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The use of shape and color theory in interpreting character traits
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Video games are richly ingrained in the world's media culture. Video games are rapidly growing their audience reach through new technological advances and innovative interactive engagement. Characters that create powerful ...
Cultural values, emotions and information : a comparison of webpages from two culturally different countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The present study empirically tested Triandis and Gelfand's (1998) four dimensional cultural theory, and evaluate the usage of standardization advertising strategies. The method used was content analysis. Product-based ...
Penetration of innovation : taming the unexplored interactions between information, knowledge and persuasion in the innovation-decision model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Building upon Everett Roger's theory of Diffusion of Innovations, foraging into knowledge acquisition theories, and leaning heavily onto the new communication perspectives opened by New Media, the present study aims to ...
Out of sight out of mind : factors in low levels of international news knowledge
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This study considers the impact of pre-existing knowledge and attitudes on the cognitive processing of international television news messages. This research is valuable because the world is becoming increasingly interconnected ...
Social proximity and user-generated health content : an experimental test of perceived source similarity and construal level theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The affordances of the internet, particularly as manifest in social network site platforms, allow for interpersonal mediated communication with socially proximal sources. In a 3 (expert source cues vs. low cues vs. low ...
The face of what came after : memorialization of September 11 in news images and the Shanksville site
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation examines the memorialization of the September 11 attacks in newspaper photography and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the site of the Flight 93 crash. It is based on the premise that the face of memorialization ...
"A good line of advertising:" the historical development of children's advertising as reflected in St. Nicholas Magazine, 1873-1905
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Media researchers often assume that children's advertising began in the early days of radio and television broadcasting. In fact, it had begun nearly a half century earlier within the pages of children's magazines. One of ...
Making the invisible, visible : photojournalism and the documentation of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] It has been argued that published photos by news agencies of COVID-19 were either too nuanced or too graphic. In either scenario, photojournalists were held accountable for what members of the ...
William Apess, Elias Boudinot, and Samuel Cornish : Native Americans and African-Americans looking for freedom of expression, representation, and rhetorical sovereignty during the age of Jackson
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
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 ...
Managing "Amazonia": a cultural case study of female leadership at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
This ethnographic study, the first comprehensive examination of a newspaper managed by women at its highest levels, found that female leaders made some differences in newsroom management and culture, and, to a lesser degree, ...
Can women really have it all? : a textual analysis of the portrayal of mothers in Good housekeeping, Woman's day, and Family circle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Nearly half a century after the second wave of the feminist movement, women are still bombarded with stereotypical messages about the female's role in society. One of the most significant of these roles to examine is ...
In Sullivan's shadow : the use and abuse of libel law during the Civil Rights Movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This is a study of libel cases filed by southern public officials during the Civil Rights Movement relating to African Americans' increasing fight for equality in the United States. Emphasis is on little-known lawsuits ...
In self defense : black female journalists' advocacy in the Cold War
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"Mary Church Terrell, Black female journalist and civil rights activist, stood in front of the United Nations board in Lake Success, New York, on Sept. 21, 1949, to present a brief on Rosa Lee Ingram. Ingram and her two ...
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 ...
A life of process and progress: the influence of writer Donald M. Murray
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
With his pronouncement to "teach writing as a process, not a product" in 1972, Donald (Don) Murray (1924-2006) enacted an approach to writing shared by like-minded scholars that would become termed the "writing process ...
Advertising to Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Ys
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis attempts to illuminate the processes and understanding by which art directors at major (national/international) ad agencies attempt to reach target generational demographics, specifically Baby Boomers, Gen Xers ...