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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Community Newspapers"”.
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Community Newspapers In The Digital Age A Case Study: The Pass Christian, Mississippi Gazebo Gazette
Print newspapers in the 21st century America exist in a diverse media landscape. Radio, television and online media all compete with newspapers to reach news consumers. With 24-hour cable news and the widespread adoption of the internet, information is available to viewers and readers anytime and …
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Community journalism as ritual: A case study of community and weekly newspapers in Laurel, Maryland
… dissertation is a study of the intersection of community and community journalism in Laurel, an area with just over 100,000 residents in central Maryland. The case study utilizes ethnographic interviews with 40 stakeholders, including journalists, advertisers, city officials and readers. Using …
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Somewhere there's a silver lining: women's experiences of infertility on the Cape Flats
… social and economic networks that knit them into community. The social and cultural valorization of motherhood in these communities has informed the powerful stigmatization of infertility ( or the involuntary nonconformance to motherhood). The stigma associated with infertility affects women in …
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Somewhere there's a silver lining : women's experiences of infertility on the Cape Flats
… social and economic networks that knit them into community. The social and cultural valorization of motherhood in these communities has informed the powerful stigmatization of infertility (or the involuntary nonconformance to motherhood). The stigma associated with infertility affects women in …
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Deindustrialization and the urban landscape: race, space, and memory in Back of the Yards, 1950-1980
… in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, the community several miles southwest of the loop, in which Upton Sinclair set The Jungle, that was almost entirely dependent on and defined by the meatpacking industry. In particular, it examines how deindustrialization, beginning in the early 1950s, …
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Sense of community, political participation, and civic engagement: An examination of the relationships between local daily newspapers, news websites, and their communities
Newspapers have been shown to have positive correlations with their readers, sense of community, political participation, and civic engagement. Using McMillan and Chavis, Sense of Community Theory and its accompanying SCI-2 as well as questions on demographics and media use, political …
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A Model of Excellence for Weekly Newspapers in Iowa
Weekly newspapers are what people read to find out their local news. While The Des Moines Register and the like cover the "big" news of the day - Haiti, Somalia, health care -it is the weekly newspapers that bring people the most local news - city council reports, the features on local heroes and …