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  • "Acting white" on social media : a study of African Americans' racial identity performance on Twitter 

    Maragh, Raven (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 ...
  • Bridging the visual-verbal divide in college mass communications programs 

    Rothstein, Renee (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. ...
  • A content analysis of reproductive health articles in Jezebel.com and Glamour.com 

    Jorgensen, Erica (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 : 

    Brasher, Emily (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 

    Gorbach, Julien (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 ...
  • Elevating the news : 

    Moffitt, Kelly (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 

    Schauster, Erin E., 1980- (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 ...
  • Exploring how female public relations managers in higher-education institutions gain influence 

    Chew, Jesslyn (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 : 

    Veto, Matt (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 ...
  • The media and the global-liberation movement : 

    Still, Brooke (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 ...
  • Qualitative analysis of the impact of a mass shooting on a broadcast journalist 

    Leary, Kerry Lynn (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    This research examines the impact of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting on first-responding journalists, focusing on their professional lives and reporting techniques. The research was completed using a qualitative ...
  • Reader perception of the usefulness and credibility of journalistic automotive reviews 

    Derosier, Chris (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    The aim of this research is to examine the usefulness of journalistic automotive reviews from the perspective of readers making purchase decisions. Additionally, this study also looked at the perceived credibility of the ...
  • She's too pretty : how model attractiveness and social comparison impact consumer self-esteem and purchase intention 

    Slaton, Lorah (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The current research was performed to determine the relationships between model attractiveness, social comparison, consumer self-esteem, and consumer ...
  • Trolls under the bridge : 

    Steele, Noelle M. (Noelle Marie) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    This research examines the trend of anonymous online speech and the evolution of traditional gatekeeping roles of journalists as new media interaction with the public becomes commonplace. A textual analysis explores the ...
  • Web analytics, social media, and the journalistic doxa : the impact of audience feedback on the evolving gatekeeping process 

    Tandoc, Edson C. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    New communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience behavior. Through new audience information ...
  • Written rules and practical matters on state public records laws 

    Yang, Mengni (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Public access laws are at the heart of transparent democracy, in place to ensure that government meetings and records are open to the public. Without ...