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Ua1f Wku Pulitzer Prize Winners, Finalists & Other Nominees, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

List of WKU alumni Pulitzer prize winners.

Ua19/16/1/5 Hilltopper Golf 2016-17 Season Statistics, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Statistical analysis of the 2016-17 men's golf team season.

A Retrospective On State Of The Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical Decisions, Big-Small Data Rivalries And The Spectre Of The 6vs, Anabel Quan-Haase, Luke Sloan

FIMS Publications

This concluding chapter offers critical reflections on some of the key themes covered in the Handbook. Ethics emerged as a concern for many scholars, both for those engaging in quantitative and qualitative approaches. Scholars agree in that there is no overarching set of rules that can be applied to all projects blindly, rather they see ethical decisions as being grounded in the specifics of the data being collected, the social group under study, and the potential repercussions for subjects. A second central theme was the value of qualitative approaches for understanding ‘anomalies’ within larger data sets. Qualitative approaches are seen …

Ua25/2 Memoranda, Wku Human Resources

WKU Administration Documents

Memoranda issued by WKU Human Resources to faculty & staff via email.

• Personnel Actions Approval Procedures
• Governor's Proposal for Public Pension Reform
• Keeping the Promise Highlights
• Keeping the Promise KERS-NH/CERS-NH
• Keeping the Promise KTRS
• Keeping the Promise KERS HAZ. / CERS HAZ. / SPRS
• Keeping the Promise - Legislative Retirement
• Keeping the Promise - Judicial Retirement
• Keeping the Promise - Additional Reforms

Ua19/16/2 Baseball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases, photos and game statistics related to WKU baseball for 2017.

Ua19/16/2 Soccer Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases regarding WKU's soccer team for 2017.

Ua19/16/2 Volleyball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Press releases regarding WKU's volleyball team for 2017.

Ua19/16/1 Lady Topper Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

2017-18 women's basketball media guide produced by WKU Athletic Media Relations, includes athletic records and statistics, photographs, schedule and information regarding opponents.

Ua1f Wku Carillon / Cherry Hall Chimes, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Articles regarding the carillon and Cherry Hall chimes taken from WKU Archives vertical files.

Ua19/16/1 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 2017-18 Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

2017-18 men's basketball media guide produced by WKU Athletic Media Relations, includes athletic records and statistics, photographs, schedule and information regarding opponents.

Ua19/16/2 Athletic Media Relations Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

General WKU athletics press releases for 2017.

The Scope, The Scope

The Scope

Collection of all 2016 articles from The Scope.

About The Scope

This magazine was produced by students in Science Journalism (MASC 491-005), which was taught during the Fall 2016 semester by Jeff South, an associate professor in the Robertson School of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Sara Williams, head of academic outreach for VCU Libraries.

The course, VCU’s first focusing exclusively on science reporting, was supported by a grant that funds projects aligned with VCU’s strategic plan, called Quest for Distinction. VCU selected the Science Journalism course as a “disruptively innovative idea” and as a way …

Wright State University Magazine, Winter 2017, Office Of Marketing, Wright State University

Wright State University Magazine

Thirty-six page issue of the Wright State University Magazine. This magazine is published twice a year and focuses on news related to Wright State alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the university.

How Can You Analyze Propaganda Posters? - Infographic, Pamela Nestor

Cold War & Space Race

This infographic provides instructions to teach students how to analyze propaganda posters in a design similar to a propaganda poster. The first example of propaganda was distributed to children on gum wrappers first published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society of St. Paul, Minnesota. The second poster was from WWII in 1943 and the third was designed by Dal Holcomb in 1942. The last two were to encourage citizens to not share government secrets.

Waves Of Feminism And The Media, Tayllor Blair Johnson

Lewis Honors College Capstone Collection

The feminist movement has gone through many different stages, three to be exact. Each stage, or as they are called in the academic world, “waves”, had its own history and unique defining qualities. Media played a role in the movement in the past, and continue to do so today. My research focused on how the two, feminism and media, intertwine with one another and the affect the movement had, and continues to have, on mainstream media. With the recent news of sexual assault allegations in the media industry, the two seem to go hand-in-hand, now more than ever before.

The …

Creating A Female Athlete: The Power Of Societal Reimaging And Advertising In The All American Girls Professional Baseball League, Kaitlyn M. Haines

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The All American Girls Professional Baseball League introduced an acceptable form of female sport to the United States during World War II. The All American Girls Professional Baseball League’s feminine image and high standards of the league provided a new quality team sport that the ever popular softball diamonds of industrial recreation had failed to reach. One of the reasons for their success was the attention to detail in the visual representation of the baseball league. Appearing in a time of heightened advertising and branding, a visual representation of the League was created to fit within the societal norms of …

การสร้างสรรค์หนังสือภาพสำหรับเด็กเพื่อสื่อสารประเด็นความหลากหลายทางเพศ, สุทธิอาภา คุ้มครอง

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยครั้งนี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาคุณลักษณะสำคัญของหนังสือภาพสำหรับเด็กเพื่อสื่อสารประเด็นความหลากหลายทางเพศ, เพื่อศึกษากระบวนการสร้างสรรค์หนังสือภาพสำหรับเด็กเพื่อสื่อสารประเด็นความหลากหลายทางเพศในบริบทสังคมไทย และเพื่อศึกษาความเข้าใจในประเด็นความหลากหลายทางเพศของผู้รับสารที่ได้รับจากหนังสือภาพสำหรับเด็กเพื่อความหลากหลายทางเพศในบริบทสังคมไทย จากผลการวิจัยพบว่าคุณลักษณะสำคัญของหนังสือภาพสำหรับเด็กเพื่อสื่อสารประเด็นความหลากหลายทางเพศ คือ การสอดแทรกประเด็นความหลากหลายทางเพศลงไปในรูปแบบการเล่าเรื่องด้วยคุณลักษณะพื้นฐานที่เรียบง่ายและคุ้นเคยดีของหนังสือภาพสำหรับเด็กโดยทั่วไป ด้วยกลวิธีการใช้สัญญะ และ/หรือการลดทอนความสมจริง โดยมีจุดประสงค์เพื่อสะท้อนการเห็นคุณค่าของบุคคล, เพื่อการให้อิสระในการเลือกและแสดงตัวตน และเพื่อการสร้างการยอมรับ คุณลักษณะสำคัญในข้างต้น ถูกนำมาเป็นฐานคิดเพื่อเข้าสู่ขั้นตอนการสร้างสรรค์หนังสือภาพสำหรับเด็กเพื่อสื่อสารประเด็นความหลากหลายทางเพศในบริบทสังคมไทย เรื่อง ชุดใหม่ของลูกหมี ซึ่งมีกระบวนการทั้งสิ้น 5 ขั้นตอน โดยในแต่ละขั้นตอนได้ทำการออกแบบและสอดแทรกแนวคิดความหลากหลายทางเพศในรูปแบบของสัญญะลงไปในองค์ประกอบของหนังสือภาพ อาทิ ตัวละคร เสื้อผ้าของตัวละคร และเนื้อหาคำบรรยาย เพื่อการสื่อสารในประเด็นการให้อิสระในการเลือกและการแสดงตัวตน และการเห็นคุณค่าและยอมรับบุคคลจากภายใน ผลการประเมินพบว่า ผู้รับสารสามารถเข้าใจประเด็นการให้อิสระในการเลือกและการแสดงตัวตนจากหนังสือภาพเรื่อง ชุดใหม่ของลูกหมี ได้ แต่ต้องอาศัยการทำความเข้าใจร่วมกับคำอธิบายเพิ่มเติมในท้ายเล่มเพื่อให้สามารถเข้าใจสารได้ชัดเจนขึ้น ผู้รับสารสามารถเข้าใจสัญญะของ "กระโปรง" และ "กางเกง" ได้ชัดเจนที่สุด โดยประเด็นการเห็นคุณค่าและยอมรับบุคคลจากภายในเกิดจากกลุ่มตัวอย่างทั้งหมดให้การยอมรับความหลากหลายทางเพศโดยภูมิหลังอยู่แล้ว แต่ยังมีบางส่วนที่ปฏิเสธการเลือกหนังสือภาพเรื่อง ชุดใหม่ของลูกหมี ให้บุตร-หลานอ่าน เนื่องจากมองว่ายังไม่จำเป็นสำหรับครอบครัวตน

Ua19/16/5/11 Athletic Media Relations - Press Conferences, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Film, video and audio recordings of WKU Athletics press conferences.

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 …

Comprehension Models Of Audiovisual Discourse Processing, Courtney Anderegg, Fashina Alade, David R. Ewoldsen, Zheng Wang

Faculty Publications - Department of Communication and Cinematic Arts

Comprehension is integral to enjoyment of media narratives, yet our understanding of how viewers create the situation models that underlie comprehension is limited.This study utilizes two models of comprehension that had previously been tested with factual texts/videos to predict viewers’ recall of entertainment media. Across five television/film clips, the landscape model explained at least 29% of the variance in recall. A dual coding version that assumed separate verbal and visual representations of the story significantly improved the model fit in four of the clips, accounting for an additional 15–29% of the variance. The dimensions of the event-indexingmodel (time, space, protagonist, …

How Can You Analyze Propaganda Posters? - Introduction, Pamela Nestor

Cold War & Space Race

This infographic provides instructions to teach students how to analyze propaganda posters in a design similar to a propaganda poster. The first example of propaganda was distributed to children on gum wrappers first published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society of St. Paul, Minnesota. The second poster was from WWII in 1943 and the third was designed by Dal Holcomb in 1942. The last two were to encourage citizens to not share government secrets.

Investigating The Glass Ceiling: How Women In Top Media Management Shattered The Glass Ceiling, Jessica Frenshea Love

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper explores the successful experiences of women in top media management and their attitudes toward factors of the glass ceiling to identify which factors they perceive as most important, those that remain prominent, and other factors that may have aided in their success. The glass ceiling is the “unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements” (Cotter, Hermsen, Ovadia, & Vanneman, 2001). This ceiling persists for women in top media management, despite increased feminization in these fields. Previous studies conclude that family …

From Products To Politics: Understanding The Effectiveness Of A Celebrity Political Endorsement, Melissa Sanati

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

From Scott Baio’s endorsement of Donald Trump to Sarah Silverman’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders and subsequent rejection of the “Bernie or Bust” crowd at the DNC, celebrities have habitually inserted themselves into the political sphere, however, there has been little empirical research on celebrity endorsements of political candidates. Rooted in branding theory, this study seeks to understand the effectiveness of celebrity political endorsements by utilizing advertising effectiveness models. The primary model, derived from work done by Amos, Holmes, and Strutton (2008), translates source factors of a celebrity product endorser to those of a celebrity candidate endorser, such as credibility, attractiveness, …

The Allure Of Isis: Examining The Underlying Mechanisms That Helped The Islamic State In Iraq And Syria, Alexander Luchsinger

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the effects of exposure to media content related to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its effect on support for the group. Using a survey of Muslim adults living in the United States (N = 396), this study sought to understand the influence of media exposure on identification, empathy and attitudes toward ISIS, and how they relate to behavioral intention to support the group. Using social cognitive theory as a theoretical framework, these relationships were assessed using mediation analyses to measure the relationships between variables. Findings indicate that identification, empathy, and attitudes are all …

Othering Others: Right-Wing Populism In Uk Media Discourse On “New” Immigration, Grace E. Fielder, Theresa Catalano

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Right wing populism is on the rise. Through the use of othering, right-wing groups delimit their own identities while excluding others. The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on how European mediated public spheres (such as reader responses to media discourse) constitute an important domain of identity articulation and struggle through the discursive construction of the ‘Other’. In this case, the others come from the Central and Eastern European countries that are perceived as newcomers to Western Europe due to the consecutive enlargements of the European Union. Specifically, this chapter provides an in-depth analysis of 236 reader comments …

A Case For Empathy: Immigration In Spanish Contemporary Media, Music, Film, And Novels, Constantin C. Icleanu

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This dissertation analyzes the representations of immigrants from North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe in Spain. As engaged scholarship, it seeks to better the portrayal of immigrants in the mass media through the study of literature, film, and music about immigration spanning from the year 2000 to 2016. Because misconceptions continue to propagate in the media, this dissertation works to counteract anti-immigrant, xenophobic representations as well as balance out overly positive and orientalized portrayal of immigrants with a call to recognize immigrants as human beings who deserve the same respect, dignity, and rights as any other citizen.

Chapter 1 …

On Making A Difference: How Photography And Narrative Produce The Short-Term Missions Experience, Joshua Kerby Jennings

Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development

Short-term missions participants encounter difference in purportedly captivating ways. Current research, however, indicates the practice does not lead to long-lasting, positive change. Brian M. Howell (2012) argues the short-term missions experience is confined to the limitations of the short-term missions narrative. People who engage in short-term missions build assumptions, seek experiences, understand difference, and convey meaning, as a result of this narrative. The process of telling and retelling travel stories is integral to the short-term missions experience. Drawing upon literature on tourism, narrative, development, and photography, this study intends to evaluate the inefficacy of short-term missions through the stories which …

"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 …

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 …