Since the Internet became a mainstream form of communications in 1999, journalism has become a multi-platform discipline. Twitter is a social media site that is emerging as an avenue for getting news online. Previous ...

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 ...

This study explored the possible continued existence of a digital divide as it related to how residents in two disperse communities received notification of late season tornado events in 2013. The theoretical perspective ...

News media consumption is migrating online, cutting into the business model of traditional news media at a time it has continued to struggle to reverse a decades-long drop in its perceived credibility among consumers. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Campaign finance has long been a controversial political subject in the United States and was made more so by the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United. The ruling struck down limits on donations made to and ...

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 ...