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The Middle Class Tax Relief And Job Creation Act Of 2012 And Its Impact On Television Broadcasting And Future Broadband Wireless Communications, David H. Cole 2014 University of Mississippi

The Middle Class Tax Relief And Job Creation Act Of 2012 And Its Impact On Television Broadcasting And Future Broadband Wireless Communications, David H. Cole

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The upcoming Incentive Auction for the 600 MHz band will cause the relocation of hundreds of UHF television stations while potentially freeing up as much as 120 MHz of valuable electromagnetic spectrum for utilization by wireless communications providers. This "new" wireless spectrum will allow wireless providers to increase their wireless broadband capabilities and feed the ever-growing demand by consumers for more wireless broadband capacity. This thesis addresses the mechanics of the proposed auction platforms, the impact the auction will have on existing television broadcasters, and explores some of the possible future opportunities the repurposing of the 600 MHz band presents …


Breaking The Mold: Four Asian American Women Define Beauty, Detail Identity, And Deconstruct Stereotypes, Allison Ginwala 2014 University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

Breaking The Mold: Four Asian American Women Define Beauty, Detail Identity, And Deconstruct Stereotypes, Allison Ginwala

Honors Theses and Capstones

The experiences of four women reveal how notions of outer beauty touch ideas of personal ethnic identity, racism, media-imposed pressure, and social stereotypes; shaping the lives of Chinese, Chinese American, and Asian American women.


Parental Mediation Of Adolescent Movie Viewing, Larry James Webster Jr. 2014 University of South Carolina - Columbia

Parental Mediation Of Adolescent Movie Viewing, Larry James Webster Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

Parental mediation of media use by children has been studied extensively as it applies to television and children 12 years old and younger. This study expands the scope of Parental Mediation Theory by applying it to adolescents (age 13-17 years old) and movie viewing. The results of this study show overall parental mediation of adolescent movie viewing is negatively associated with the age of the child. The results show that among parents who mediate movie viewing, restrictive, instructive and social co-viewing mediation strategies are negatively correlated with the age of the adolescent. Third Person Effect is also examined as parental …


Romanies Versus The Mafia: “Us” And “Them” In Italian Crime Reports, Theresa Catalano 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Romanies Versus The Mafia: “Us” And “Them” In Italian Crime Reports, Theresa Catalano

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

Denaturalization is the act of making something appear less natural or less human which functions to “subordinate other living creatures to human beings” and “to justify denigration of certain groups of people” (Santa Ana 1999). In this study, the denaturalization of Romanies in Italy as represented in newspaper crime reports was identified and compared to the opposing naturalization of Italian crime organizations. This was accomplished through careful, multidisciplinary, scientific analysis of over 20 articles taken from Italian newspapers of assorted political tendencies from the years 2005-2010. A corpus analysis was conducted and lexical choices were categorized as denaturalization, naturalization or …


Conceptualizing Citizen Journalism: Definitions And Roles, Kelli A. Long 2014 University of Kentucky

Conceptualizing Citizen Journalism: Definitions And Roles, Kelli A. Long

Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development

Through in-depth interviews with 12 regular contributors to the Lexington-Herald Leader’s website, www.Kentucky.com, this study attempts to examine how online citizen journalists view the definitions of citizen and professional journalism, as compared to Singer’s three dimensions of professionalism (i.e., cognitive, normative, and evaluative dimensions) as well as their perceived role conceptions of professional and citizen journalists, using Weaver and Wilhoit’s four roles of journalists. Analyses reveal that the main difference in the definitions of the two types of journalists revolved around the cognitive dimension, specifically the education and training that professionals receive. The role conceptions of professional and citizen journalists …


Industry Needs And Tertiary Journalism Education: Views From News Editors, Trevor A. Cullen, Stephen Tanner, Marcus O'Donnell, Kerry Green 2014 Edith Cowan University

Industry Needs And Tertiary Journalism Education: Views From News Editors, Trevor A. Cullen, Stephen Tanner, Marcus O'Donnell, Kerry Green

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This research paper discusses the findings from a 2012 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) sponsored project that canvassed the views of news editors around Australia about the "job readiness" of tertiary educated journalism graduates. The focus of this paper is limited to responses from news editors in Western Australia. Data was collected via face to face interviews with eleven news editors in Perth, Western Australia. The editors work in print, online, broadcast and television and all of them employ journalism graduates. The aim was to assess whether the five university based journalism programs in Perth provide graduates with the …


Harnessing The Power Of Social Media: How Four Fortune 500 Companies Utilize Social Media, Mary Elizabeth Cronk 2014 University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

Harnessing The Power Of Social Media: How Four Fortune 500 Companies Utilize Social Media, Mary Elizabeth Cronk

Honors Theses

Harnessing the Power of Social Media: How Four Fortune 500 Companies Utilize Social Media to Drive Increased Sales and Optimize Marketing. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how Fortune 500 companies use social media as an effective marketing strategy. The researcher interviewed social media managers and marketing professionals at the following four Fortune 500 companies in Atlanta, Ga.: The Coca-Cola Company, AT&T, United Parcel Service and Georgia Power Company. This case study found that executives at the four selected Fortune 500 companies maintain relevant social media websites and perceive company involvement as a powerful marketing tool. However, executives …


Secondhand City: Stolen Stories From La Limonada, Byron José Sun 2014 University of Texas at El Paso

Secondhand City: Stolen Stories From La Limonada, Byron José Sun

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Roboton, Jupa and Calicas have just been drafted by the city of La Limonada to petrol, to rob, to intimidate, to extort, to kill and when necessary to protect those citizens that need it; as their crime spree progresses their tactics and abilities improve shaping them into criminal machines. The three new criminals will be tasked with the reality of destroying people's lives in order to insure La Limonada maintains its dominion over every citizen by controlling every aspect of their past, present and future. Many of those citizens are clueless on how they are controlled; it isn't until their …


0822: Lawrence H. "Bud" Rogers Papers, Marshall University Special Collections 2014 Marshall University

0822: Lawrence H. "Bud" Rogers Papers, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

The collection consists primarily of newspaper articles, biographical sketches, and historical summaries of Mr. Roger's career in the television industry and the Federal Reserve Board. The bulk of the materials are related to his time as the General Manager of the WSAZ-TV station in Huntington, West Virginia and as the President of Taft Broadcasting Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. The collection contains some correspondence, both personal and business related. The collection is organized into two series; Series I, Personal Papers and, Series II, WSAZ-TV.


Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Tori Cliff 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Tori Cliff

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic instruction in journalistic forms and style; use of computer in composition of news reports or articles and in solution of news writing problems; laboratory writing exercises on computer; one lecture, four laboratory hours per week.


Jour 3120: Reporting (Syllabus), Pamela Denney 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 3120: Reporting (Syllabus), Pamela Denney

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Gathering news using basic journalistic tools and techniques. Writing assignments will take place in lab and field.


Jour 3130: Feature Writing (Syllabus), R. Spielberger 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 3130: Feature Writing (Syllabus), R. Spielberger

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Advanced practice in writing, publishing feature stories for magazines and newspapers and the Web; finding and developing publishable ideas; freelance techniques; advanced reporting skills; writing techniques with emphasis on leads, endings, description, effective use of anecdotes and quotations; critiques of student work.


Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Thomas J. Hrach

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic instruction in journalistic forms and style; use of computer in composition of news reports or articles and in solution of news writing problems; laboratory writing exercises on computer; one lecture, four laboratory hours per week.


Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Darrin M. Devault 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Darrin M. Devault

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic instruction in journalistic forms and style; use of computer in composition of news reports or articles and in solution of news writing problems; laboratory writing exercises on computer; one lecture, four laboratory hours per week.


Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Joe Hayden 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Joe Hayden

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic instruction in journalistic forms and style; use of computer in composition of news reports or articles and in solution of news writing problems; laboratory writing exercises on computer; one lecture, four laboratory hours per week.


Jour 1700: Survey Of Mass Communication (Syllabus), Tori Cliff 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 1700: Survey Of Mass Communication (Syllabus), Tori Cliff

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Social background, scope, functions and organization of modern communication media, attention to all major mass communication media; philosophy and goals of modern journalism; impact on governmental, social and economic systems.


Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Pamela Denney 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Pamela Denney

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic instruction in journalistic forms and style; use of computer in composition of news reports or articles and in solution of news writing problems; laboratory writing exercises on computer; one lecture, four laboratory hours per week.


Jour 1700: Survey Of Mass Communication (Syllabus), Pamela Denney 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 1700: Survey Of Mass Communication (Syllabus), Pamela Denney

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Social background, scope, functions and organization of modern communication media, attention to all major mass communication media; philosophy and goals of modern journalism; impact on governmental, social and economic systems.


Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Joe Hayden 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 2121: Media Writing (Syllabus), Joe Hayden

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Basic instruction in journalistic forms and style; use of computer in composition of news reports or articles and in solution of news writing problems; laboratory writing exercises on computer; one lecture, four laboratory hours per week.


Jour 1700: Survey Of Mass Communication (Syllabus), Candy Justice 2014 The University of Memphis

Jour 1700: Survey Of Mass Communication (Syllabus), Candy Justice

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Social background, scope, functions and organization of modern communication media, attention to all major mass communication media; philosophy and goals of modern journalism; impact on governmental, social and economic systems.


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