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Anger, efficacy, and identity in activism : public perceptions of threat appraisal, attitudes, and behavioral intention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
of anger and efficacy. This research extends the contingency theory framework to examine the dynamics of activist organizations, moving beyond the assumptions of two-way symmetrical communication in Grunig's excellence theory. From the standpoint of public...
Agenda-setting effects of television news coverage on perceptions of corporate reputation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
business news coverage on the public perceptions of corporate reputation. The study uses the Annual Reputation Quotient SM study, a public opinion poll on corporate reputations, for selecting 20 companies each year from 2002 to 2004. The study analyzes...
Constructively managing conflict about open government : use of ombuds and other dispute resolution systems in state and federal sunshine laws
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
People seeking access to public records and meetings under state and federal open government laws have the right to sue in court to enforce them. But several jurisdictions also have alternative systems to handle disputes arising under public access...
A study of evaluation research in two public relations firms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] As more organizations employ public relations practitioners, evaluation research is needed to help practitioners prove their worth. Too often the evaluation step is skipped...
The million dollar question : a quantitative analysis of audience uses and gratifications in digital magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study examines the audience engagement of millennial digital magazine readers through a perspective of uses and gratifications theory. A survey was distributed to 175 college students to discover why digital magazine ...
Social bots versus real humans : the framing of 'Trump's Wall' on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Around the globe, elites are using social media and computational propaganda to manipulate public opinion, (Bradshaw and Howard, 2018) increasingly degrading the traditional news media's gatekeeping function while building a symbiotic relationship...
Framing protest in Missouri : framing protest on Missouri newspaper coverage of Concerned Student 1950 protest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Research over the past 30 years has shown that mainstream news media have been biased against social movements through journalists' use of framing. This trend, called the protest paradigm, delegitimizes, marginalizes, and ...
Subsidizing the press : understanding journalists' attitudes about corporate and government influence and the public interest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
U.S. newspaper companies have been slashing resources, resulting in less original reporting and raising questions about whether private-sector newspapers can adequately serve the public interest. According to social responsibility theory...
News framing and public approval of the tax cuts and jobs act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
in the stories changed in the month lead-up to the legislation's passage and the month after it became law. There was also a considerable shift in public approval of the law between these two time periods, as measured by public opinion polls. This legislation...
Uncertainty management in mass shootings: antecedents, appraisals, and communication behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
. Also, perceived uncertainty had a positive indirect effect on information attending intention via anxiety and sadness. The findings of this study advance uncertainty management theory and the situational theory of publics by investigating the causes...
Power, intersectionality and news photographs : a case study of Detroit free press and Michigan chronicle news photography between 1963 and 1967
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
perceived as truthful. News photography, among other visual media, has been shown to influence opinion, publicly define its subjects and possess other important qualities of characterization. A deep historical analysis of intersectional differences of news...
Contextual effects of geographic, economic, political regions on issue salience and salience of an issue's attributes : hierarchical linear modeling of agenda setting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study investigated issue salience and salience of Economy's attributes on the public agenda by taking a multilevel approach to the data. The data consisted of a two...
Media performance and democratic rule in East Africa : agenda setting and agenda building influences on public attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation examined the media influence and the government influence on public attitudes on issues concerning democratic rule in the East African Community (EAC). I proceeded under the assumption that the influence of media on public...
Trained to censor? : a study of student expression issues in Missouri principal preparation programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
student expression and how those issues are presented in their courses. Finally, a statewide survey of public high school principals measured administrator knowledge of and attitudes toward both student expression and their leadership training. The results...
Comparisons between coverage of heart disease: content analysis of mainstream and black newspapers, 2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This study compared the content of heart disease-related news stories in Black and mainstream newspapers to examine how each type of newspaper covered the disease. The method was a content analysis of two Black and two ...
"The food is so good" : why consumers positively cope with product-harm crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
communication from the consumer's perspective in existing research is the motivation of this study. Study results highlight the effectiveness of using social media to gain insights into consumer thinking and suggests that public relations practitioners need...
Princes, rock stars and their wives : analyzing tabloid coverage of women married to celebrity men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
joined the royal rank when she tied the knot with Prince Harry Windsor in front of millions of tv-watchers. By the act of marriage, the women became subjects of extensive tabloid coverage in Britain. This paper looks at how one tabloid -- the Daily Mirror...
Exploring the view from nowhere : studying how journalists of color see traditional objectivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
industry was not prepared for his presidency, as many editors refused to adjust their techniques of covering such a polarizing and odd public official. However, the 2020 protests around social justice and racial equity really pushed journalists of color...
Conflict positioning in crisis communication : integrating contingency stance with image repair strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
was due primarily to the lack of evidence rather than the conceptual ineptness of the propositions. Evidence showed that the five crisis factors - involvement of dominant coalition, influence of public relations practitioners, influence of legal...
Role of the media during political events in authoritarian, democratization and democratic periods in Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
five publications, the researcher found that roles of the media showed a transition from a facilitative role categorization, where neither media institutional power nor autonomy is strong, to a monitorial role, where both of those elements show...