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Framing Of Covid-19 In Newspapers: A Perspective From The Us-Mexico Border, Rifat Afrin, Ahasan Harun, Gayle Prybutok, Victor Prybutok Nov 2022

Framing Of Covid-19 In Newspapers: A Perspective From The Us-Mexico Border, Rifat Afrin, Ahasan Harun, Gayle Prybutok, Victor Prybutok

Information Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

The degree to which the media report a health emergency affects the seriousness with which the people respond to combat the health crisis. Engagement from local newspapers in the US has received scant scrutiny, even though there is a sizable body of scholarship on the analysis of COVID-19 news. We fill this void by focusing on the Rio Grande Valley area of the US-Mexico border. To understand the differences, we compared such local news coverage with the coverage of a national news outlet. After collecting the relevant news articles, we used sentiment analysis, rapid automatic keyword extraction (RAKE), and co-occurrence …


Labor And Media: A Strained Relationship, Mac-Z Zurawski Oct 2010

Labor And Media: A Strained Relationship, Mac-Z Zurawski

All Student Theses

The labor movement or union community of America has been in a steady decline for more than a decade. The 1950s saw the pinnacle of success with one-third of the U.S. workforce being unionized. Today only 8% of the private workforce is unionized. One way in which this decline may be perceived as more pronounced is through media alienation. According to journalists across the nation such as Philip M.Dine unions have been alienated by media and its type of union coverage. In this study, I analyze the way in which the New York Times portrays the labor movement during the …


Ua3/1/4 Bowling Green Booster, Selby Smith Nov 1932

Ua3/1/4 Bowling Green Booster, Selby Smith

WKU Archives Records

Bowling Green Booster was published twice a month by Selby Smith. This issue has articles written by WKU faculty Henry Cherry, Finley Grise and Herman Lowe and Bowling Green Business University faculty J.L. Harman. The majority of the issue is dedicated to WKU's homecoming activities. There are also articles regarding the Whitney Transfer Company, the Welfare Home, General Association of Baptists in Kentucky, Highway 31-W Association, the Red Cross, and the economy.