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"Can We Clean Their Guns For Em'?" Frame Analysis Of Media Coverage Surrounding The Killing Of African Americans By Police, A Comparison Of Four U.S. And International News Sources, Jeffrey Longhurst

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Instances of unarmed African Americans being killed when encountering police officers have come to the forefront of the discussion about race and race relations in the U.S. This study investigates media framing to determine if there are elements of racism in media frames surrounding these events. This study seeks to determine the extent that the tenets of Critical Race Theory apply in news when comparing stories Fox News and CNN online articles with articles by Al Jazeera and BBC. The two cases chosen were the killings of Micheal Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland. Using critical …

From Dreamers To Dangerous Women: A Shift From Abstinence And Hypersexuality To Sexuality With Shame In Pop Music Listened To By Tween Girls In 2006 And 2016, Jaclyn Griffith

Honors College Theses

This thesis contains a comparative study of the most popular female artists or femalefronted groups among tween girls in the years 2006 and 2016. During the tween years girls construct their identities, develop sexual beliefs, and interact with potentially influential media texts.1, 2, 3 Based on survey data of fifty-seven female students ages twenty to twenty-four in a mid-Atlantic university, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, and The Black Eyed Peas were remembered as the musical artists they most often listened to in and around the year 2006. An analysis of the music videos, lyrics, and public personas of these artists …

How Mobile Learning Initiatives Can Empower Women, Helen Crompton

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

The Sustainable Development Goal 5 provides a call to action to promote gender equality and to empower women. This article responds to that call by providing insight into how mobile learning initiatives have been used to support that aim. A critical analysis is conducted of studies in the past decade to review what strategies have been effective in empowering women. The analysis revealed that initiatives were targeted towards three areas: Education, health, and financial empowerment.

Findings show that in certain topics women should play an active role to further the empowerment process. This article also aligns with Objective 4 of …

Ncaa Student-Athletes And Defamation: Understanding Plaintiff Classification And First Amendment Protection, Lacey Elizabeth Sanchez

LSU Master's Theses

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a $871.6 million industry. Well over $700 million of this annual income is generated from the media, giving collegiate athletics a national platform. This brings both opportunities and downfalls to amateur athletes who play NCAA sports and the journalists who report on their sporting events. Conflict often arises on the playing field and can continue off the field. With high profile athletic events aired nation-wide, comments are bound to be made about the athletes involved in the game. Some comments may even rise to the level of defamation. Through an in-depth examination of published …

Journalist And Hoaxer: William Francis Mannix And The Long History Of Faked News, Madelyn Kay Duhon

LSU Master's Theses

William Francis Mannix was a colossal hoaxer, journalist, criminal, and literary forger. He most famously fabricated “Memoirs of Li Hung Chang” (1913); sent sensational dispatches from Cuba during the Spanish American War that were published in the New York Times, Philadelphia Press, and other reputable papers; and is suspected of forging love letters written by Abraham Lincoln, published by the Atlantic Monthly in 1929. Mannix is representative of a type of journalist at the turn of the nineteenth century. At that time elements of the press were striving for professional respectability and embracing ethical standards. Historians have held these publications …

Assessing Student Performance In Written Communication: An Evaluation Of The University Of Kentucky's Quality Enhancement Plan, Abigail Stockwell

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

University of Kentucky assessment findings reveal that UK undergraduate students are not meeting expectations in the area of written communication. More specifically, compared to other four-year institutions, UK students are not achieving expected levels of value-added from their junior to senior year in analytic writing tasks. In response to these findings, UK launched the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), Presentation U – a multimodal communication training initiative. One of the initiative’s core components is the Faculty Fellows Program. Faculty members who choose to participate in the program receive training in oral, written, and visual communication instruction. UK has invested a great …

A Comparative Analysis Of The Organizational Effectiveness Of Three Korea Land And Housing Corporation Construction Field Groups, Jachoon Koo

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The purpose of this study is to propose a performance evaluation method (organizational effectiveness value) that is most suitable for LH field organizations and to suggest an improvement plan by comparing and analyzing the results from organizational perspective.

I compared and contrasted three LH construction fields. The following is my research findings: First, the main factors which determine successful or unsuccessful field are organizational cohesion and inter-organizational communication. Mutual communication of field groups affects the quality more, if the field conditions are difficult. Second, if field groups fail to cohere and communicate, it is likely to lead to low performance …

Laughing In The Face Of Oppression: The Nature Of Political Satire Under Different Types Of Political Regimes, Victoria Villavicencio Pérez

Honors Program Theses

This research examines how different types of political regimes shape the nature of the political satire produced under them. Unlike traditional journalism, the sly character of political humor may enable it to operate with more freedom than other forms of media while still providing social critique. This research examines three different case studies: the United States (democracy), Venezuela (semi-authoritarian), and Cuba (authoritarian) and evaluates their satire on how openly critical it is and what type of censorship it suffers. Through extensive content analysis of satirical work produced within the country, as well as a historical research into the censorship of …

Privacy, Trust, And Data Sharing In Web-Based And Mobile Research: Participant Perspectives In A Large Nationwide Sample Of Men Who Have Sex With Men In The United States, H. Jonathon Rendina, Brian Mustanski

Publications and Research

Background: Modern research is heavily reliant on online and mobile technologies, which is particularly true among historically hard-to-reach populations such as gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). Despite this, very little empirical research has been published on participant perspectives about issues such as privacy, trust, and data sharing.

Objective: The objective of our study was to analyze data from an online sample of 11,032 GBMSM in the United States to examine their trust in and perspectives on privacy and data sharing within online and mobile research.

Methods: Participants were recruited via a social networking site …

Imatter: Teaching About Puberty, Gender, And Fairness, Nicole Haberland, Debbie Rogow

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Population Council created iMatter as an integrated approach to teach younger adolescents about gender, puberty, and fairness. The iMatter Curriculum includes: an 8-session curriculum and puberty booklets ("Theo and Leo Learn about Puberty" explains male puberty; "Lia and Nia Learn about Puberty" explains female puberty).

Scroll down to access the puberty booklets in English and Spanish.

Disclosing The Truth About Instagram Endorsers: A Study Of The Effects Of The Use Of Material-Connection Disclosures On Instagram And Types Of Endorsers On Advertising Identification And Consumer Response, Lauren Francis Myers

LSU Master's Theses

This experiment studies the effects of the Federal Trade Commission’s material-connection disclosure requirement as it applies to Instagram, as well as consumer responses to the types of endorsers that advertise a product on their Instagram profiles. In this experiment, participants viewed the Instagram profiles of a social-media endorser or celebrity, followed by an Instagram posting of a product with or without a material-connection disclosure. Participants then answered a survey with questions referring to advertising identification, source credibility, message credibility, brand attitude, and purchase intentions. Results suggest that there are no significant effects of material-connection disclosures on the identification of a …

Soft(A)Ware In The English Classroom: (Re)Framing Education For Equity: Acknowledging Outputs And Inputs In Literacies Education, Noah Asher Golden

Education Faculty Articles and Research

"The way that our field of English education frames what and, at times, who are problems requiring solutions is at the heart of meaningful teaching and learning. Software and digital technologies play a role in the framing that grounds current educational reform policies in and beyond our field; a framing that works both to obscure and perpetuate inequitable systems. Software and digital technologies contribute to seemingly neutral educational policies and practices that obscure issues of structural racism, opportunity and access, and the privileging of a limited understanding of what it means to be literate and educated."

University Of Nebraska At Omaha Department Of Biomechanics Annual Report Spring 2017, Department Of Biomechanics, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Biomechanics Annual Report

This report contains:

A letter from the Director: Dr. Nick Stergiou

Articles about Updates: Center for Research in Human Movement Variability

Articles about the Updates

Articles on Other Projects

Article about Beyond the Boarders

Articles on Outreach

and Highlights

The “Trump” Card: Donald Trump’S Rhetoric On Immigration And Refugee Issues -- Perspectives From Mexico, Pakistan And Spain, Sarah A. Campbell

Departmental Honors Projects

This research paper asks the question, how are global media sources covering Donald Trump’s position on the issues of immigration and refugees? How might reader’s perceptions of Donald Trump be impacted by this coverage? By conducting a comparative, qualitative framing analysis of three international newspapers, El Universal, El País, and Pakistan Today, this project attempts to better understand how popular Mexican, Spanish and Pakistani news sources are framing Trump’s campaign in regards to immigration and refugee issues. Articles from the 18 months of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign were analyzed for content as well as common frames. Overall trends from …

A True Fairytale “Happily Ever After”: An In-Depth Communication Analysis, Courtney E. Dempsey

Senior Honors Projects

Walter Fischer’s Narrative Paradigm states that people are natural born storytellers, they will convey thoughts and feelings through creating a story. These stories must adhere to two principles, fidelity and coherence. While coherence addresses the structure of the narrative, if this story has any resemblance to an archetype, fidelity deals with the story’s rationality, does it make sense? Fischer’s narrative can be applied across many different disciplines.

For this particular analysis I chose to apply Fischer’s Narrative Paradigm to different bridal narratives. While being a bride is an archetype itself, within that narrative there are distinct themed narratives that have …

A Systematic Review Of Weight-Related Communication Trainings For Physicians: What Do We Know And How Can We Inform Future Development Of Training Programs?, Jean M. Reading, Morgan Snell, Jessica G. Larose

Graduate Research Posters

It is reported that physicians lack training to address weight-related concerns with patients. To overcome this, training programs have been implemented in medical settings to prepare physicians to have conversations with patients. However, it is unclear the degree of consistency among existing training programs and factors associated with better outcomes. The objective of this study was to systematically review the existing literature in this area to determine differences in content, outcomes, and implementation of existing studies that test weight-related communication training programs for physicians.

A systematic literature review of online databases including PubMed, PsycINFO, and Proquest was conducted with the …

User-Generated Opinion: How Reader Reactions And Source Reputation Influence The Effects Of Online News, Stephan Winter, Nicole C. Krämer, Yuhua (Jake) Liang

Communication Faculty Articles and Research

On contemporary online news sites, readers are simultaneously exposed to journalistic articles and social reactions toward these messages. Two online experiments (N = 252) addressed whether negative user reactions can attenuate the persuasive influence of the main article, and whether these effects depend on the reputation of the original source. Results showed a selective consideration of user-generated content: Readers took into account comments with high argument quality and ratings of a credible website but did not follow others’ opinions if the comments merely contained subjective evaluations. On less reputable websites, user reactions were less influential. Findings are discussed with regard …

Language Concordance: Overcoming Language Barriers, Pamela Flavin-Lee

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters

• Language discordance is a growing problem facing health care today. Communication barriers can be cultural or language based and are commonly cited as a major contributor to poor patient compliance and health outcomes.

• This research project seeks to identify promising developments aimed at overcoming language discordance through analysis of different translation implementation methods and correlating these with health outcomes.

Negotiating Strengths, Mary Whisner

Librarians' Articles

Ms. Whisner muses on identifying and evaluating one’s strengths, especially in the interviewing context.

Late L2 Acquisition And Phonological Memory Development, Madeline Westerhoff

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The development of phonological memory, a subdivision of short term memory, is crucial to learning and analyzing sequences of sounds to form words and phrases. This process utilizes short term representation and rehearsal to allow for the eventual long term representation of language. Individuals learning more than one language must acquire even more of these language sequences than monolinguals. Previous research agrees that early Spanish-English bilinguals have superior phonological memory to monolinguals, however the impact of second language acquisition on phonological memory remains unknown. This study examined three groups of undergraduate participants studying Spanish as a second language including study …

Bible As Interface, Michael Paul Hemenway

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The book is undergoing a major technological transition as print wanes in its dominance and the internet and mobile devices transform our reading and writing technologies. With the entangled histories of bible and book, our emerging technological age and its transformation of the materiality of bible forces us to engage bible as something irreducible to a book. The connections between the major technological transition from roll to codex in antiquity and the contemporary move toward the internet and mobile technologies as reading platforms encourage us to consider bible as an interface that affords high surface area, collaboration, and anarchy. Building …

In Bod We Trust, Elliot Montgomery Sklar

be Still

This paper discusses body image and social norms, media and implications on health for men as for women. The important issue of body image is rarely addressed toward men's health and wellness while it is widely recognized for women.

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Andrews Agenda: Campus News

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การสื่อสารรณรงค์บนพื้นที่ออนไลน์ Change.Org, แก้วเกล้า บรรจง

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเรื่องการสื่อสารรณรงค์บนพื้นที่ออนไลน์ Change.org มุ่งศึกษาใน 3 ประเด็น ได้แก่ 1) ลักษณะประเด็นสังคมที่ปรากฏบนพื้นที่ออนไลน์ Change.org 2) กลยุทธ์การสื่อสารในการสร้างการมีส่วนร่วมของสาธารณชนบนพื้นที่ออนไลน์ Change.org 3) ความผูกพันของพลเมืองเน็ตต่อแบรนด์ Change.org โดยการวิจัยครั้งนี้ผู้วิจัยใช้วิธีการวิจัยแบบผสมผสาน (Mixed Method) ด้วยเทคนิคการวิจัย ดังนี้ การวิเคราะห์เนื้อหา (Content Analysis), การสัมภาษณ์แบบเจาะลึก (In-depth Interview) และวิธีการสำรวจจากแบบสอบถามออนไลน์ (Online Questionnaire) ผลการวิจัยในประเด็นแรกพบว่าลักษณะประเด็นสังคมที่ปรากฏบนพื้นที่ออนไลน์ Change.org แบ่งเป็น 2 ประเภท คือ ประเด็นสาธารณะ (Public Issues) และปัญหาระดับบุคคล (Private Troubles) โดยนักรณรงค์ใช้พื้นที่ออนไลน์ Change.org เพื่อสื่อสารใน 5 วัตถุประสงค์ ได้แก่ (1) ให้ข้อมูล (2) อัปเดตข่าวสาร (3) โน้มน้าวให้คล้อยตาม (4) ขอบคุณ และ (5) ประกาศชัยชนะ ซึ่งกลุ่มผู้มีอำนาจตัดสินใจแบ่งได้เป็น 3 กลุ่ม คือ (1) หน่วยงานในการปกครองของรัฐ (2) องค์กรเอกชน และ (3) องค์กรเพื่อสังคม โดยผลการรณรงค์บนพื้นที่ออนไลน์ Change.org มี 2 รูปแบบ ได้แก่ แคมเปญที่ได้รับความสนใจจากสาธารณชน และแคมเปญที่ได้รับการเปลี่ยนแปลงในเชิงนโยบาย ผลการวิจัยในประเด็นที่สองพบว่ากลยุทธ์การสื่อสารในการสร้างการมีส่วนร่วมของสาธารณชนบนพื้นที่ออนไลน์ Change.org มีทั้งหมด 4 กลยุทธ์ ได้แก่ (1) การทำให้เห็นภาพ หรือจินตทัศน์ (Visualization) (2) การสร้างความผูกพันกับผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสีย (Stakeholder Engagement) (3) การจัดการข้อมูล (Information Management) และ (4) ความเชื่อมโยงกับสถานการณ์ปัจจุบัน (Current issues …

การเล่าเรื่องขุนโจรจากเหตุการณ์จริง ในนวนิยายชุด "เสือใบ-เสือดำ" ของ ป.อินทรปาลิต, ฐิติพงศ์ อินทรปาลิต

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้เป็นงานวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษากลวิธีการเล่าเรื่อง โครงสร้างตัวละครและการสร้างแนวเรื่องแบบขุนโจรที่อิงจากเหตุการณ์จริงและเพื่อวิเคราะห์สภาพการณ์ทางสังคมและแนวทางการเล่าเรื่องแบบบุกเบิกตะวันตกที่มีอิทธิพลต่องานเขียนนวนิยายชุด เสือใบ - เสือดำ ของ ป.อินทรปาลิต โดยใช้การวิเคราะห์ตัวบท (Textual Analysis) และการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก (In-depth Interview) จากนวนิยายชุดเสือใบ เสือดำและดาวโจร จากสำนักพิมพ์ฉบับผดุงศึกษา (ไม่ปรากฏปีที่พิมพ์) จำนวนทั้งสิ้น 12 เล่ม และจากการรวบรวมข้อมูลจากเอกสารที่เกี่ยวข้อง ผลการวิเคราะห์พบว่า กลวิธีการเล่าเรื่องและโครงสร้างตัวละคร ด้านโครงสร้างการเล่าเรื่อง มีการสร้างแนวเรื่องแบบขุนโจรจากแนวเรื่องแบบบุกเบิกตะวันตก (Western Genre) เป็นหลัก อาทิ การท้าดวลปืนตามลักษณะตัวละครแบบวีรบุรุษนอกกฎหมาย ความขัดแย้งในความอยุติธรรมระหว่างอำนาจรัฐและชุมชน โดยผสมผสานเหตุการณ์จริงในบริบทของสังคมไทย เข้ากับจินตนาการและขนบของการเล่าเรื่อง การปฏิบัติภารกิจที่มาจากแนวเรื่องผจญภัย (Adventure Genre) การต่อสู้จากแนวเรื่องแบบบู๊ล้างผลาญ (Action Genre) การทำการรบการสงครามจากแนวเรื่องแบบสงคราม (War Genre) และความรักในสตรีเพศจากแนวเรื่องรักโศก ด้านการสร้างตัวละคร พบว่า การใช้ชื่อตัวละครในนวนิยายได้เค้าโครงมาจากตัวละครจากเหตุการณ์จริงบางส่วน จากสภาพการณ์ทางสังคมของไทยในช่วงที่ไทยประสบปัญหาจากสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 เกิดตัวละครโจรผู้ร้ายมากมาย ทำให้การกำหนดคุณลักษณะของตัวละคร แบบวีรบุรุษขุนโจร คือ ความกล้าหาญ ความเก่งกาจ ความมีคุณธรรม และการรักษาเกียรติและศักดิ์ศรี ที่สอดคล้องกับองค์ประกอบการสร้างตัวละครชายในวรรณคดีไทย

Making News: Balancing Newsworthiness And Privacy In The Age Of Algorithms, Erin C. Carroll

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In deciding privacy lawsuits against media defendants, courts have for decades deferred to the media. They have given it wide berth to determine what is newsworthy and so, what is protected under the First Amendment. And in doing so, they have often spoken reverently of the editorial process and journalistic decision-making.

Yet, in just the last several years, news production and consumption has changed dramatically. As we get more of our news from digital and social media sites, the role of information gatekeeper is shifting from journalists to computer engineers, programmers, and app designers. The algorithms that the latter write …

Oprimido, Censurado, Controlado: Authoritarian Censorship Of The Media In Spain Under Franco's Dictatorship, Darby Hennessey

Honors Theses

Francisco Franco is one of the most formidable dictators of the 20th century, and his overwhelming control over the press and other media in Spain during his 36 years as an authoritarian dictator is among the most notable forms of press censorship in history. This thesis examines the various measures Franco's regime took to censor the press and other media platforms (print news, non-news print media and digital media) and explains that, through these measures, Franco's regime fits and even expands the Authoritarian Theory of Mass Communication. This theory has historic and philosophical backgrounds, but by applying the basic principles …

Re Magazine And The Politics Of The Little Magazine, Jesse Webb

Honors Theses

The little magazine played a widely significant role in the political and cultural history of Western civilization. Literary and ephemeral in nature, the little magazine gave birth to Modernism in the early 20th century by publishing the works of little known authors such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot to name a few. Later, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America recognized the influential role of the little magazine and began funding magazines that spoke to the anti- communist left in Europe and in the Americas at the beginning of the Cold War. While …

Investigating Potential Anti-Catholic Bias In Southern Media, John Cooper Lawton

Honors Theses

This thesis researches newspapers in effort to find anti-Catholic bias particularly in the South. It also studied if the bias had changed over time. The study looked at five categories: Nature of Headline, Presentation of Headline, Supportive Picture or Not, Body Text Content, and Tone of Story. The Tone of Story category refers to the types of sources, which sources are placed where in the article, the location of where harsh and supportive words were placed within the article, and the taste in the mouth the researcher was left with upon completing the article. This category proved to be the …

The Grove: Stories Of Cultivating Connections, Mitchell A. Dowden

Honors Theses

This thesis studies the University of Mississippi's tailgating area known as the Grove. While it explores the logistics and preparation for home game activities, this thesis looks beyond the image and into aspects not so obvious to the weekend visitor: its history, its environmental impact, the economics, and even its reflection of the progress and challenges surrounding race. This is not intended to be a supreme authority or academic analysis of the Grove, but instead a journalistic piece reflecting the stories and personal anecdotes I encountered. To gather information, I conducted live interviews with people familiar to the Grove in …