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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"News consumers"”.
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Ethical dilemmas on social networking sites : focus group discussions with journalists and news consumers
… have brought professional journalists and news consumers closer than ever before, both in terms of the closeness of their online interactions and the defined roles they play in the process of gathering and disseminating information (Broersma & Graham, 2013). By understanding both groups' …
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TRACING NEWS ON TWITTER: FORCES SHAPING NEWS CONSUMPTION AND PERCEPTIONS IN GULF COUNTRY MEDIA SYSTEMS
In the news media environment, the systemic relationship between the media and public is reflexive, where the media shape public life and vice versa. This dissertation centers on explaining the relationship between the media environment and news consumers in media systems in five countries that …
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Conflict Journalism through the Practice of Embedded Reporting
… is intended to shine a light on the issue for news consumers and advocate for greater transparency in conflict journalism but does not attempt to make recommendations for military embedding programs. Rather, this thesis suggests a new way to look at embedded journalism in its next iteration to …
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Woke : internet news and social media on recent attitudes towards police use of force
… OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] News media has long featured high-profile incidents of police use of force; however, exposure to these incidents may be increasing because of the accessibility of smartphones, social media, and Internet news. Police are concerned about the impact …
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Are People Reading Local News? A Content Analysis of Popular News Stories on Nine Newspaper Websites
<p>The news industry has come under tremendous pressure in the last decade. None more so than the newspaper industry, which has seen all aspects of its operation: readership, revenue, staff, distribution and reputation decline dramatically. This study uses content analysis to examine the reading …
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Perceptions of quality: The Gap model meets gatekeeping
… gaps exist between consumer perceptions of news quality and news directors' perceptions of news quality. Interviews were conducted with Las Vegas local television news directors. In addition, surveys were distributed to local news consumers. A case study approach of local Las Vegas Valley …
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The Social Cognition of Misinformation and Implications for Psychological Interventions
… on source effects, demonstrating that news consumers are more susceptible to misinformation from (real) politically aligned media outlets, with this effect mediated via perceived source credibility. Chapter 3 presents a two-by-two experiment that demonstrates the causal impact of both …
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Essays in political economy of media and communication
… communication in forming political opinions of news consumers and politicians. In the first chapter, I study the causal link between the public's self-selective exposure to like-minded partisan media and polarization. I first present a parsimonious model to formalize a traditionally neglected …
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Paying for online news: what provides value and for whom?
… significantly changed the revenue model for news organizations. Most newspapers elected to offer free websites when they first went online in the 1990s, but as print subscriptions and ad revenues declined, newspapers have struggled to find paying customers online. More news sites have adopted …
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Community Newspapers In The Digital Age A Case Study: The Pass Christian, Mississippi Gazebo Gazette
Print newspapers in the 21st century America exist in a diverse media landscape. Radio, television and online media all compete with newspapers to reach news consumers. With 24-hour cable news and the widespread adoption of the internet, information is available to viewers and readers anytime and …
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What You See is What They Want You to See: South African Newspaper Constructions of Female Offenders
… This study aimed to identify how South African newspapers construct female perpetrators and how this may change across different crime types. Thematic analysis was applied to a sample of 160 newspaper articles covering the stories of 24 female offenders representing four different crime types. …
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The Message or The Messenger: The Effects of Political Attitudes and Source on Perceptions of Media Bias
As the televised news media market becomes increasingly diversified, the evidence available suggests that news media audiences are more fragmented than ever, audiences trust the media less and less, and that news consumers tend to seek outlets that they believe share their political attitudes and …
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THE PERCEIVED CREDIBILITY OF PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM COMPARED TO USER-GENERATED CONTENT AMONG AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA AUDIENCES
… Content (UGC) when compared across digital news and social media platforms, by individual news consumers in the United States employing a Q methodology experiment. The literature review studies source credibility as the theoretical framework through which to begin; however, using an …
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Automatic detection and verification of rumors on Twitter
… outcomes may have practical applications for news consumers, financial markets, journalists, and emergency services, and more generally to help minimize the impact of false information on Twitter.
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Simplifying Science: Scientific Uncertainty in News Coverage of Cancer Research
News coverage of scientific research is routinely streamlined. In other words, the research is stripped of caveats, limitations, and other indicators of scientific uncertainty. But whether streamlining affects audience perception is unknown. It has been suggested that streamlining may (a) influence …
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The news media representation of female ex-combatants in Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka
This thesis investigates newspaper representations of female ex-combatants in the divided societies of Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka from 2009 until 2015. The news media communicate information which is used by news consumers to construct their versions of reality, thus news media characterisation …
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How Students Access, Filter and Evaluate Digital News: Choices That Shape What They Consume and the Implications for News Literacy Education
… the ability to sift through an avalanche of news online and identify content that is credible and diverse. News literacy, a topic with a small but increasing presence in high school and college curricula, is concerned with training students to be discerning news consumers. Assessments of news …
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The Production and Consumption Practices of Online Journalism in Digital Taiwan.
… of production and consumption and how is online news culture shaped or constituted through these practices? Distinct from existing studies of online news, I argue that online journalism should be studied as an emerging cultural form, rather than a subordinate of any existing forms of news media. …
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The politics of representation in Indian media: implications of the portrayal of Hindus and minority groups
… in Indian media with special focus on news television’s portrayal of issues concerning Christian community. The portrayal of communities is studied in relation to the dynamics of engagement between India’s rapidly expanding news television and the growing Hindutva (Hinduness) movement …
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The use of new media in journalism and news dissemination in Zambia - the case of the internet.
… a growing use of new technologies that include news websites, weblogs, mobile news alerts and applications among others, mostly over the internet. Collectively, these technologies are part of the emerging area of ‘new media’, of which the internet is considered a key component and is thus …
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