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Mortgage-backed confusion : explaining the 2008 financial crisis through narrative in three books
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
comprises. The Big Short (2010), by Michael Lewis; Griftopia (2010), by Matt Taibbi; and All the Devils are Here (2010), by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, are discussed....
Citizens United and the 2012 Election : how did the presidential campaigns and outside PACs frame the candidates?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Campaign finance has long been a controversial political subject in the United States and was made more so by the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United. The ruling struck down limits on donations made to and spent by outside groups...
Corporate social responsibility : cultivating brand reputation through social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The role corporations play in their stakeholders' lives is an issue of extreme importance, and one with increasingly serious implications. From crisis situations, like the 2010...
The role of video on sports fan attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
, the hierarchy of effects model and team loyalty, the present research intends to provide a better distinction of sports video effects (Tsiostou, 2013; Trail and James, 2001; Deci and Ryan (1985); Chao, 2010). By executing multiple t tests and a one-way ANOVA...
Women in science : are portrayals on primetime television negative, and what are effects of exposure to such content?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
, as well as from symbolic models, such as those in the media," (Long, Steinke, Applegate, Knight Lapinski, Johnson & Ghosh, 2010, p. 358), this experiment investigated, "Is there a relationship between exposure to entertainment TV's portrayal of women...