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Jour 3900: Visual Media (Syllabus), Jin Yang Jan 2012

Jour 3900: Visual Media (Syllabus), Jin Yang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 7330: Social Media Theory & Practice (Syllabus), Carrie Brown-Smith Jan 2012

Jour 7330: Social Media Theory & Practice (Syllabus), Carrie Brown-Smith

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: This course will combine theory and practice to help you develop your understanding of the many changes rocking the media landscape and build the skills you will need to join the fray. Social media is altering how journalists, advertisers and public relations professionals do their jobs and how we communicate in a Web 2.0 world. You will read research and theory by some of the most formative thinkers in our field examining the impact of social and new media, and then you will apply these core concepts to your real-world use of digital tools. We will be actively …


Online Education Of Public Participants In The Data Collection Process For The Monitoring Of Giant Hogweed In Latvia, Rebecca Leigh Almond Jul 2011

Online Education Of Public Participants In The Data Collection Process For The Monitoring Of Giant Hogweed In Latvia, Rebecca Leigh Almond

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Utilization of Public Participation with Geographic Information Sciences is a method intended to document the locations and spread of poisonous, invasive Giant Hogweed in Latvia. To reach students in an international setting, a website and tutorials trained participants about the characteristics and dangers of the plant, GPS concepts, and the data collection process. To ensure safe and accurate data collection, students were tested on their mastery of educational materials, evaluated on their ability to collect data in the field, and were questioned about their experience with the project. The results determined that students who take the online tutorial become better …


Comparison Between Structural Similarity Index Metric And Human Perception, Tanmayi Chilakamarthi Jul 2011

Comparison Between Structural Similarity Index Metric And Human Perception, Tanmayi Chilakamarthi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This thesis examines the image quality assessment using Structural Similarity Index Metric (SSIM). The performance of Structural Similarity Index Metric was evaluated by comparing Mean Structural Similarity Index (MSSIM) index values with the Probability of Identification (PID) values. The perception experiments were designed for letter images with blur and letter images with blur and noise to obtain the PID values from an ensemble of observers. The other set of images used in this study were tank images for which PID data existed. All the images used in the experiment belong to Gaussian and Exponential filter shapes at various blur levels. …


The Contested Reputation Of Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Case Study In Rhetoric And Regional Identity Formation, Paul David Wangsvick May 2011

The Contested Reputation Of Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Case Study In Rhetoric And Regional Identity Formation, Paul David Wangsvick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation seeks to answer two questions: 1) How has the reputation of Nathan Bedford Forrest been presented by various scholars? 2) How are controversial reputations developed, maintained as well as challenged? I answer these questions by focusing on three specific controversies in Forrest's life; his role as a slave-trader, his role at the Battle of Fort Pillow, and his role in the Ku Klux Klan. My research focuses on three distinct sets of text: two Congressional testimonies, twenty-one biographies, and two-hundred-fourteen newspaper articles conveniently sampled from three newspapers.The consolidated data from the texts explores the various rhetorical strategies authors …


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Lana Sumpter Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Lana Sumpter

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Art Terry Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Art Terry

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Jason R. Terrell Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Jason R. Terrell

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Art Terry Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Art Terry

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Lana Sumpter Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Lana Sumpter

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Lana Sumpter Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Lana Sumpter

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Jason R. Terrell Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Jason R. Terrell

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Andrew A. Smith Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Andrew A. Smith

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.


Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Jin Yang Jan 2011

Jour 3900: Visual Journalism (Syllabus), Jin Yang

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Introduction to design software of Photoshop and InDesign; application of fundamental design principles and visual journalism principles; development of publication projects.