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Bioethicists in the news : the evolving role of bioethicists as expert sources in science and medical stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
and 2006. A quantitative content analysis of 456 stories, a qualitative framing analysis on a subset of that coverage, and interviews with a science or medical reporter at each newspaper provided converging lines of inquiry. This study finds that one...
Building a media agenda on health disparities : how issue perceptions and news values work to influence effectiveness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Building on prior literature conceptualizing the role of public relations in influencing the media agenda, this study proposes a model of agenda building that explores the determinants of the agenda building process and ...
Penetration of innovation : taming the unexplored interactions between information, knowledge and persuasion in the innovation-decision model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
the classical innovation-decision process and concomitantly it proposes an innovative model of information influence on innovation acceptance. The research inquiry, conducted using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, confirmed the existence of a...