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An ecological systems approach to reduce children's encounters with obscenity on the internet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Ecological Systems Model to solve the problem of children's encounters with online obscenity. The ecological systems perspective is a framework for recommendations and solutions. When each environmental system from the model collaborate in effort toward a...
Second class : local and elite media framing of poverty in the Appalachian opioid epidemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
as different from the rest of the country. These findings suggest an industry-wide class bias, as well as an elite-specific geographic bias. Such findings suggest a need for greater accessibility in the journalism field in general and grater geographic...
Examining the effects of blame vs. attack anti-tobacco messages using the limited capacity model of motivated mediated message processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Motivation Activation which influences what parts of incoming information are encoded and stored. A total of 226 participants took part in a 2 (Message Type: Blame/Attack) X 2 (Message Sensation Value: low/high) X 2 (Positivity Offset: low/high) X 2...
William Apess, Elias Boudinot, and Samuel Cornish : Native Americans and African-Americans looking for freedom of expression, representation, and rhetorical sovereignty during the age of Jackson
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
During the age of Jackson, freedom of expression benefited Native Americans and African-Americans in the United States, as it helped them to battle against misrepresentation and controls of information and to develop a form of rhetorical sovereignty...
The socially filtered media agenda : a study of agenda setting among news outlets on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
through the TweetMeme aggregator, and a content analysis of the main Twitter feeds of three legacy news outlets The New York Times, CNN and NPR for nineteen days in September of 2009. The results showed a significant difference in the frequency of new...
Human vs. machine as message source in advertising: examining the persuasiveness of brand influencer type and the mediating role of source credibility for advertising effectiveness in social media advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
influencers. Human influencers, here, specifically refer to social media influencers (SMIs) "who have built a sizable social network of people following them and are seen as self-made microcelebrities" (Shan et al., 2020, p. 2). Indeed, this very notion...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
for "terrorism" against his country's closest military ally, Britain, in the fight for a Jewish state. Crying in the Wilderness is an effort to explain, through biography, Hecht's increasingly militant propaganda campaign. This study argues that two friends, one...