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Prospectus, September 7, 2011, Kelley Heaney, Chuck Shepherd, Morgan Bernier, Alisha Kirkley, Buster Bytes, Spencer Brown, Josh Grube

Prospectus 2011

HOW PARKLAND CAME TO BE, College First to Ask About Sexual Orientation on Admission Application, Flight 93 Memorial: 10 Years later, $10 Million Short, Student Government Candidates 2011, Families Get Savvy Paying for College, Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird, Payrolls Flat in August; Unemployment Stuck at 9.1 Percent, Reality Shows at Parkland College?, Heeling to the Heels, 9/11 Spawned Big Changes on Campus, A Flexible Way to Us the Sun's Rays, A Guide to ANGEL, Code Red: Scarcity of App Developers Stifles a Growing Industry, Stop the Whining: Why a Laptop is Still Better for School Than an iPad, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Zukic, Rialda. International Tuition Reaching New Heights
• Bratcher, Nick. New Surplus Coordinator Brings Creativity to the Job – Sara Ferguson
• Wood, Shane. WKU Professor Paints Fresco in Van Meter Hall – Mike Nichols
• Frasier, Aaron. Confucius Institute to Offer Chinese Courses
• Harrison, Taylor. Student Government Association Member Creates Test Prep Website – Kendrick Bryan
• Let Our Sophomores Go
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re Dormitories
• Hughey, Aaron. Professor Urges People to Think Different About Education System
• Wade, Katherine. WKU Diversity Plan Nearing Approval
• Justice, Maciena. Students Assist Police’s Search for …

Spartan Daily September 1, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 137, Issue 4

Winona Currents Magazine, University Advancement - Winona State University

Winona Currents

This magazine published by Winona State University’s University Advancement was intended to inform WSU Alumni, students, faculty, staff and the greater community about Alumni and the university.Teacher of the Year, Top Marks, Monster Mash.

Spartan Daily August 29, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 137, Issue 2

Spartan Daily August 24, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 137, Issue 1

The Prospector, August 23, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Welcome Home

People's Perceptions Of Women's Stereotypes In Films: A Survey Of University Students, Baker Hasan Alkarimeh

Student Theses and Dissertations

The film industry has stereotyped women for several decades led by the dominance of white males in this virtual world. Women in this filmic world face many challenges related to their roles, sex, race, and strive to get rid of male hegemony. This study examines the perceptions of people of women's stereotypes in films through surveying eight hundred and four participants. It divides the stereotypes of women in films into women's roles; women as a body image; women as an object and subject of violence; and women and race. By using the cultivation theory, this study examines the perceptions of …

Nevadagives.Org: Building Website Capacity For Data Collection, Snezhanka V. Christy, Lisa E. Stamanis

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Since the adoption of the Government Performance and Result Act of 1993, the same demand for accountability placed upon government agencies is also expected in the nonprofit sector (Poister, 2003). Also fueling the need for dependable nonprofit performance data, is the current economic environment where funding is scarce or non-existent. Along with providing routine information and services, developing a competent website to collect and make available performance data for stakeholders and patrons is a necessary practice in both the public and private sector. Nonprofit organizations fortunate enough to have functioning websites can maximize their potential by managing them as a …

Assessing A Combined Theories Approach To Climate Change Communication, Ted Greenhalgh

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This research examines the complexities of communicating climate change risk information and the underlying individual attitudes and message content that affect message reception. Using climate change messages incorporating fear appeals and normative information subject's reactions to the messages were evaluated using the Theory of Planned Behavior model. The study found that fear appeals did increase behavioral intention to adopt a lower carbon lifestyle among test group subjects. The Theory of Planned Behavior model showed that attitudes and self-efficacy were significant predictors of the behavioral intent to adopt a lower carbon lifestyle, while community norms were only marginally predictive. However, not …

The Viral Fingerprint: A Content Analysis Of Popular Viral Advertisements, Thomas Grant Broadus Ii

Master's Theses

This paper presents an analysis of 280 online videos that appeared on the Advertising Age weekly chart of the top ten viral videos of the week; the videos appeared on the chart from March 23rd 2009 to March 9th 2011. The videos were analyzed along four areas of observation including the advertiser characteristics, the formatting characteristics of the video, the messaging strategies of each video, and the level of involvement the product would require for a consumer to make a purchase. Through examining the components of each video, a thread of commonality was revealed. Cumulatively, the dominant themes and characteristics …

Reaching An Agreement: Effects Of Tv Violence On Youth, Brittany T. Rawlings

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

Over the course of a year, a child will spend 1,500 hours watching television, a significant amount when compared to the 900 hours he or she will spend in school (Herr, 2007). Violence is one of the dominating messages disseminated through the sensation of television, which plays an active role in entertaining and impacting the lives of today‘s young audience. Because of its prevalence, violence on TV has grown to be a controversial issue on which several studies have been conducted since the 1950s. This thesis explores past research and takes a critical look at studies conducted within the last …

The Prospector, July 13, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: UTEP Buries Zombies

Prospectus, June 29, 2011, Kelley Heaney, Briana Stodden, Josh Grube, Chuck Shepherd, Alisha Kirkley, Sean Hermann, Morgan Bernier, Markus Rodgers

Prospectus 2011

PROGRESS BEING MADE FOR MASTER PLAN, New Courses, Programs to be Offered, Substance Abuse Recovery May Begin on Campus, How to Take Amazing Pictures of Fireworks, Whole Health Lecture Series: Alternative Health Care for Pets, Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird, Extreme Drinking Means Extreme Danger, War Has Been Waged on College Fraternities, Kindle vs. Books: The Dead Trees Society, The Risks Exist: What You Need to Know Before Getting Tattoos and Piercings, Pursuing Scholarships is Worth the College Savings, A Prospectus News Guide to Road Trips, The Road to Success: How to Find the Right College, A Community College …

The Guardian, June 1, 2011, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twelve page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Understanding, And Developing, Audience Engagement With Dctv, Eddie Brennan

Other

This research explores community members’ perceptions of Dublin Community Television (DCTV), its programming and its programme schedule.

The Guardian, May 25, 2011, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twelve page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Spartan Daily May 17, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 56

Spartan Daily May 16, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 55

Representaciones Del Otro En El Cine Espanol Y El Resurgimiento De La Ideologia Franquista, Anthony J. Erlandson

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Abstract not available.

Spartan Daily May 11, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 53

Spartan Daily May 9, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 51

"Reading" The Apprentice: Commerce, Culture, And The Manufacturing Of Reality, Sharon Simpson Terrell

Dissertations

This study examines the six original seasons of the reality television series The Apprentice as a postmodern, cultural artifact. Grounded in Burke’s (1967) “literature as equipment for living,” and Brummett’s (1984) consideration that televised content constitutes literature, the theory of “televised discourse as equipment for living” provided the guide to examine the series. Hall’s (1980) “reading against the grain” oppositional reading technique was utilized to interrogate both the manifest and latent content. The content of the series may indeed provide the audience with a guide to ideological beliefs of both commerce and culture, thereby creating a manufactured reality for its …

Factors Of Adoption: Initiating Relationships Using Online Dating Sites, Rachel Lee Toyer

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The present study used the Diffusion of Innovations Model to explore the circumstances that lead graduate and professional students enrolled at the a university in southern Nevada to adopt online dating services with the intent of initiating a serious commitment with a potential partner. The diffusion model was used to frame online dating as a process that people go through in acquiring knowledge about the service, forming an opinion about it, testing the service, and finally adopting the service into their daily life. Factors such as time afforded to relationships, apprehension in social situations, safety, and opinions of online dating …

The Oddity As Commodity: Television And The Modern Day Freak Show, Robin Marie Cecala

Dissertations

A new genre of documentary and reality program has appeared on cable television in recent years. Suddenly, little people, conjoined twins, the morbidly obese, Treeman and Mermaid Girl are the new stars of cable. This latest genre features people with medical conditions once exhibited in the turn of the century freak shows.

The goal of this dissertation is to argue that documentary programming on cable is becoming a modern version of the P.T. Barnum-style freak shows. The analysis uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine representations of race, culture and disability. The dissertation also discusses the history of the …

An Iphone In A Haystack: The Uses And Gratifications Behind Farmers Using Twitter, Sarah Van Dalsem

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

The fast-growing social media site, Twitter, is growing in popularity among Americans from all walks of life, including farmers who are using it to share information with other farmers and consumers. This thesis expands on Uses and Gratifications Theory by looking at how farmers are using the social media site to promote agriculture and reach out to others. Based on a qualitative analysis completed on 22 interviews with farmers, four major purposes for using Twitter came to light: (1) Farmers are using Twitter to seek information; (2) they are using it as a tool to lead others within the agricultural …

Spartan Daily April 27, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 45

Prospectus, April 27, 2011, Kassy Coan, Josh Grube, Chuck Shepherd, Sean Hermann, Jake Godin, Markus Rodgers, Rod Lovett

Prospectus 2011

YEAR-ROUND PELL GRANT ELIMINATED, Japanese Culture Club: Small Group, Big Heart, Parkland Students to Help Install LiveRoof System on Campus, Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird, News From the Studio: The Latest from 88.7 WPCD, With Parents in Korea, Sis Becomes Mom, Will We Ever Be Able to Fight for a Common Goal Again?, Attack the Law, Not the Lawyer, Is Everybody Happy?, A Look into the World of Focus Testing, Shoes That Can Be Recycled, Real Men Wear Pink! Cobras Host Invitational for Breast Cancer Research, Heartland Takes Bite Out of PC Softball, Stay Safe

Spartan Daily April 26, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 44

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 51, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.