• Do readers believe what they see? : reader acceptance of image manipulation 

    Oriez, Richard J. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    This study uses a random public sample to measure the level of acceptance the public has of various kinds of image adjustment/manipulation, to discover how frequently the respondents believe the same manipulations are ...
  • Online newspapers' visual character and perceptions of credibility 

    Shaw, Richard F. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
    Newspapers rely on content-based documentary photography to visually communicate current news events. As circulations declined in the mid-1980s, media owners persuaded editors into mixing traditional hard news on their ...