2008 MU theses - Access restricted to MUhttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/41992024-03-28T23:11:18Z2024-03-28T23:11:18ZAgenda-setting effects of television news coverage on perceptions of corporate reputationJin, Yi.https://hdl.handle.net/10355/66852020-08-04T19:41:01Z2008-01-01T00:00:00ZAgenda-setting effects of television news coverage on perceptions of corporate reputation
Jin, Yi.
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis applies agenda setting as a general theory of mass communication in a TV business news setting and is an empirical investigation of the agenda setting effects of TV 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 effects on corporate reputation produced by the appearance of those companies in three main evening newscasts: NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, ABC World News (previously known as World News Tonight) from 2002 to 2004 for the ten-month time period from January 1 to October 15 of each year. In the study, it is hypothesized that three media coverage related variables, the amount,the tone, and the dimensions of the media coverage, are associated with different magnitudes of changes in corporate reputation. Findings provide support of the first-level agenda setting and second-level affective attribute agenda setting effects of TV business news.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file.; Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 22, 2008); Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia 2008.
2008-01-01T00:00:00ZAmending the American flag : artistic liberties in the nineteen sixties and seventiesEmbry, Alanahttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/60702020-11-22T04:27:42Z2008-01-01T00:00:00ZAmending the American flag : artistic liberties in the nineteen sixties and seventies
Embry, Alana
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Since its official creation in 1777, the American flag has come to symbolize the Constitution, United States history, and personal political values. In the 1960s and 70s, the government attempted to limit flag display to a patriotic symbolism in response to mass protests over the Vietnam War and civil rights. Its attempt to control the image and meaning of the flag led citizens to use the flag to fight for freedom of speech, a freedom that the flag supposedly represented. The attempt to restrict usage of the American flag as an object and an image resulted in citizens and artists alike grasping for control over their national emblem and its meaning. With the Civil Rights Movement, the sixties and seventies brought widespread change as artists explored issues of personal and group identity in a culturally diverse nation. The following chapters consider the artists Jasper Johns, Wayne Eagleboy, Massimo Vignelli, and Faith Ringgold, who used the image of the flag to respond to the nation's controversy surrounding the flag's symbolic meaning and debated over problems concerning what it means to be American. Issues of disunity, inequality, injustice, diversity and lack of freedoms took the place of traditional meanings associated with the flag. I analyze their work from a multicultural perspective to exhibit the various ways the flag communicated and challenged American ideals.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file.; Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 13, 2009); "Student withdrew illustrations."; Thesis (M. A.) University of Missouri-Columbia 2008.
2008-01-01T00:00:00ZBounded rationality for BitTorrent networksWu, Yipinghttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/66812020-08-04T19:40:55Z2008-01-01T00:00:00ZBounded rationality for BitTorrent networks
Wu, Yiping
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As peer-to-peer networking has becoming a focus in the global networking realm, peer-to-peer distributed systems have been through rapid developments these days. One typical example of these systems is the BitTorrent-based network. In this thesis, a new incentive mechanism is proposed for BitTorrent networks. Compared with the original BitTorrent mechanism, this proposed mechanism is based on the theory of bounded rationality, which is a branch in game theories. In this thesis, we also prove the feasibility of reducing the unfairness among peers in BitTorrent networks by incorporating the idea of bounded rationality into the system. We will present an Epsilon-equilibrium-formed model specific to the situations in BitTorrent networks. The discussions and evaluations of the proposed incentive mechanism over the original one are given as well.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file.; Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 19, 2009); Thesis (M.S.) University of Missouri-Columbia 2008.
2008-01-01T00:00:00ZThe canvas as her stage : Emma Hamilton's use of her attitudes in portraitureHaworth, Abigail R.https://hdl.handle.net/10355/60822020-11-22T04:27:43Z2008-01-01T00:00:00ZThe canvas as her stage : Emma Hamilton's use of her attitudes in portraiture
Haworth, Abigail R.
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis examines how the portraiture and life of Emma, Lady Hamilton are representative of trends and interests of the eighteenth-century art world. Lady Emma Hamilton was the eighteenth-century equivalent of a modern-day celebrity. Renowned for her good looks, she was the talk of European society for her beauty, her pantomime performance (which she called her Attitudes), and her relationships with men. Nearly two hundred years after her death, she is still a topic of interest both scholarly and popular. Two paintings of Emma in the University of Missouri's collection are significant examples of portraits of Emma in her prime. In researching Emma's portraits and how the Columbia portraits compare with others made at the same time, something becomes apparent in the source materials. While there is much interest in Emma's life and her affairs with men, literature on images of her or her performances is not as abundant and is often very brief. Moreover, the various texts discussing Emma are usually concerned only with her portraits, her performances, or her men, with very little discussion, if any, given to how these aspects of her life were interconnected. This thesis looks at these three main facets of her life - her men, her portraits, and her Attitudes - in addition to the major influences of the art world at the time, and demonstrates how they are interrelated; all of them are considered to properly see how Emma became Lady Hamilton and was representative of the interests of the eighteenth-century art world.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file.; Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 19, 2008); Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia 2008.
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