[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The overall goal of this study was the exploration of the development and use of public relations techniques by Alaska Native corporations, which are ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The public, and the press have, a First Amendment right to attend trials but the same is not true for their electronic brethren if they want to use ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study primarily attempted to achieve a better understanding of how a conversational human voice versus a corporate tone of voice affects key ...

Over the last 10-years, the focus of the U.S. Army has been on Counter-Insurgency (COIN) operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the writing is on the wall that military involvement in both locations will soon come ...

This thesis uses techniques and theory from argumentation, informal logic, and critical thinking to assess the quality of arguments presented by journalists in Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. Journalists strive to inform ...

The Freedom of Information Act is a federal law that allows US citizens access to records and this act is enforceable in court. There are FOIA professionals that are full-time dedicated employees and others that are part-time ...

Word-of-mouth (WOM) is widely considered the most influential source of information for consumer purchase decisions, and the explosion of social media has stirred interest in the communication. This study used the strength ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study was guided by the idea that persuasive health messages have a better chance at being successful if they mitigate the negative force toward ...

One of the top obstacles for rural community newspapers is how to approach the ever-increasing shift to online news. Many of these papers are without the intrinsic means to deliver engaging and profitable print and online ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Strategic communication is an expanding field in need of proper organization, standardization, and coordination. Its purpose -- to provide vital ...

This study examines the documentary photographic book Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay by American photographer Mary Ellen Mark to identify the specific ways Mark both undermines and reinforces the dominant representations ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research expands understanding of corporate environmental communication beyond green advertising and environment responsibility reports of CSR ...

Public relations as a profession has existed in Europe for more than a century, yet most current practice and teaching is based on the American model. To address this situation, in 1998 the European Association of Public ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As news organizations continue to struggle with their business models and ways to best employ new technology, advertising and subscription revenues ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Scholars have found that news organizations tend to frame American poverty as an urban problem, largely ignoring the plight of the rural poor. To gauge ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study viewed parents of prospective college students as a primary target of university reputation management efforts and explored their perception ...

This research seeks to find out if the American hegemonic ideology was embedded in two Korean newspapers (conservative and progressive) during the U.S. financial crisis of 2008. In addition, it seeks to explore how American ...

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) can come in multiple forms. Regardless of their nature being chemical, biological, nuclear, or high explosives, their use will disrupt normalcy and governance of nations. Application of ...

This thesis explores how the publication of newspaper and magazine content across multiple platforms (print, web, mobile and/or tablet) is impacting editors in terms of time spent on traditional editing tasks, workload, ...

This study compares the methods used to promote new Campus Solutions systems on college/university campuses during the past ten years to the time reported for full adoption by students, staff, and instructors. Questionnaires ...