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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Media Reporting"”.
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News, activism and social media: reporting the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath by Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, RT and XINHUA
… Revolution received unprecedented international media coverage that kept the world’s viewers on the edge of their seats watching the plunge of another corrupt Arab regime, shortly after Bin Ali’s collapse in Tunisia. Toppling Mubarak’s regime was the most significant achievement of the January …
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Identification and characterization of hail producing systems in the Córdoba region of Argentina: convective environments, weather warning processes, and social media reporting
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-14 without embargo terms
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Conflicting Narratives and Frames in Media Reporting on Deaths of Racialized Men with Mental Health Issues at the Hands of the Criminal Justice System
… news. Using thematic analysis, I examine news reporting on the deaths of two racialized individuals with mental illness at the hands of law enforcement officers in Ontario in 2016. This study draws on the concepts of framing and narratives to examine how news media reporting of law enforcement …
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Media Coverage and the Cross Section of Stock Returns A Probe into the JSE
… both institutional and individual, mass media coverage of stocks markets can alleviate financial information frictions and consequently affect the valuation of securities even when it does not present genuine news. The empirical objective of this research is to investigate this hypothesis …
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Essays on the Quantification of Newspaper Articles
… analyzes how central bank communication affects media reporting and, through the media, household inflation expectations. Based on more than 2.1 million German newspaper articles and ECB press conferences from 2002 to 2023, it shows that households react asymmetrically to media signals, …
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Drugs in the News: What Do the Afghan News Media Say About Illicit Drugs?
Globally, research has shown that media coverage of illicit drug issues can play an important role in influencing public opinion and shaping drug policies. However, in Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, very little is known about the media coverage of illicit drug issues. Afghan …
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Gubernatorial Girlfriends: An Analysis of News Media Frames of Political Scandal
… given to political sex scandals by the popular media. Little attention, however, is paid to research into the relationship among political sex scandals, the media reporting of sex scandals, and the ways in which politicians are able to use the media during admissions of sex scandals. This …
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
… oral histories, doctors' and patients' accounts, media reporting, urban legends, cinematography, theater, poetry and literature speak of this new biomedical life. The meaning of the cadaver, the brain-dead body, and the living donor are reevaluated. The personhood of suicides, the homeless, the …
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Finnish media discourses on Calais, France 2016
This research studies the main media discourses and representations of migrants and refugees in Calais, France in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The topic is related to wider socio-political events that took place especially during the years of 2015 and 2016, when more refugees arrived in …
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The Impact of Positive Human Interest Stories on Raising Hope Through Social Media in Kentucky's Promise Zone Counties
<p>During the past decade, social media has gained dominance over traditional media in an agenda-setting role for journalists, often dictating the news of the day (Pfeffer et al., 2014). With data collected from Kentucky’s Promise Zone counties and C. R. Snyder’s (1991) Hope Scale instrument, this …
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Bold Leader or Bully? Interpreting Chinese Regional Maritime Behavior
… and a content and trend analysis of regional media reporting on the disputed claims issue. Ultimately, the ongoing territorial disputes between China and its maritime neighbors were used as a case environment for exploring how smaller states perceive and react to the actions of great and/or …
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Frequent or freakish? Framing bushfires in the context of climate change
<p>This thesis explores media coverage of catastrophic bushfires in Australia across three large-circulation newspapers. It compares the ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires of February 2009 and the ‘Black Summer’ bushfire disaster of 2019-20 to discover how fire is framed within Australian newspaper …
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Representing science education in UK newspapers : a case study on the controversy surrounding teaching the theory of evolution and creationism in science classes
… evolution in science classrooms. The newspaper reporting revolved around the City Technology College Emmanuel College in Gateshead, mainly in Spring 2002. The empirical research focused on two connected media elements: newspaper content and newspaper production. A quantitative and qualitative …
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The hidden activism : media practices and the media opportunity in Chinese politics of resistance
… countries through the perspectives of media practices and media opportunity structure. To understand the art of resistance in authoritarian countries, one has to look beyond the striking physical confrontational aspect of resistance. I approach the topic of hidden resistance by …
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Selling the modern day tribe: The commodification of rave culture
… qualitative and quantitative data to interrogate media coverage on rave culture as well as interviews and first hand experience within the rave scene. I analyse mainstream print and electronic media reporting of rave as a deviant youth subcultural practice linked to the use of the drug ecstasy. I …
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Alaska Through The Looking Glass: And What Twentieth Century American Photojournalists Saw There
… in Alaska in the 20th Century for American mass media outlets. The analysis posits that news images are vehicles by which the spaces of Alaska are produced and ordered for southern audiences. In this way, the analysis offers a reading of how southern news media, through visual storytelling and …
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Prohibiting the niqab?: A critical examination of Western attitudes towards the Islamic veil and its relationship with law in the United Kingdom and France
… analysis of case law, academic commentary, and media reporting will illustrate that such prohibitions have served to exacerbate tensions between Western and Muslim populations and promote a lack of tolerance and understanding of veiling among Westerners. This will further demonstrate the thesis …
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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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Changing capital markets industry structures : the Internet challenge to incumbent leaders
… and re-priced. New agents are re intermediating traditional brokers and exchanges. Networks are dramatically improving the efficiency of information. Barriers to entry are falling fast. This thesis examines the developments in electronic, institutional capital markets primarily from the …
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Debating NBN policy : the influence of issue management
… society – not just special interests. However, media reporting about a proposal or issue and representations by special interests – often referred to as lobbying – can affect policy development and political decision-making; and this was demonstrated in interview data for this study. The …
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