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How journalism educators discuss journalism law in their community of practice : insights from a qualitative textual analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Often, journalism teachers are the only ones at their school who do their job, and even when the positions are embedded in arts or English departments, it can be isolating. The Journalism Education Association's Listserv ...
Let it breathe : social media musicking practices among Black women coping with mental health struggles during transboundary crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Wrought with one crisis after another -- the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide civil unrest in response to police murders of Black people in the U.S., and a highly volatile election season, the year 2020 arose to the level of ...
Testing the Twin Cities : a textual analysis of frames surrounding daily Minnesota-St. Paul newspaper coverage of the 2017 Minnesota Lynx
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Perception often is reality, and that is of particular importance to those in journalism. Previous research illustrates that the language journalists use to describe the subjects they cover has the ability to impact public ...
Demystifying the private sector : the use of publicly accessible records to report on private equity firms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The purpose of this research is to provide journalists with the tools necessary to report on private equity firms, a notoriously opaque sector of the economy. Private equity firms exert a large amount of influence on the ...
Media framing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Changes to the U.S. tax system can have significant impacts on individuals, and the media is often where the public turns to for information and ...
Moderators' modus operandi : a rhetorical, qualitative analysis of the 2016 presidential debate moderators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] While there is much academic research on and analysis of presidential debates, most of the existing literature tends to focus on the candidates ...
"Sin mujeres no hay revolución" : transversal feminist politics in the digital mediated activism of the Argentine collective Ni una menos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
While the advent of the Internet and digital social networks has opened opportunities for global connectivity, participation, and broadcasting to agents outside the media, corporations and the state, inequities structuring ...
Mass media and muscle: the impact of social media on young adult men's everyday experiences and body dissatisfaction - a qualitative inquiry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Intention: The purpose of this thesis is to examine young men's body dissatisfaction, as men are typically marginalized as a population less susceptible to developing body image issues and eating disorders. The purpose of ...
#LawrenceHive vs #TeamIssa: how Insecure fans use fandom communities to perform social and cultural identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
HBO hit-series Insecure became a social media sensation much like the web series that inspired it. The relatability and freshness of the characters made the show an instant standout among fans and critics in a market starved ...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ...
If it feeds, it leads : eating, media, identity, and ecofeminist food journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This project explored contemporary food journalism and placed it in the larger context of American history, asking how such media made eating a matter of public concern. In other words, it asked: how does food journalism ...
Human vs. machine as message source in advertising: examining the persuasiveness of brand influencer type and the mediating role of source credibility for advertising effectiveness in social media advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Message source effects on persuasion of target audiences have been examined for decades by scholars in advertising, consumer behavior, communication, and psychology, among others. Myriads of studies are available on the ...
Preventing inaccurate media : a gatekeeping analysis of how news managers are overseeing the process of citizen journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This research examines the process that news managers at local broadcast television stations use when vetting user-generated content or citizen journalism, focusing on techniques used for verification and implications for ...
Disseminating research findings about substance use: effects of inoculation messages, message sources, and visual representations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The dissemination of scientific knowledge to the public is important, because the public's increased awareness and knowledge of science and scientific findings can contribute to creating healthy discourses about relevant ...
In self defense : black female journalists' advocacy in the Cold War
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"Mary Church Terrell, Black female journalist and civil rights activist, stood in front of the United Nations board in Lake Success, New York, on Sept. 21, 1949, to present a brief on Rosa Lee Ingram. Ingram and her two ...