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Metro, Dart Link Included In €39bn Revised Capital Plan, Harry Mcgee

Media

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What's All That Noise?: A Study Of Constructed Gender Meanings In News Publications For High School Students, Laura M. Moran

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

It is nearly impossible to escape from the influence of media in today’s world, between newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the internet. School settings are no exception to this rule and even allow the in-school distribution of publications produced by major media companies. These publications can be used for entertainment purposes or as supplements to classroom lessons, but they can also contribute to the replication of unbalanced and highly stereotypical representations of gender at a time when their readers are typically struggling to create their own identities. Four issues of two different in-school news publications were studied to gain a …

The Story Of Us: Resolving The Face-Off Between Autobiographical Speech And Information Privacy, Sonja R. West

Scholarly Works

Increasingly more “ordinary” Americans are choosing to share their life experiences with a public audience. In doing so, however, they are revealing more than their own personal stories, they are exposing private information about others as well. The face-off between autobiographical speech and information privacy is coming to a head, and our legal system is not prepared to handle it.

In a prior article, I established that autobiographical speech is a unique and important category of speech that is at risk of being undervalued under current law. This article builds on my earlier work by addressing the emerging conflict between …

U.S. Press Representation Of The Southern Sudanese Civil War, 1983-2005, Abdissa Zerai

Communication ETDs

The study examines how the U.S. print news media discursively represented the civil war that raged from 1983-2005 between southern Sudan and the central government in the north over the tenures of three successive war-time Sudanese administrations. The study was situated within the broader theoretical umbrella of cultural studies. However, the theory of representation and postcolonial theory served as the principal theoretical frames for the study. Employing critical discourse analysis, with framing as a strategy, the study focused on five U.S. print news media outlets (three national newspapers and two national newsmagazines): The New York Times, The Washington Post, The …

Representations Of Women Athletes In The Media, Sarah Kustok

College of Communication Theses and Dissertations

This study took a critical historical content analysis of the media’s coverage of women’s athletics through the 1990’s and into the early part of the 2000’s. Not only was there massive growth in the quantity of coverage for women’s sports, but specifically for the U.S. Women’s soccer team. As media depictions showed this particular team displaying both masculine and feminine characteristics on and off the field, the idea of gender fluidity proved to be accepted and cherished by society. It is possible for women to perform or enact traditionally masculine or feminine identities throughout their daily lives. The U.S. Women’s …

Celebrities And Causes: Where Does The Focus Lie In Print Media Coverage?, Amanda Jones

Communication

Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of, and depth of coverage of celebrity lives. Celebrities are now appearing in hard news stories, pictured performing mundane daily activities, and seen supporting various causes. This research explores the increased emergence of entertainment news in the print media by examining the dominance of celebrity coverage in articles involving activist causes. Does print media coverage of celebrity activism focus more on the cause or the celebrity involved? Using the data collected from September 2008 to September 2009 issues of Time magazine, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report, this research …

Some Kind Of Familiar Image, Brian Nogues

All Theses

I make images about images, sometimes about the ones that already exist in a given photographic outlet - be it the media, the web, magazines, periodicals, or the canon of art history, and occasionally, I make images fueled by the philosophy and aesthetics of these channels.
My role as a photographer is not that of a problem solver but rather a locator and creator of visual discrepancies. I locate something that strikes me as interesting or curious, perhaps the gaze of a dog in an Erwitt photograph, and then I find something else that is equally compelling, and combine them …

Optimizing The Physical And Nutritional Environment Of Unleached Root-Zones, Curtis B. Adams

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Unleached root-zones represent an environmental ideal by eliminating wasteful leaching of nutrients and water. NASA grows plants in space in unleached root-zones, incorporating polymer-coated fertilizer (PCF) into a ceramic media (Turface or Profile). However, lack of growth productivity in space has led to the need for research to improve the nutritional and physical environment of the root-zone, which is the objective of this research. PCF types are diverse in release characteristics and the effects of temperature and substrate water content have not been well characterized. In spite of widespread use, studies on chemical properties and applied studies to verify soil …

“You Must Fight To Win”: The Media, State Department And Vietnam 1967-1968, Jeffrey H.S. Knaack

History

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Politics & Poverty: Is The New Media Changing The Message? An Analysis Of Framing In New Media News, Jessica Wheeler

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

Many media researchers have turned their attention to new media, specifically how the proliferation of blogs has changed the way media inuences the public agenda. Less attention has been paid to how blogs and new media are changing the way news is framed and reported. In a preliminary case study two elements of political news reporting on blogs were explored: 1) Do political blogs focus more on insider information and process news than traditional media’s online news outlets? 2) What implications, if any, does this dierence have on the value of the information in assisting the audience form opinions about …

Ghost Hunting: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The American Media On The Waterboard, William Saas

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

This project looks at popular media hands-on investigations of the waterboard (an interrogation method used in the war on terror, viewed historically as "torture") to discover what I argue are the haunting effects of the second Bush administration's rhetorical war.

How Science Is Visually Portrayed In The Media: An Examination Of Science Times, Rachel Toyer, Larry Mullen

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

This poster will illustrate preliminary findings of how science images are portrayed in the New York Times, specifically, the Science Times section that is published every Tuesday and has grown in readership and popularity. Science images, five issues per year, have been coded over the past 34 years since the Science Times section first appeared in print. Our work follows trends that observe types of images, how many images are present, and whether the image is a photo or graphic of some sort.

The Portrayal Of Schizophrenia In Television: An Experiment Assessing How Viewer Attitudes Are Affected, Lindsey Jo Hand, Paul Traudt

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

Portrayals of schizophrenia in the media have been found to be very negative in nature. This study is an attempt to take research in this area a step further by conducting an experiment measuring attitudes of viewers toward schizophrenia before and after viewing an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit in which a man with schizophrenia is depicted as a dangerous sexual deviant. Participants were given a pretest, viewed the television show and then were given a post-test. The post-test and pretest are identical and consist of questions from the Community Attitudes on Mental Illness (CAMI) scale and …

Ethics And Its Relation To The Media, Sean Mcgowan

ESSAI

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The Southern Illinois Poll, Spring 2010, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute

Paul Simon Public Policy Institute Southern Illinois Polls

The mission of the non-partisan Paul Simon Public Policy Institute polling is to provide citizens, policy-makers, and academic researchers with objective information about trends and issues facing society.

The 2010 Southern Illinois Poll interviewed 401 registered voters in 18 southern Illinois counties. The sample of voters came from the Southern Illinois counties of Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Union, Washington, White, and Williamson. For the entire sample, the statistical margin for error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. Poll conducted from April 5-13, 2010. …

Is Media Coverage Of Steroids On The Verge Of Striking Out Baseball Stars?, Nicholas L. Silvestri

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

Over the last 150 years, baseball has been one of the most popular American sports. Ever since its inception in the 19th century, it has been known as our “Great American Past-Time”. As the sport of baseball has evolved and developed into the game it is today, there have been controversial scandals that have helped reshape our perceptions of baseball’s biggest stars.

Independent Media In A Time Of War, Amy Goodman

Sacred Heart University Review

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! This talk, on one of the subjects of her book (co-authored with her brother, David Goodman), The Exception to the Rulers (Hyperion, 2004), was presented at the Tenth Annual Media Studies Symposium at Sacred Heart University on April 20, 2005.

The News Media Revolution: What It Means For Politics And You, Darrell West

Sacred Heart University Review

Darrell M. West is the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University. This is a lightly-edited version of a talk delivered on March 24, 2004, at Sacred Heart University as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series on Media and Society.

Political Ignorance In An Information-Soaked World, Todd Gitlin

Sacred Heart University Review

Todd Gitlin is Professor of Journalism and Sociology at Columbia University. This is a lightly-edited version of a talk delivered on February 18, 2004, at Sacred Heart University as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series on Media and Society.

The New World Of News, Louis D. Boccardi

Sacred Heart University Review

Louis D. Boccardi was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Associated Press from 1985 to 2003. This is a lightly-edited version of a talk presented at Sacred Heart University on December 1, 2003, as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series on Media and Society.

Media And Democracy: Prospects And Problems, Eleanor Clift, Tom Brazaitis

Sacred Heart University Review

Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek and a panelist on The McLaughlin Group. Tom Brazaitis is the Washington senior editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. This is a lightly-edited transcription of their talk at a Sacred Heart University Public Forum on July 24, 2003, as Visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellows.

Taking Film Seriously: A Conversation With Andrew Sarris And Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell

Sacred Heart University Review

Andrew Sarris writes on film for the New York Observer, and is Professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Molly Haskell covers film for the feminist quarterly On the Issues, and writes a regular column for the Observer. This is a lightly-edited transcription of their talk at the Eighth Annual Media Studies Symposium at Sacred Heart University on April 14, 2002.

Insult Vs. Information In Today's News Media, Arthur E. Rowse

Sacred Heart University Review

Arthur E. Rowse, a veteran newsman and media critic, retired from U.S. News & World Report after serving on the city desks of the Boston Globe, Boston Herald/Traveler, and Washington Post. He is the author of Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know (Common Courage Press, 2000). This talk was delivered at the Seventh Annual Media Studies Symposium at Sacred Heart University on March 25, 2001.

The Politics Of News Media, Michael Parenti

Sacred Heart University Review

Michael Parenti, author of fourteen books and many essays for a variety of newspapers and magazines, is considered one of the nation's leading progressive speakers. This talk was delivered at the Sixth Annual Media Studies Symposium at Sacred Heart University on March 26, 2000.

Politics And The Media In Sub-Saharan Africa, Anthony Obilade

Sacred Heart University Review

Anthony Obilade is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Political Science at Sacred Heart University. This paper was first presented at Sacred Heart University on March 21, 1995 as part of the Third World Institute Lecture Series sponsored by the Department of Global Studies. The printed version of this paper has benefitted from the comments of Drs. Louise Spence, Katherine Kidd, John Kikoski, Marianne Russell, and Judith Davis Miller.

Documenting The Experience: Creating A Non-Fiction Film As A Resource For Siblings And Parents Of Autistic Children, Carlton W. Gillespie

Psychology and Child Development

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Deciding What To Believe In An Age Of Information Abundance: Exploring Non-Fiction Television In Education, Renee Hobbs

Sacred Heart University Review

Renee Hobbs is Associate Professor of Communication at Babson College and Director of the Media Literacy Project. This essay is a revised version of a talk delivered at the Fifth Annual Media Studies Symposium at Sacred Heart University on November 8, 1998.

The Age Of Entertainment Overload, Todd Gitlin

Sacred Heart University Review

Todd Gitlin is Professor of Culture, Journalism, and Sociology at New York University. This paper was presented at Sacred Heart University on March 15, 1998, as part of the fourth annual Media Studies Symposium.

Children, Imagination, Play, And Television, Dorothy Singer, Jerome Singer

Sacred Heart University Review

Dorothy Singer is Research Scientist at Yale University and Jerome Singer is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology at Yale University. Together they are co-directors of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center. This is an edited transcription of a day-long series of talks and workshops they gave at Sacred Heart University on July 8, 1996 as part of a Media Studies Department Summer Institute on Teaching Media Literacy.

Telling All The Stories: Children And Television, George Gerbner

Sacred Heart University Review

George Gerbner is Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania. This is an edited transcription of a talk he gave at Sacred Heart University on July 8, 1996 as part of a Media Studies Department Summer Institute on Teaching Media Literacy.