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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.

Writing Towards Radicalism: On Biased Reporting & Its Effects On U.S. Extremism, Martha Tyler

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Perceived influxes in biased reporting, disparities in reporting versus reality, and other factors have led many Americans to question the legitimacy of their most-frequented sources. These sentiments have encouraged migration from traditional sources to alternative ones, exposing many Americans to polarizing media. This report argues that unaddressed inadequacies in reporting force Americans to contend with a distorted reality or try their luck on the path toward alternative media.

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 …

Perception Of Women Entrepreneurs On Social Media Use For Marketing Communication In Qatar, Aisha Ali A.T.Al-Khulaifi

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This research aimed to understand the social media use of women entrepreneurs for marketing communication in Qatar. It is based on a qualitative approach, using an in-depth, semistructured interview. Participants were ten women entrepreneurs who have been running their businesses for at least six years, aged between 25 and 45. This research employed a question guideline as the research instrument based on five questions such as reasons for using social media for marketing, usage of social media for marketing, benefits, challenges, and professional benefits. The findings showed that the reasons for social media usage focus on ease of access and …

The Influence Of Perceived Value, User Engagement, And Emotions On Usage Intention Of Thai Tiktok Users, Phakkhaporn Dancharoenpol

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The objectives of this research were to explore perceived value, user engagement, emotions, and usage intention of Thai TikTok users, as well as to investigate the influence of perceived value, user engagement, and emotions on TikTok usage intention. An online survey was employed to collect data from 289 participants who were TikTok users, aged between 18-38 years old. The findings showed that the respondents had high perceived value (M = 4.01), high engagement (M = 3.78), emotions (M = 3.75), and high usage intention (M = 3.97) towards TikTok. Furthermore, the results of the multiple regression analysis depicted that perceived …

ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างการรับรู้จุดจูงใจทางเพศ กับอารมณ์ ทัศนคติ และความตั้งใจสมัครสมาชิกของผู้บริโภคของสถานออกกำลังกาย, โกศล สรวมศรี

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเชิงสำรวจในครั้งนี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษา 1) การรับรู้จุดจูงใจทางเพศ อารมณ์ ทัศนคติ และความตั้งใจสมัครสมาชิกของผู้บริโภคของสถานออกกำลังกาย และ 2) ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างการรับรู้จุดจูงใจทางเพศ กับอารมณ์ ทัศนคติ และความตั้งใจสมัครสมาชิกของผู้บริโภคของสถานออกกำลังกาย โดยใช้แบบสอบถามในการเก็บข้อมูลผ่านช่องทางออนไลน์จากกลุ่มตัวอย่าง อายุระหว่าง 23 – 42 ปี จำนวน 205 คน โดยเป็นผู้ที่มีการออกกำลังกายในฟิตเนสอย่างน้อย 2 ครั้ง ต่อสัปดาห์ ผลการวิจัยพบว่า กลุ่มตัวอย่างมีการรับรู้จุดจูงใจทางเพศ อารมณ์ ทัศนคติ และความตั้งใจสมัครสมาชิกปานกลางค่อนไปทางมาก นอกจากนั้น การรับรู้จุดจูงใจทางเพศยังมีความสัมพันธ์ในเชิงบวกกับอารมณ์ ทัศนคติ และความตั้งใจสมัครสมาชิกของผู้บริโภค กล่าวคือ ยิ่งกลุ่มตัวอย่างมีการรับรู้จุดจูงใจทางเพศมากเพียงใด ก็จะยิ่งมีอารมณ์ ทัศนคติ และความตั้งใจสมัครสมาชิกในเชิงบวกเช่นเดียวกัน นอกจากนั้น กลุ่มตัวอย่างที่เป็นผู้ใช้บริการฟิตเนสเป็นประจำ มีอารมณ์ในเชิงบวกมากกว่ากลุ่มตัวอย่างที่เป็นผู้ใช้บริการฟิตเนสเป็นครั้งคราว

การสื่อสารอัตลักษณ์ของผู้เข้าร่วมงานเทศกาลดนตรี Wonderfruit, วรณัน ปิญญาวงค์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วัตถุประสงค์ของการศึกษาเกี่ยวกับการสื่อสาร อัตลักษณ์ และประสบการณ์อัตลักษณ์ของผู้เข้าร่วมเทศกาลดนตรี Wonderfruit จากการรวบรวมและศึกษาข้อมูลด้วยระเบียบวิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพผ่านการวิเคราะห์รูปแบบและวิธีการสื่อสารอัตลักษณ์รวมถึงตัวตนรวมถึงการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกผู้เข้าร่วมงาน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า การสื่อสารอัตลักษณ์และประสบการณ์ตัวตนของผู้เข้าร่วมเทศกาลดนตรีแบ่งออกเป็น เป็น 2 ระยะ มีสองบทบาทในการสื่อสารตัวตนของผู้เข้าร่วมงาน Wonderfruit: กลุ่มที่ 1 เป็นตัวตนของ "ผู้นำ" และ "อิสระ" สำหรับผู้เข้าร่วมที่ค้นหาข้อมูลการเข้าร่วมด้วยตนเอง มีอำนาจคัดเลือกกลั่นกรองข้อมูล สามารถคิด วิเคราะห์ รวบรวมข้อมูลที่จำเป็นต่อการเข้าร่วมเทศกาลดนตรีได้ด้วยตนเอง และกลุ่มที่ 2 ตัวตนของผู้เข้าร่วมเทศกาลดนตรีในฐานะ "ผู้พึ่งพา" และ "เพื่อน" กลุ่มผู้เข้าร่วมที่มีเพื่อนและบุคคลใกล้ชิดต้องการข้อมูลเกี่ยวกับเทศกาลดนตรี Wonderfruit กลุ่มนี้มักจะได้รับข้อมูลจากเพื่อนและคนใกล้ชิด ประสบการณ์ตัวตนของผู้เข้าร่วม จากการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกผู้เข้าร่วมงาน Wonderfruit ส่วนใหญ่ พบว่าผู้เข้าร่วมมีประสบการณ์ทั้งหมด 2 ประเด็นหลัก ได้แก่ ประสบการณ์ตัวตนของการเป็น “การมีปฎิสัมพันธ์กับเพื่อน” และ “คนรักเพื่อน” ข้อสุดท้ายคือประสบการณ์ตัวตนของการเป็น “ผู้แสวงหาประสบการณ์ใหม่ทางดนตรี” คือเน้นสัมผัสหรือเข้าร่วมดูสถานที่ โปรดักชั่น บรรยากาศด้วยตนเอง ผู้เข้าร่วมกำลังแสวงหาความรู้ใหม่ทางดนตรี ฝ่าฟันอุปสรรคต่างๆ ผู้เข้าร่วมเทศกาลดนตรีกลุ่มนี้ต้องการสัมผัสประสบการณ์ดนตรีใหม่ๆ พร้อมที่จะเรียนรู้และแสวงหาเพิ่มเติม

The Evolution Of The Internet And Social Media: A Literature Review, Charles Alves De Castro, Isobel O'Reilly Dr, Aiden Carthy

Articles

This article reviews and analyses factors impacting the evolution of the internet, the web, and social media channels, charting historic trends and highlight recent technological developments. The review comprised a deep search using electronic journal databases. Articles were chosen according to specific criteria with a group of 34 papers and books selected for complete reading and deep analysis. The 34 elements were analysed and processed using NVIVO 12 Pro, enabling the creation of dimensions and categories, codes and nodes, identifying the most frequent words, cluster analysis of the terms, and creating a word cloud based on each word's frequency. The …

Book Review: Media Education In Latin America, Helen J. Dewaard

Journal of Media Literacy Education

No abstract provided.

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 …

Viral Hangouts: The Media Literacy Lifeline I Didn’T Realize I Needed, Scott Spicer

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article describes my experience as an academic media librarian initially seeking guidance on best support practices for the virtual world from other media literacy educators at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. What I found through the Virtual Viral Hangouts community turned out to be so much more! In addition to sharing tips on media literacy education (my contribution emphasized commercial media resources and student created media projects in virtual contexts), I also developed dear friendships with participants from all walks of life. The one hour a day spent away from my daily work served as a lifeline, …

Connect The Dots, Edward Mcdonough

Journal of Media Literacy Education

During the dawn of the Covid Pandemic our isolation was a depressant. As teachers we were struggling with how to teach, as the popular saying explains, in an environment “that was like building an airplane as we were learning how to fly it.” As a teacher in practice, Virtually Viral Hangouts became my antidepressant. This daily online community of educators gave me the skills to teach more effectively during the pandemic and beyond. The experience taught me how to seek and forge connections with students and cyber colleagues; how to carve out a cyber environment of psychological safety to …

Seeding Change: What Vvh Can Teach Us About Teaching And Learning In Digital Spaces, Michelle Ciccone

Journal of Media Literacy Education

In this essay, I reflect on a central question: “why did I experience something so profoundly different in Virtually Viral Hangouts (VVH) than I was able to help seed in my own district during the COVID-19 crisis?” I identify three key components of the VVH ethos that inspired new ways of thinking, namely: digital technologies free us from constraints to build something different, digital technologies are most effective when we use them to build community, and digital collaboration enables us to tap into the wisdom of the group. As we build better and more humane educational spaces, it is important …

Virtually Viral Hangouts: Reflections On The Role Of Community During Crisis, Lauren G. Mcclanahan

Journal of Media Literacy Education

In this essay, I reflect on two key aspects of my membership in the online community known as Virtually Viral Hangouts (VVH). First, I reflect on how membership in this group helped me professionally, providing important, in-time instruction as I learned to make the switch from in-person to remote learning in the early days of Covid-19. Next, I reflect on how membership in this group helped me personally, as I struggled to find my identity as a teacher through a computer screen. I conclude by reflecting upon what it means to be a member of a community and why such …

The Secret Sauce Of Online Community Of Practice During Covid-19 Pandemic: Nonviolent Communication, Yonty Friesem, Elizaveta Friesem

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The challenges of work-family balance while being asked to move to remote instruction and engage students creatively have affected us all globally on multiple levels - from our professional identity, to our own health, mortality and purpose in life. The idea behind Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is that as Rosenberg (2015/1999) put it, it is a language that celebrates life. Applying these practices in a community building initiative of the Media Education Lab during the COVID-19 pandemic supported our community not only for their professional needs, but also and most importantly in their social and emotional resiliency to keep positive their …

Hope Matters: How An Online Learning Community Advanced Emotional Self-Awareness And Caring During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Renee Hobbs

Journal of Media Literacy Education

For many educators with interests in digital and media literacy, the COVID-19 pandemic was an inadvertent opportunity to explore digital and media literacy through online learning and professional development. This paper describes how a diverse and multidisciplinary group of educators gathered each weekday in a Zoom video conference meeting for fellowship, emotional support, and sharing, building relationships which evolved over time to support emotional growth, technology skill development, learning, and reflection. Survey data shows that program participants had higher levels of optimism and emotional self-awareness as compared with a control group. Participants who had more exposure to the program were …

A Qualitative Study Of Early Adolescents’ Critical Thinking About The Content And Consequences Of Media Violence, Erica Scharrer, Yuxi Zhou

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Research shows that young people are likely to encounter considerable amounts of violence in the media they use. Some of those depictions trivialize the severity of violence. Past studies show that media literacy education can spur critical thinking regarding violent portrayals in media texts. But rarely do prior studies employ qualitative methods to understand how young media audience members reason through the key question of whether media violence is either surprising or concerning. In the current study, an in-school media literacy program is offered to 48 6th graders who provide data in the form of written responses to a number …

Higher Education Students’ Social Media Literacy In Ethiopia: A Case Of Bahir Dar University., Atinafu Behailu

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This study investigates the status of Bahir Dar University students’ social media literacy and how associated factors affect developing core competencies. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods have been employed in the study. Both descriptive and inferential statistics of means core, standard deviation, one sample t-test, independent sample t-test, correlation and multiple regressions were used to analyze data gathered from the quantitative design. Data gathered from FGD were analyzed qualitatively. Accordingly, the students’ overall social media level was found to be low. Female students perform slightly lower than their counterpart male students. Among the five skills of social …

A Local Lens On Global Media Literacy: Teaching Media And The Arab World, Katharina Schmoll

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The globalization and transnationalization of media use have facilitated access to voices from the Arab world. Students and teachers in Western higher education can make use of these voices within and outside the classroom to enhance students’ knowledge of the region and challenge Eurocentric imaginations of the ‘Other’. Yet to ensure students engage with these Arab sources in a meaningful way, media literacy is key. Drawing on and challenging a framework of global critical media literacy, this article argues that media literacy is grounded in time and space, meaning an effective teaching of global media literacy skills supposes an awareness …

An Approach To Creative Media Literacy For World Issues, Abduljalil Nasr Hazaea

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article introduces an approach to creative media literacy for world issues (WIs) such as Covid-19. In so doing, the article integrates four positions on discourse and media as terrible facets of globalization in the context of critical discourse analysis (CDA). The objectivist position deals with WIs as neutral discourse shared among humanity and distributed through English as an international language and educational media. The ideologist position treats creative media literacy as relations of power between global and local identities in the form of competing discourses associated with WIs. The rhetorical position reveals the hidden strategies used in global media …

Media, Obesity Discourse, And Participatory Politics: Exploring Digital Engagement Among University Students, Tao Papaioannou

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Situated within research on youth, participatory politics, and media framing of obesity, this study examined how undergraduate students in a media literacy course engaged with obesity discourse as a nexus of civic participation. Twenty-nine students enrolled on the course identified frames of obesity in plus-size model Tess Holliday’s Instagram posts surrounding her controversial Cosmopolitan cover in 2018. Analysis of these frames – self-validation, injustice of fat-shaming and stigmatization, influences of Instagram celebrities on fat embodiment, and health stereotypes of obese people – enabled the students to critique activist responses to accepted body norms and moral values facilitating weight bias. In …

The Guardian, Week Of December 27, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of December 27, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

The Effects Of Deepfakes And Synthetic Media On Communication Professionals, Axel Ebermann

Student Theses and Dissertations

The spread of misinformation and disinformation is regarded as one of the most salient challenges for communication professionals around the world.

Now, a new technology called "DeepFakes" or “Synthetic Media” has the potential to further uproot the infosphere. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will enable the mass creation of synthetic audio-visual content that resembles real videos, in which people will appear to say or do things they never actually said or did.

The existing literature predominantly focuses on three aspects of DeepFakes and Synthetic Media: the technical background, coverage of preexisting DeepFakes and possible solutions to combat the malicious use of the …

The Guardian, Week Of December 13, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of November 15, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Engaged Social Media In Higher Education While Avoiding The Label Of "Striving", Jessica Nerren

Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice

Striving has become a word laden with problematic meanings in the world of higher education. For instance, if a university is too aligned with business, or becomes overly selective, or deviates from original purpose or mission, then, at times, those actions are seen as striving (O’Meara, 2007). O’Meara (2007) defines striving as participation in efforts to improve status and prestige in line with the hierarchy. Allen (2021) echoes the problematic nature of this practice witnessed abroad, equating striving educational practices with neoliberalism, potentially overshadowing primary purposes of the institution, such as learning and teaching, or drowning out important parts of …

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 Journey Of The Black Sports Journalist: Past, Present And Future, Gary Washburn

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Professional Projects

It took nearly 60 years for the mainstream audience to learn and digest the impact of the Black sports journalist on the American sports landscape.

In the Disney-movie “42,” detailing Jackie Robinson’s breaking of baseball’s color barrier in 1947, Robinson bonded with a journalist named Wendell Smith, who served as a guide, mentor and liaison for the baseball player during his travel journey with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Smith not only covered Robinson’s ground-breaking excursion into a sport that had proudly prohibited and disavowed Blacks from playing Major League Baseball, he became Robinson’s trusted colleague, gaining access to stories and insights …

Spartan Daily, December 2, 2021, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2021

Volume 157, Issue 43

Re-Framing Gender: An Analysis Of Journalism’S Social Media Characterization Of Female Presidential Candidates During The 2020 Presidential Election, Taylor Kiernan

Dissertations

The completion of this dissertation would not have been possible without those who supported me both academically and personally throughout this process.

I would like to thank my dissertation chair and mentor, Dr. Christopher Campbell whose expertise and guidance made this research possible. I would also like to thank my dissertation committee members Dr. David Davies, Dr. Cheryl Jenkins, Dr. Laura Stengrim, and Dr. Fei Xue, for their guidance and advice during the research process, as well as their expertise in the classroom which molded my abilities as a researcher during my time at The University of Southern Mississippi.

I …

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program for fall 2021.