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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"News sources"”.
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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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The electronic newstand [sic] : design of an intelligent interface to a variety of news sources in several media
… and the individual viewer, can filter incoming news, eliminating irrelevant and redundant stories and highlighting items of interest. However, important information can be lost by removing an article from the context of its original publication. Knowing the identity of the source helps the …
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Perceptions and Content of Traditional and Online News: an analysis of Bias in Indian Media
… 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 contribution of this study was that it included an analysis of the mode of media consumption, i.e., how the …
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Hot Stocks and Cold Comfort: A Comparative Study of Optimism in Financial News and Household Participation in Equity Markets in the U.S., France, and Hong Kong, 1985-2008
… to detect systematic reporting bias in financial news articles from 1985-2008 in the U.S., France, and Hong Kong in order to discern whether such biases contribute to country-level differences in household participation in equity markets. Today about 50% of American households hold stock (or …
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Immersive, Participatory, Community-Based Research and Learning
… archival historical sites, extant literature, news sources, biographies, and Jane Addams’s numerous publications. Using theoretically guided textual analysis and archival research methods, the researcher connected the origin of immersive, participatory, community-based research to the methods …
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A Cybernetic analysis of the United States of America's relationship with Iraq
… describing the war in Iraq from three major US news sources were analyzed using grounded theory methodology. Four prominent themes: Military Operation, Costs, Perceptions, and Transition, were identified and described in cybernetic terms such as recursive processes, circular causality, and …
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The production of environmental news: a study of source-media relations
… study analyses the production of environmental news and focuses upon the neglected area of source-media relations. Through a combination of in-depth, semi-structured interviews and content analysis, the study explores relations between media practitioners and key news sources, such as …
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Changing Demographics in Latvia by Changing Ethnic Law
… discourse analysis of two of the region's major news sources is the central method for data analysis, allowing for a comparison of Russian and Latvian media portrayals of this situation. By examining newspapers from the region, my thesis considers how the Russian speaking population in Latvia is …
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A system for bridging the ideological divide by establishing a moral framework for news consumption
… to primarily homogeneous perspectives and news sources. However, diversity in news consumption is important: it creates more informed societies, healthier democracies, and more solid understandings of one's own beliefs. In this thesis, we propose Pano - a system for bridging the ideological …
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Examining the relationship between trust and online usage of news media
… and online usage of 35 popular United States news sources. Trust of news media, currently at its lowest percentage in Gallup's 45-year polling history, has both brand and financial impacts; as news organizations employ strategies to rebuild trust, knowing the relationship between trust and …
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Headlines as networked language : a study of content and audience across 73 million links on Twitter
… a precise sense, is The New York Times from Fox News? Or - Fox from NPR, NPR from CNN, CNN from Breitbart? If we think of news organizations as producers of language, as "speakers" - how similar or different are the voices? This question of the distance between news sources is fundamental to …
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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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Personalized News Recommender using Twitter
<p>Online news reading has become a widely popular way to read news articles from news sources around the globe. With the enormous amount of news articles available, users are easily swamped by information of little interest to them. News recommender systems are one approach to help users find …
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Russian Influence and Kyrgyz Weakness: A Realist Understanding of Kyrgyz National Interest
… in which to operate. The study employed news sources in English and Russian, recently released U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, qualitative analyses by regional experts and quantitative data from government bodies. I contend that it is consistent with Kyrgyz national interest to …
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Building crime profiles from public data
… entities related. The public data used is online news articles and blogs published by the same websites. With the use of Natural Language Processing techniques articles are filtered out and linked to the crime type or crime types that they are related to. Results show that news online can be …
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Teaching News Literacy in the Age Of New Media: Why Secondary School Students Should Be Taught to Judge the Credibility of the News They Consume
… media. I examine the manner and ways in which news literacy, the use of critical thinking skills to judge the reliability of news reports and news sources, is taught to secondary school students in the United States. It is axiomatic that a vigorous and independent press is critical to our …
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TRADING OFF THE BENEFITS AND BURDENS: COAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY FLATHEAD RIVER VALLEY
… through government statements, reports, and news sources to track changes in policies or actions that led to a resolution. Tensions between the benefits and burdens of coal development were resolved in 2010 by a Memorandum of Understanding between British Columbia and Montana, which removed …
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TRADING OFF THE BENEFITS AND BURDENS: COAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY FLATHEAD RIVER VALLEY
… through government statements, reports, and news sources to track changes in policies or actions that led to a resolution. Tensions between the benefits and burdens of coal development were resolved in 2010 by a Memorandum of Understanding between British Columbia and Montana, which removed …
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In Viewership We Trust? Exploring Relationships Between Partisan Cable News and Mass Partisan Sentiment
… trust, increasingly partisan content on cable news networks, and increased viewership of these networks. A large portion of this literature, as well as journalistic research, has predominantly focused on individuals' consumption, rather than trust, of particular political media sources. I …
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An analysis of Western newspaper coverage of the Libyan-American conflict of 1986.
… conflict of 1986. Three elite Western newspapers, The New York Times (United States), The Globe and Mail (Canada), and The Times (Great Britain) were selected for this study. 1,045 news stories were analyzed, representing all news stories in the three papers which dealt with Libya …
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