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Creating a culture :Pitchfork media's textual and cultural impact on Rolling Stone magazine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The main purpose of this research is to demonstrate how cultures and subcultures can be created and disseminated through media, and how newer forms of media such as websites can have a tangible effect on the content of ...
Written rules and practical matters on state public records laws
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Public access laws are at the heart of transparent democracy, in place to ensure that government meetings and records are open to the public. Without ...
Reaching beyond immediate followers : an examination of accidental discovery of information on the US Embassy's microblog in China
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Scholars believe Internet usage can be highly selective, and thus people are divided into fragmented and polarized groups (see Sunstein, 2006). This study focuses on the specific case of China's microblog, called "Weibo." ...
Cultural analysis of hero frames in American and North Korean media: focusing on tragedy and glorification
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Both the U.S. media and The Rodong Sinmun, the state news website of North Korea, used hero frames to describe each other. The hero frame of the United States described itself as a hero, North Korea and Middle Eastern ...
How relationships between reporters and editors affect productivity in the newsroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study looked at the types of relationships between editors and reporters, how they regard each other personally, the desired level of editor involvement in a reporter's work, how reporters and editors define productivity ...
Poor media, rich democracy : how economics and technology affect construction of news processes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The journalism industry currently resides in a state of perpetual change, with technology and economics affecting both how journalists produce news and what news looks like when consumed. This ethnography examines the news ...
The "sovereigns of cyberspace" and state action
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The "sovereigns of cyberspace" like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are writing the current chapter in the story of free speech. They are conducting ...
Understanding engagement: exploring how young non-professional journalists think about civic engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explores the understanding young citizen journalists have of civic engagement. It is based upon 10 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with youth and community media participants, ages 18 to 25. Those interviews, ...
Editorial personality: factors that make editorial writers successful
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Hank Waters has written thousands of editorials for the Columbia Daily Tribune. His editorial voice and personality are synonymous with the Columbia, Mo newspaper, producing deep connections with the readers. By conducting ...
Reader perception of the usefulness and credibility of journalistic automotive reviews
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The aim of this research is to examine the usefulness of journalistic automotive reviews from the perspective of readers making purchase decisions. Additionally, this study also looked at the perceived credibility of the ...
Emotional and cognitive processing of traffic safety messages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study examines the role of framing and empathy in persuasive messages. Twenty professionally produced traffic safety public service announcements (PSAs) were used as stimuli in a 2 (frame: gain v. loss) x 2 (empathy: ...
A study of the New York Times' coverage of a poetic response to the Ocean Hill-Brownsville School conflict :how a conflict can be framed by the media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In the aftermath of a bitter, three-month-long teachers' strike, a New York City public school teacher read an anti-Semitic poem over the radio that was written by one of his students in response to the impact the strikes ...
Constructing scarcity: a rhetorical analysis of natural resource journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The subject of natural resource scarcity has occupied the minds of social scientists since the 17th century. Scarcity is a difficult concept to define and yet more difficult to predict. It is partly subjective, partly ...
Come away with me: the uses and gratifications of leisure travel magazine readership
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study examines the uses and gratifications of reading leisure travel magazines. A mixed method was applied. It sought to confirm four motivations based on past research and to find new motivations. Furthermore, it ...
The media and the global-liberation movement :The magazine framing of the 2009 Pittsburgh, PA G-20 protesters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
From Sept. 24 to Sept. 25, 2009, the Group of 20 summit was held in Pittsburgh, Pa. The event brought in leaders from the most politically and economically powerful countries in the world, as well as protesters committed ...
Exploring how female public relations managers in higher-education institutions gain influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explored how female public relations (PR) managers working in higher-education institutions perceive that they gain influence in their jobs as communicators. To this end, the researcher conducted 12 semi-structured ...
Web analytics, social media, and the journalistic doxa : the impact of audience feedback on the evolving gatekeeping process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
New communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience behavior. Through new audience information ...
Filling the statehouse void :the ideology of online non-profit news sites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The number of traditional news reporters present in state capitols is decreasing across the United States. Non-traditional online news organizations are attempting to fill that void. These entities, many of them non-profit ...
She's too pretty : how model attractiveness and social comparison impact consumer self-esteem and purchase intention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The current research was performed to determine the relationships between model attractiveness, social comparison, consumer self-esteem, and consumer ...
The ever-evolving reporter: examining an organizational culture inspired effect on the psychological climate of television reporters in the digital age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Now that multi-platform products are fully in use in a constant integration of new media technologies in television newsrooms, it is important to discover how television reporters are relating to the changing workplace ...