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Hablando Del Autismo: Autism Coverage In South America, Silvia Luengo

Honors Program Theses

Based on media framing theory, this exploratory and comparative investigation quantitatively analyzes autism coverage in the top two newspapers from Venezuela and Argentina between the years of 2010 and 2017 in their native language, Spanish. The results indicate there are significant differences between the countries’ coverage of autism in their description of issues, discourse types, sources, images, roles and stigmatizing cues. These differences notwithstanding, science and public relations are the main top two issues reported in both countries. Additionally, a scientific discourse type is more common in Venezuelan articles than in Argentina which focuses on human-interest stories. Individuals with autism …

Social Tv Fandom And The Media Industries, Myles Mcnutt

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

Editorial for special issue, "Social TV Fandom and the Media Industries," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 26 (March 15, 2018).

Hashmoney: Exploring Twitter Hashtag Use As A Secondary Ticket Market Price Determinant, Brendan O'Hallarn, Stephen L. Shapiro, Ann Pegoraro

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

The growth and prevalence of sport event ticket transactions on secondary ticket market platforms such as StubHub has led to the creation of a body of academic research studying this new phenomenon. Factors such as team performance and perceptions of fairness have been explored for their relationship with the price of secondary market tickets. This exploratory study introduces a new potential price determinant – social media activity – itself a popular online phenomenon that has inspired considerable academic research. This exploratory study of prices for eight National Football League games adds use of official team hashtags on Twitter to a …

Ethical Issues And Consequences As Portrayed By Medical Dramas: An Analysis Of The Effect Of Cultivation Theory, Molly Johnson

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Television medical dramas, like American Broadcasting Company’s Grey’s Anatomy, strive to make the program as accurate as possible while creating a dramatic and entertaining program. Grey’s Anatomy, since the first episode in 2005, has employed medical consultants to help write episodes in order to make the television program as realistic as possible (Otto, 2014). Although there are some realistic aspects of Grey’s Anatomy, as a whole it is a fictional medical drama with plotlines and characters used for entertainment purposes only. However, previous research shows that fictional programs can still have an effect on its viewers. Cultivation Theory states that …

Usda Instructional Risk Messages For High Pathogen Avian Influenza, Jenna Jones

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

High Pathogen Avian Influenza (HPAI) is a highly contagious disease threatening United States poultry farms. The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which current instructional risk communication by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) meets the expectations of existing literature, particularly the IDEA model. This study examined two documents produced by the USDA for the ongoing threat of HPAI, the Red Book and the Defend the Flock campaign. The aim of the documents is to provide U.S. poultry farmers and the publics with knowledge and information about prevention and response to HPAI. The IDEA model …

Finding Home After Fallout: The Future Of Fukushima's Forests, Katy N. Spence

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This long-form journalistic piece is about radioactive forests in Yamakiya, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, and how locals are dealing with it. Residents of Yamakiya were forced to evacuate their village in April 2011 following an explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

One Yamakiyan, Hidekatsu Ouchi, stepped into the role of community leader and is the focus of this story. He hopes Yamakiya can use the radiation, rather than condemning it. Ouchi’s devotion to his community is connected to the Japanese concept of furusato, which refers to an individual’s obligation and nostalgia for family, community and place. The story asserts …

Media Exposure And Social Response As Predictors Of Citizen's Attitudes Toward Police, Tara A. Garrison

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Police-involved deaths of African Americans have increased over the past two decades, with continued high-profile media exposure. The problem is that extant research provided only a partial understanding and disparate focus about how media exposure, social responses, social media use, and attitudes towards police were possibly related to citizens witnessing acts of police-initiated actions against African Americans in the United States. The purpose of this quantitative study was to assess the predictive nature of media exposure, social response, and social media use concerning citizens' attitudes towards police. The two theories supporting this study and shaped this hypothetical system are media …

Project Manager Strategies For Strengthening Communications Within Project Teams, Christine Taylor

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Communication inefficiencies are among the reasons for poor or substandard performances in project teams. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies used by project managers in the health care industry to strengthen communication within project teams. The conceptual framework for the study was McQuail's mass communication theory and Craig's communication theory. Participants of the study were 4 project managers from 2 leading medical supply companies located in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and a review of company documents. The summarized interview responses were validated by participants through …

Budweiser In The 2017 Super Bowl: Dialectic Values Advocacy And The Rhetorical Stakeholder, Benjamin P. Windholz

Theses and Dissertations--Communication

Organizational-public relations discourse is changing given the advent of social media, and corporate statements are evaluated under different criteria in the digital age. Grounding Budweiser’s response to controversy over their 2017 Super Bowl advertisement in terms of consumer expectations for corporate social responsibility provides a new perspective for approaching Bostdorff and Vibbert’s (1994) conceptualization of values advocacy. This study recognizes the power of the rhetorical stakeholder, a discursively created public, and demands re-evaluation of the values common to society from a co-creational OPR perspective. Conceptualizing dialectic values advocacy outlines the changing values among contemporary, common stakeholders as well as the …

Exploring Generational Differences In Text Messaging Usage And Habits, Daniel Wayne Long

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Members of society today embrace multiple communication media for various purposes and intents. Text messaging has been identified as the medium of choice for continual relationship maintenance and text messaging from mobile devices overshadows all other media forms for the support of social connections. Text messaging is changing everything from how operators market their plans to how advertisers and service providers reach consumers. But just as technology usage of social media and internet access are different across generational boundaries, text messaging usage and habits may also be different for various generational groups. The majority of peer-reviewed research regarding text messaging …

News Literacy, Sissel W. Mccarthy

Open Educational Resources

"The digital age has created the need for a new kind of literacy-a literacy that empowers news consumers to determine whether information is credible, reliable and truthful. This is not just a skill; it is a new core competency for the 21st century. So-called “fake news” is hard to spot and spreads easily, leading to disagreements over basic facts. The antidote to the growing challenges posed by this digital revolution is news literacy. This mini news literacy course includes two three-hour sessions that will teach anyone to become a more critical consumer of news. "

The News Literacy course package …

No Laughing Matter: Failures Of Satire During The 2016 Presidential Election, Jamie Noelle Smith

Honors Theses and Capstones

The 2016 presidential election was so full of unusual characters and unprecedented scandals, that media outlets, from the nightly news to late-night, had to adjust to this new normal in politics. Indeed, not even the jokesters on the handful of political satire shows on television were immune to the necessary changes that all the media had to take in covering Donald Trump. Given how many people tuned into to these shows each week, it is no surprise that the role that political satire television may have played in the election results was fodder for those giving post-election hot takes. Many …

The Complexity Of Learning To Teach News Media In Social Studies Education, Mardi Schmeichel, Jim Garrett, Rachel Ranschaert, Joseph Mcanulty, Shannon Thompson, Sonia Janis, Christopher Clark, Stephanie Yagata, Briana Bivens

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

This research reports on data generated through an initial teacher certification program for secondary social studies teachers that introduced a specific and program-spanning focus on news media literacy. Growing out of the urgent need for pedagogies that address and promote critical engagement with the kinds of news media sources upon which civic decisions are made, our project follows teacher candidates from their initial certification coursework through the culminating student teaching semester. Our work with teacher candidates over this time was explicitly intended to intervene in and develop teacher candidates’ understandings of news media literacy, its place in social studies education, …

No Habrá Rey Sin Reina: Gender Discourse In Isabel, A Contemporary Representation Of Queen Isabel I Of Castile And King Fernando Ii Of Aragon, Michelle Sabrina Peters

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

By examining the figures of the Catholic Monarchs -Isabel and Fernando- in the popular television show Isabel, this research demonstrates how the historical fiction genre tends to privilege the stories of exceptional women and the men surrounding them. Unlike other historical fiction shows where the emphasis is placed on the empowerment of a single female character, Isabel emphasizes the mutual empowerment and equitable dynamic between a woman and a man. In an era when gender roles and prejudice were particularly strict, Fernando and Isabel enter into marriage with diametrically opposed notions of gender roles. However, when they begin ruling and …

In Media Res, Christopher Andrew Sisk

Theses and Dissertations

We are inundated by a constant feed of media that responds and adapts in real time to the impulses of our psyches and the dimensions of our devices. Beneath the surface, this stream of information is directed by hidden, automated controls and steered by political agendas. The transmission of information has evolved into a spiral of entropy, and the boundaries between author, content, platform, and receiver have blurred. This reductive space of responsive media is a catalyst for immense political and cultural change, causing us to question our notions of authority, truth, and reality.

Fake News: Agenda Setting And Gatekeeping In The Media, Chelsea Sydnor

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This piece will examine the ideas of agenda setting and gatekeeping theories, as well as how they affect modern media coverage. Agenda setting theory is the idea that the media sets the agenda by selecting the topics that it covers. Gatekeeping refers to the idea that too many events occur for the media to cover all of them, so it must therefore choose which ones to specifically cover. It will review multiple studies and events in which the theories have played a part in the outcome. Particularly, it will analyze how campaign coverage has been found to influence voters in …

Violence Exposure In Human Rights Defenders' Work, Marko Carrasco Lundgren

Capstone Collection

The work carried out by Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) is fundamental for a more just and democratic society. Therefore, the acts of aggression against them, whether committed by individuals, the State, armed groups or corporative interests, constitute an indirect attack against the rights of the whole population. By restricting access to information and limiting political participation, these aggressions impede society from actively engaging in public affairs, something that ultimately takes the power away from the people.

From a perspective empathetic to HRDs, this Independent Practitioner Inquiry Capstone paper (IPIC) explores possible causes of violence exposure in HRDs’ work and its …

Effects Of Crisis News On Intercultural Tolerance: An International Comparative Study, Anthony Eseke

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

Human beings are “cultural animals who know and see and hear the world through socially constructed filters.” [1]. Fundamental to these filters are identities. Through the frames of identity, people often negotiate the dialectics of the ‘self’ with/against ‘the other’. The media in their reportage of conflicts and crisis produce and reinforce these dialectics. However, to what extent and directions do these reports influence social tolerance in the audience? This study therefore examined the effects of crisis/conflict news on otherness. The study defined otherness as the appraisal attitudes of tolerance, apathy, or intolerance towards other bodies based on identity categories. …

The Nfl As A Mega-Crisis: Applications Of Fractal Theory, Cory Young, Terry Rentner

International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference

The National Football League (NFL) is facing a reputation crisis—a serious problem for a powerhouse institution that airs its Super Bowl in 180 countries. Public and media scrutiny for its handling of domestic abuse cases and denial of concussions leading to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) have left the NFL with a mega-crisis. Television ratings are down, player injuries are up, and fewer youth are participating in the sport. This research, presented at the International Crisis and Risk Communication conference, addresses the CTE and domestic abuse scandals in the NFL and details the League’s responses to both high-profile cases. We provide …

Coming To A Full Stop: An Investigation Of Menstrual Period Stigmas In College Students, Mary Jane O'Toole

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The focus of this study was to understand perceptions college students have regarding menstruation and if viewing a normalized media message may influence these perceptions. A treatment group of participants was randomly assigned to view an episode of the hit family sitcom Blackish that focused on menstruation and then answer survey questions. A control group of participants only answered the survey questions. A mixed methods analysis revealed three primary conclusions. First, these results contradict existing research in that the college students surveyed generally do not hold negative perceptions that may stigmatize menstruation. Second, the treatment that viewed the normalized media …

Organizational Legitimacy As Co-Created Value, Christina Maria Olsen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to explore how co-creational processes contribute to organizational legitimacy as a valuable outcome for organizations. 13 semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with digital communication professionals from a variety of organizations in the United States to better understand the use of social media platforms and perceptions of value from engaging with stakeholders in co-creation. Results showed that organizations engaged in co-creation of brand meaning via different methods such as referrals and feedback and that organizations reached different kinds of outcomes via these co-creational processes. These include being a resource for stakeholders, gaining brand advocates, reaching …

การสร้างตัวละครที่มีลักษณะเฉพาะและการเล่าเรื่องของละครโทรทัศน์ชุด โปรเจกต์ เอส เดอะ ซีรีส์ ตอน Side By Side พี่น้องลูกขนไก่ และ Sos Skate ซึม ซ่าส์, จุฑามาศ สาคร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยเรื่องนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาการสร้างตัวละครที่มีลักษณะเฉพาะ และการเล่าเรื่อง ของละครโทรทัศน์ชุด Project S The Series ตอน Side by Side พี่น้องลูกขนไก่ และ SOS Skate ซึม ซ่าส์ ซึ่งแพร่ภาพผ่านทางช่อง GMM25 และมีตัวละครหลักในเรื่องเป็นผู้มีภาวะ ออทิสติกและผู้ป่วยโรคซึมเศร้า งานวิจัยชิ้นนี้ใช้วิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ การวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลใช้วิธีวิเคราะห์เนื้อหาจากละคร สัมภาษณ์โดยตรงกับผู้กำกับ ผู้เขียนบทและแอคติ้งโค้ช รวมถึงข้อมูลบทสัมภาษณ์จากผู้กำกับและนักแสดง ผลการวิจัยพบว่า การเล่าเรื่องของละครทั้งสองเรื่องนั้นมีโครงสร้างการเล่าเรื่องใกล้เคียงกับละครโทรทัศน์ทั่วไป คือ มีการเล่าเรื่องชีวิตประจำวัน ปัญหาของตัวละคร และมีข้อมูลเรื่องอาการของโรคที่เป็น การรักษาจากแพทย์หรือเสริมสร้างพัฒนาการแทรกในเนื้อเรื่อง แต่จะเน้นหนักที่การก้าวข้ามผ่านอุปสรรคของตัวละคร โดยแกนหลักของเรื่องคือกีฬาที่เชื่อมโยงกับโรคที่ตัวละครเป็น การสร้างตัวละครที่มีลักษณะเฉพาะ 2 ลักษณะ ได้แก่ 1. การสร้างตัวละครจากบุคคลต้นแบบและการเก็บข้อมูล โดยพบว่าผู้กำกับได้นำบุคลิกหรือพฤติกรรมบางส่วนของบุคคลต้นแบบทางกีฬาและบุคคลต้นแบบทางลักษณะของโรคที่ตัวละครเป็น ผสมผสานกับการเก็บข้อมูลจากแพทย์ หนังสือ บทความ และการสัมภาษณ์ผู้ป่วยหรือบุคคลใกล้ชิด มาหลอมรวมเพื่อสร้างตัวละคร พี่ยิม และ บู ที่มีลักษณะเฉพาะขึ้นมา 2. การสร้างตัวละครที่เกิดจากการที่ผู้กำกับ ผู้เขียนบท แอคติ้งโค้ช และนักแสดงพัฒนาร่วมกัน ผู้กำกับและผู้เขียนบทได้เขียนบทละครและสร้างตัวละครก่อนเป็นอันดับแรก จากนั้นจึงปรึกษากับแอคติ้งโค้ชเพื่อหาวิธีที่เหมาะสมในการทำเวิร์คชอปให้นักแสดง และนักแสดงได้ศึกษาทำความเข้าใจกับตัวละคร แลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นและออกแบบการแสดงและการเข้าถึงบทบาทตัวละครของตนเองให้สมบูรณ์ยิ่งขึ้น ละครโทรทัศน์ชุด Project S The Series ตอน Side by Side พี่น้องลูกขนไก่ และ SOS Skate ซึม ซ่าส์ จึงไม่ได้เป็นละครโทรทัศน์ที่ให้ความบันเทิงแก่ผู้ชมเท่านั้น แต่ยังเป็นละครโทรทัศน์ที่ช่วยเสริมสร้างความรู้ความเข้าใจของคนในสังคมต่อผู้มีภาวะออทิสติกและผู้ป่วยโรคซึมเศร้าผ่านทางตัวละครทั้งสองอีกด้วย

การพัฒนานักแสดงเพื่อสร้างอัตลักษณ์ตัวละครท้องถิ่นในละครโทรทัศน์ยอดนิยม, ฐิตา ทิพย์รัตน์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาวิธีการพัฒนานักแสดงเพื่อสร้างอัตลักษณ์ตัวละครท้องถิ่นในละครโทรทัศน์ ทั้งนี้เพื่อให้เกิดกระบวนการและเทคนิคที่ใช้ในการพัฒนานักแสดงต่อไป งานวิจัยนี้เป็นงานวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ โดยศึกษาข้อมูลที่ได้จากการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก (In-Depth Interview) ผู้เชี่ยวชาญที่เกี่ยวข้องกับกระบวนการพัฒนานักแสดงจำนวน 12 คน และการสังเกตแบบมีส่วนร่วม (Participant Observation) ของผู้วิจัยเองโดยผู้วิจัยเข้าไปเป็นส่วนหนึ่งในการฝึกสอนนักแสดงพูดภาษาถิ่นใต้ในละครเรื่อง "สัมปทานหัวใจ" ผลการวิจัยพบว่า อัตลักษณ์ตัวละครท้องถิ่นที่ปรากฏในละครโทรทัศน์ ประกอบด้วยอัตลักษณ์ท้องถิ่นไว้ 5 ประเภท ที่ ได้แก่ (1) รูปร่าง หน้าตาของนักแสดง, (2) การแต่งกาย, (3) วิถีชีวิต ประเพณีและวัฒนธรรมท้องถิ่น, (4) ภาษาถิ่น และ (5) ศิลปะการแสดงท้องถิ่น โดยสามารถอธิบายได้เป็น 2 กลุ่ม ดังนี้ 1) อัตลักษณ์ตัวละครท้องถิ่นที่ถูกสร้างสรรค์จากทีมผู้ผลิตละครโทรทัศน์ ได้แก่ รูปร่าง หน้าตาของนักแสดง (จากการคัดเลือก), การแต่งกาย และวิถีชีวิต ประเพณี วัฒนธรรม 2) อัตลักษณ์ตัวละครท้องถิ่นที่ต้องฝึกฝนในการพัฒนานักแสดง ได้แก่ ภาษาถิ่น, ศิลปะการแสดงท้องถิ่น ซึ่งทั้ง 2 กลุ่มอัตลักษณ์ทำงานร่วมกันภายใต้กระบวนการทำงานของฝ่ายผลิตละครโทรทัศน์ และการเรียนรู้ของนักแสดง

Wildlife As Pets: Reshaping Public Perceptions Through Targeted Communication, Rosanna M. Vail

Human–Wildlife Interactions

No abstract provided.

แหล่งข้อมูลข่าวสาร และรูปแบบการเดินทางท่องเที่ยวของผู้หญิงโสด, จิดาภา เอกอินทร์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The objectives of this research are: 1) To explore and study information sources used by single women for traveling purpose, 2) To study the traveling behavior pattern of single women. This research implements both qualitative and quantitative methods. First in-depth interviews were arranged to collect data from 18 single women travelers. Questionnaires are developed as a tool for a survey research from these interviews. The survey was collected from 855 single women whose ages are between 25 to 45 years old and reside in Bangkok. The result shows that more than half of sample tend to travel to domestic as …

A Complex Calculus: How Message Format And Processing Route Coordinate To Influence Hpv Vaccination Message Persuasiveness Among Young Adults, Laura Boutemen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection may lead to cancer and genital warts yet can be prevented by a safe and effective vaccine recommended for individuals up to 26 years old. HPV vaccination rates remain low among college aged adults that represent a catch-up population still eligible to receive the HPV vaccine. This present study is a theory-based investigation employing the Heuristic Systematic Model to explore the effect of message format and processing route on attitude and behavioral intention in the context of HPV vaccination. Undergraduate students aged 17-26 years old (N = 261) from various majors (e.g., STEM, social sciences, humanities) …

Holding Off On The Fun Stuff: Academic Media Multitasking And Binge Watching Among College Students, Kelly Merrill Jr.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

College students are often faced with the temptation of engaging in academic media multitasking and binge watching or completing their academic coursework in a timely and effective manner. A quantitative survey (N = 651) explored trait individual differences in self-control and academic delay of gratification and situational individual differences in enjoyment, reward, procrastination, regret, and guilt as predictors of academic media multitasking frequency, binge watching frequency, and binge watching duration. Stepwise regressions reveal that self-control is not a predictor of these media behaviors, while age and greater enjoyment were the only predictors of academic media multitasking and gender and greater …

Examining The Credentials Of Food Bloggers And The Online Environment Of Food Blogs, Jessica Coburn

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This study evaluated characteristics of food blogs and food bloggers that potentially affect food choices. It was hypothesized that most food bloggers would not have a nutrition-related degree and food blog environments wouldn’t be supportive of health-conscious food choices. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a novel evaluation tool on 187 blogs, out of which 100 blogs met inclusion criteria. Because some blogs had multiple bloggers, two samples were investigated: 111 bloggers (n1 = 111) and 100 food blogs (n2 = 100). Data were gathered from a randomized list of blogs taken from americanfoodbloggers.com. Results showed that 6% of bloggers …

Like Me: Generation Z, Instagram, And Self-Branding Practices, Emily Longley

Scripps Senior Theses

The newest generation, raised and immersed in today's hyper-consumer culture, has learned to define the self within a neoliberal and capitalist framework in which self-branding and ascribing to hegemonic principles appears imperative to one’s personal success.

Literacies Of The Disaster Zone: New Media Genres And Participatory Rhetorics After The 2010 Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill, R. J. Lambert

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

On April 20, 2010, explosions at the British Petroleum (BP) Macondo Project in the Gulf of Mexico initiated what would become the world's largest accidental release of oil into the ocean. This ecological disaster, a unique combination of natural and human causes, is one of many significant traumas over approximately the last two decades that various stakeholders have documented, participated in, and responded to largely through the expanding and increasingly ubiquitous media of the internet, computers, cell phones, and other networked communicative technologies, which both enable and constrain the variety of responses to traumatic events.

This Dissertation improves our understanding …