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Democracy beyond hard news: cultural journalism and the humanistic role
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
journalism ethics. Through analyzing both industry metacoverage and public-facing metajournalistic discourse it is clear that there is something important already regularly occurring within cultural journalism (such as literary journalism or arts criticism...
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 public might see, and as a...
From saving face to saving lies : prioritizing the public in public relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
for an ethical approach to crisis communication that prioritizes protecting the public....
Narratives, framing, and exemplification in LGBTQ+ suicide public health messaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Suicide in LGBTQ+ individuals, especially youth, is a growing public health issue. However, the literature on this issue within the field of mass communication is under-developed. This study seeks to understand how the use of framing...
Demystifying the private sector : the use of publicly accessible records to report on private equity firms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
, thus giving journalists the tools to hold power to account and fulfill the watchdog role of the press. This research was conducted through the lens of political economy theory, which studies the relationships between individuals, governments and public...
The role of public information officers in local American government
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Public information officers (PIOs) see themselves as the liaison between the agency they represent and the public. They come from various backgrounds including broadcast and print journalism, for profits and the advertising world while others seek...
Behind human faces : how exemplars experience the news process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Journalists often seek to put a "human face" on a systemic issue. The resulting source is an exemplar, or person whose story serves to illustrate a greater phenomenon. Journalism scholarship has examined why and how ...
How journalism educators discuss journalism law in their community of practice : insights from a qualitative textual analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Often, journalism teachers are the only ones at their school who do their job, and even when the positions are embedded in arts or English departments, it can be isolating. The Journalism Education Association's Listserv ...
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...
Journalism's lifeline : exploring an American aversion to government aid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Journalism is experiencing an existential crisis. The U.S. has assigned to free-market capitalism a task that it is incapable of achieving to the degree that benefits the public and democracy: investing in journalism as a public good. Journalism...
A qualitative study on Black students' vaccination decisions using the Health Belief Model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
during the COVID-19 pandemic, a qualitative analysis of 11 semi-structured interviews, sought recurring points of mediated, and non-mediated messages influence on receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. Findings, analyzed through the lens of the Health Belief...
Journalist or influencer? Exploring young public media journalists' perceptions of individual branding on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
, and where it belongs among the other traditional practices of journalism. The following research study explores how young public media journalists perceive individual journalistic branding and what motivates their own methods for curating their Twitter...
Fantasy theme divergence during covid-19 a fantasy theme analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
as they chain out through a rhetorical community. This study uses Symbolic Convergence Theory and Fantasy Theme Analysis to identify the fantasy themes that appear in the official messaging, media coverage and public comment related to returning to school during...
Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
transboundary crisis -- an event that exceeds "geographical, policy, cultural, public- private, and legal boundaries." This crisis brought with it signs and symptoms of mental health challenges like anxiety and depression for millions of people across the globe...
Information deserts : how Colorado news desert communities consumed COVID-19 information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
) or the internet (e.g., school and county webpages, health department emails), especially social media, for information. The lack of a more central, local resource was felt among residents of Cheyenne County. While some of the residents felt disconnected from...
Applying T.G. Page's scale for measuring base crisis response : a series of crises at the University of Missouri in fall 2015
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study extends theory in crisis communication by analyzing a series of crises that occurred at the University of Missouri (MU) in fall 2015 as a test case for applying T.G. Page's scale for measuring base crisis response. ...
Reddit news fandoms as digital news literacies: structuring the evaluation of information sources in a challenging information ecosystem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Journalism is in crisis. There is consensus that this crisis is driven by four principal factors -- the overcrowded media sphere, the failing funding model of news, declining trust in media, and growing partisanship among ...
Telling an augmented story - how can web-based augmented reality be used in designing narratives for brands?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] The advance of website-based augmented reality (Web AR) enables advertisers to create and lets consumers receive mobile AR (MAR) content easily, necessitating research on Web AR used to design ...
To leave or not to leave: exploring the impact of COVID-19 on routine practice and burnout among women magazine journalists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Using organizational support and the Hertzberg motivation-hygiene theory as a lens of analysis, this study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted feelings of burnout among women journalists at digital magazines, ...
Cultivating criticisms : how journalism students critique the news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
groups as a simulated public sphere. Using Wyatt's (2007) normative theory of press criticism, the design allowed for press criticisms to occur in a deliberative setting. The method and theory offer a neat fit, because the theory proposes a discursive...