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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Communication and Media"”.
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The impact of interpersonal communication on the media agenda setting process : a case study of new student perceptions of Stockton, CA
… Level Agenda Setting theory, Interpersonal Communication, Attitude Accessibility and Need for Orientation framework, this exploratory study examined, using the qualitative research method of focus groups, the relationship between Interpersonal Communication and media messages about Stockton, …
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ATTITUDES OF TEACHING FACULTY TOWARD INCLUSIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES AT A MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY
… faculty attitudes toward academic accommodations and an inclusive teaching method called Universal Design for Instruction (UDI). The purpose of the study was to help determine a readiness for change among faculty with regard to implementing UDI principles, compare differences between faculty …
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Mobile nodes: mobile and locative media, everyday life and sense of place
… the use of place-specific information in mobile communication technologies and the different aspects of place-making and self-presentation in London. Through a study of empirical data collected from seven focus groups, during which a total of 38 participants were asked to draw sketch maps of …
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Exploring and enhancing adolescents' critical interpretations of mediated risk behavior
Contains fulltext : 316869.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Children's reactivity to embedded food cues in advergames
Contains fulltext : 149342.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Let's talk about alcohol: The role of interpersonal communication and health campaigns
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Decolonising Public Relations in Africa: Centring Local Epistemes in Ghanaian Political Communication
… Africanisation agenda. A quest for decoloniality and Africanity was manifest in many ways. However, efforts to decolonise media and communication studies have so far been “media centric”. Outliers such as Public Relations have been left out of urgent debates on decoloniality. This thesis addresses …
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Ecologies of digital mapping: Open source communities and grassroots maps
This dissertation explores the work and practices (both online and offline) of digital mapping communities in matters of disaster management, environmental justice, and grassroots activism. My interest in these communities stems from their drive to integrate considerations of the lifeworld, in the …
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Evoking presence through creative practice on Pepper's ghost displays.
… context of Pepper’s ghost. Pepper’s ghost as a media platform offers new possibilities for performances, real-time communication and media art. The thesis gives an overview on the 150 year old history, as well as contemporary art creation on Pepper’s ghost with a specific focus on telepresence. …
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The politics of community media in the post-disaster city
Disasters are times of information deficits and mass media misrepresentations. While mainstream media reports an array of narratives about crisis situations, it often ignores a variety of perspectives and the lived experiences of minority populations. This creates a biased knowledge base for city …
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Ideological Sinicization of China Central Television in Africa A Reception Analysis of African Audiences
China’s booming investment in and trade with many African countries since the early 2000s marks the beginning of a new wave of industrial escalation on a global scale and at the same time a revived campaign for a new world information and communication order. The launch of CCTV-Africa in Nairobi, …
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Remapping Songdo: A genealogy of a smart city in South Korea
… between history, culture, technology, and urban governance in South Korea. It focuses on the technologies and techniques of making and governing a smart city and argues that they have been shaped by the long-term concerns for security, future, development, and globalization. This is not …
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Peripato Telematikos: walking, cartography and software art
… began with walking as a means to explore and investigate the places and spaces we inhabit and our relationships with them. The research asked how can peripatetic art practices inform the methodologies used by individuals to (re)present their environs and what media art practices would be …
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Advertising and media literacy : young people and their understanding of the world of advertising in Australia and Thailand
… thesis demonstrates that Thai, Thai-Australian, and Asian international participants have a stronger knowledge of advertising industry operation compared with Australian participants. Thai and Thai-Australian participants were more sceptical of the rhetorical claims of advertising and aware of …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… NOH, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mass Communication and Media Arts, presented on August 25, 2009, at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. TITLE: MEMORIES OF RAPID TRANSFORMATION: RETROSPECTION AND NOSTALGIA IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREAN CINEMA MAJOR PROFESSOR: Deborah Tudor, Ph.D. …
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Breaking the silence: institutional responses to people who use atypical communication strategies
This study compares the introduction and expansion of non-speech communication for people with receptive impairments with the introduction and expansion of non-speech communication for people with expressive impairments. It documents the introduction of specific nonspeech communication …
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The role of the state in television broadcasting in Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea
… countries in Northeast Asia: Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea, A comparison of the three countries is made with special reference to:(a)the context in which television regulation has been shaped and developed; (b)the relationship between the State and television broadcasters; and(c)the …
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Modeling Group Communication in a Complex System for Achieving Group Goals
This thesis investigates the effect of communication as a function of time on a multi-agent simulation based on a military distillation utilizing reinforcement learning for a group of agents. The original contribution to knowledge is a new model of cooperative learning developed as an enhanced …
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DEVELOPMENT OR DEPENDENCY? THE EMERGING CHINESE CULTURAL-LINGUISTIC TV MARKET AND IDOL TV DRAMA IN TAIWAN AND CHINA
… Tai, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Mass Communication and Media Arts, presented on October 31, 2013, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: DEVELOPMENT OR DEPENDENCY? THE EMERGING CHINESE CULTURAL-LINGUISTIC TV MARKET AND IDOL TV DRAMA IN TAIWAN AND CHINA MAJOR PROFESSOR: John …
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