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Model ethnicity and product class involvement: white Americans' attitude toward advertisements featuring Asian-Indian models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
on attitudes of consumers. This study examines the impact of using Asian-Indian models in different products class ads on the attitudes of white consumers. The study did not find any difference in the attitude of white consumers toward advertisements featuring...
Get in the game : the effects of game-product congruity and product placement proximity on game players' processing of brands embedded in advergames
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examined the effects of congruity and proximity on game players' brand memory, attitude toward the brand, and resources available at encoding for advergames. A 2(congruity) x 2(proximity) x 2(advergame) ...
Lifestyle, economy, and coverage : a companion between four daily newspapers before, during and after the economic collapse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
in the form of consumer reporting, news stories about the impact of the economy on the arts, trend stories that sought to explore uncovered aspects of the economic climate and features that humanized concepts such as bankruptcy. Many editors and reporters...
Castor oil and orange juice: how John H. Johnson fed news to black America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
In the mid-1940s, publisher John H. Johnson did not like the image of African Americans that was projected by mainstream, white-owned media. He felt the image constructed was too limited and stereotypical. He also felt ...
The effects of videographics and information delivery style on attention and recognition in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
design, 14 prescription drug commercials that included 20 instances of the message features under investigation were shown to participants. Using repeated measures ANOVA to analyze each hypothesis, the results of this study suggest that while participants...
The emotional and cognitive processing of negative news photographs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The purpose of this study was to determine if the structural features and emotional content of negative news images affected viewers' responses. A pair of within-subjects experiments manipulated the color and size of the photographs as well...
Growing up consumer : representations of adult culture in contemporary American children's magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
qualitative discourse analysis examined four discourses on consumerism that appeared in the magazines' feature stories (political consumerism, liberal and neoliberal discourse, critical consumption, and pro-consumerism vs. anti-consumerism) and explored how...
The effect of avatars on perceived credibility of comments posted to online news stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
An experiment tested two two-part hypotheses predicting the effect of specific avatar features -- avatar humanness and eye contact -- on perceived credibility of related comments about online news stories. Participants viewed a series of news...
The sonic boom: effect of logo presentation style in television commercials on memory for the advertised brand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study examines the effect of a structural feature of commercials called sonic branding on recognition and cued recall. A sonic brand or sonic logo can be defined as a unique auditory identity for a brand, also called an audio logo. The design...
The effects of varying levels of object change on explicit and implicit memory for brand messages within advergames
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study examined the effects of varying levels of object change in advergames on implicit and explicit memory for the brand sponsoring the game. For the purposes of this thesis, object change was defined as an object ...
"A good line of advertising:" the historical development of children's advertising as reflected in St. Nicholas Magazine, 1873-1905
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Media researchers often assume that children's advertising began in the early days of radio and television broadcasting. In fact, it had begun nearly a half century earlier within the pages of children's magazines. One of ...
Choosing your own adventure : hyperlinks and their effects on memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
For this experiment, 39 students from a large Midwestern university were exposed to a total of ten articles, two main articles about 150 words in length, called parent page articles, and eight linked articles. Each of the ...
Explicating journalism-as-a-conversation : two experimental tests of online news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
. Findings suggest the conversational features coorientation/homophily and interactivity are key, not only in distinguishing this type of news but in predicting its perceived credibility and expertise....
Defining the southern in Southern living
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The purpose of this study is to determine (1) the editors' definition of the term "Southern" as it is presented in the pages of Southern Living magazine and (2) whether that definition originates with the magazine's readers ...
A typology of online sponsorships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This research provides a broad look at sponsorships across the Internet. The research sought to examine the characteristics of sponsorships across and within different website types, with a focus on health websites and ...
The strength of weak ties in online social networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
such information dissemination leads to the generation of social capital. Future studies focusing on specific features of online social networks that enable communication and civic participation are recommended, as is a comparison between levels of social capital...
Motive, mode and satisfaction with e-tailing sites: a technology acceptance perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
features in order to attract online shoppers regardless of their motives or the goal-directedness, or e-modes, of their online shopping. It should be noted that some of the findings contradict prior literature and add to this growing body of knowledge...
Interactivity and personalization in product presentation on e-commerce websites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Growing interest in e-commerce necessitates research to determine how to effectively use this medium. Of the features on these websites, product presentation is an important form of advertising. This research focuses on 3-D product presentation...
Reviewing the image of the photojournalist in film: how ethical dilemmas shape stereotypes of the on-screen press photographer in motion pictures from 1954 to 2006
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Since the 1930s, photojournalists in motion pictures have been portrayed as everything from screwball and comic relief characters to stubborn and ruthless sidekicks. With the exception of James Cagney's tabloid photographer ...
Managing "Amazonia": a cultural case study of female leadership at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
This ethnographic study, the first comprehensive examination of a newspaper managed by women at its highest levels, found that female leaders made some differences in newsroom management and culture, and, to a lesser degree, ...