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The role of public information officers in local American government
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Public information officers (PIOs) see themselves as the liaison between the agency they represent and the public. They come from various backgrounds including broadcast and print journalism, for profits and the advertising world while others seek...
Will the new German man please stand? Hegemonic masculinity in Nazi propaganda and German cinema
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
from hegemonic ideals of masculinity and hyper-conservative social policies. It was during the Second World War that propaganda, utilizing both fictional and nonfictional visual content, emphasized a message of total submission of the body to the state...
Power, intersectionality and news photographs : a case study of Detroit free press and Michigan chronicle news photography between 1963 and 1967
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
perceived as truthful. News photography, among other visual media, has been shown to influence opinion, publicly define its subjects and possess other important qualities of characterization. A deep historical analysis of intersectional differences of news...
"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 ...
For us, by us : sociocultural targeting of HIV prevention messages to black MSM
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
When compared to other racial and ethnic demographics of men who have sex with men (MSM), Black MSM contract HIV at disparately high rates. To combat these high HIV infection rates, scholarly research suggests HIV ...
A content analysis of word choice in social media news coverage of mass shootings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
overwhelming focused on the topics of gun control and public policy. Twitter news coverage of the Parkland shooting from the selected news outlets was categorized into the following themes: tweets expressing sympathy or support, tweets related to victims...
How depictions of race and a magazine's mission have changed over time: a summative content analysis of cosmopolitan magazine covers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In media imagery, women are often viewed as sexual objects rather than depicted as human beings, a term coined as the objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). However, women are not a monolith and intersectional ...
The factors behind the fake news label : why some people distrust news media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
News organizations across the country have struggled with the fake news labelling effect, meaning news one labels “fake” because one dislikes or disagrees with it, rather than the spread of misinformation itself, for a ...