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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)
Journalists have increasingly used bioethicists as expert sources in stories on science, medicine, and technology with strong ethical ramifications. Yet little is known about how and why journalists select bioethicists as expert sources, which...
Under the auspices of privacy � or not : surveying the state judicial treatment of access to government records
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
an examination of case opinions issued by the supreme courts of the fifty states, aims to determine how state courts across the nation address the issue of personal privacy exemptions in public records disputes. This thesis intends to find out if state courts...
A neo-Gramscian communication analysis of structure and agency in the hegemonic struggle for meaning: organic retailer and organic activist group
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
structure and agency in the ideological struggle over what it means to be a company tied to the counter-hegemonic ethics of consumer health, the environment, and the notion of sustainability that has grown to encompass not just the sustainability...
Examining the effects of the Hosty v. Carter decision and prior restraint on the collegiate press : a qualitative study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
, Indiana and Illinois had encountered instances of prior restraint and were self-censoring or altering the tone of their writing to avoid prior restraint. Through a series of in-depth interviews with eight student editors, the researcher found that members...
The rise and fall of fad diets: how the news media frame and represent the Atkins diet, 1972-2005
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
it was framed from 1975 (when it was first introduced) to 2005. This research also uses the public health model to look at the presentation of public health facts in Atkins diet stories.This study included a content analysis of 92 news stories, results of a...
Climate change in the newsroom : journalists' evolving standards of objectivity when covering global warming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Climate change may well be the most important environmental issue of our time. For journalists covering the environmental beat, there is no bigger story - and none more treacherous. Journalists have been accused of distorting the scientific...
The Coterie Theatre’s Transition from Children’s Theatre to Multigenerational Theatre: 1991-2014
(2015)
The programming of The Coterie Theatre of Kansas City, Missouri, under Artistic
Director Jeff Church, was studied from September 1990 to August 2014. The works
researched included world, commissioned and American premieres ...
Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
deep epistemological uncertainties and (2) a complex ethics and aesthetics of listening. In addition, this thesis reads Rolling Blackouts through the lens of postcolonial theory, analyzing the way Glidden brings journalistic abstractions into contact...
A fiber-optic confocal scanner for scattering tissue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Confocal microscopy has become an important diagnostic tool in examining scattering tissues. The high resolution of confocal microscopy and its optical sectioning capabilities lend itself as a desirable modality in examining ...
Indicators of journalistic role performance on Last Week Tonight
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
successor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, frequently devotes the majority of its half-hour, once-a-week program to conducting a deep-dive on an issue, sometimes independently of the weekly news cycle. Using field theory as a framework, this study...
The culture wars & political polarization in perspective : why polarization and its perturbations are a persistant [i.e., persistent] puzzle in political science
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention has been paid...
Leadership experiences of an American Indian education leader serving Indian students in an Indian community
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The purpose of this study was to add to the knowledge base on American Indian education leadership and American Indian education by examining the leadership experiences of an American Indian leader serving predominately ...
Conflict positioning in crisis communication : integrating contingency stance with image repair strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
defined as positioning the organization "favorably in anticipation of conflicts" (Wilcox & Cameron, 2005, p. 244). This, Cameron argued, is the culmination of sound pre-crisis preparations, like environmental scanning, issues tracking, issues management...
A quantitative performace measurement framework for health care systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Performance measurement has been widely used in the manufacturing industry for years. This research has focused on the adaptation of a performance measurement system used in manufacturing for application in health care ...
Role of the media during political events in authoritarian, democratization and democratic periods in Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This research examined the role of the media during three different significant events in political transitions in Korea, namely the Kwangju massacre of 1980, the democratic elections of 1987, and the candlelight protests ...
Conceptualizing the ultimate punishment in China : a political, cultural, and historical analysis of the death penalty in communist China, 1949-2007
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
in the communist China. In particular, this paper will also be an attempt to address the political, cultural, and legal issues on how and why capital punishment was adopted, retained, and widely executed by the Chinese communist government since 1949; and also...
Integrating cover crops into crop rotations in upstate Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"There is an increasing emphasis on management strategies such as reduced tillage, use of cover crops, and implementation of conservation practices (i.e. terraces, no-till, and cropping systems) in Missouri cropping systems. ...
In the silence of her friends: a case study of the intersection of gender, race, age, and leadership in the dismissal of a public school superintendent
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Research interests in social conditions of women in leadership roles underlie this case study which explores the scarcely published voices of African American women in the superintendency of public education. This case ...
Deaf identity, motherhood and transforming normalcy : an ethnographic challenge to disability studies' treatment of personal experience narratives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis is a fieldwork-based examination of personal experience narratives told by Deaf and hearing mothers of Deaf children. Using participant ...
A study of environmental education in Missouri : a survey of project wet facilitators' understandings of environmental education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The National Environmental Education Act of 1990 served as a federal mandate to encourage states to develop environmental education (EE) plans. Missouri's governor authorized the creation of an EE task force in 1993. The ...