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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"News and Information"”.
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Shifting Trust: How Generation Z Canadians Determine Trust and Credibility in Online News and Information
Amidst a declining global trust in news media, this research focuses on the unique media consumption habits and skepticism of this digitally native cohort in Canada. Utilizing semi-structured, qualitative, smart device, content elicitation interviews, the study provides insight into the thought …
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Media Echo Chambers: Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias in Media Use, and its Consequences for Political Polarization
The new digital media landscape has created a high-choice media environment that has made it easier for people to find news and information that support their political beliefs and attitudes, and avoid news and information that challenge those beliefs or attitudes. How does this affect people’s …
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Discursive practices around film and music piracy in selected newspaper articles and radio broadcasts in South Africa
This thesis analyses South African news media discourses on piracy to consider whether corporate interests or those of civil society are served by stories about copyright infringement and piracy awareness campaigns. This thesis employs critical discourse analysis to show that hegemonic interests …
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International news contraflow in the United States and Canada: struggles over North American media markets and regulation of Al Jazeera and China Central Television
In this dissertation, I examine news media contraflow, flows of news and information from historically underrepresented parts of the globe into advanced media systems. I assess North American governance of news media flows in light of increased availability of nonwestern news organizations. The …
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The Response of Elite European Merchant Companies to European Expansion into Asia and the Americas, c.1492-c.1530
… of European engagement with the Americas and with Asia via the Cape Route, focusing upon how they responded to these changes. In the first decades of the sixteenth century, it was these companies, mostly from southern Germany and the Italian city-states, who dominated the European trade in …
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Teaching Web design at the higher education level
… known as the Internet has taken over media and journalism in many ways. It has changed the way that news and information is delivered to the public. It has made people also perceive the media in a new way. The public now, more than ever, demands information fast and accurately.;That is why …
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Open journalism: dynamics of change and continuity in news work in the 21st century
… into digital media addresses the methodological and epistemological issues and tensions arising out of the emergence of new communicative spaces that have expanded the range of actors involved in the construction of the news. Until recently, journalism has developed as a relatively closed …
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An evaluation of Whittle Communications' Channel One by students and teachers
… on the faculty at the junior high school and senior high school serving as test sites, (2) all eighth grade Civics students at the junior high school test site, and (3) all twelfth grade U.S. Government students at the senior high school test site. Data was collected via two …
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Broken News: Market Segmentation and Selective Exposure in Online News
… the World Wide Web as their primary source for news and information instead of legacy media outlets such as printed newspapers and magazines and broadcast news. As more and more people rely on the Internet as a primary source for news, it is important to analyze the characteristics and content …
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DeepStream.tv : designing informative and engaging live streaming video experiences
… I call civic livestreams, can be more engaging and informative if relevant contextual information is added to the viewing experience. I focus on the continuing emergence of livestreams as a source of news and information, and address questions about the nature of the medium, and the social norms …
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Intertribal Communication, Literacy, and the Spread of the Ghost Dance
… threaded together through postal correspondence and intertribal visitation among reservations. Through this network native groups cultivated intertribal relationships and exchanged ideas despite attempts by the United States government to separate, contain, and Americanize them. Frequent visits …
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Glory, Resistance and Reality: The Ever-Changing Perspective on War and Film
… by viewing copious amounts of war films and digesting the concurrent themes within the films. The three eras are set by “bookend films”, a movie that is a game-changer, shifting the eras or being a clearly defined end of an era. Other films will be used to compliment the standard theories …
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Place Perception, Cognitive Maps, and Mass Media: The Interrelationship Between Visual Popular Culture and Regional Mental Mapping
… extensive use of mass media. Movies, television, and radio are far more prominent today than ten years ago, both locally and globally. We rely on these forms of communication for news and information and entertainment and recreation. New technologies increase our access and our dependence on mass …
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Misinformation, Persuasion, and News Media on Social Networks
… media platforms have become a popular source of news and information for a large segment of society. Users can receive information, share digital content, or attend to online publishers for the latest news. However, the recent proliferation of misinformation has affected people’s perception of …
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"Thank you for letting me be myself": Exploring the effects of identity management strategies on engagement levels of lesbian, gay and bisexual employees
… regarding the social inequality of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals have been at the forefront of the U.S. national dialogue over the last decade, and estimates suggest that LGB employees comprise between 6 and 17 percent of the workforce (Gonsiorek & Weinrich, 1991), little is known …
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Network effect and investor’s perceptions: An empirical investigation
Investors’ perceptions, and their understanding related to an investment, are paramount to decision-making in economic and investment settings. Social media is increasingly playing a vital role in influencing investors’ perceptions and investors’ decisions in the financial arena. Social media is a …
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Australian meat consumers’ understandings of farm animal welfare
… investigates Australian meat consumers’ understandings about farm animal welfare and explores their underlying values associated with meat production. Focus groups and interviews were the primary sources of data used to capture how Australian meat consumers conceptualise the issue of farm animal …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
This dissertation examines how news and information circulated among select colonies in the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution …
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Can Arabs Represent America? The Performativity of U.S-Arab Mediated Public Diplomacy
America, with its Voice of America radio and its short-wave sister stations that pierced through the thick Iron Curtain until it disintegrated in the late 1980s, found itself voiceless in countering the narrative of those who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Using the Cold War communication as …
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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Notions of community and civic participation, and the role journalism plays in establishing, reinforcing or disrupting them, have been part of American life since the early days of the republic. Equally American, and closely connected with them, are the ideas that our public institutions and …