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The politics of election coverage : a content analysis of Indiana's two largest newspapers during the 2008 presidential election
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
presidential candidates. Each paper's national and local election articles - dated September 7th to November 4th - were analyzed and coded in accordance with the study's code guidebook. Results indicated that despite the geographical and ideological differences...
Media framing and conflict : a content analysis of the South Korean hostage case
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study aims to explore how the media frames conflicts by analyzing specific elements in the news coverage of the South Korean hostage case in ...
A content analytic comparison of news frames in English- and Spanish-language newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
articles about the ad hoc border patrol group, the Minutemen, looks at framing elements identified in the literature. The findings show there are measurable differences between the frames employed by English- and Spanish-language newspapers. A lack...
Media coverage of the new economy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The late 1990's represented a time of unprecedented economic growth. However, the economic bubble ultimately burst and the nation entered into a recession. Following the crash, there was speculation that the media were ...
The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
blog posts, news articles, and candidate press releases from the month preceding the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses found that political blogs' issue and attribute agendas were strongly correlated with the agendas of the news media, but in both cases...
The user-generated dilemma : can the ways in which media organizations publish audience contributions affect the way the audience feels about the site and their intention to contribute?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
More and more media organizations are using the Internet to ask their audiences to submit stories, comments and photographs, but they are seemingly doing it without understanding the implications of their actions. This ...
Agenda-setting effects of television news coverage on perceptions of corporate reputation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis applies agenda setting as a general theory of mass communication in a TV business news setting and is an empirical investigation of the ...
The strength of weak ties in online social networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The use of online social networks such as Facebook.com are hypothesized to be affecting Robert Putnam's (1995) theory of social capital. The research method is modeled after Dhavan Shah's (2005) Information Communication ...
Media performance and democratic rule in East Africa : agenda setting and agenda building influences on public attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation examined the media influence and the government influence on public attitudes on issues concerning democratic rule in the East African Community (EAC). I proceeded under the assumption that the influence ...
Towards an examination and expansion of the agenda setting theory : did the media matter in Kenya's presidential election, 2007?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study assesses the usefulness of the agenda setting theory in communications research outside its traditional European and American habitat. It examines Kenya (Africa), with the research question: Did the media matter ...
Contextual effects of geographic, economic, political regions on issue salience and salience of an issue's attributes : hierarchical linear modeling of agenda setting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study investigated issue salience and salience of Economy's attributes on the public agenda by taking a multilevel approach to the data. The data ...