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How small newspapers are innovating online
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This research focuses on what small newspapers are doing to innovate online and how they are able to do it. Interviews with 12 editors at small, community newspapers are conducted to examine the online features of their ...
Parasocial interaction on social media : how source identification affects brand trust
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of source identification on parasocial interaction and brand trust on social media by comparing perceptions of marketer-generated social media content from brand ...
Technology and trust : how new communication technology impacts electric utilities during and after natural disasters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This study examined how the medium an electric utility uses to communicate during a disaster effects organizational reputation and how location (rural vs. non-rural area in America) effects organizational reputation based ...
Gender equality? : A transnational feminist analysis of the UN HeForShe Campaign as a global "solidarity" movement for men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Through the lens of transnational feminist theory, this study examines the UN Women HeForShe campaign as a global solidarity movement for gender equality. Using a transnational feminist framework and critical discourses ...
Investor publications' reporting on the Great Recession of 2007-2009
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Did investor publications--which brag that they give their readers the timely, accurate information they need to make the right decisions--accurately portray the beginning of the Great Recession of 2007-2009? To answer ...
Social media and crisis communication: using social media and image repair discourse to maintain positive image
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In 2012, the COO of Chick-fil-A, and present day CEO, Dan Cathy, offered his personal opinion on gay marriage during two separate interviews with conservative media outlets. Those statements ended up making national ...
Framing of African-American women in mainstream and Black women's magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
For decades, there has been a concern with the negative framing of black women in the media. Historically, black women are placed into four stereotypical frames: The Mammy, The Jezebel, The Sapphire and The Matriarch. ...
Women in science : are portrayals on primetime television negative, and what are effects of exposure to such content?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Department of Education began investing millions to get more girls interested in science, technology, engineering and math -- or STEM -- fields. Yet the needle has barely moved, and the American ...
"Women of Vision" : how females lead photojournalism departments in a male-dominated field
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This study examines the ways in which female and male leadership characteristics differ according to perceptions of photo editors. The goal is to understand how women feel about working in photo editing positions and to ...
Exploring prose style in scholarly journal articles in journalism and communications : do editors believe there is a need for change?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Academic prose style has been criticized by some academics as willfully obtuse, intentionally opaque and impossible for anyone but an academic to understand. This research uses the theoretical lens of critical discourse ...
Public affairs, private lives : a study on the effect of Combat exposure on public affairs soldiers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This research probes into the attitudes and experiences of Army public affairs soldiers as they relate to combat exposure, looking at whether a spiral of silence inhibits them from reporting and seeking help for combat ...
Why and how of narrative advertising : an integrated processing framework
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The empirical part of my dissertation involved two studies. Study 1 tested the hypotheses regarding the relative effectiveness of narrative (vs. non-narrative) ads, while Study 2 examined the factors associated with the ...
Sacred space evaders : religious hegemony in gaming journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In the modernist paradigm, the news is assumed to be secular, or rather, devoid of religious content. Recent research implies that in actuality, journalism contains latent religious values (Silk, 1995; Underwood, 2002). ...
Start to finish : the effect of sportswriter and reader gender on perception of female athletes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Poor portrayal and perception of female athletes has a host of negative outcomes, such as objectification of women (Daniels, 2009) and negative reader judgment of female athletes (Knight and Giuliano, 2001). This study ...
More than meets the eye : how subject reactivity influences visual journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
People are reactive to cameras and their reactivity seems to increase when they also see the camera operator. This reactivity, as a form of impression management, can cause tension with visual journalism, which aims to ...
How information graphics promote interactions between the media and audiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The purpose of this study is to understand how employing information graphics in the traditional newsrooms takes place and how the uses of the information graphics facilitate the interactions between the reporters and the ...
The effect of game-day promotions on increasing game attendance and fan engagement for major league baseball teams
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This study applies contingency theory to analyze how effective promotions are at increasing attendance and facilitating fan engagement. Contingency theory framework assumes there is neither a best way to organize nor is ...
Stumbling and sharing : smartphones and serendipty in online news encounters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
At a time when more and more Americans are getting news on their smartphones, this study seeks to find out whether there is a corresponding increase in how often they randomly encounter and share news stories as they go ...
Online news use of phablets, smartphones, tablets and personal computers : the influence of opinion leadership and demographics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
With the continual evolution of technology, media habits towards the news have also altered based on technological and social reasons. This study seeks to evaluate how the introduction of large screen cell phones have ...
Corporate social responsibility : cultivating brand reputation through social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The role corporations play in their stakeholders' lives is an issue of extreme importance, and one with increasingly serious implications. From crisis ...