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Effects of journalism education on student engagement : a case study of a small-town scholastic press programe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Using social capital theory as the lens, this case study investigates how being part of a scholastic journalism program impacts the academic, social, and civic engagement levels of students in a small-town, rural setting ...
Comeback coverage : thematic content in the news media's reporting on Donald Trump's attacks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This thesis is informed by gatekeeping and frame-building theories. It uses straightforward textual analysis to determine what forms of thematic content are repeated in coverage from The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...
Reinventing a moral mode : a textual analysis of 21st century "living Lei Fengs" in China Daily
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study explores how China Daily has extended the collective memory of iconic Chinese role model Lei Feng in articles about so-called "living Lei ...
Motivational use of Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Internet social networking devices like Twitter have increased in popularity between 2005 and 2010. Often tweets have hyperlinks to other Web sites. This thesis employs an experiment to determine what motivates Twitter ...
A revolutionary heroine for the twentieth century : Sybil Ludington in media, myth, and American memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
and magazine articles, juvenile biographies, television dramas, works of poetry, opera, and drama, and in popular and histories and school textbooks. While Sybil Ludington was a real person, very little is known about her life and no contemporary evidence has...
Cognitive processing of news as a function of structure : a comparison between inverted pyramid and chronology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Little has changed in how written news is structured, even as the newspaper industry changes dramatically. One of the most entrenched news routines, the inverted pyramid, continues to persist in both print and online news. ...
The strength of weak ties in online social networks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The use of online social networks such as Facebook.com are hypothesized to be affecting Robert Putnam's (1995) theory of social capital. The research method is modeled after Dhavan Shah's (2005) Information Communication ...
The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study analyzes intermedia agenda setting during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign to determine the agenda-setting role of prominent political bloggers in relation to the mainstream news media and the candidates. An ...
Life and war in Korea : photographic portrayals of the Korean War in Life magazine, July 1950 - August 1953
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examines the visual portrayal of the Korean War, as presented in Life magazine from July 1950 through August 1953, by adopting the theoretical framework of framing and cultural studies and by combining two ...
The socially filtered media agenda : a study of agenda setting among news outlets on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines whether and how Twitter users set the agenda for legacy media outlets by sharing news URLs. It also investigates which news story ...
How NBA teams use twitter as a brand management tool
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Social media has changed the way that organizations communicate with consumers and potential consumers. In the professional sports industry, teams use social media as a way to engage with their fans, posting a range of ...
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 ...
Culturally conditioned privacy in online photosharing : a comparison between American and Chinese users of social network sites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This research is a cross-cultural examination of how American and Chinese social network site (SNS) users deal with privacy in online photo sharing. It discovers that American subjects share more about private lives and ...
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 ...