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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Ethnographic Content Analysis"”.
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Framing Responsibility for Bullying: An Ethnographic Content Analysis
… on several search words relevant to bullying. An ethnographic content analysis (ECA) of these articles is then conducted to better understand how news media package responsibility for bullying through the use of frames, emerging themes, and the inclusion of selected claims-makers. This study finds …
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The Processes of Learning and Teaching Cimbveka: Enhancing Music Education Practices in Primary Schools of the Southern Region of Mozambique
… potential to music education. I applied ethnographic methods as the main research method in ethnomusicological and educational research. As part of ethnographic methods, the participant observation method allowed me to engage with the participants by closely observing and interacting with …
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"""How did we get here?"" An examination of the collection of contemporary Caribbean juvenile literature in the children's library of the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago and Trinidadian children's responses to selected titles"
… and Tobago to determine its characteristics and contents, and to elicit the responses of a group of children, aged 11 to 13, to selected works from the collection. A variety of qualitative data collection techniques were employed including document analysis, direct observation, interviews with …
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Black and Blue: Competing Social Constructions of Police On Instagram and Twitter
… individuals are now co-producers of the content that is seen by the public. Previous research indicated that media-generated images of the police influence public perception and that new media outlets are becoming increasingly influential, particularly in regards to social and political …
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Terrorism in the news: A constructionist approach
… in the New York Times during the 1990s. Using ethnographic content analysis, I analyze several dimensions of coverage including the emphasis given in articles to violence, the characterizations used to describe terrorists and their actions, the sources of information used in the reports, …
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Can You Pinch More Than An Inch: Understanding Representations of the Healthy Woman in Special K Advertisements
… within North American media culture. An ethnographic content analysis of Special K television advertisements from the past ten years reveals the latent cultural values that necessitate all women's perpetual pursuit of the thin ideal. While Special K is marketed as a dieting aid to be used …
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Group Identity, Ideology, and Mass Media: Content Analysis of the 2018 Media Spectacles Family Separation and Migrant Caravan
Media content analysis prompts an examination of the process through which meaning making and identity is reflected in and simultaneously shaped by a commercialized mass media industry. Immigration coverage in mass media especially drives ideological identity work as national identity ideology …
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The Influence of Technology on Adolescent Development: An Eco-Cultural Analysis of Cybersocial Activity
… write about in their blogs, and how that content reflects the developmental tasks associated with this life stage, in particular social maturity and identity development. This ethnographic content analysis draws on Vygotskian learning theory and Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model of …
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Soul as a Gateway to Erotic Possibilities: An Afrocentric Study of Black Women’s Musical Narratives as Extensions of Agency and Freedom
… in contemporary Soul music. Through a close analysis of various songs, videos, and images from Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Syd Bennett, and Ari Lennox this research explores the relationship between sexual narratives in contemporary-Soul music and African social and spiritual thought and …
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The adolescent experience with parental cancer: effects on roles and responsibilities
… experience with parental cancer through ethnographic content analysis of narrative responses regarding household roles and responsibilities. This study utilized original data collected at the same time and from the same sample of undergraduate students in introductory psychology classes …
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Culture matters: factors affecting the persistence of European American and Asian women in two U.S. engineering doctoral programs
… then analyzed by team of trained coders using Ethnographic Content Analysis (ECA) as a qualitative framework. The results are discussed in two chapters. The first chapter focuses on the perceived challenges described by the 16 study participants, and shows that social contexts and psychological …
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Port Sustainability Management System for Smaller Ports in Cornwall and Devon
… multiple methods research design which included ethnographic content analysis (ECA), statistical verification of qualitative coding, nine scoping interviews, and eight semi-structured interviews during the main phase of data collection. The seven Harbour Masters (HMs) in this phase represented …
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'Savages','Animals' and 'Criminals':Capitalism, Racial Threat and the U.S Long war on Immigration
… Examining examples of such rhetoric through ethnographic content analysis of President Trump’s speeches and social media posts, this study ultimately finds that the president relies on the same dehumanizing tropes and myths regarding non-white people-groups, particularly immigrants, that have …
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Teaching social justice: developmental considerations
… Educators at all levels who want to integrate content that addresses social justice issues related to gender, race, or class must compete with other curricular challenges. Being informed of developmental opportunities and challenges with young people of different ages can allow teachers to be …
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Born of war in Colombia: Narratives of unintelligibility, contested identities, and the memories of absence
… media, and the communities. My project draws on ethnographic content analysis of media, legal documents, and ethnographic research conducted between December 2015 and June 2016 in a rural Afro-descendent community in Colombia that was occupied by paramilitaries for approximately five years. …
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Information mismatch: what international students thought their community college experience would be like
… Through interviews with 15 students and an ethnographic content analysis of student-mentioned websites and documents, I examined what international students thought their community college experiences would be like and what led them to these expectations. Using the theory of chain migration …
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Understanding the Zero Tolerance Era School Discipline Net: Net-widening, net-deepening, and the cultural politics of school discipline
… problem. To accomplish this, I conducted an ethnographic content analysis of codes of student conduct to examine the imbued ideologies, discourses, and policy changes that emerge from the cultural politics of managing school discipline over the last 15 years. Through this process, I lend …
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Blogging Chronic Illness and Negotiating Patient-hood: Online Narratives of Women with MS
… Sclerosis using a three-part methodology: an ethnographic content analysis and close reading of blogs as life narratives (N=40); a survey of bloggers (n=20) about their blogging activities; and a five-week online discussion forum with bloggers (n=9) about their experiences with blogging about …
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On the Shithouse Wall: The Communicative Value of Latrinalia
<p>Graffiti has communicative value, and it is a medium through which individuals voice their innermost thoughts, concerns, and beliefs. Restroom graffiti or "latrinalia" offers a unique space for graffiti writers to deliver their messages. The sole focus of this paper is to examine the meaning and …
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Prosecutor Misconduct and Good Faith Error: A Reanalysis of Two Studies in California and Texas
… in outcomes, this dissertation presents a re-analysis done by an objective reviewer using standard social science methodology. Specifically, this study examines of 99 California and 91 Texas appellate court cases included in two studies conducted by the Northern California Innocence Project …