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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"News coverage"”.
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Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage
… study explored the Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage to examine what categories of Afghanistan-related news received the largest amount of coverage during periods from 2010 to 2012. This study covered reports in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Daily Outlook …
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Computational Methods for Analyzing Health News Coverage
Researchers that investigate the media's coverage of health have historically relied on keyword searches to retrieve relevant health news coverage, and manual content analysis methods to categorize and score health news text. These methods are problematic. Manual content analysis methods are labor …
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The news coverage of honour killings in Canadian newspapers
… recent honour killings in two major Canadian newspapers; The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. Results suggest that honour killings touched a nerve in Canadian media leading to the use of culturalist approaches to understand and represent these killings. This culturalist approach to the …
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Assessing news coverage of the South African Legislative laws
This thesis attempts to examine the news coverage of South Africa’s legislative laws passed by the Parliament, by looking at the coverage of print media using qualitative content analysis. The thesis aims to understand the dominant messages being conveyed within the news texts and reader …
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Printing the Pandemic: An Analysis of H1N1 Vaccine News Coverage
This thesis examines print media coverage of the vaccination debate during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. It explores how the agenda-setting press in North America framed the benefits and risks of vaccination: the key themes it emphasized, the sources whose voices it privileged and those it overlooked, …
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Local television news coverage of African Americans in Waco, Texas.
A content analysis of the 10:00 p.m. news shows of the Waco, Texas CBS affiliate KWTX examines the portrayals of minorities, especially African Americans. The study analyzes a reconstructed week of 10 p.m. newscasts from January 1995 to December 1995. The hypotheses include: H1. There is a …
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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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War news coverage: a study of its development in the United States
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 Y35
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Reporting on contested territory: television news coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict
… is an examination of how British television news reported on the Peace Accords signed between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators at the Wye River Plantation, Maryland USA in October 1998. The research involves three elements. Firstly a review of the historiography of the conflict which …
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Agenda setting, Framing and government's Influence on Tobacco-related News Coverage in China's People's Daily
… western countries pointed at the importance of news coverage of tobacco-related issues on public opinion and agenda setting, but the role of government-controlled newspapers in China was not previously examined. In view of the potential conflict between public health and the importance of local …
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Framing of immigrants and refugees : a content analysis of mainstream and partisan news coverage of immigration
… sources or mentioned in each selected story. The news articles with the highest engagement on Facebook about Muslim immigration from the first GOP debate on Aug. 5, 2015 to the inauguration of President Trump on Jan. 27, 2017 were analyzed using a content analysis tool, Buzzsumo. 50 news stories …
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A comparison and analysis of European Union news coverage in the UK and Danish newspaper press
… Given that, one would expect British and Danish newspaper coverage of EU events also to be broadly similar. This is, however, not the case. While the UK newspapers take a line that is overwhelmingly Euro-sceptic, the Danish newspapers are almost all pro-European. At the same time, there are …
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Political Speech on Twitter: A Sentiment Analysis of Tweets and News Coverage of Local Gun Policy
… and sentiment on Twitter differ from those of news media coverage regarding gun policy in the state of Arkansas. </p> <p>The study uses framing theory, which assumes that both news media and individuals use frames to construct perceptions and narratives about issues. Adopting an automated …
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Islamophobia in the United States How American News Coverage and Social Media Perpetuate Fear & Hate Against Islam
… rise in Islamophobia is due in large part to the news coverage that people are exposed to, with media stories on terrorist attacks often conflating Islam and violence in both subtle and other ways. Furthermore, we see that similar coverage of acts of violence committed by non-Muslims is often …
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(Mis)Diagnosing Silence: A Cultural Criticism of the Virginia Tech News Coverage of Silence as Public Pedagogy
… 2007). Because of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, news reports all over the U.S. probed about what caused the perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, to kill 32 students and faculty members. As the mainstream media talked about the possible causes, they ultimately pointed out that Cho's silence should have …
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Alternative vs. Traditional News: A Content Analysis of News Coverage of the 10th Anniversary of Sept. 11
… Traditional media was found to provide routine coverage of commemorative services and very little critical analysis. Further highlighting the differences in the 2 media paradigms was the use of profanity in alternative media, which was discovered by using the "find" function available with word …
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News sources and perceptual effects: an analysis of source attribution within news coverage of alleged terrorist plots.
… the relationship between journalists and their news sources (Gans 1979; Schlesinger 1990). There is, however, a much smaller body of research that has considered the influence of news sources upon audiences. This thesis develops an audience centric approach to sourcing, in order to understand …
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Narrative battle: A critical discourse analysis of China and the US's news coverage on COVID-19 origin-tracing
… with mainstream media outlets such as newspapers taking sides. This qualitative research employs a critical discourse approach, using Van Dijk's ideological square, to compare newspaper discourses on Covid-19 origin in China (Global Times) and the US (The Wall Street Journal) and …
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A Framing Analysis of News Coverage Related to Litigation Connected to Online Student Speech That Originates Off-Campus
… legal questions beyond what it learns through news reports. Because news is a basic social learning tool, the way journalists present information can profoundly affect the public’s understanding of any given issue. This study examined how the news media portrayed four court cases pertinent to …
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