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Abracadabra: Key Agents Of Mediation That Define, Create, And Maintain Tv Fandom, David H. Gardner
Abracadabra: Key Agents Of Mediation That Define, Create, And Maintain Tv Fandom, David H. Gardner
Communication Theses
From a media industries, fan studies, and emerging socio-cultural public relations perspective, this project pulls back the Hollywood curtain to explore two questions: 1) How do TV public relations practitioners and key tastemaker/gatekeeper media define, create, build, and maintain fandom?; and 2) How do they make meaning of fandom and their agency/role in fan creation from their position of industrial producers, cultural intermediaries, members of the audience, and as fans themselves? This project brings five influential, working public relations and media professionals into a conversation about two case studies from the 2010-2011 television season – broadcast network CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 …
Framing Autism Causes And Prevelance: A Content Analysis Of Television Evening News Coverage--1994 Through April 2010, Angela S. Colson
Framing Autism Causes And Prevelance: A Content Analysis Of Television Evening News Coverage--1994 Through April 2010, Angela S. Colson
Communication Theses
Autism has been declared an urgent public health concern by the U.S. government and an epidemic by some advocacy groups. Determining autism’s diagnostic criteria, prevalence, and causes have been challenging. It is important to examine how the U.S. media have contributed to the public’s understanding of autism. Previous research found that British media coverage of the theory that vaccines cause autism was shown to contribute to the decline of vaccination rates in Britain (Lewis & Speers, 2003). This study examined U.S. television news media coverage using an agenda-setting theory and media framing perspective. A content analysis was conducted of national …