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

Crow's Nest

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

Volume 106 Issue 14, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, February 2, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The February 2, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Ipulse: February 23-24, 2015, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• February 23-24, 2015

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 …

Volume 106 Issue 13, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, January 26, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The January 26, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

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

Crow's Nest

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

Crow's Nest, January 12, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The January 12, 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 …

Humor On Pause: How Political Cartoonists Satirize Tragedy, Lawrence Ray Bush

USF Alumni and Student Publications

This essay investigates cartoons that were drawn in response to the four deaths of sitting U. S. Presidents during the 20^th century. The author argues that there is a pattern to the cartoons that were drawn and examines why the cartoons are necessary. The author not only examines political cartoons from mainstream newspapers, but analyzes the cartoons that were published in the Chicago Defender. Finally, the author contrasts cartoons drawn about the deaths of sitting presidents to those drawn in response to the deaths of long-retired former presidents.

“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 …

Is The Truth In The Comments? Anti-Feminism And Anti-Immigration In Norwegian Online Newspaper Comment Threads, Iselin Maria Ihrstad

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Norway has implemented many progressive social policies focused on the equality and inclusion of women, as well as immigrant and non-ethnic Norwegian individuals due to a commitment to state feminism. Yet recently it seems to be a number of anti-feminist and some anti-immigration stances expressed through online discussion threads. In order to highlight and explore the presence of a backlash against feminism and immigration in Norway, this study conducts a feminist textual analysis of online comment threads that follows pro-feminist online opinion pieces published in the two largest newspapers in Norway, Dagbladet and Verdens Gang (VG) published between July 2014 …

Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.

Volume 106 Issue 12, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Ipulse: December 2014, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• December 1, 2014
• December 2, 2014
• December 10, 2014

Crow's Nest, December 1, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The December 1, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

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 …

Visual Framing Of Global Sporting Events In World Newspapers: Comparing The 2014 Winter Olympics And 2014 Fifa World Cup, David Lamar Morris Ii

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Newspapers have long covered worldwide sporting events. However, their coverage can reflect multiple viewpoints on the events. Using a content analysis of photography and design elements, this study considers the nationalist and global coverage frames used by newspapers worldwide for the 2014 Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup. It found that newspapers use different visual tools to cover the sporting events, with photographs being the most prominent. Countries also tended to cover the events through a national perspective. Only Brazilian newspapers in the coverage of the FIFA World Cup provided extensive non-national coverage of the events. This study advances the …

Volume 106 Issue 11, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, November 17, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 17, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Volume 106 Issue 10, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, November 10, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 10, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Volume 106 Issue 9, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

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

Crow's Nest

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

Ipulse: November 2014, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• November 3, 2014
• November 4, 2014
• November 6, 2014
• November 10, 2014
• November 13, 2014
• November 17, 2014
• November 20, 2014
• November 21, 2014

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 8, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.