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The perceived role of personal social identity in the promotion of arthritis self-management programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
pain and increasing mobility. However, many people with arthritis already practice arthritis self-management strategies although not aware of the implications. The promotion of such programs should communicate to people with arthritis the ability...
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...
Examining media convergence : does it also converge good journalism, economic synergies, and competitive advantages?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
for converged news organizations. Based on theories of scale and scope economies, quality journalism's generation of good business, and organizations' competitive advantages, this study achieved some dichotomous findings by using the qualitative technique...
Ease the résistance : the role of narrative and other-referencing in attenuating psychological reactance to persuasive diabetes messages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Reactance theory (Brehm, 1966; Brehm & Brehm, 1981; Dillard & Shen, 2005) explains that persuasion may fail by inducing threats to individuals' perceived autonomy; this study provides evidence of pathways through this resistance to enhance message...
Analyzing access: an analysis of food desert coverage during COVID-19
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This study explored the ways in which food desert coverage was reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the research was to analyze reporting patterns such as themes, use of race, and sourcing practices to understand the journalistic...
The stereotypical, mythical, and peace journalism representation of blackness through news storytelling content in racial democracies : a critical discourse analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
between news and racism, describes the particularities of the discourse of racial democracies and offers practical guidance in terms of how to improve the coverage of racial minorities....
Increasing the persuasiveness of gain vs. loss framing : the effects of gender and fear arousal on processing gain- vs. loss-framed breast cancer screening messages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Based on prospect theory, the present study investigated gain vs. loss framing effects in the context of breast cancer screening (BCS) intervention. This study specifically assessed how the framing effect would be moderated by the gender of message...
Visibility of health news outlet attributions on facebook : outcomes for credibility perceptions and recall
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
both platform features and source cues, based on Sundar's (2008) MAIN model. A 2x2 factorial, between-subjects design was used, with the independent variables of news outlet visibility (as it normally appears on Facebook, or in an enlarged format...
Business and editorial practices in digital native media in Mexico: an investigation into media routines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
interviewed 10 decision makers from 10 of the 15 most read digital native media in Mexico to document their organizations' business practices and how these ultimately impact the news they produce, under the perspective of the Hierarchy of Influences Model from...
Growing up consumer : representations of adult culture in contemporary American children's magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines how contemporary American children's magazines represent the culture of adults organized for kids in two commercial magazines -- ...
Controversies in acceptance of genetically modified food by European Union : symptoms of conflicts in diffusion of an innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The thesis is an attempt to merge diffusion of innovations with contingency theory, and examine controversy on gene modification in European Union with the combined model. According to the combined theoretical model: the ...
Social proximity and user-generated health content : an experimental test of perceived source similarity and construal level theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The affordances of the internet, particularly as manifest in social network site platforms, allow for interpersonal mediated communication with socially proximal sources. In a 3 (expert source cues vs. low cues vs. low ...
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 ...
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 ...
Refresh : examining the production of celebrity news in an online environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
newsroom, where communication is not conducted face-to-face, but primarily through instant messaging. This computer-mediated communication (CMC) reconfigures the standard place-based newsroom arrangements and significantly influences the group...
A study of internal change communication practices : message, media, channel and approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
effective in achieving the intended outcomes of the organizational change. By understanding theory of change and leveraging the Goodman and Truss (2004) communication wheel, this research identifies the communication practices - the messages, media, channels...
Using conflict positioning as a pretreatment in the public's evaluation of crisis management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
. Practically, this study benefits public relations crisis managers because it shows a model of the public's evaluation process, which is useful for testing crisis communication strategies.--From public.pdf...
Readers' perceived credibility and attitudes toward custom and consumer magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Extending prior research on source credibility, this study investigated readers' perceived credibility and attitudes toward custom and consumer magazines based...
Indicators of journalistic role performance on Last Week Tonight
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The purpose of this study was to analyze how John Oliver, the television host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, adopts journalistic role performance throughout the long-form segments of his program. Last Week Tonight, a satirical ...
Cultural framing of diabetes from a public health perspective: a comparative content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This content analysis of 161 newspaper articles identified public health facts and socio-cultural schema within two Los Angeles County newspapers, La Opinión and the Daily News of Los Angeles. It extended Rodgers and ...