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Standards of objectivity : a comparison between daily and alternative newsweekly papers in three Ohio cities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Journalism has professional standards. But should the standards practiced by daily newspaper journalists extend to their alternative newsweekly ...
"A good line of advertising:" the historical development of children's advertising as reflected in St. Nicholas Magazine, 1873-1905
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Media researchers often assume that children's advertising began in the early days of radio and television broadcasting. In fact, it had begun nearly a half century earlier within the pages of children's magazines. One of ...
Digital agriculture' implications for small farmers : evidence from Colombia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
the social and ethical implications of digital agriculture technologies and their specific impact on small-scale farmers. Digital agriculture operates at the intersection of technology and food systems, presenting a critical challenge due to the non...
Does the mainstream media need to bring back the ombudsman to restore credibility and trust?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Despite a slight increase since2016, the public’s low level of trust in the mainstream media is of deep concern for the future of journalism. Nearly half the people surveyed recently indicated that inaccuracies, bias and ...
Missouri higher education reform : moving up on the public policy agenda
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study identifies and examines 14 contributing factors that, taken together, caused reform of public higher education governance to move up on the ...
Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
deep epistemological uncertainties and (2) a complex ethics and aesthetics of listening. In addition, this thesis reads Rolling Blackouts through the lens of postcolonial theory, analyzing the way Glidden brings journalistic abstractions into contact...
The culture wars & political polarization in perspective : why polarization and its perturbations are a persistant [i.e., persistent] puzzle in political science
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention has been paid...
An investigation of the administrator's role in the design, support, and evaluation of induction programs in rural, public K-12 schools in Northwest Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
al., 2014; Strong, 2005). Administrators are challenged in their responsibilities to develop teachers, manage turnover, and retain teachers (Chan et al., 2019). This qualitative study provides awareness of the administrator's role, using...
Unelected oversight : the politics of government investigations and problem monitoring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
are more likely to identify problems in their agency. Second, I consider the monitoring agendas of federal Offices of Inspectors General using an original dataset of reports. My findings suggest that OIGs monitor a greater variety of issues with larger...
From saving face to saving lies : prioritizing the public in public relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
for an ethical approach to crisis communication that prioritizes protecting the public....
Mizzou weekly, volume 27, number 16 (January 19, 2006)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2006)
Mizzou weekly, volume 21, number 18 (January 27, 2000)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2000)
A Cross-Case Study: The Personal and Professional Challenges Experienced by Nurse Educators at Three Midwestern Colleges and Universities During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2022)
changes by the nurse educator to meet the course and student learning objectives; (2) nurse educators experienced tension over ethical issues that resulted in disunity; (3) institutional communication plays an important role in nurse educator satisfaction...
Messages of frugality and consumption in the Ladies' Home Journal : 1920s-1940s
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
, and recovery to uncover what these messages may have said about women's roles in society during those times. A content analysis of 60 issues of the Journal from 1920 to 1949 examines messages of frugality and messages of consumption present in service...
Invitational leadership in public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of the mixed design study was to examine the perceived effectiveness of leaders who made use of the invitational leadership style of leading their organization. Four research questions emerged throughout the ...
Behind human faces : how exemplars experience the news process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Journalists often seek to put a "human face" on a systemic issue. The resulting source is an exemplar, or person whose story serves to illustrate a greater phenomenon. Journalism scholarship has examined why and how journalists choose exemplars...
Art experiences in Waldorf education : graduates' meaning making reflections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
attribute to past Waldorf school arts experiences. The central research question for the study was as follows: What meanings do Waldorf graduates attribute to their lived Waldorf school art experience? Three-interview Series (Dolbeare & Schuman, 1982) were...
The credible brand model : the effects of ideological congruency and customer-based brand equity on media and message credibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study proposes and tests the credible brand model (CBM), a model that explicates the processes by which media audiences make credibility judgments about media outlets and their products. The primary postulate of the ...
The use of cognitive enhancing substances and academic stress
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study investigated relationships between reported academic stress, caffeine consumption, and illicit prescription stimulant use, as a means of ...
Education For All: A Descriptive Case Study of the Educational Experiences of First-Generation College Graduates
(2015-06-19)
Postsecondary entrance and graduation is commonplace in the modern world, yet many students still do not attend or complete their degrees. Students who do not have a familial connection to an institution of higher learning ...