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Identities on the line : youth, internet use, and citizenship in Kyrgyzstan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
implications for citizenship. The study adds knowledge from the Central Asian context to recent theoretical work on "cultural citizenship," which posits alternative, global citizenship practices. Implications for global journalism studies and for media...
Picturing race in local newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The American news media has been criticized for failing to accurately reflect the country's racial diversity. Previous research has found that large broadcast and print news outlets overrepresent the White population, while ...
The effects of Instagram's idealized portrayals of motherhood on new mothers' well-being
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Similar to how early mass media idealized the experience of motherhood through content such as celebrity mother profiles in magazines, social media is now disseminating idealized portrayals of motherhood that may be putting ...
The socially filtered media agenda : a study of agenda setting among news outlets on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines whether and how Twitter users set the agenda for legacy media outlets by sharing news URLs. It also investigates which news story ...
An ecological systems approach to reduce children's encounters with obscenity on the internet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation explores how to reduce children's encounters with obscenity on the Internet. Congress has been trying to shield children from encountering online obscenity and some of Congress' attempts failed because ...
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)
, and creative expression across social networks" (McMillan and Childers, 2017, p. 52). Influencer marketing is a crucial component of social media marketing, which is projected to become a $10 billion market by 2023 (Tan, 2019). The primary contribution...