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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)
and on its effects on different consumer groups. This study examines how a brand story that is designed with high, low, and non- AR content matching through Web AR affects consumers with different levels of imagery ability and captures responses to the story...
The memeification of "woke culture": a multimodal critical discourse analysis of its articulation in Essence; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Teen Vogue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
and social consciousness--in cultural products threatens to delegitimize this powerful symbol of culture, the Black freedom struggle, and a social movement looking to combat police brutality. Recently, scholars have focused on the word being used as a...
A content analysis of word choice in social media news coverage of mass shootings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
of framing and agenda setting, the researcher conducted a content analysis of tweets posted by five different news organizations -- both on the local and national levels. Findings showed that tweets from the five outlets in the wake of the shooting...
The business imperative of newsroom diversity: how identities influence Indonesian women media leaders' perceptions and implementation of newsroom changes and innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
News organizations tend to preserve male-dominated organizational culture and have been historically oriented to serve the male reader market. This, however, stifles innovation and fails to respond to rapid changes in the journalism industry...
Behind human faces : how exemplars experience the news process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Journalists often seek to put a "human face" on a systemic issue. The resulting source is an exemplar, or person whose story serves to illustrate a greater phenomenon. Journalism scholarship has examined why and how journalists choose exemplars...
Using communicative patterns to predict Twitter users' social capital, likability, and popularity gains with natural language processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Social media constructs a computer-mediated public space where individuals' visibility and influence can be quantitatively measured by the number of likes, retweets, and followers they receive. These metrics serve as a reward system that not only...
An examination of the portrayal of homelessness and the opioid crisis in US and Canadian newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
, The Seattle Times and The Vancouver Sun. The data shows prevalence of thematic framing and a shift towards narrative journalism both in The Vancouver Sun and The Seattle Times. The highest use of thematic framing coincided with the onset of the COVID-19...
To leave or not to leave: exploring the impact of COVID-19 on routine practice and burnout among women magazine journalists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Using organizational support and the Hertzberg motivation-hygiene theory as a lens of analysis, this study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted feelings of burnout among women journalists at digital magazines, Apartment Therapy...
News framing and public approval of the tax cuts and jobs act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This study is a content analysis of 291 news articles from the New York Times and the Associated Press about the debate and passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This study looks at how the news framing and economic effects highlighted...
Making the invisible, visible : photojournalism and the documentation of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
by an international news agency during the first 20 months of COVID-19, with a primary focus on images made in the United States, and 2) it analyzes semi-structured in-depth interviews with 16 photojournalists, four photo editors, and one medical doctor. It finds...
"I can speak for myself." : #whitewednesdays, Iranian feminism, and hijab in media discourse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In December 2017, Viva Movahed stood on top of a utility box in Tehran with her hijab tied to an end of a stick in protest against Iran's compulsory hijab law. Movahed's actions...
Media framing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
. In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which brought steep cuts to corporate tax rates and substantial changes to tax rates and deductions for individuals. However, even though this was a public policy change that affected almost all...
"Should I keep running if nobody sees me as a runner?" : How runners with diverse body sizes perceive Runner's World's lack of inclusive representation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
, but by execution, the magazine fails to represent a broad range of body sizes. In fact, because of the magazine's prominence within the running community, it can even shape what runners looks like, and it has reinforced the idea that they are thin, muscular...
Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Wrought with one crisis after another -- the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide civil unrest in response to police murders of Black people in the U.S., and a highly volatile election season, the year 2020 arose to the level of what Boin (2019) calls a...
A qualitative study on Black students' vaccination decisions using the Health Belief Model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
innovation, more vaccines have become available to combat a wide range of diseases. However, progress in science has not been without controversy. There has been a history of malevolent medical research conducted on and by using Black and other minority...
Disseminating research findings about substance use: effects of inoculation messages, message sources, and visual representations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
health information more credible and reported less favorable toward substance use behavior when a medical scientist delivered health news. In addition, illustrative risk visualizations, such as bar graphs, were found to be effective in drawing the reader...
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 invite us to our eating...
Mass media and muscle: the impact of social media on young adult men's everyday experiences and body dissatisfaction - a qualitative inquiry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Intention: The purpose of this thesis is to examine young men's body dissatisfaction, as men are typically marginalized as a population less susceptible to developing body image issues and eating disorders. The purpose of this study was also...
On equity and authenticity: decolonizing imagery of nigeria
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The negative narratives surrounding African affairs in Western media have been documented in numerous studies, but the work processes between African journalists and Western media have been less examined. This study focuses ...