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Crow's Nest, September 21, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 21, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Crow's Nest, September 8, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 8, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Identity-Based Conflict And The Role Of Print Media In The Pahadi Community Of Contemporary Nepal, Sunil Kumar Pokhrel

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Despite the formal abolishment of the discriminative caste system in Nepal in 1963, caste still influences social, economic, and political sectors of Hindu society. Indicators and existing research suggest that caste-based discrimination remains one of the major sources of unrest in a Hindu majority nation such as Nepal. Questions remain, however, about the media‘s role in caste-based identity conflict. This dissertation seeks to answer the question: How do various print media outlets (i.e., public vs. private) depict Pahadi identity-based conflicts in contemporary Nepal? In this study, I employed focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews with Nepalese opinion leaders. Further, I …

Ipulse: May 2015, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

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Shackling The Great Emancipator: How The Nineteenth Century Press In South Carolina Helped To Shape The American National Memory Of Abraham Lincoln’S Racial Beliefs And Policies, Elizabeth D. Oswald-Sease

Graduate Theses

Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most popular president in American history to date. American collective memory centers on his legacy as the Great Emancipator, a man who was beyond his time in terms of social equality and paved the way for later advancements in civil rights for African Americans in the United States. This caricature of Lincoln is fundamentally inaccurate, however. Lincoln himself repeatedly stated his devotion to the restoration of the Union, which at its fundamental core was a political entity that only encapsulated white Americans. In fact, Lincoln’s eventual issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation was intended to be …

Volume 106 Issue 22, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Volume 106 Issue 21, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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Crow's Nest, April 6, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The April 6, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Crow's Nest, March 30, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 30, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Crow's Nest, March 23, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 23, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Crow's Nest, March 16, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 16, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Crow's Nest, March 9, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The March 9, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Developing An Image-Based Classifier For Detecting Poetic Content In Historic Newspaper Collections, Elizabeth M. Lorang, Leen-Kiat Soh, Maanas Varma Datla, Spencer Kulwicki

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

"Developing an Image-Based Classifier for Detecting Poetic Content in Historic Newspaper Collections" details and analyzes the first stage of work of the Image Analysis for Archival Discovery project team. Our team is is investigating the use of image analysis to identify poetic content in historic newspapers. The project seeks both to augment the study of literary history by drawing attention to the magnitude of poetry published in newspapers and by making the poetry more readily available for study, as well as to advance work on the use of digital images in facilitating discovery in digital libraries and other digitized collections. …

Crow's Nest, February 23, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The February 23, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Volume 106 Issue 14, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Introducing Public Service Media Principles To The State-Owned Newspapers: The Case Study Of Al-Ahram, Salma Adel Hussein

Theses and Dissertations

Egypt has a large number of state-owned newspapers that are considered as the mouthpieces of the political power. In order to remove the state control over the content provided by these newspapers it is recommended that these newspapers undertake bold reforms. The thesis suggests their transformation to public service newspapers. It explores if Al-Ahram can be transformed into one that is practicing editorial and financial independence in addition to good governance. In order to respond to this question it compares the current situation of Al-Ahram to a suggested ideal set up, by undertaking a gap analysis. Then a SWOT analysis …

Crow's Nest, January 19, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The January 19, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Interim Report, Hd-51897-14, Image Analysis For Archival Discovery (Aida), Elizabeth M. Lorang, Leen-Kiat Soh

CDRH Grant Reports

In the first six months of work on "Image Analysis for Archival Discovery," the project team has made significant strides toward our goal of analyzing more than 7 million newspaper pages in Chronicling America for poetic content. Although we have made some adjustments to our work plan, we remain on task to perform the major research outlined in our proposal. Activities undertaken from June–November 2014:
• Preparation of training set images (completed)
• Processing of initial data sets to extract/derive features from image data (completed)
• Development of algorithms for describing image characteristics (completed, but future iterations/revisions are likely)
• …

Crow's Nest, January 5, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The January 5, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Stance Taking In Japanese Newspaper Discourse: The Use And Non-Use Of Copulas Da And Dearu, Michiko Kaneyasu

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

The present study aims to demonstrate how writers display their stances in information-oriented written discourse. In particular, the paper analyzes nominal sentences in three newspaper subgenres, and explicates how the Japanese copulas da and dearu , which are normally considered stylistic variants in written language, are used by journalists as important grammatical resources for expressing their epistemic and evaluative stances toward certain types of information conveyed in nominal sentences. Da in newspaper discourse is used as a marker of the writer’s commitment to the relevance of the information in the given discourse context. Dearu, on the other hand, marks …

“We Send Our News By Lightning . . .”: The Information Explosion Of The Nineteenth Century And Adaptation In The Press, 1840-1892, Timothy L. Moran

Wayne State University Dissertations

This dissertation examines the change that came to American newspapers and reporting between 1840 and 1892 as the result of increasing communication bandwidth and the emergence of fast communication networks. Improvements in news distribution by post roads, steam navigation, and steam railways, followed by application of telegraphic communications, significantly speeded the news and changed the news cycle itself by linking metropolitan news centers with peripheral newspapers. The American Civil War brought this new information technology together with an event that created massive audience demand for timely and factual news, as opposed to purely political or commercial information. In postwar years …

Volume 106 Issue 12, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Rooting For The Story: Institutional Sports Journalism In The Digital Age, Brian Peter Moritz

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation examines contemporary daily sports journalism through the lenses of media sociology and new institutional theory. In-depth interviews with 25 sports journalists (reporters and editors) identified the institutionalized norms, values, practices and routines of American sports journalism, demonstrated how that institutionalization affects story selection, and showed how the profession is changing due to digital and social media. The interviews show that although traditional sports journalism is highly institutionalized, digital sports journalism is far less so. Traditional sports journalism is still centered around a story, and digital sports journalism follows Robinson's (2011) journalism-as-process model. The journalists interviewed are expected to …

Volume 106 Issue 11, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Volume 106 Issue 10, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

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Crow's Nest, November 4, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 4, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

A Case Of Political Philanthropy: The Rowntree Family And The Campaign For Democratic Reform, Jonathan S. Davies, Mark Freeman

Quaker Studies

This article examines the attitude of the Rowntree family - and in particular its three prominent members, Joseph, Arnold and Seebohm Rowntree - to campaigns for democratic and constitutional reform in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores their views on women's suffrage, reform of the House of Lords and proportional representation, and their practical involvement in the promotion or otherwise of democracy in their dealings with the press, their model community at New Earswick and in the adult education institutions with which they were associated. The article argues that, in common with many other Quakers, the Rowntrees' …

Volume 106 Issue 7, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, September 22, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 22, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Crow's Nest, September 15, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 15, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.