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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Impact of media"”.
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The struggle over, and impact of, media portrayals of Northern Ireland
This thesis examines the process of mass communication from media strategies to audience belief in relation to the conflict in Ireland. It documents the media strategies used by the various actors and participants in the conflict, from the Northern Ireland Office, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Foreign …
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Assessing the Impact of Media on Blaming the Victim of Acquaintance Rape
… victimization due to the negative reactions of those around them. Among these negative reactions, perhaps the most damaging is the tendency to blame victims for their assault, particularly in cases of acquaintance rape. The current research explores the role of news media coverage in …
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Greek : the impact of media on the stereotyping of social fraternities and sororities
<p>This study examines stereotypes of fraternities and sororities in the media. Recently the media, particularly movies and television, has produced numerous portrayals of fraternal organi zations. Through thi s study a content analysis of the television show GREEK from ABC Family was conducted. …
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The Impact of Media Influence About Hair Texture on Internalized Racial Oppression, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Efficacy
… <p>African American women and matters of importance pertaining to African American women are understudied and lacking within research. Understanding the ways in which majority culture media influences aspects related to women of color, especially those pertaining to hair texture, and …
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The Impact of Media Entertainment Programme on Development of Youths: A Case Study of Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation and Channel Ten, Tanzania
This research study was about the impact of media entertainment programme on development of youths. The research examined the importance of media entertainment programme on developing youths, the challenges which media encounter in the campaign to develop youths, the perception of youths on the …
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Exploring the impact of media consumption on interpersonal interaction intentions: an examination of the social effect of exposure to mental illness
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The Impact of Ownership, Regulation Issues and Technology Adoption on the Introduction of Digital Terrestrial Television: A Comparison of the United States and Mainland China
This study compares the impact of media ownership, regulation and policy, and technology adoption on the introduction of digital terrestrial television in the United States and Mainland China. Through the use of a case study approach, a qualitative and quantitative examination is given. The results …
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THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO WEIGHT-BASED DEROGATORY MEDIA ON BODY IMAGE AND ANTI-FAT ATTITUDES
This study examined the impact of media that ridicules women for gaining weight on body image satisfaction, appearance self-esteem, fear of negative appearance evaluation, negative affect, and anti-fat attitudes. Female undergraduates (N=240) were randomly assigned to view tabloid-style pictures …
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New patriotism of the post-1980s generation in China
… dissertation analyses the new characteristics of patriotism of Post-1980s generation in China. The analysis is based on a carefully-designed research process. The findings are focused on the research questions. The new patriotism of Post-1980s generation in China has been presented by …
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Media news sentiment and Commodity futures dynamics
This thesis investigates the impact of media news on the dynamics of commodity futures returns. To achieve this, the study examines the impact of news sentiment in both time-series and cross-sectional settings. This thesis also proposes and tests a new risk factor, media emotion intensity, to …
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Ethnic Minorities in Brazil and Spain: Erasure and Stigmatization, Gender, and Self-Representation of Indigenous and Roma Communities
… research is an interdisciplinary work on the use of media by marginalized ethnic minorities for self-representation, using as its frame of reference scholars such as Faye Ginsburg, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Achille Mbembe, and David Harvey. Specifically, this dissertation …
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Recycling and Regeneration of Spent Perfusion Media via Ion Concentration Polarization
The widespread adoption of monoclonal antibody therapies is often constrained by their high prices, which can limit accessibility, particularly for patients in low- and middle-income countries. Addressing this economic barrier is crucial to ensure that life-saving treatments can reach all who need …
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
… Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) and an individual fixed effects strategy, chapter one investigates the relationship between pornography use among 13- to 23-year-olds and a range of subsequent risky sexual behaviors. It also estimates a lagged dependent …
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An enquiry into the relationship between social networking site use and primary school children's academic performance and cognition
… given rise to alarming claims about the effects of SNS use on children’s learning and cognitive development. Most literature, however, has examined the impact of media multitasking on cognition rather than SNS, and has been conducted with university students, with only very limited evidence for …
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Philip Morris Faces "the truth": A Rhetorical Analysis of the Persuasiveness of Two Teen-Targeted Anti-Smoking Advertising Campaigns
<p>This thesis examines the persuasiveness of anti-smoking television advertisements aimed at teens and produced by Philip Morris's Youth Smoking Prevention Program and the American Legacy Foundation's truth campaign. The advertisements are analyzed rhetorically using Kenneth Burke's dramatistic …
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Western media representation of the Arab Spring revolutions and its impact on staff and students in a Libyan university setting
This thesis investigated how the Arab and western media affected the staff and students of one Libyan university, Sebha University, through their presentation of the major Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan. In particular, the research focused on the reporting by Al-Jazeera and …
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Improving online food safety communication: The role of media
… food safety information to the public. But media’s role has been largely overlooked in existing literature. When the lack of research is combined with consumers’ increasing interest in food safety (Food Safety News, 2016), the need to understand media’s effect is pressing.</p> <p>To further …
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‘University Must Be Saved’ Genealogy As A Knowledge Approach.
The research offers an elaboration of genealogy as an approach to knowledge from Friedrich Nietzsche's original work on method (1887) processed by Michel Foucault (1971). It provides an interdisciplinary version that integrates theoretical and analytical contributions from the philosophy of …
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The use of new media in journalism and news dissemination in Zambia - the case of the internet.
The field of Mass Communication has seen a growing use of new technologies that include news websites, weblogs, mobile news alerts and applications among others, mostly over the internet. Collectively, these technologies are part of the emerging area of ‘new media’, of which the internet is …
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The use of new media in journalism and news dissemination in Zambia - the case of the internet.
The field of Mass Communication has seen a growing use of new technologies that include news websites, weblogs, mobile news alerts and applications among others, mostly over the internet. Collectively, these technologies are part of the emerging area of ‘new media’, of which the internet is …