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Elephant in the room : a study of the impact of emotional experiences on burnout among Chinese reporters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and reporters' experience of engaging in surface acting magnify their levels of job burnout. Meanwhile, the use of problem-focused coping strategies can reduce reporters' job burnout caused by emotional labor engagement. Findings in this study fill the gap...
Media usage of journalism students of the University of Missouri--Columbia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
networks. However, the younger students appeared to find more benefit in print news than their counterparts in the general U.S. population, reporting more print readership on a daily basis. These findings suggest that University of Missouri journalism...
Climate change in the newsroom : journalists' evolving standards of objectivity when covering global warming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
with their experiences. In the case of "balance", reporters have redefined it to mean applying a "weight of evidence" approach (Dunwoody, 2005) to science stories, and they tend to use global warming "skeptics" as sources very sparingly. There only limited support...
The military versus the press : Japanese military controls over one U.S. journalist, John B. Powell, in Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese war, 1937-1941
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
one independent U.S. journalist John B. Powell and his journal The China Weekly Review in Shanghai during the second Sino-Japanese War, August 1937 through December 1941. Powell's case exemplified the dilemma facing independent journalists of neutral...
Media performance and democratic rule in East Africa : agenda setting and agenda building influences on public attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
attitudes could be undermined by regional variations in political experiences with the central government; and that public opinion could be shaped by regional alignment, ethnicity, political identity, and level of education. A total of 1,395 respondents from...
The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
with low levels of journalism experience and reporters based in Washington, D.C., were more likely to say that political blogs helped satisfy their informational needs during the campaign, confirming that need for orientation, consisting of the lower...
Understanding the practice and attitude of community engagement by journalists at American nonprofit newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Nonprofit journalism has been heralded as an alternative business model in the time of financial crisis for the news industry. As a result, community engagement has been increasingly adopted as a strategy by journalists. ...
Latinos in Missouri : the media role in the acculturation process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The influx of Hispanics into the United States is significant and will most likely continue to be important for some time to come. Many immigrate to Missouri and attempt to settle there, to form a home and to integrate themselves into the greater...
The patriotic impact of World War I on the Texas Posten, a Swedish-language newspaper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The Texas Posten, Austin's weekly Swedish-language newspaper, was in its 18th year when world war erupted in Europe. Like many Americans around the country, Texas Swedes heeded President Wilson's words of neutrality and ...
In front of the lens : the expectations, experiences, and reactions of visual journalism's subjects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Visual journalism is a curious form of social interaction usually involving strangers and the process of transforming one's private life into public spectacle. Sometimes...
Small newspapers, big changes: awareness of market-driven journalism and consequences for community newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This study examines the attitudes of journalists at small newspapers toward market-driven journalism. The researcher queried 29 journalists at nine small Missouri newspapers. The author employed qualitative method using several data sets to examine...
Reporting from the front : a textual analysis of embedded reporting in the New York Times
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Embedded reporting during the Iraq War grew out of a new approach to the relationship between the news media and the military. Embedded reporters were given unprecedented access...
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)
to attempts to universalize the agenda setting theory. It shows that the theory is a learning process that affects decisions, not just showing media influence on what their audiences think about. It also points out the failure of the media in not going beyond...
Bioethicists in the news : the evolving role of bioethicists as expert sources in science and medical stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
and 2006. A quantitative content analysis of 456 stories, a qualitative framing analysis on a subset of that coverage, and interviews with a science or medical reporter at each newspaper provided converging lines of inquiry. This study finds that one...
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 ...
Identities on the line : youth, internet use, and citizenship in Kyrgyzstan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the interaction between identity and Internet use in the everyday lives of urban youth in Kyrgyzstan. Using a "quick ethnography" (interview...
A starting point for identifying perpetrator genocidal messaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The purpose of this research was to determine whether a consistent messaging strategy could be identified in three recent outbreaks of violence or if genocidal messaging will show tremendous variances that are unique to ...
What changes in media risk frames reveal about changing attitudes toward modern life: the case of the Greek Press, 1977-2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
and the future through the prism of vulnerability and risk. These sociologists see this predisposition as constituting a new global paradigm of understanding society and social experience, which they sum up with phrases like "world risk society" (Beck...
Second class : local and elite media framing of poverty in the Appalachian opioid epidemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The opioid epidemic has disproportionately affected the rural Appalachian region, and poverty is a root cause of this. However, both poverty and the Appalachian region are historically under-covered and negatively framed ...
Securitization as a theory of media effects : the contest over the framing of political violence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
threats to a state's physical or cultural survival. The dissertation offers a two-stage model, in which securitization is first examined as an effect in news media accounts and then tested in an experiment as an effect of media accounts. A content analysis...