Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Media Messages"”.
-
Mind over media: Conscious and unconscious responses to media messages
Human response to media images is a product of both conscious and preconscious processing, involving structural mechanisms within the brain as well as individual self-concepts, issues of identity, ideological beliefs, and relevance. Visual and auditory processing incorporates both conscious and …
-
Making meaning of media messages: How women interact with the messages in direct-to-consumer antidepressant advertisements
… the ways in which the public interacts with the messages related to depression and its treatment in DTC antidepressant ads shown on television. Six semi-structured focus groups of 1-2 hours, with 4-6 female participants per group were conducted. Within each group, 2-3 DTC antidepressant ads were …
-
Personal Construct Theory, Political Perception, and Mass Communication: The Judgmental Dimensions Employed in The Evaluation of Political Figures Based on Mass Media Messages
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:18:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7714949.PDF: 5528436 bytes, checksum: 29721fc79bac3d47bbe4901fdbb27f26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
-
Media Effects: Cultural Appropriation And Attitudes Towards Cosmetic Surgery
<p>The current study investigates media's influence on Caucasian women to culturally appropriate the physical features generally ascribed to African American women through non-surgical and or surgical cosmetic procedures and vice versa. Participants were 26 African American women and 54 Caucasian …
-
The impact of interpersonal communication on the media agenda setting process : a case study of new student perceptions of Stockton, CA
… between Interpersonal Communication and media messages about Stockton, CA. Based on the themes that emerged from the discussions, results show contextual evidence that Interpersonal Communication acts as a facilitating instrument, allowing participants to 6 develop an understanding beyond …
-
Adolescent Perception of Moral Communication Sources
… source importance and source value in both mediated and non-mediated moral communication. Association with source perception is explored with demographics, media usage, moral development, and belief systems. Findings are that source perception changes in awareness, importance, and value …
-
Breast Cancer in the Media: Agenda-Setting and Framing Effects of Prevalent Messages on College-Aged Women
… the potential effects of breast cancer media messages on young women, a population that has the potential to make lifestyle changes early enough to prevent the disease. Based on framing and agenda-setting theories, a web survey focused on the relationships between the characteristics of …
-
Critical Media Literacy: A Curriculum for Middle School English Teachers
… project provides an introductory, critical media literacy curriculum for middle school English teachers, which is designed to build upon students’ academic language proficiency and critical-thinking skills through media-based content. The targeted proficiency level ranges from …
-
Do Black men really love Black women? : A qualitative study on how mass media shape Black men's perception of Black women for long-term romantic relationship -- or not
… relationship with a non-Black woman whether in media messages or real life, more often than not Black women are also met with feelings of rejection and inadequacy. It is a form of rejection experienced by Black women that is often discussed behind closed doors, within her inner circle, in …
-
Content analysis of developmental assets in HIV/AIDS message framing
… conceptualise HIV/AIDS message framing. LoveLife media messages (as gain-framed HIV/AIDS prevention messages) were purposefully sampled. Qualitative content analysis allowed loveLife media messages to be analysed through coding, categorisation and memoing. The analysis process revealed core values …
-
CEO Icon to GOP Hopeful: A Quantitative Analysis Exploring Politically Motivated Celebrity CEOs
… Packard. Results also confirm the use of media messages to prime young voters about political candidates. Finally, political party affiliation was found to significantly influence the findings of this study while gender and political cynicism did not. Theoretical implications and areas of …
-
Feasibility and acceptability of a mother-daughter intervention to address disordered eating behavior among adolescent girls living with type 1 diabetes mellitus
… communication, self-esteem, and deciphering media messages. Participants' goals after intervention included improved communication at home, increased scrutiny of media messages, and improved diabetes care. A pre/post-test design was utilized to examine changes in depression, self-esteem, …
-
Decoding dominant ideals of beauty : Young women’s engagements with media representations, social environments, and media literacy
… to success and popularity. The influence of media deserves particular attention as it is able to create and circulate dominant ideals of beauty. Research suggests that dominant ideals of beauty created by media have a strong impact on women’s perceptions of beauty. However, the influence of …
-
Public affairs advertising: corporate influence, public opinion and vote intentions under the third-person effect
… studies examine the interaction between the media and its effect on public opinion. Past research in third-person effect indicates that individuals perceive that the media is more influential on others than oneself. However, recent studies find a reverse effect, where individuals perceive a …
-
Overcoming Cognitive and Motivational Barriers to Media Literacy: A Dual-Process Approach
<p>In today's fast-paced, hyper-mediated society, the ability to balance accuracy and efficiency is essential. Media literacy educational programs have arisen to meet this need and proliferated in recent years. Although the practice of media literacy is thriving, its underlying mechanisms are …
-
Media Framing of the Movement for Black Lives
Media framing can greatly impact the influence of social movements. Disseminating their messages is a social movement’s essential task in its struggle against hegemonic norms. Prior research suggests that media frames often marginalize and dismiss social movements rather than shedding light on …
-
IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION ON CUSTOMER PRODUCT ATTITUDE AND POTENTIAL FOR WORD-OF-MOUTH
… few studies have been involved in how social media messages affect consumers when two different groups of people generate them for either hedonic or utilitarian purposes. This study sought to expand this contemporary understanding of how social impacts of consumer-generated content and …
-
Code-Switching, Code-Mixing And Radical Bilingualism In U.s. Latino Texts
… journalistic texts, songs, and social media messages and I carry out a grammatical and sociolinguistic analyses of these texts. Although many of these texts would fall into Torres’ (2007) Radical Bilingualism category, I point out that there are in fact different ways in which a text …
-
QUANTITATIVE GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF OPEN-SOURCE DATA TO PROVIDE MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS OF OPERATIONS IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
… utilized open-source data, including social media messages, violent death records, and news articles, to evaluate the impact of U.S. military and coalition forces' leaflet drop operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The findings of this research indicate that the …
Page 1 of 3