Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Communication Technology and New Media Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Social Media (2)
- Sociology (2)
- Arts and Humanities (1)
- Comparative Politics (1)
- Criminology and Criminal Justice (1)
-
- Digital Humanities (1)
- Journalism Studies (1)
- Legal Studies (1)
- Mass Communication (1)
- Organizational Communication (1)
- Other Political Science (1)
- Other Sociology (1)
- Political Science (1)
- Politics and Social Change (1)
- Public Relations and Advertising (1)
- Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance (1)
- Social Influence and Political Communication (1)
- Tourism (1)
- Institution
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Communication Technology and New Media
A Political Ecology Of Information: Media And The Dilemma Of State Power In China, Michael L. Miller
A Political Ecology Of Information: Media And The Dilemma Of State Power In China, Michael L. Miller
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In this dissertation, I employ a Weberian concept of social power in order to theorize the challenges posed by, and the varieties of state response to, the dilemma of state power: the need of all states to empower societies with social capacities that may, in turn, threaten state interests. Through a comparison of traditional and new forms of media in China, I show that rather than posing qualitatively new types of challenges to authoritarian states, new media exacerbate the dilemma of state power. They do so because along each of three dimensions of social control, new media shift the relationship …
Modernizing A Podcast Media Organization Via Social And New Media Rebranding Methods, Randi A. Hair
Modernizing A Podcast Media Organization Via Social And New Media Rebranding Methods, Randi A. Hair
Journalism
The following study and subsequent public relations campaign is intended to explore the difficulties, opportunities, caveats and all facets of transitioning a traditional travel media organization to new media. It unearths the pitfalls/barriers that naturally occur and aggregate over time when an organization or journalist (specifically “Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer” in this scenario) has not adapted nor altered their practices for changing common practices in the media industries. In this campaign, journalist Thomas Wilmer is seeking to increase his podcast audience and digital presence.
The research conducted for this study is two-fold. Firstly, the research demonstrates best practices …
Making An Audience: An Analysis Of Making A Murderer, Bree Ann Trisler
Making An Audience: An Analysis Of Making A Murderer, Bree Ann Trisler
Master's Theses (2009 -)
Steven Avery was released from prison on September 11, 2003, after serving 18 years for a sexual assault he did not commit. Avery was back behind bars in merely two years for a different crime, the murder of 25-year-old Teresa Halbach (Demos & Ricciardi, 2015). This multifaceted story is the focus of the Netflix true-crime series Making a Murderer, a serialization that became “a word-of-mouth true-crime phenomenon” (Itzkoff, 2016) upon its release on December 18, 2015. In this thesis, I aimed to reveal the meanings audience members derived from Making a Murderer and to connect these meanings to the new …