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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 advertising messages...
Understanding the impact of Artificial Intelligence on newsroom social culture and journalistic performative roles : a qualitative case study of AI as an emerging digital innovative technology in newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
technology may influence sociocultural perceptions and behavior in U.S. and UK-based news reporters and their semi-automated newsrooms by comparing present-day news reporters and newsrooms against the behavior of news reporters and newsrooms at the start...
An examination of the portrayal of homelessness and the opioid crisis in US and Canadian newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This research examines how homelessness and the opioid crisis were portrayed from 2018 to 2023 by one US and one Canadian newspaper. The thesis traces qualitative changes in the occurrence of keywords and topics over six ...
Colonial discourse in U.S. and Puerto Rican newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico unveiled for many the colonial power of the U.S. in Puerto Rico. The natural disaster became a financial and public health problem in part due to laws that limit the scope ...
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 ...
Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Black women, aged 35-45, utilized online musicking practices to cope with symptoms of anxiety and depression during the transboundary crisis of 2020. The findings from this research utilizes the respondents own narratives to describe the state...
Demystifying the private sector : the use of publicly accessible records to report on private equity firms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The purpose of this research is to provide journalists with the tools necessary to report on private equity firms, a notoriously opaque sector of the economy. Private equity firms exert a large amount of influence on the ...
A qualitative study on Black students' vaccination decisions using the Health Belief Model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Pandemics and vaccinations are nothing new, and the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most recent to threaten millions of lives globally. The first widely distributed vaccine was created for smallpox (CDC, 2022) and since ...
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 ...
Media construction of HIV
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Many of the challenges experienced by people living with HIV relate to biases, stigma, and conceptualization of HIV, rather than to the scientific realities of the virus itself or the medical impacts of living with the ...