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Under the auspices of privacy � or not : surveying the state judicial treatment of access to government records
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
While privacy is paramount to a person's liberty interest, it is not absolute in all circumstances. Often, public interests trump an individual's right to privacy. Since the enactment of freedom of information statutes by every state, there is a...
Textual analysis of online magazine framing of screen time use in young children
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
by children has climbed from 28% in 2011 to 84% in 2017 (Miller, Paciga, Danby, Beaudoin- Ryan & Kaldor, 2017). With digital technology becoming ubiquitous, its role, access, and use have transformed the role of media in the daily lives of young children...
Ease the résistance : the role of narrative and other-referencing in attenuating psychological reactance to persuasive diabetes messages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
persuasiveness. A 2 (narrative) x 2 (other-referencing) x 2 (message) x 4 (order) experiment tested whether packaging overt recommendations as a story rather than an informational argument (i.e. narrative structure) and highlighting the impact of health decisions...
Increasing the persuasiveness of gain vs. loss framing : the effects of gender and fear arousal on processing gain- vs. loss-framed breast cancer screening messages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
recipients and their fear arousal. The study used a 2 (male vs. female) x 2 (gain vs. loss) between-subject design experiment with 128 African American participants (mean age = 45.9). The results showed that men and women processed the BCS messages with a...
Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Wrought with one crisis after another -- the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide civil unrest in response to police murders of Black people in the U.S., and a highly volatile election season, the year 2020 arose to the level of what Boin (2019) calls a...
God's words in the language of men : the professionalization of the Southern Baptist Press
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
of the press and autonomy became the professional values most at stake for newsworkers as denominational leaders insisted journalists should concentrate on promotion. Through the Civil Rights Movement, most journalists tried to maintain a centrist position...
A world in flux : journalistic change in science journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
As modernity undergoes radical changes, a narrative of journalistic change has emerged in journalism research. One way that journalistic change has been conceptualized is in terms of a shift from a high modern to a liquid ethos (Deuze, 2005, 2017...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
and the Bodenheim story explains the cultural dimension, both overlap on the issue of ethnicity, the question of Jewish American identity. Hecht's political response to the genocide and the struggle for a homeland in its aftermath was informed by a cynical worldview...