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Sports Podcast Consumption: A Qualitative Media Content Analysis, Eric Philip Thomas

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The objective of this research is to identify the elements of a podcast production that foster and facilitate audience gratifications. The Uses and Gratifications Theory posits that consumers of media seek out desired content to fulfill their needs or gratifications. This qualitative media content analysis researches gratifications derived from sports podcast consumption by analyzing fifteen podcasts in three different categories: high-ranking, medium-ranking, and low-ranking. Through the qualitative content analysis of over 54 hours of podcast content, the emergence of four structural content elements that seem to foster and facilitate audience gratifications were identified. The implications of the findings of this …

The Prospector, November 29, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Graduation

The Prospector, November 15, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Battle of I-10 at the Don Haskins

The Prospector, November 1, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: The Basketball Issue

The Prospector, October 18, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: The Homecoming / Halloween Issue

The Prospector, October 4, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Head to Head: Future Texas Governor

The Prospector, September 20, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Meet Ho Baron

The Prospector, September 6, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: UTEP Miners Are Extended Family for Lineman

The Prospector, August 23, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: President Heather Wilson

50 Years Later: How Title Ix Has Influenced The World Of Sports And The Effect It Has Had On Female Athletes, Catherine Jeffers

Honors Theses

This thesis aims to research the opportunities given to women within sports, and perceptions around their identities in the sporting industry. This thesis highlights the history of Title IX and its’ impact on gender in sports. This thesis also discusses the lack of women’s sports represented in media and the limited number of women in positions of power in sports. Since sports were introduced into modern culture, women have been advocating and fighting for their right to participate in sporting events and forcing even more complex conversations around equal compensation for their play.

The Prospector, May 3, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Congratulations: Graduation Issue

The Prospector, April 19, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: "Into the Woods"

The Prospector, April 5, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Fashion Issue

Women In The 2020 Olympic And Paralympic Games: An Analysis Of Participation, Leadership, And Media Coverage, Emily J. Houghton, Lindsay Pieper, Maureen Smith

Human Performance Department Publications

The published report provides the most accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date examination of the participation trends among female Olympic and Paralympic athletes and the hiring trends of Olympic and Paralympic governing bodies with respect to the number of women who hold leadership positions in these organizations. It is intended to provide governing bodies, athletes, and policymakers at the national and international level with new and accurate information with an eye toward making the Olympic and Paralympic movement equitable for all.

Here we provide an evidence-based look at what is known about women’s leadership and participation in the Toyko 2020 Olympic and …

“Power, Poison, Pain & Joy”: Applying A Critical Race Conceptual Model Of Implicit Racial Bias To Narratives Framing Blackness In Black Sports Columns, Black Music, And Black Journalism, Christina Lauren Myers

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation presents a Critical Race Conceptual Model of Implicit Racial Bias to representations of African Americans in mass media to illustrate how stereotypical depictions and racist ideologies arise in media content, including by Black content creators. By bridging the concepts of implicit bias, framing theory and concepts from critical race theory through the conceptual model, I contend that content creators implicitly share racially biased beliefs. Moreover, Black content creators in expressing the authentic experiences of the Black community also do the same. Thus, Black content creators further stereotypes, majoritarian narratives as well as deficit perspectives about the Black community …

The Prospector, March 22, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Women in Journalism

The Prospector, March 22, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Women in Journalism

The Prospector, March 1, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Has Global Impacts

The Prospector, February 15, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Natalicio's Legacy

The Prospector, February 1, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: UTEP Hall of Famer Jim Forbes Dies at 69

Wikipedia As An Experiential Learning Activity In Media Courses, Melony Shemberger

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Many internet users often consult Wikipedia to read a quick reference on a subject, but the source tends to be viewed as unreliable by the academic community. Nevertheless, journalism and public relations courses can help improve Wikipedia. Four undergraduate courses — News Editing, In-depth Reporting, Sports Media, and Research Methods in Public Relations — in a journalism and mass communications department at a regional, four-year university in the southeast of the United States incorporated Wikipedia. This article discusses the benefits, considerations, and challenges that an instructor might experience when using Wikipedia.

The Prospector, January 18, 2022, Utep Student Publications

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Headline: Beto O'Rourke Returns to El Paso