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A discussion of covid-19 vaccine in relation with traditional chinese medicine belief on weibo
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Traditional Chinese medicine has been influencing Chinese people for thousands of years. Vaccine, as a means of western medicine, has been on the controversial side of traditional Chinese medicine. When it comes to disease, many Chinese people make...
Texan City magazine health news : a content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
in 2018 on the five magazines' websites for how the publications presented health news. The core findings of this research included: the overall agenda was actionable health, the city magazines were more than three times more likely to cite an indirect...
Analyzing access: an analysis of food desert coverage during COVID-19
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
States. This thesis aimed to identify the ways in which food deserts in the United States are covered being that millions of Americans live in these designated areas. The results show that themes centered on financial context, agriculture, community...
Making the invisible, visible : photojournalism and the documentation of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
leading cause of death in America; more than 1.1 million Americans died because of COVID-19 during this period, accounting for about 16 percent of the world's total fatalities. This study is twofold: 1) it explores 500 photographs published...
Second class : local and elite media framing of poverty in the Appalachian opioid epidemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
say, of journalism's concentration in expensive, coastal cities that are inaccessible to people of lower classes. This study examines how an outlet's geographic location influences its coverage of class by comparing local and elite coverage...
Lines in the sand : navigating native advertising through magazine professionals' policies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
advertisements and editorial department stories from one regional special-interest magazine based in the Midwest and (2) five interview recordings from five employees within this magazine. The research seeks to gain a better understanding of how magazine...
A study of non-profit social media engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
As more nonprofit organizations increase their usage of social media to reach new audiences, audience research is needed to help practitioners formulate strategic communications plans that reach the goals of the organization. ...
The business imperative of newsroom diversity: how identities influence Indonesian women media leaders' perceptions and implementation of newsroom changes and innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
News organizations tend to preserve male-dominated organizational culture and have been historically oriented to serve the male reader market. This, however, stifles innovation and fails to respond to rapid changes in the journalism industry...
Information deserts : how Colorado news desert communities consumed COVID-19 information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The purpose of this study was to explore how Colorado residents living in news deserts consumed, interacted with, and understood news during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research explored community members' media habits in ...
Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
, bore the burden of being essential employees, educating their children in addition to being one of the most untreated group of people for depression (Nelson, et al.) and being more susceptible to anxiety disorders (Williams, Kanter, & Ching, 2018...
Reinventing a moral mode : a textual analysis of 21st century "living Lei Fengs" in China Daily
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
to Lei's original image; indirect reauthorization, which addresses topical problems by ascribing new traits to Lei Feng's successors based on their connections with specific social issues; and transference, which anoints foreigners as living Lei Fengs...
If it feeds, it leads : eating, media, identity, and ecofeminist food journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This project explored contemporary food journalism and placed it in the larger context of American history, asking how such media made eating a matter of public concern. In other words, it asked: how does food journalism invite us to our eating...