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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Media sources"”.
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Automatically identifying people shot by police from media sources
… important to develop a system that will monitor media reports of police use of force in nearly real time. In particular, my thesis leverages the recent developments in the field of text classification and event extraction to achieve this goal. In order to develop a database of police-involved fatal …
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Perceptions and Content of Traditional and Online News: an analysis of Bias in Indian Media
… and analyse two different points of view on media polarization: one, from the public’s perspective through a survey (analysis of their perceptions on news received from their preferred news sources) and the other, analysis of media published by the media content providers. Another research …
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The Dominant Human Trafficking Paradigm and Economic Elite Interests
… coverage between corporately owned, mainstream media sources (Fox and CNN), which are arguably dominated by economic elite interests, and publicly (NPR) or independently (AlterNet) owned media sources which are far less dominated by the interests of the economic elite. Research findings showed …
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Menstrual Equity within the Homeless Community: The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody
… with homeless menstruation. I utilized feminist media analysis and discourse analysis to examine articles about homeless menstruation published by popular media sources as well as organizations and businesses that are involved in the fight for menstrual equity. The work that is being done by …
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CRACKING THE WORLD SYSTEM: MEDIATING PUBLIC PEDAGOGIES FROM THE “WORLD REVOLUTION” OF 1848
… and of various postmodern critiques. Primary media sources are used for purposes of critical political economy, to outline the contours of economic changes and class formations from the first world revolution. A detailed descriptive history of the revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 …
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Analyzing the Impacts of an IPM Vegetable Technology Transfer in Bangladesh
… and learning agricultural information from media sources and/or farm training events such as field days significantly increase the likelihood of IPM adoption. The impacts of IPM adoption on vegetable yields, pest management costs, and the number of pesticide applications were non-significant …
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The spirit of networks: new media and the changing role of religion in American public life
… of Networks examines the implications of new media for the future of American religious politics. I argue that we are at a critical juncture in both media and religion, similar to the early days of radio broadcasting. The outcome of that earlier juncture involved an increase in media …
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The Pandemic Olympics: A Thematic Analysis of COVID-19 and the Tokyo Olympic Games from a Canadian Perspective
… the Olympic Games, as produced by major Canadian media sources and key Canadian sport organizations. Utilizing a communication centered view of crisis informed by Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) and narrative management, the present study examined the crisis response of major …
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Wheat-free for the wrong reasons? College students' attitudes and information sources pertaining to the gluten-free diet
… Health scholars believed that misleading media messages touting the weight-loss and general health benefits of the diet were leading to the popularity of the gluten-free diet. However, these statements were not supported by research. In the pursuit of knowledge, research questions were …
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Simultaneous Media Usage: Effects on Attention
Media layering, the simultaneous use of multiple unrelated media sources, has been documented as an increasing behavior trend (Roberts, Foehr, & Rideout, 2005) that marks a qualitative and quantitative difference in the way media is experienced. Presently, the impact on consumers from media …
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The best alternative? The use of alternative media in the occupy movement
… research study explores the use of alternative media among the Occupy social movement. A combination of factors, including emerging media technology and an antagonistic relationship with mainstream media has led many social movement actors to use alternative media to mobilize participation. The …
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West Virginia state legislators' opinions of local mass media
… Senate regarding their opinions of local mass media found that the majority of lawmakers felt local mass media had little influence on their decision making process. The legislators did not, however, view the media as neutral sources of political information. Self-described "conservative" …
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Virtual Opinion Leaders and Opinion Change: An Examination of Blogging through the Framework of the Two-step Flow of Communication
… and commentary on news from the mainstream media. In this way bloggers act as intermediaries, much in the same way Lazarsfeld described opinion leaders in his two-step flow of information theory. This research examined blogging from the framework of the two-step flow to see if readers looked …
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Unsustainable and Uncontrolled: Framing Immigration During the Brexit Campaign
… discussing how the official campaigns and print media sources prioritized and characterized the issue. I argue that the relative prominence of immigration in media coverage, and the increased likelihood that newspapers would use Leave-associated frames, which also corresponded with pre-existing …
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Design, implementation and effectiveness of ClassTranscribe
… to thousands of users and sync with popular media sources and other lecture capture systems. An evaluation of event data collected for a large-enrollment system programming course delivered solely using ClassTranscribe revealed that final exam performance was equal or better to semesters that …
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Safe haven infant protection : incidence of use and characteristics of surrendered infants and relinquishing users
… government documents and communications, and media reports provided the basis of the national SH estimate. Data were collected over a three year period. A second data base combining 206 surrendered SH infant/relinquishing user cases from the states of California, Illinois, Michigan and New …
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Examining the Demographic and Situational Characteristics that Predict News-Media Coverage of Bias Homicides:
… the general public largely derives from news media sources and, unfortunately, research that illustrates how the media covers and/or portrays bias crime incidents remains underdeveloped. Using theories of strategic news making, the current study examines the types of bias homicide incidents …
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Single mothers getting by: cultural and structural violence in public policy
… current discussions of welfare reforms, the media and politicians have used rhetoric to make poor single mothers the "other." This paper will apply Galtung's model of the rhetorical and enacted route from cultural violence to structural violence ending in direct violence to this case. To …
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Cheveux crépus et identité : démêler les attitudes des femmes d'origine africaine vis-à-vis de leurs cheveux
… To respond to these questions, I analyze two media sources created by African women, for a female, African audience -- postcolonial-era magazine, AWA: la revue de lafemme noire, and the modern-day YouTube channel of a young Franco-Senegalese woman, Aïcha Danso. The analysis raises questions …
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Using natural language to predict bias and factuality in media with a study on rationalization
… these issues, we present a system to classify media sources' political bias and factuality levels by analyzing the language that gives fake news its contagious and damaging power. Additionally, we survey potential approaches for increasing the transparency of black-box fake news detection …
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