Browsing School of Journalism (MU) by Thesis Semester "2013 Fall"
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"Acting white" on social media : a study of African Americans' racial identity performance on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Acting White" exists within minority communities across North America and the globe as a scarlet letter of shame to those perceived as performing an ... -
Beyond this place: documenting the visual history of African American fraternities and sororities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This research analyzes portrayals of Black Greek Letter Organizations in both print and video and the effects these portrayals have on students' perception, knowledge and understanding of Black Greek Letter Organization ... -
Bridging the visual-verbal divide in college mass communications programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Today, all communications products are multimodal, employing a variety of communications techniques, from writing to graphics (and more), in one product. ... -
Case studies of investigative non-profit and public radio collaborations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Across the United States, investigative journalism organizations and public media outlets have started joining forces in greater numbers. Many have found that the relationship demands thoughtfulness and hard work, but ... -
A content analysis of reproductive health articles in Jezebel.com and Glamour.com
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study explored health coverage by the popular women's websites Glamour.com and Jezebel.com from May through October 2012. In these months preceding the November 2012 U.S. election, the media frequently referenced "The ... -
Creating a culture :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The main purpose of this research is to demonstrate how cultures and subcultures can be created and disseminated through media, and how newer forms of media such as websites can have a tangible effect on the content of ... -
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ... -
Designer Involvement Pays Off for Newspapers' Digital Editions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)There are tangible benefits for newsrooms that involve editorial designers in the development of digital editions. This was a key finding in a case study of four large American news organizations, including the Los Angeles ... -
Differences between Weibo discussion and Xinhue coverage of the Chinese boycott of the Japanese goods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Through the textual analysis and a comparison study of 100 Weibo posts and ten Xinhua articles covering the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods, this research came to the conclusion that the two media platforms presented ... -
The Effect of Source On Agricultural Producers' Perceptions of Credibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This field experiment sought to examine the effects of a media source on agricultural producers' perceptions of credibility and agricultural advertising influence in a news story. Subscribers to DTN/The Progressive Farmer ... -
Elevating the news :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Community engagement is a news industry buzzword that has recently seen professionalization in newsrooms in the form of a community engagement editor. Little research has been done on this type of editor and how they know ... -
Enabled and constrained : culture, ethics and structuration in an advertising agency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Understanding the complexity of advertising ethics mandates an organizational approach to empirical research. Organizational culture affords attention to not only the advertising practitioner's perspectives of ethics, but ... -
EnVoz Alta: Honduran youth gain a stronger voice with journalism education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The EnVoz Alta project involved teaching journalism to approximately 230 fifth and sixth grade students in Siguatepeque, Honduras. The students learned reporting and writing techniques through a mixture of lecture, interactive ... -
Exploring how female public relations managers in higher-education institutions gain influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study explored how female public relations (PR) managers working in higher-education institutions perceive that they gain influence in their jobs as communicators. To this end, the researcher conducted 12 semi-structured ... -
Filling the statehouse void :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The number of traditional news reporters present in state capitols is decreasing across the United States. Non-traditional online news organizations are attempting to fill that void. These entities, many of them non-profit ... -
How social media are changing the way business journalists do their jobs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This professional project seeks to answer the question of how social media are changing business reporters' sourcing practices. In the past, reporters depended on face-to-face interviews or email. With the popularity of ... -
Impact of Privacy Exemptions in Open Records Laws on Computer-‐assisted Reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)As more and more personal data are collected and digitized by the government, the more restrictions there are on what reporters can access through open records laws. Every year sees new bills introduced restricting the ... -
Interaction Between Traditional Media and Social Media Coverage on Social Issues in China: A Content Analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)To what extent does online public opinion and traditional media coverage interact with each other on social issues in China? This research employs a content analysis of 524 Weibo posts and 327 news articles regarding a ... -
The media and the global-liberation movement :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)From Sept. 24 to Sept. 25, 2009, the Group of 20 summit was held in Pittsburgh, Pa. The event brought in leaders from the most politically and economically powerful countries in the world, as well as protesters committed ... -
Mobile App Monetization – Expectations and Attitudes Formed by Users in Response to Advertising and Pay To Download Monetization Models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This research attempts to discover the attitudes and expectations formed by different methods of mobile app monetization in users who have paid to download apps or encountered any method of monetization in their use of ...