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A content analytic comparison of news frames in English- and Spanish-language newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
As the Hispanic population in the United States tops 40 million people, it is important to look at ways in which American and Latino cultures compare and interact. More than any other U.S. immigrant group, Hispanics rely ...
The sounds of red and blue America: dissecting musical references to "red state" and "blue state" identity in print media during the 2004 presidental campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This thesis explores how the print media used references to music to indicate "red state" and "blue state" identity during the 2004 presidential campaign. Through a textual analysis of more than 30 newspaper and magazine ...
A study of legacy U.S. newspapers' digital subscription prices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Disruptive innovation of the newspaper industry is forcing publishers to reconsider reader revenue models as, on the whole, print subscription rates continue to fall and digital advertising revenue rates fail to pick up ...
Resources for tackling post-traumatic stress disorder in local newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] PTSD in journalism is a fairly new phenomenon. There is substantive research into how it affects individuals, however little research has been done ...
Framing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : a study of frames used by three American newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This paper explored look how three U.S. newspapers' covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following two peak incidents - Israeli leader Ariel Sharon's 2000 visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount and 2002's Passover Massacre ...
A textual analysis of women's health magazines : how women's health magazines set the agenda for women's beliefs about cardiovascular disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
While heart disease kills an average of 399,028 women in the United States every year (Benjamin et al., 2017), women do not seem to be aware of the high risk of heart disease that they face (Mosca, Hammond, Mochari-Greenberger, ...
Media framing and conflict : a content analysis of the South Korean hostage case
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study aims to explore how the media frames conflicts by analyzing specific elements in the news coverage of the South Korean hostage case in ...
Castor oil and orange juice: how John H. Johnson fed news to black America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
In the mid-1940s, publisher John H. Johnson did not like the image of African Americans that was projected by mainstream, white-owned media. He felt the image constructed was too limited and stereotypical. He also felt ...
The impact of gender on the use of metaphors in media reports covering the 2003 Gulf War in Iraq
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This study investigates whether gender of the reporter or the source has an impact on the metaphors that are used in media reports on the 2003 war in Iraq. War metaphors previously exposed by other research are explored ...
What are Utah farmers' market shoppers willing to do to protect local agriculture?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The purpose of this study is to determine what actions Utah farmers' market shoppers would be willing to take to protect their supply of local food: agriculture. This qualitative study used in-depth interviews of 32 farmers' ...
Using communicative patterns to predict Twitter users' social capital, likability, and popularity gains with natural language processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Social media constructs a computer-mediated public space where individuals' visibility and influence can be quantitatively measured by the number of likes, retweets, and followers they receive. These metrics serve as 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 ...
The role of public information officers in local American government
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Public information officers (PIOs) see themselves as the liaison between the agency they represent and the public. They come from various backgrounds including broadcast and print journalism, for profits and the advertising ...
Texan City magazine health news : a content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
City magazines have a powerful role in convincing readers to take proactive health measures, however they rarely take advantage of their capacity to set their communities' public agendas. This study considered the health ...
Disease as drama: dramatistic constructs and models of redemption in covering illness in Glamour magazine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This study sought to explore how personal medical crises are narrated in Glamour, a popular women's magazine. The study employed Kenneth Burke's dramatism, specifically his pentad and the concepts of guilt and redemption ...
Role of the media during political events in authoritarian, democratization and democratic periods in Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This research examined the role of the media during three different significant events in political transitions in Korea, namely the Kwangju massacre of 1980, the democratic elections of 1987, and the candlelight protests ...
A content analysis of word choice in social media news coverage of mass shootings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examined how news organizations utilized Twitter to report on the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. ...
Picturing race in local newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The American news media has been criticized for failing to accurately reflect the country's racial diversity. Previous research has found that large broadcast and print news outlets overrepresent the White population, while ...
Everybody loves "Sideways": patterns of consensus (and lack thereof) among movie critics in 2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Research on pack journalism tends to focus on the seeming homogeneity in much reporting of hard news. This study examines similar tendencies among film ...
Between the Eagle and the Bear : coverage of U.S. - Russian foreign policy disputes in Russian ethnic media in the U.S.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Despite its long history, Russian ethnic press in the United States is an untapped area in media research. This study had two goals: to address this research gap and to shed light on the ethnic and political identity of ...