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A content analysis of reproductive health articles in Jezebel.com and Glamour.com
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explored health coverage by the popular women's websites Glamour.com and Jezebel.com from May through October 2012. In these months preceding the November 2012 U.S. election, the media frequently referenced "The ...
Qualitative analysis of the impact of a mass shooting on a broadcast journalist
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This research examines the impact of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting on first-responding journalists, focusing on their professional lives and reporting techniques. The research was completed using a qualitative ...
Bridging the visual-verbal divide in college mass communications programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Today, all communications products are multimodal, employing a variety of communications techniques, from writing to graphics (and more), in one product. ...
Exploring how female public relations managers in higher-education institutions gain influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explored how female public relations (PR) managers working in higher-education institutions perceive that they gain influence in their jobs as communicators. To this end, the researcher conducted 12 semi-structured ...
Web analytics, social media, and the journalistic doxa : the impact of audience feedback on the evolving gatekeeping process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
New communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience behavior. Through new audience information ...
The effect of modality and response strategy on evaluations of credibility and reputation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Crisis situations represent major threats to the perceptions of companies by their key publics. This study draws from existing research in an effort to understand how the crisis response message characteristics of modality ...
The ever-evolving reporter: examining an organizational culture inspired effect on the psychological climate of television reporters in the digital age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Now that multi-platform products are fully in use in a constant integration of new media technologies in television newsrooms, it is important to discover how television reporters are relating to the changing workplace ...
An online disconnect : a case study of the effect of social media on a metropolitan newsroom's organizational culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This research explores the role of social media use in a traditional newsroom by examining how reporters and editors use social media tools, particularly Twitter and Facebook, in their day-to-day work activities. It uses ...
She's too pretty : how model attractiveness and social comparison impact consumer self-esteem and purchase intention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The current research was performed to determine the relationships between model attractiveness, social comparison, consumer self-esteem, and consumer ...
Elevating the news :how engagement editors assess success in their community engagement efforts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Community engagement is a news industry buzzword that has recently seen professionalization in newsrooms in the form of a community engagement editor. Little research has been done on this type of editor and how they know ...
"Acting white" on social media : a study of African Americans' racial identity performance on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Acting White" exists within minority communities across North America and the globe as a scarlet letter of shame to those perceived as performing an ...
Filling the statehouse void :the ideology of online non-profit news sites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The number of traditional news reporters present in state capitols is decreasing across the United States. Non-traditional online news organizations are attempting to fill that void. These entities, many of them non-profit ...
Reporting complex legal issues: an examination of the reportage on Citizens United and ACA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study looked at the reportage of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius from the New York Times, the USA Today and The Washington Post. Through the ...
Enabled and constrained : culture, ethics and structuration in an advertising agency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Understanding the complexity of advertising ethics mandates an organizational approach to empirical research. Organizational culture affords attention to not only the advertising practitioner's perspectives of ethics, but ...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ...
Trolls under the bridge :anonymous online comments and gatekeeping in the digital realm
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This research examines the trend of anonymous online speech and the evolution of traditional gatekeeping roles of journalists as new media interaction with the public becomes commonplace. A textual analysis explores the ...
Making meaning of body-size diversity in magazines: a grounded theory analysis of reader comments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Using grounded theory method, this research qualitatively analyzes more than 1000 reader comments left in reaction to an image of a plus-size model in Glamour magazine in 2009. The core categories that emerged through ...
Why do people post online? : an analysis of the online review posting (ORP) scale as an extension to the web motivation inventory (WMI)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Online motives are one of the most important starting points for understanding online consumer behavior (Rodgers & Thorson, 2000). The present research draws from existing research and the larger uses and gratifications ...
Public schools in crisis: a content analysis of news framing since No Child Left Behind
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Public confidence in the U.S. education system has steadily eroded as a prevailing narrative has formed in the news media claiming that public schools are failing and in crisis. Yet, student academic performance has increased ...
Tweeting the headlines: the impact of social media endorsement on young adult news readers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Since the Internet became a mainstream form of communications in 1999, journalism has become a multi-platform discipline. Twitter is a social media site that is emerging as an avenue for getting news online. Previous ...