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How journalists shift toward engaging historically marginalized communities in the digital age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The purpose of this study is to discover how and why journalists within nonprofit or startup newsrooms are changing routines to engage people who would not be typical or traditional readers. This qualitative research study ...
Shaping the conversation of women's health and reproductive rights : a textual analysis of Planned Parenthood's external communications and news coverage of women's health during the 2016 presidential election
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Planned Parenthood provides more than 2.5 million men and women every year with access to affordable health care. However, Planned Parenthood has ...
Exploring news framing in military-oriented newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This research paper explores news framing within two military-oriented newspapers, the Stars and Stripes and Military Times, on the topics of sexual assault and the effects of deployment on military families, as well as ...
Is there journalism without democracy? normative role conceptions and practices of journalists in an autocratic regime
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this dissertation is to call for a more inclusive interpretation of journalism and investigate how journalists in non-democratic regimes ...
Examining the relationship between trust and online usage of news media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This study tests the relationship between overall trust and online usage of 35 popular United States news sources. Trust of news media, currently at its lowest percentage in Gallup's 45-year polling history, has both brand ...
Mobile banking : what drives consumer adoption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
There's an app for that! Thanks to smartphone penetration, one technological revolution has spawned the creation of countless mobile innovations, including mobile banking which allows users to manage their finances from ...
Reporting on the court of public opinion : how BuzzFeed and The New York Times covered the Brock Turner case
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In January 2015, a 19-year-old named Brock Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious and intoxicated young woman behind a dumpster near Stanford ...
Nonprofit communication in the social media age : a study of communication and activism on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study uses a summative textual analysis to examine nonprofit communications on Twitter, in an attempt to discover what kind of strategic communication ...
The effects of modality, English language proficiency, and length of stay on immigrants' learning from American news about politics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This dissertation explored how well immigrants in the United States learn from American political news. Predictions in this online experiment were based on a 1990 survey in which Korean Americans with lower language ...
If you are feeling confident enough, do not hesitate to reveal who you really are : extension of Baker, Honea, and Russell (2004)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Due to the competitive advertising environment, marketers have been employing different executional factors including humor and narrative feature within the advertising. Based on the Network of Model of Memory, Baker, ...
Examining the boundaries of journalism in the digital age : a SEM test of digital transitions in newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The debate about boundaries in journalism amid the rise of citizen journalism, the crisis of business models in the news industry and the use of social ...
Gender dynamics in the advertising industry : the interplay of workplace culture and career advancement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This thesis addresses a central research problem related to gender in the advertising industry. It outlines existing literature from various scholarly traditions, including gender studies, consumer behavior, evolutionary ...
Stripped down and flawed : demystifying journalism heroes and villains on film in the 1970s and 2010s
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Since the early days of film, the journalist has been a stalwart character, embodying either role of the hero or villain amid other archetypes like ...
2014 Ebola newspaper coverage : through the lens of Orientalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This study is a critical discourse analysis of United States (U.S.) newspaper coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and its representation of West Africa in relation to the West. The study sought to determine whether the ...
Brand believers : reconciling journalistic and organizational identity at a city magazine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation uses an ethnographic case study to examine the perspectives and representational practices of local journalists through a case study ...
Data journalism and democracy: how American mass media framed the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States using data visualization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The purpose of this study is to explore the role of data visualization in the media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States by focusing on datavisualization projects from The New York Times and The ...
Perceptions of Facebook and Twitter as sources of health information among African-American women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore how African-American women perceive Facebook and Twitter as sources for information about heart disease. Methods: A qualitative study was conducted among 23 women between ...
Felicia the Goat : use of racialized characters in advertisements
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] For decades, advertisers have attempted to reach black audiences with ads wrought with racialized characters. The research outlined in this document ...
Voracious villains or hungry heroes? : depictions of food critics in popular media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
There are copious types of visual media that viewers presently consume as entertainment. These various mediums showcase depictions that influence people's perceptions of both individuals and entire careers. In journalism ...
On the 2016 campaign trail : how the media covered Hispanic and Latino candidates and candidates' use of Spanish
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study discovers if and how newspapers portray Spanish-speaking presidential candidates differently than they do presidential candidates who choose ...