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Jrsm 7416: Global Strategic Communication (Syllabus), Kim Marks Malone

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: This class looks at a wide variety of concepts from other courses, including writing, social media usage, research, management, and audience analysis, to understand them in a global context. There is also a critical discussion of strategic communication work, encouraging students to think about a broader variety of responses and reactions. This includes both how to develop an integrated, holistic global communication program, and how to manage such a program.

Jrsm 7530: Visual Media Theory & Practice (Syllabus), Matthew J. Haught

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Familiarization with in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and content analysis; practical experience in collecting and analyzing qualitative data.

Jrsm 7530: Visual Media Theory & Practice (Syllabus), Matthew J. Haught

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Familiarization with in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and content analysis; practical experience in collecting and analyzing qualitative data.

Jrsm 7990: Media Portfolio (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Development of digital portfolio of professional and/or academic work and presentation. S/U. (2 hours)

Jrsm 7990: Media Portfolio (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Development of digital portfolio of professional and/or academic work and presentation. S/U. (2 hours)

Jrsm 8530: Visual Media Theory & Practice (Syllabus), Matthew J. Haught

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Familiarization with in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and content analysis; practical experience in collecting and analyzing qualitative data.

The State Of Innovation And Media Viability In East Africa: From Indepth Media House Surveys, Hesbon Hansen Owilla, Rose Kimani, Ann Hollifield, Julia Wegner, Dennis Reineck, Roland Schürhoff

Graduate School of Media and Communications

Media houses globally are grappling with how best to produce quality content while at the same time remaining financially viable in the wake of shrinking revenues, technological disruptions, the emergence of peripheral content creators, competition for advertisement revenues from big tech platforms, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a myriad of other changes in the ecosystem. Despite these challenges, it is in the interest of the public that news media organisations (NMOs) produce quality content and do so in a financially sustainable fashion. Media viability, that is, producing quality journalism in a financially sustainable way, is, therefore, a growing area of focus. …

Implementation Of Respondent Driven Sampling In Nairobi, Kenya, For Tracking Key Family Planning Indicators Among Adolescents And Youth: Lessons Learnt, Mary Thiongo, Peter Gichangi, Patrick Macho, Meagan Byrne, Peter Kimani, Michael Waithaka, Scott Radloff, Philip Anglewicz, Michele Decker

Graduate School of Media and Communications

Objective: Adolescents and youth constitute a significant proportion of the population in developing nations. Conventional survey methods risk missing adolescents/youth because their family planning/contraception (FP/C) behavior is hidden. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS), a modified chain-referral recruitment sampling approach, was used to reach unmarried adolescents/youth aged 15–24 in Nairobi, Kenya to measure key FP/C indicators. Seeds were selected and issued with three coupons which they used to invite their peers, male or female, to participate in the study. Referred participants were also given coupons to invite others till sample size was achieved. We report on key implementation parameters following standard RDS reporting …

The Prospector, January 18, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Beto O'Rourke Returns to El Paso

Conserving And Sharing Freshwater In The West, Kelsea Harris-Capuano

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

There are infinite stories to be told about water in the West. As an essential and finite resource, countries, states, tribal nations and neighbors must figure out how to manage this shared resource, whether for ecosystem sustainability, agricultural, household, or recreational use.

The Flathead Lake Biological Station in Polson, MT is one of the oldest active biological research stations in the United States. One of its former faculty, Dr. Mark Lorang, has been working on Flathead Lake’s erosion problem for over 30 years. As a result of seasonal lake level fluctuations controlled by the dam, erosion over the years has …

Echo: 2022, Columbia College Chicago

Echo

Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, change to Echo magazine in 1997. Articles: Martin Atkins and His 'Church of Vibe', Beyond the Walls of Jesus People USA, When PLUR Goes Wrong at Music Festivals, Love Letter to Sweaty Crowds. 77 pages.

Bridging The Gap: Where Indigenous Knowledge And Western Science Come Together To Shape Environmental Stewardship, Bowman Leigh

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

In the era of climate change, humans are grappling with how to ensure that natural resources exist into the future. For millennia, Indigenous people have actively managed the environment, drawing upon deep connections to the land passed down through generations. The Western worldview, on the other hand, sees humans as separate from nature — an attitude that has led to many of the environmental crises we see today.

This portfolio examines places and programs where Western science and Indigenous knowledge (IK) or traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) come together to shape environmental stewardship. Western science and IK/TEK are inherently different ways …

Is Growing Food Wasting Water? Stories From A Surge Of Groundwater Regulations In California, Abigail Jean Lauten-Scrivner

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This long-form feature story examines how the nascence of California’s new era of groundwater regulation is playing out for the farmers, families and agencies who must adapt to a sweeping new law against the backdrop of climate change.

California became the last state in the west to adopt a statewide management plan for the invaluable natural resource when it first embarked on a path toward groundwater sustainability in 2020. Known as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), the 20-year plan requires California’s most depleted groundwater basins to become sustainable by 2040.

When SGMA matured in 2020, California’s next drought began …

Changemakers: Master Of Studies In Law: 'Law Isn't A Foreign Language Anymore', Roger Williams University School O Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Framing Fashion Sustainability In Fashion Magazines, Kristen Ann Mohammadi

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study explores the framing, dominant frame, story focus, and tone of sustainable fashion coverage in prominent fashion magazines, Vogue and Refinery29, seeking to understand if the publications frame their coverage differently and if the framing changes after the emergence of COVID-19. To do so, this study uses a sample consisting of articles from summer months (May-August) spanning three years (2019, 2020, and 2021), as COVID-19 was first discovered in the United States in 2020. This study uses content analysis methodology to analyze a total of 206 articles. This kind of research is important, as environmental and social issues stemming …

Effects Of Perceived Reach On Ratings Of Media Bias, Quality, And Agreement, Matthew Sedlacek

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The hostile media effect refers to individuals’ tendencies to perceive seemingly neutral news coverage as biased against their stance (Vallone et al., 1985). Research has shown this effect in partisan politics, with liberals and conservatives perceiving bias in information presented from the opposing side. The current study examined the effects of liberal or conservative and small or large audience news source manipulations on liberals’ and conservatives’ perceptions of media bias and the relationship between partisan identity and perceptions of bias. Three hundred and sixty participants read a news article presented with either a Fox News, CNN, PatriotNewsDaily, or The Progressive …

Media Framing Of Marriage Practices In Afghanistan, Hakima Afzaly

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Culturally, in Afghanistan, marriage is given much importance and seen as something that completes life. Through this study, I analyze how marriage practices, such as dowry (Mahr), bride price, and the “virginity ritual,” are described in newspapers and magazines of Afghanistan. In particular, I explore how the popular press, such as 8 Sobh and Khama Press in Afghanistan frame their discussion of marriage practices. The findings from this analysis reveal that newspapers and magazines of Afghanistan frame marriage as an economic issue and a major focus of the articles is on the financial pressure on poor families due to the …

Beyond ‘Fake News’: Opportunities And Constraints For Teaching News Literacy, Judith E. Rosenbaum, Jennifer L. Bonnet, R. Alan Berry

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Teaching news literacy has, in recent decades, become cross-disciplinary, and as a result, more collaborative. This paper centers the importance of this collaboration by describing a workshop designed and taught by a media studies professor, a media literacy expert, and their subject librarian. In this essay, we discuss the workshop in terms of best practices for teaching about media and information literacy in an era marked by digital news consumption and the proliferation of claims of “fake news.” First, we elaborate on the value of the collaboration between the discipline, the library, and the field, as it allowed us to …

Media, National Development And Democracy, Muktari Magaji

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

"Our Strength Is Unity:" Delivery Bikers In Their Own Words, Connor W. Zaft

Capstones

"Our Strength Is Unity" is a year-long photographic essay on food delivery workers and their attempts to self-organize during the pandemic.

The Impacts Of Speculative Investments On New York City’S Rent Stabilized Tenants, Olivia J. Bensimon

Capstones

Landlords who bought buildings with rent stabilized apartments for much more than they were worth are now faced with the risk that their investment will not pay off, often at the expense of tenants. https://olivia-bensimon.com/capstone

Tucker Carlson, Oann And A White Nationalist: A Quantified Look At The Disinformation Pipeline Surrounding Covid-19, Juliet Jeske

Capstones

A quantitive exploration of extremist media and its effect on misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

At A Former Cluster Site, The Tide Remains After De Blasio Era Reforms, Homeless Shelter Shows No Signs Of Improvement, Jacob R. Schermerhorn

Capstones

Following the 2017 "Turning the Tide" reform effort by Mayor de Blasio, the controversial cluster site shelters started to combat homelessness were set to close in 2021. How effective were those reforms? In an examination of resident experiences and historical building data, one of the worst offending buildings was mainly unchanged by efforts. Aside from the designation change, homeless providers moved individuals into the building and conditions had still not improved.

Engaging Black Girls And Women From The Capital Region, Neimra Coulibaly

Capstones

Black girls and women sit at the intersecting identities of being Black and women in an anti-Black, patriarchal, misogynistic society. There are certain experiences that Black women in the United States endure due to historically negative perceptions of Black women.

When I decided to be a part of the engagement journalism program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, I decided to cover the community of Black girls and women from Schenectady, New York, and the rest of the Capital Region or what I call the (518)

For the past year and a half, I have covered the …

Walking Into A News Desert: How Arkansas College Newspapers Are Coping With The Decline In Print Journalism, David Keith

Dissertations

News deserts is a reference to geographic areas — most commonly counties — where no newspaper is published. The number of these areas continues to grow as more newspapers shut their doors because of financial difficulties brought on by a lack of advertising, a lack of readers, and the shift to online news consumption. College students studying journalism find themselves on the cusp of entering a profession where the number of workplaces and jobs is shrinking. They know it and the advisers of their college newspapers know it. Even with this arid prospect before them, the students are reporting news …

The Cowl - V. 86 N. 10 - Dec 9, 2021

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 86 No. 10 - December 9, 2021. 40 pages.

Columbia Chronicle (12/06/2021), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from December 6, 2021 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 20 pages. Cover story: "The Year in Review." Editors-in-Chief: Camryn Cutinello & Noah Jennings.

Chimes: December 6, 2021, Calvin University

Chimes

Commons Union still needs $45.5 million to get off the ground by Jocelyn Nunez Colon & Hadassa Ribeiro

Calvin's progress on carbon neutrality, sustainability murky during pandemic by Sarah Gibes

Veteran student orgs return, Student Senate proposes solution to CIL budget cut by Grace Toma

Calvin brings CPI housing plan to concerned neighborhood by Jocelyn Nunez-Colon

With no interim this year, January Series 2022 continues to adapt by Abigail Ham

Tough early-season schedules have women's, men's basketball teams making strides by Jamison Van Andel

Art professors show work in joint exhibitions at the Center Art Gallery by Ezra Craker

In …

Egyptian Based Model For The Uses And Limitations Of Online Journalism Applications, Ahmed Mohamed El Gody

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Women Empowerment As Portrayed Through The Egyptian Cinema: Content Analysis Of Films Produced Between 2001-2011, Aya M. Ateya

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This research analyzed the portrayal of women empowerment in the Egyptian cinema between the years 2001-2011. This specific period was chosen as this is when the Egyptian cinema started to tackle women's issues in line with real-life improvements in Egyptian women's status quo; such as the issue of Khul law, the establishment of the National Council for Women and the right to pass on the Egyptian nationality to their children to the researcher conducted a content analysis of 20 movies that were produced during the time span covered in the study and that have discussed woman's question or have presented …