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When fiction meets fact : literary journalism in National Magazine Award features
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
winning and finalist feature stories from 2013 to 2023. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of fictional storytelling techniques in pieces of award-winning journalism. Through this close textual examination, seven tenets of literary journalism...
Representation of Black women in true crime
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
qualitative textual analysis of select true crime television episodes, using black feminism as my theoretical framework. The study found that texts that featured Black women as perpetrators of crime utilized historically found stereotypes of Black women. Newer...
The memeification of "woke culture": a multimodal critical discourse analysis of its articulation in Essence; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Teen Vogue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The African American English (AAE) word "woke," remains underappreciated for its significance in American history and in the current Movement for Black Lives discourse. The replication and oversaturation of the concept--which ...
Approachable or appropriative? Black Americans' perceptions of codeswitched advertisements using African American Vernacular English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The present qualitative study investigated the phenomenon of using cultural dialect African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in codeswitched advertising by gathering Black American perceptions related to this semiotic ...
Telling an augmented story - how can web-based augmented reality be used in designing narratives for brands?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] The advance of website-based augmented reality (Web AR) enables advertisers to create and lets consumers receive mobile AR (MAR) content easily, necessitating research on Web AR used to design ...
Behind human faces : how exemplars experience the news process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
, as well as how their inclusion in a story affects readers and viewers. But what's it like to be the exemplar? Through six in-depth interviews with people recently featured in the news, this study explores how exemplars experience the news process, from...
"Should I keep running if nobody sees me as a runner?" : How runners with diverse body sizes perceive Runner's World's lack of inclusive representation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Runner's World is the ultimate guide to running. The magazine offers training tips, dietician-recommended recipes, gear guides, profiles on recreational and elite runners, and more. By design, Runner's World is meant to ...
"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 ...
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)
Message source effects on persuasion of target audiences have been examined for decades by scholars in advertising, consumer behavior, communication, and psychology, among others. Myriads of studies are available on the ...
Social bots versus real humans : the framing of 'Trump's Wall' on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Around the globe, elites are using social media and computational propaganda to manipulate public opinion, (Bradshaw and Howard, 2018) increasingly degrading the traditional news media's gatekeeping function while building ...
Disseminating research findings about substance use: effects of inoculation messages, message sources, and visual representations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The dissemination of scientific knowledge to the public is important, because the public's increased awareness and knowledge of science and scientific findings can contribute to creating healthy discourses about relevant ...
#LawrenceHive vs #TeamIssa: how Insecure fans use fandom communities to perform social and cultural identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
HBO hit-series Insecure became a social media sensation much like the web series that inspired it. The relatability and freshness of the characters made the show an instant standout among fans and critics in a market starved ...
If it feeds, it leads : eating, media, identity, and ecofeminist food journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This project explored contemporary food journalism and placed it in the larger context of American history, asking how such media made eating a matter of public concern. In other words, it asked: how does food journalism ...
A textual analysis of feminist journalism coverage of the #MeToo movement in Ms. and Jezebel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Since October 2017, many people have shared their experiences as sexual assault survivors on social media using #MeToo, and the #MeToo movement has been covered extensively by media outlets. The purpose of this qualitative ...
Exporting Hollywood excellence : public relations excellence theory and the MPPDA's European public affairs program of the 1920s
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] To test the theory that the period between the mid-1920s and the 1950s was marked by the "two-way asymmetrical model" of public relations, this thesis ...
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 soft sell : understanding the shared values initiative through the lens of the theory of planned behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This research provides an analysis of the Shared Values Initiative (SVI) through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in order to both better understand the program and to explore how an academic advertising ...
Anchor team gender make-up and audience evaluation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
For decades, the man-woman anchor team has been the industry standard in both national and local news. Recently, high-profile national newscasts have used two anchors of the same gender to headline the broadcast. In local ...
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 ...
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)
This study seeks to examine the ways in which existent power structures of intersectionality influence visual media through a historical case study of news photography. Photography, a less subjective visual media than ...