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No Laughing Matter: Failures Of Satire During The 2016 Presidential Election, Jamie Noelle Smith

Honors Theses and Capstones

The 2016 presidential election was so full of unusual characters and unprecedented scandals, that media outlets, from the nightly news to late-night, had to adjust to this new normal in politics. Indeed, not even the jokesters on the handful of political satire shows on television were immune to the necessary changes that all the media had to take in covering Donald Trump. Given how many people tuned into to these shows each week, it is no surprise that the role that political satire television may have played in the election results was fodder for those giving post-election hot takes. Many …

In Media Res, Christopher Andrew Sisk

Theses and Dissertations

We are inundated by a constant feed of media that responds and adapts in real time to the impulses of our psyches and the dimensions of our devices. Beneath the surface, this stream of information is directed by hidden, automated controls and steered by political agendas. The transmission of information has evolved into a spiral of entropy, and the boundaries between author, content, platform, and receiver have blurred. This reductive space of responsive media is a catalyst for immense political and cultural change, causing us to question our notions of authority, truth, and reality.

A Complex Calculus: How Message Format And Processing Route Coordinate To Influence Hpv Vaccination Message Persuasiveness Among Young Adults, Laura Boutemen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection may lead to cancer and genital warts yet can be prevented by a safe and effective vaccine recommended for individuals up to 26 years old. HPV vaccination rates remain low among college aged adults that represent a catch-up population still eligible to receive the HPV vaccine. This present study is a theory-based investigation employing the Heuristic Systematic Model to explore the effect of message format and processing route on attitude and behavioral intention in the context of HPV vaccination. Undergraduate students aged 17-26 years old (N = 261) from various majors (e.g., STEM, social sciences, humanities) …

Style Speaks: Clothing Judgments, Gender Stereotypes, And Expectancy Violations Of Professional Women, Jamie Lower

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Clothing is a powerful nonverbal communicative tool and form of self-expression that provides others with clues about our personality, mood, education, culture, financial status, and social ranking, amongst numerous other impression cues. Research shows that physical appearance plays a prominent role in the formation of initial judgments and is significant in shaping a person's overall impression on others (Richmond, McCroskey, & Payne, 1991). The present study sought to quantitatively explore the effect that different styles of dress have on initial judgments formed about women in workplace settings. Using expectancy violation theory, the study investigates workplace gender bias and whether or …

Of Rattle Snakes And Grapes Of Wrath: Rise, Fall And Rise Of Independent Media In Kenya, Peter Kimani

Graduate School of Media and Communications

The Kenyan case highlights government’s recourse to sophisticated, “silent” but effective process of emasculating the media in spite of the robustness of the constitutional, legal and institutional frames for media behaviour. The author, Peter Kimani, notes further, however, that investments in the technology sector have led to an empowered citizenry and helped to reorganize the way news is sourced and disseminated, particularly through mobile telephony. According to him, “this, it is safe to predict, is the next news frontier, and start-ups and other fringe news portals are likely to problematize power relations between media barons and the state, and provoke …

Wonder Woman: A Case Study For Critical Media Literacy, Adriana N. Fehrs

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

To better grasp the messages Wonder Woman is sending to its audience, a Critical Media Literacy (CML), ideological, and feminist framework is used to examine whether, and if so how, Wonder Woman succumbs to stereotypes that are often portrayed in the media. These theories will be used in the ensuing project to build a curriculum aimed at high school students.The curriculum positions students to examine the hegemonic ideologies that are represented in pop culture, specifically Wonder Woman.

Breaking The Silence: Extending Theory To Address The Underutilization Of Mental Health Services Among Chinese Immigrants In The United States, Jo-Yun Queenie Li

Theses and Dissertations

Mental health services underutilization has been a prevalent issue in Chinese immigrant community in the United States. Using a nation wide survey of 445 Chinese immigrants in November 2017, this study investigates the effects of cognitive barriers (i.e., acculturation levels) and affective obstacles (i.e., mental illness stigma) on Chinese immigrants’ perceptual, attitudinal, and behavioral responses toward mental health services, by combining situational theory of problem solving and the theory of planned behavior. This study also examines the effects of mainstream and ethnic media use on acculturation and perceived stigma. Findings provide empirical support for the combined model, showing that all …

Fatal Force: A Conversation With Journalists Who Cover Deadly, Highly-Publicized Police Shootings, Denetra Walker

Theses and Dissertations

After the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement following the deaths of unarmed Black teens Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, news about police shootings catapulted into the local and national spotlight through videos and messages on social media. Information about police shootings is usually reported to the public through media sources such as television, online/digital news, and social media. This study examines how television news journalists cover the issue of police shootings in the United States. Through 10 in-depth interviews with television journalists who covered highly-publicized police shootings, the author analyzes how race, journalistic norms, technology, and citizen journalists …

Fandom In Politics: Scale Development And Validation, Won-Ki Moon

Theses and Dissertations

Despite the importance of fandom in politics to understanding individuals’ political behaviors, reliable scales measuring political fandom are lacking. To fill this gap, the present study constructs and validates a new scale for political fandom. First, by reforming existed questions and making new questions, the author derived 42 questions belonging to seven dimensions as an initial item pool based on conceptualization. Second, to refine and develop the scale, the researcher conducted exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. According to the result of the studies, the final factor model of political fandom retained 25 questions and seven dimensions. In addition, …

รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตและพฤติกรรมการบริโภคตราสินค้าของเจเนอเรชั่นมี, ลภัสดาศรณ์ โชคหิรัญธนากูล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อสำรวจรูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตและพฤติกรรมการบริโภคตราสินค้าของเจเนอเรชั่นมี ซึ่งเป็นการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณ ใช้วิธีการวิจัยเชิงสำรวจแบบวัดครั้งเดียว โดยใช้แบบสอบถามเป็นเครื่องมือในการเก็บข้อมูลจากกลุ่มตัวอย่างที่เป็นผู้บริโภคกลุ่มเจเนอเรชั่นมีทั้งเพศชายและเพศหญิงที่มีอายุตั้งแต่ 18-48 ปี ในกรุงเทพมหานคร จำนวนทั้งสิ้น 400 คน ซึ่งข้อมูลที่ได้จะนำไปประมวลผลด้วยโปรแกรม SPSS for Windows และทำการวิเคราะห์ผลทางสถิติด้วยการวิเคราะห์สถิติเชิงพรรณนา แจกแจงความถี่ ร้อยละ ค่าเฉลี่ย และส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน จัดกลุ่มรูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตด้วยการวิเคราะห์ปัจจัยหรือตัวประกอบ ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1. รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตของเจเนอเรชั่นมีแบ่งออกเป็น 7 กลุ่ม ดังนี้ 1) รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตแบบมองโลกในแง่ดี 2) รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตแบบดูดีมีสไตล์ 3) รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตแบบคนดีรุ่นใหม่ 4) รูปแบบชีวิตแบบมุ่งมั่นเพื่อความสำเร็จ 5) รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตแบบเฮฮาปาร์ตี้ 6) รูปแบบชีวิตแบบไม่มีโรคคือลาภอันประเสริฐ และ 7) รูปแบบชีวิตแบบเสพติดสื่อ 2. พฤติกรรมการบริโภคตราสินค้าของเจเนอเรชั่นมีพบว่าตราสินค้าที่เจเนอเรชั่นมีใช้ส่วนใหญ่จะเป็นตราสินค้าเดียวกันกับตราสินค้าที่ชื่นชอบแสดงให้เห็นว่าเจเนอเรชั่นมีมักจะเลือกใช้ตราสินค้าที่ตัวเองชื่นชอบ อย่างไรก็ตามหากประเภทสินค้ามีระดับความเกี่ยวพันสูงอย่างรถยนต์เจเนอเรชั่นมีจะชื่นชอบตราสินค้าที่มีภาพลักษณ์และราคาที่สูงกว่าตราสินค้าที่ใช้ซึ่งผลการวิจัยที่ดังกล่าวมีความสอดคล้องกับคุณลักษณะของเจเนอเรชั่นมีอย่างแท้จริง

Watching Self From A Distance: The Whys Of Watching Sinetrons Among Malay-Javanese Women In Malaysia, Lily El Ferawati Rofil

Informasi

This article discusses the cognitive reasoning behind the love for watching sinetron expressed by Malay-Javanese women in Malaysia. The Malay-Javanese women in this context refer to female members of Javanese communities within Malay society. Malaysians of Javanese descent are constitutionally considered as ethnic component of Malay racial group due to similarities in cultural customs and religion of Islam. However, they retain some semblance of Javanese cultural heritage including speaking the language in their everyday life. In the context of Malay-Javanese women under this study, it is identified that sinetrons have become the main source of their cultural consumption from television. …

“Listen To What Your Jotería Is Saying”: Coverage Of The 2016 Orlando Shooting By English- And Spanish-Language Media, Julian A. Bugarín Quezada

PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal

This study will focus on coverage of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting by multiple English- and Spanish-language media sources in the month following the attack. The study assesses the extent through which following the shooting, coverage of the event often ignored the victims’ and survivors’ queerness, Latinidad, or both. Did these actions diminish the intersectional experiences of queer Latinx people? Were stories of the victims and survivors of the shooting accurately represented? How did this event shape queerness, gender identity, and Latinidad in the year after the attack? Through the frameworks of Latino critical race theory and queer theory, this …

Applying A Mindfulness Practice To Qualitative Data Collection, Laura Lemon

The Qualitative Report

Mindfulness, or paying attention on purpose in the present moment, can serve as a tool for qualitative researchers as they navigate the research setting and data collection. In this article, I provide an overview of mindfulness and suggest ways to incorporate mindfulness as a data collection tool. To demonstrate how to apply mindfulness to qualitative research, I share my personal experience in incorporating a mindfulness practice into data collection as part of a phenomenological study and what I learned in the process. In doing so, I offer an actual practice that researchers can incorporate into the research process as a …

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program listing graduates.

Spartan Daily, December 7, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2017

Volume 149, Issue 44

Spartan Daily, December 6, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2017

Volume 149, Issue 43

Social Movements And Memory: Education, Age, And Memories Of The Women's Movement, Kimberly A. Longfellow

Gettysburg Social Sciences Review

Past research in memory studies has indicated that there are social factors that influence who are more or less likely to recall certain events as important. Past research emphasizes age as one of the most important variables; however, when regarding memories of social movements, additional demographic factors such as gender, race, region, and education may have potential impacts. More so, past research has not studied the importance of these factors over time. This study re-analyzes the data collected by Schuman and Rodgers (2004) combined with the data collected by Schuman and Scott (1985), in which 5,294 people were asked to …

The Guardian, Week Of December 4, 2017, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of December 4, 2017. The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.

The Effects Of Culture On International Advertising Appeals: A Cross-Cultural Content Analysis Of U.S. And Japanese Global Brands, Dan Zhao

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Professional Projects

An international advertising campaign can be standardized in creative strategy, but localized in execution. As an integral part of the execution, advertising appeals should be tailored to local culture to maximize the effectiveness of international advertising campaigns while minimizing cost. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether advertising appeals mirror predicable differences in cultural values.

This study is based on the influential Hofstede model (Hofstede, 2001; Hofstede & Mooij, 2010), which distinguishes cultures according to six dimensions. While individualism and collectivism have been widely discussed in published studies, other dimensions that are also important indicators of advertising appeals …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 26 [27], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Alvey, Rebekah. Finding His Way – Timothy Caboni
• Coyle, Cameron. WKU Police Department Builds Trust with More Diverse Force
• Ziege, Nicole. Student Government Association Discusses Strategic Planning, Passes Two Bills
• Lee, David. College Heights Herald Reserve Fund
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Responsibility
• Ho Ho Herald – Christmas Gifts
• Leonard, Nicole. Gender Disparities Impact Health Care Policy
• Semester Recap
• Fletcher, Griffin. Mr. Devastating: Male Pageant Aims to Defy Sexism – Delta Sigma Theta
• Mohr, Olivia. New Restaurant Hickory & Oak to Come to Town
• Moore, …

Newspaper Endorsements Of Candidates: Through The Looking Glass, Caitlin Burkes

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Collins, Emma. Building a Legacy – Gary Ransdell, Construction
• Alvey, Rebekah & Emily DeLetter. Departments Feel Impact from Carry Forward Cuts – Budget
• Harsh, Spencer. Finish the Semester Strong with the Tunes
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Santa Timothy Caboni
• Administration Overreach – College Heights Herald, Budget
• Murrer, Erick. December Graduates Enjoy Improving Economy
• Cox, Ebony. The Evolution of Black Hair
• Fletcher, Griffin. Student of Service – James Lundy, Emergency Medical Services
• Deppen, Laurel. Potter College of Arts & Letters Project Offers Many Creative Opportunities …

Spartan Daily, November 21, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2017

Volume 149, Issue 38

Using Green Messages To Cue Recycling Tendencies, Danielle Quichocho

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Recycling of common plastics is a practical way to limit the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, and eventually contributes to various forms of pollution. However, statistics indicate that it is not currently a normalized, prioritized behavior. A pilot study indicated that relying only on preexisting frameworks such as the Elaboration Likelihood Model to understand consumer perceptions simply does not encompass the scope of the topic. Consumer experiences with green messages, especially in the current climate of a saturated advertising market are incredibly complex. Understanding these experiences is also currently being impeded by inconsistencies in how researchers in …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• DeLetter, Emily. Federal Bill Would Tax Tuition Waivers
• Kohley, Chris. Wishful Singing – Make a Wish
• Singleton, John. Associate Dean Speaks on Opioid Crisis – Todd Cheever
• Coyle, Cameron. Intercultural Student Engagement Center Hosts Conversation About Student Health
• Collins, Emma. Upcoming Documentary to Show Lives of Refugees
• Singleton, John. Students Learn the Hidden Hacks of the Hill
• Huff, Taylor. Is It Too Early to Play Christmas Music?
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon Gift of Gab
• Gabhart, Ebonee. The Truth: Addressing Homelessness Misconceptions
• Johnson, Kalyn. Reflections on …

Spartan Daily, November 16, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2017

Volume 149, Issue 37

Spartan Daily, November 15, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2017

Volume 149, Issue 36

Spartan Daily, November 14, 2017, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2017

Volume 149, Issue 35

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Austin, Emma. Peter Gall Indicted in Shooting Death of WKU Student – Kenneth Davis aka Alex
• Harsh, Spencer. Greek Life Shows Low GPAs, Higher Retention
• Kast, Monica. University College Professor Resigns Mid-semester – Ron Mitchell
• Collins, Emma. New Director of Facilities Management Starts at WKU – George Dowling
• Burgess, Kelly. The Secret Ingredient: An Open Mind
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Patriarchy
• Stop Silencing: Sexual Harassment
• Hormell, David. Bird Machine Broke: Is Twitter Beyond Fixing?
• Deppen, Laurel. Water Works – Cirque Italia
• Fletcher, Griffin. WKU …