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Ua19/16/2 Golf Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU golf teams in 2021.

Ua19/16/2 Athletic Media Relations Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

General WKU athletic press releases for 2021.

Ua19/16/2 Football Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and statistics for WKU football team for 2021.

Ua19/16/2 Baseball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU baseball team in 2021.

I Hear You: The Everyday Struggle Living With Misophonia, Ashton Jones

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The term misophonia is derivated from the Greek words misos, (hate), and phónè, (voice); it translates as hatred of sound. It is the term used to describe people who are irregularly affected by everyday noises. The first scientific observations by Pawel J. Jastreboff regarding misophonia indicate “individuals with misophonia are sensitive to a specific set of trigger sounds, which are usually recognized since childhood.” These types of sounds tend to be trivial noises, such as chewing or crunching, sniffing, breathing, clicking, lip smacking, and tapping. The noises can trigger an onslaught of negative emotions and violent reactions.

This documentary film …

Ua68/14 Newsletter, Wku Folk Studies & Anthropology

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Folk Studies & Anthropology.

• Applegate, Darlene. From the Department Head & Anthropology Program Director
• Ferrell, Ann. From the Folk Studies Program Director
• Student Profiles - Georgia Dassler, Camille Acosta
• Student Profiles - Azadeh Najafian, Corbin Pike
• Student Profiles - James Skaggs, Jordan Mansfield
• Student Projects
• This Year's Graduates
• Department Events & Activities
• Faculty/Staff News - Tim Frandy, Darlene Applegate, Ann Ferrell
• Faculty/Staff News - Gwynn Henderson, Erika Brady, Jean-Luc Houle, Kate Hudepohl, David Pollack, Justin Carlson
• Kentucky Folklife Program
• Kentucky Archaeological Survey
• Alumni Updates

Ua1f Kern Alexander Vertical File Part 3, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Digitized vertical file materials regarding WKU President Kern Alexander and his tenure as president 1986-1988.

Ua19/16/2 Softball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU softball team in 2021.

Ua19/16/2 Volleyball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU volleyball team in 2021.

Ua19/16/1 Volleyball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Athletic media guide for volleyball team.

U.S. Presidential Election Portrayed By Foreign Media: Costa Rica And Nicaragua Comparative Study, Emily Neumann

Honors Program Theses

The U.S. presidential election not only grabs a lot of media attention from the United States, but it also catches the attention of media from around the world. How does the foreign media portray the U.S. presidential election? This study seeks to answer a piece of this question through an analysis of media sources in Costa Rica and Nicaragua in the hopes of better informing audiences on the potential frames their media be constructing their information through. The analysis considers the tone, along with the articles’ conversations of policy and personality of the candidates. After selecting 10 articles from each …

Jrsm 7015: Advanced Media Writing (Syllabus), Matthew J. Haught

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Designed to help students become more precise as well as versatile writers by diagnosing their writing, polishing their grammar and editing skills, and teaching them to write with clarity, cohesiveness, and conciseness.

Jrsm 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic instruction in journalistic forms and AP style; information gathering and composition of news stories; media literacy.

Jrsm 4702: Media, Diversity, & Society (Syllabus), Otis Sandford

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Advanced study of recent, critical issues faced by mass media with exploration of complexities that cause them and their impact on society.

Jrsm 4910: Social Media & Society (Syllabus), Melissa L. Janoske Mclean

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Discussion of social media's impact on individuals, organizations, and society. Examines the fundamentals of social media-based community, diversity, and influence. Includes broad understanding of a variety of platforms and trends and their place and importance in the social media ecosystem. Social media has altered how journalists and strategic communication professionals do their jobs and how we communicate as a society. We will be analyzing multiple apps, platforms, and trends to determine social media’s impact on society, including digital inequality and social justice, online communities, photo and video manipulation, influencers, virality, and wearable technology. It’s important to note that …

Advr 3324: Creative Strategy (Syllabus), Ruoxu Wang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Principles of advertising psychology in relation to proven techniques for understanding the creative process, including writing effective copy and designing effective advertising. One lecture hour, four laboratory hours per week.

Pbrl 3441: Writing For Social Media (Syllabus), Kim Marks Malone

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Development of strategic writing skills to write effectively across various social media platforms with an emphasis on the need to tailor the message to both the audience and the platform through which it is communicated. Topics explored will include style, repurposing of content, specific requirements for various platforms, organizational voice, SEO and strategic message development.

Jrsm 7050: Mass Communication Theory (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Key concepts and development of theories offered to explain operation and effects of mass communication media; multidiscipline overview of theories dealing with advertising, broadcasting, print, and public relations messages, media, and effects. This class will provide you with an overview of the important theories in our field, and will encourage you to think about how these apply to the real world and how they will inform your future work as a media professional. The broadly explanatory concepts of theory help us understand some of the underlying ways in which humans respond to and share different types of information, …

Jrsm 7350: Advanced Multimedia Reporting (Syllabus), Robert Byrd

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: This course will explore recent research findings in news reporting, writing and editing principles; and also provide students with practical experience in preparing finished news reports suitable for publication or dissemination in professional-level mass media.

Advr 3330: Digital Analytics & Evaluation (Syllabus), Andrea Wiley

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: This course was developed to help you (a) understand the need and importance behind social media and other digital platform analytics and (b) to teach you how to leverage the data made natively available by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, as well as Google Analytics, to evaluate social and digital PR/marketing campaigns. A bulk of this course will be spent working first-hand with data. After working with the data, you will learn how to identify key data points, create charts and graphs to visualize your analysis, glean insights and make actionable recommendations based on those insights. You will …

Crmm 4900: Creative Media Lab (Syllabus), Matthew J. Haught

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Planning, development, design and execution of a multimedia project for print and digital display application, including data visualization, illustration, branding, video and photography.

Jour 4535: Social Media Journalism (Syllabus), Robby Byrd

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Students will learn to cover news and information, track analytics, and search out the newest news trends on popular social media platforms.

Jrsm 7050: Mass Comm Theory (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Key concepts and development of theories offered to explain operation and effects of mass communication media; multidiscipline overview of theories dealing with advertising, broadcasting, print, and public relations messages, media, and effects. This class will provide you with an overview of the important theories in our field, and will encourage you to think about how these apply to the real world and how they will inform your future work as a media professional. The broadly explanatory concepts of theory help us understand some of the underlying ways in which humans respond to and share different types of information, …

Jour 4160: Food Writing/Reporting (Syllabus), Pamela Denney

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Develops expertise in the specialized niche of food writing with narrative stories and multimedia content.

Crmm 6526: Photojournalism (Syllabus), Jin Yang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Advanced skills and photojournalism techniques for online and publication photography; emphasis on portraiture, sports, features, and general news.

Pbrl 6706: Public Relat Ethics & Advocacy (Syllabus), Teri Del Rosso

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: An approach to ethics and advocacy through case studies and their application to the work of public relations professionals as they interact with employers, publics and society as a whole.

Is Care In The Air?: A Crisis Ethics Case Study Of American Airlines’ Communication During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Lily V. Hicks

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This research proposes a qualitative case study of American Airlines’ communication during the first month of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Data from the airline’s press releases along with its tweets and a sample of organizational responses to those tweets are offered for proposed analysis using the lenses of Situational Crisis Communication Theory, the Applied Model of Care Considerations, and the body of crisis literature on audience coping and emotions during crises. This in-depth look at a unique communication phenomenon will be a fundamental step in examining how airline communication exhibits ethics or lack thereof and is related to people’s emotions …

The Media's Framing Of Incarceration In West Virginia, Patrick John Orsagos

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The following is a professional project that examines the way in which the mass incarceration of West Virginians has been framed by the news media. The research presented explains the scope of the problem of mass incarceration, followed by an explanation of research conducted on framing. The literature review explores what other media scholars have published about framing and argues which frame is most dominant in crime reporting by state media. Following this is a methodology for production of a podcast series that utilizes a thematic frame and the practice of solutions journalism to promote dialogue around the systemic issues …

Neutral Isn’T Neutral: An Analysis Of Misinformation And Sentiment In The Wake Of The Capitol Riots, Daniel Robert Walsh

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

January 6th, 2021 was a significant moment in the history of the United States of America. Protestors stormed the Capitol building over the results of the 2020 presidential election in which Joseph R. Biden defeated incumbent president Donald J. Trump. The Capitol riots were partially incited by the presence of misinformation on social media and was an example of the power misinformation has. This study presented two questions. Question one pertains to the sentiment analysis of verified Twitter users and their sentiment towards Trump. Question two pertains to analyzing tweets from verified accounts for misinformation between the dates of January …

Crmm 4550: Web Publish Ll: Html/Css (Syllabus), Garrett Pilgrim

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Creation and development of website projects; systematic training in writing html codes; focused learning of cascading style sheet (CSS); final production of a multimedia project.