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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Media Influences"”.
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Media Influences and Student Attitudes Toward Law Enforcement Figures Within Northeast Tennessee
… of public relations, police effectiveness, and media influences in Northeastern Tennessee. This literature review provided a preliminary analysis of related works to advance the accuracy in conducting and examining future studies. The fields that deserve the most analysis are the underlying …
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Acting Black: An Analysis of Blackness and Criminality in Film
… are portrayed in motion picture media influences how their presence is seen in society. This thesis will examine specific films that include elements dealing with the listed factors and what effects they may or may not have.</p>
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Racialized Reality: Crime News and Racial Stereotype Framing
… communities. This research explores how news media influences negative attitudes towards criminal justice reform and Black identity. Utilizing Framing Theory, this study focuses on whether negative stereotypes in crime news triggers racial prejudice and bias towards African Americans. …
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Approval of George W. Bush: Economic and media impacts
… study I analyze the empirical evidence of the media's and economy's impact on his approval rate from 2001-2009. People tend to hold the president responsible for the country's economic performance and the media influences people's opinions of the president through agenda setting and priming. I …
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The effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms: ownership and media
… embeddedness between corporations and the media influences the media’s external governance role. These studies collectively explore how evolving and intertwined interests and demands of different constituents in institutional environments give rise to governance arrangements, not in a …
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Body Dissatisfaction and Other Sociocultural Factors as Predictors of Body Image Perceptions in Sorority and Non-Sorority Women
… regression was used to analyze sociocultural influences and EDI-3 Body Dissatisfaction scores by Greek membership. Results indicated that body image perceptions of both sorority and non-sorority women were significantly affected by peer and media influences. The level of statistical …
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Emotion Word Processing and Previous Exposure to Violent Media: An Eye-Tracking Study
The controversy regarding violent media influencing acts of violence is long standing and heavily debated. Most research in this area has prioritized examining correlations between the consumption of violent media and measures of aggression or desensitization with the goal of answering the question …
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Social Media Use: A Critical Analysis of Facebook's Impact on Collegiate EFL Students' English Writing in Thailand
… this technology era, a new trend of using Social Media or Social Networking Sites (SNSs) has been recently highlighted. Social media influences people’s lives in many aspects including education and English language learning. The purpose of this study is to examine whether using Facebook online …
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Self-presentation on social media – when self-enhancement confronts self-verification in a virtual public space
Social media has become an important part of people’s daily life. Every day people frequently switch between the physical world and the digital world created by social media. Recent research has examined the impact of social media on people’s self-evaluation (e.g. Valkenburg, Peter & Schouten, …
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The Effect of Social Media on the Normal Sleeping Patterns of Adolescents (10-19) in the UK: A Systematic Literature Review
This dissertation explores the impact of social media usage on the normal sleeping patterns of adolescents aged 10 to 19 in the United Kingdom through a systematic literature review. With the increasing prevalence of digital media among young people, concerns have emerged regarding its effect on …
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All the Science That Is Fit to Blog: An Analysis of Science Blogging Practices
… of Shoemaker and Reese’s Hierarchical Model of Influences, in order to guide current and future research on the sociology of science blogging. Shoemaker and Reese’s Hierarchical Model of Influences is a model of the factors that influence mass media content, which has been used previously by …
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Logics of Attention: Watching and Not-Watching Film and Television in Everyday Life
… audiences to examine everyday practices of media attention and distraction. Often taken as clear and separate experiential states, attentiveness and distractedness are actually social categories with leaky boundaries and definitions. Together, they suggest logics from which audiences draw …
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Perceptions of public relations among Chinese and American college students : a comparative analysis
… misconceptions against public relations, media influences and PR education.</p> <p>This study employed the survey method to find college students' perceptions of public relations in the U.S. and China. The study finds that college students believe that public relations practice is related …
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An exploration of negative and aggressive reporting descriptors on the perceived credibility and voter support of a female politician
… of female political candidates by the media influences the perception of candidate credibility and voter support. Other researchers have found that female politicians are more likely than male politicians to be subjected to negative and aggressive reporting descriptors during political …
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How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education
… cross-cultural interactions, travel experiences, media influences, and professional responsibilities. Certain global education elements infused their teaching, such as local/global connections, perspectives consciousness, and cultural sensitivity, but the inclusion of such elements was uneven. …
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Queering in the Years: Gay Visibility in the Irish Media, 1974-2008
… Irish television, film and alternative activist media between 1974 and 2008. The thesis argues that LGBT activists originally deployed media visibility for the liberatory potential of advancing LGBT rights. However, mainstream media institutions exploited queer identities for economic purposes; …
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A qualitative study exploring transgender youths’ experiences of using social media
… Internet in recent decades, along with social media and communication platforms, has created an opportunity for transgender individuals to seek out a common alternative identity that may reduce the societal pressure of fitting into a particular gender role dictated by biological sex. The …
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The impact of electronic word-of-mouth in social networking sites on a high-involvement purchase : an empirical study of South African brides' intention to purchase the "once-in-a-lifetime" wedding dress
… research has looked at the effect of social media, in the form of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), on purchase intention. However, few studies have analysed this effect for high-risk, "once-in-a-lifetime" products such as wedding dresses. In South Africa alone, social media users increased by …
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Invisible sexual predators & their silent crimes: exploring media constructions of female teacher sex offenders
… and being increasingly publicised in the media. Given media influences on public perceptions, policy action, and crime and penal policies, their construction of FSOs is a good starting point to understanding the ways in which a largely invisible phenomenon is made visible. This study, …
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Quantifying Agenda Setting Effects on Twitter and Digital Media
Agenda setting theory describes how the media influences which issues enter the public agenda. New technologies have disrupted media institutions and long-established agenda setting dynamics. This thesis studies agenda setting effects in two different ``new media'' environments: Twitter and digital …
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