interact with each other on social issues in China? This research employs a content analysis of 524 Weibo posts and 327 news articles regarding a ...
Effective policy reporting methods for television news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
I spent the spring 2013 semester serving as KOMU 8's Capitol Correspondent at the stations' Capitol Bureau. During that time, reported on political issues facing the state both for daily newscasts and for longer enterprise ...
Representational issues and pitfalls in documentaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)