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Picturing race in local newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
of those communities, and whether the inclusion and portrayal of different races have changed over time. Using samples of four constructed weeks from five one-year periods between 1980 and 2016, a content analysis of local news photographs was conducted...
Texan City magazine health news : a content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
City magazines have a powerful role in convincing readers to take proactive health measures, however they rarely take advantage of their capacity to set their communities' public agendas. This study considered the health content in five city...
Visibility of health news outlet attributions on facebook : outcomes for credibility perceptions and recall
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
social media (Pew Research Center, 2017c). Social media removes the traditional "gatekeepers" that control the flow of health information. As a result, fringe views can reach many more people (Kata, 2012). At the same time, public trust in and credibility...
On parents, peers, administrators, and advisers : developing a system to understand self-censorship of controversial topics in the high school press
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Two surveys of young college students (N1=134; N2=372) were used to examine what perceived familial and educational factors influenced former high school journalism students' comfort levels with controversial stories running in the student newspaper...
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...
Testing the efficacy of self-determination theory as a counter-propaganda interdiction tool
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
as an expansion into human communication and persuasion theory. It also yields practical benefits by providing some initial evidence into a potential valuable counterpropaganda tool that can be employed as strategic communication on a mass level....
Advertising ethics: a client perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study examines how clients at large companies view advertising ethics. In-depth interviews were conducted with 16 high-ranking advertising clients in the New York area and six other cities. The focus was on the ethics ...
A world in flux : journalistic change in science journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
As modernity undergoes radical changes, a narrative of journalistic change has emerged in journalism research. One way that journalistic change has been conceptualized is in terms of a shift from a high modern to a liquid ethos (Deuze, 2005, 2017...
Motivational use of Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
in tweets. A total of 153 Twitter users completed surveys about how they use Twitter. Rodgers and Sheldon's Web Motivation Inventory was used to gauge how they use the Internet. Those answers were compared to the responses they gave from looking at tweets...
Framing protest in Missouri : framing protest on Missouri newspaper coverage of Concerned Student 1950 protest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Research over the past 30 years has shown that mainstream news media have been biased against social movements through journalists' use of framing. This trend, called the protest paradigm, delegitimizes, marginalizes, and demonizes a protest through...
God's words in the language of men : the professionalization of the Southern Baptist Press
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
and the SBC's further shift to the theological and political right affected Southern Baptist journalism. Southern Baptist newsworkers lived their religion through the practice of journalism in spite of the denomination's institutional barriers. Freedom...
A textual analysis of bottled water print ads
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Bottled water ads provide an opportunity to study a product that is essentially identical across brands. This research looks at the magazine print advertisements of three bottled...
Reshaping the "God beat" : how three community news websites frame religion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
With a downsizing of newspaper staff and an upswing in Internet use, the religion beat has had to adapt, much like the rest of journalism. In some cases, the religion beat has been cut. But some publications maintain the beat in new ways...
Subsidizing the press : understanding journalists' attitudes about corporate and government influence and the public interest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
, especially at a time when corporate decision-making appears to have strained newsrooms? Semi-structured interviews with newsroom workers at Oregon's four largest daily newspapers revealed that the journalists were keenly aware of market conditions...
Electronic media access to the courts : permission denied
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The public, and the press have, a First Amendment right to attend trials but the same is not true for their electronic brethren if they want to use their tools of the trade...
Esquire magazine, presidential politics and hegemonic masculinity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Esquire magazine is one of the premiere men's magazines in the U.S. and has a long history of reporting on U.S. presidential politics. This study seeks to extend the sociological and psychological concept of hegemonic masculinity to Esquire...
Ease the résistance : the role of narrative and other-referencing in attenuating psychological reactance to persuasive diabetes messages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
persuasiveness. A 2 (narrative) x 2 (other-referencing) x 2 (message) x 4 (order) experiment tested whether packaging overt recommendations as a story rather than an informational argument (i.e. narrative structure) and highlighting the impact of health decisions...
Participatory effects of political satire revisited in the age of digital media : the role of hard news, political expression and social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
political satire viewing and political expression, and its influence on participation. Data from a nationally representative survey (N=573) suggest that hard news use is an essential prerequisite for the participatory effects of political satire viewing...
Reinventing a moral mode : a textual analysis of 21st century "living Lei Fengs" in China Daily
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
in an effort to build international goodwill. This study concludes that so far in the 21st century, China Daily has regularly promoted all three types of living Lei Fengs as part of a strategy to combat "spiritual pollution" from the West and building a...
Comeback coverage : thematic content in the news media's reporting on Donald Trump's attacks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Donald Trump's attacks on the outlets. The thesis applies the textual analysis of 24 stories responding to Trump's attacks -- eight CNN stories, eight Washington Post stories, and eight New York Times stories. The findings of this research show a...