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Women in science : are portrayals on primetime television negative, and what are effects of exposure to such content?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Department of Education began investing millions to get more girls interested in science, technology, engineering and math -- or STEM -- fields. Yet the needle has barely moved, and the American ...
Increasing accessibility : how news websites can better serve people with visual disabilities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how people who are blind or have low vision prefer to get online news, the problems they face in ...
Mediating and moderating factors that affect health journalists' perceptions of conflict issues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Taking an affective and cognitive approach toward effective conflict management communication, this study attempts to analyze the mediating and ...
Write on : a 50-year analysis of the role of the alternative press in three cities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This textual analysis traced the evolution of the radical, monitorial, facilitative, and collaborative roles of the alternative press in New York; Columbus, Ohio; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Political and cultural articles ...
The changing job of journalism : the impact of new and social media use on job satisfaction in a television newsroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Television newsrooms and the individuals or corporations who own them, find themselves under pressure to find creative ways to use new and social media to stay relevant to today's media consumer. That pressure trickles ...
The effect of Jumbotron advertising on the experience of attending major league baseball games
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This study explores the dynamics of jumbotron advertising at Major League Baseball games and the effect it has on fans at those games. In order to execute the study, the researcher traveled to 12 different Major League ...
Multimedia effect and its impact on consumer responses toward online promotion : an empirical study of medical tourism promotion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study explores the multimedia effect, as well as seeks to detect its impact on consumers' responses. This thesis particularly investigates the ...
Affecting public opinions via social media--opinion leaders use of Weibo
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This thesis analyzed opinion leaders' use of Weibo to investigate their online behaviors, and to see if gender and fields of expertise will affect opinion leaders' use of Weibo. The study will help people to better understand ...
Credibility concerns for online newspapers : do reporter comments influence perceptions of credibility?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This study seeks to explore the effects of reporter comments on perceptions of credibility when readers encounter traditional news in an online format. Using a between-groups design, the study enlisted volunteers from a ...
Advertising ethics: a client perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study examines how clients at large companies view advertising ethics. In-depth interviews were conducted with 16 high-ranking advertising clients in the New York area and six other cities. The focus was on the ethics ...
A content analysis of sex articles in women's and men's lifestyle and health magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The present research attempted to build upon studies of sex content in popular magazines by analyzing how sex articles portray thematic aspects of sex, sexuality, and sexual health in women's and men's lifestyle and health ...
Whitewashing Southern Living : the sociocultural significance of the 1966 magazine launch in Birmingham, Alabama
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The purpose of this study was to examine Progressive Farmer Company's 1966 launch of Southern Living magazine in Birmingham, Alabama, in its sociocultural context. The publisher of Progressive Farmer, the largest magazine ...
Social proximity and user-generated health content : an experimental test of perceived source similarity and construal level theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The affordances of the internet, particularly as manifest in social network site platforms, allow for interpersonal mediated communication with socially proximal sources. In a 3 (expert source cues vs. low cues vs. low ...
Presenting the dragon to the eagle : testing the influence of message framing and valence on public perceptions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The study examined the influence of negative and positive stories framed episodically and thematically on cognitive perception, attitude formation and ...
Framing of fisheries in collapse : a content analysis of two newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This quantitative content analysis draws from framing theory to examine newspaper coverage of fisheries in collapse. Two groups of newspaper articles formed the population for this census: coverage of the Georges Bank cod ...
Conjoint analysis for effective use of online video advertising on video sharing websites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This study employs conjoint analysis to ask which online video advertising formats consumers prefer. Research has shown that online consumers prefer to watch entertainment programming without the information of ads, yet ...
She's too pretty : how model attractiveness and social comparison impact consumer self-esteem and purchase intention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The current research was performed to determine the relationships between model attractiveness, social comparison, consumer self-esteem, and consumer ...
A case study of Pittsburg Magazine : an analysis of the use of Facebook and Twitter from the perspective of magazine editors and readers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
A case study of NPR music
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The purpose of this May 2011 case study was to look at NPR Music: to find out what it was, how it worked and what it valued. At that time, it was succeeding as an innovation within a traditional news organization, as a ...
The effect of modality and response strategy on evaluations of credibility and reputation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Crisis situations represent major threats to the perceptions of companies by their key publics. This study draws from existing research in an effort to understand how the crisis response message characteristics of modality ...