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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Newsweek"”.
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O gênero carta ao leitor: discurso e argumentação em Veja e Newsweek
… em revistas de informação semanais Veja e Newsweek. Na comunidade discursiva de leitores, o gênero carta de leitor (CL), pertencente ao domínio jornalístico, forma concreta de uso da leitura/escrita com função social, configura um espaço discursivo de circulação de pontos de vista e …
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The Image of "Aggiornamento" 1959-1965 : the Coverage of the Second Vatican Council by "Time"," Newsweek", and "U.S. News and World Report"
… did three, major, American magazines -- "Time", "Newsweek", and "U.S. News & World Report" -- cover the Second Vatican Council and Roman Catholic renewal between 1959 and 1965? What were the publications' attitudes, emphases, expectations, and qualities regarding their reporting of the council? …
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A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web
… to readers of three national publications-Wired, Newsweek, and Business Week-from 1993 to 2000. It uses Barthes' two-tiered model of myths to examine the descriptors used to modify and describe the World Wide Web. The descriptors were clustered into 11 general categories, including connectivity, …
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The Vietnam War and the press
… how three liberal publications (Washington Post, Newsweek, and New Republic) and three conservative publications (Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, and National Review) reported six different events of the Vietnam War. Chapter one will examine the publications’ coverage of the Tonkin …
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Are American News Magazines Setting the Agenda for Japan Bashing? A Content Analysis of Coverage of Japanese Economic Activities: 1981-1990
… the three American news magazines (i.e. Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report) may have intensified the negativeness of their coverage of Japanese economic activities in the 1986-1990 period. Also, subscription circulation indicates the amount of financial resources available for …
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Women's coverage in the 1976 and 1996 Olympics : a content analysis of three weekly U.S. magazines.
… of women Olympians from 1976 to 1996 in Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated magazines. The hypotheses tested explored research questions concerning the number of female Olympians to appear on the cover of the chosen magazines, the number of women's events covered, and the percentage of …
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If There's No "Fat Lady," When Is the Opera Over? An Exploration of Changing Physical Image Standards in Present-Day Opera
… Singer</em>, <em>Time</em>, and <em>Newsweek</em> have published articles exploring the new standards, little published academic work has explored this topic. As both a singer and an ethnomusicologist, I have spent several years observing and interviewing singers at various stages. …
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An Analysis of Environmental Advertising Frames from 1990 to 2010
… advertisements (N=449) published in Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News and World Report in 1990, 2000, and 2010. Advertisements were classified based on whether the environmental appeal was issue-specific (e.g., pollution, species/habitat protection) or generic. Findings indicate that …
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Modern art for middle America : American abstraction in mass magazines, 1946-1960
… in popular magazines such as Life, Time, Look, Newsweek, and The Saturday Evening Post. This thesis investigates how these magazines defined modern art and its role in postwar American culture for their millions of readers. During the late 1940s mass magazines portrayed modern art as a …
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The Political Career of Erskine Hamilton Childers, 1905-74
… he was named Minister of the Year in 1970 by Newsweek magazine. This thesis explores Childers political contribution and examines a number of key issues and themes throughout his political career. Such themes include the development and subsequent management of the Irish broadcasting service; …
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Say No to the Liberal Media: Conservatives and Criticism of the News Media in the 1970s
… Washington Post, Time,</italic> and <italic>Newsweek</italic>; and local newspapers such as the <italic>Boston Globe, Louisville Courier-Journal,</italic> and <italic>Detroit Free Press</italic>. Criticism of the news media was often motivated by anticommunist ideology, class-based …
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Gender Differences in Computer Attitudes, Interests, and Usage in an Elite High School
… named the "second best high school in America" (Newsweek, 2000), in suburban Northern Virginia. The purpose of the study was to examine the apparent discrepancy in male and female differences in computer use, interests, and attitudes. The research design included a student questionnaire combining …
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La metáfora conceptual y el lenguaje político periodístico: configuración, interacciones y niveles de descripción
… lingüísticas han sido recogidas de dos revistas Newsweek y Time. El análisis ha seguido un doble enfoque metodológico inductivo-deductivo, que nos ha permitido descubrir nuevos aspectos del lenguaje metafórico y nos ha proporcionado evidencia para confirmar nuevas hipótesis. En primer lugar, …
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Reading The Tea Leaves: The Media And Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972
… the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, CBS, ABC, NBC, People's Daily, and Reference News,</p> <p>The study is based on the assumption that media, instead of reporting the information "objectively," have the ability to affect the content they deliver and set the agenda for …
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U.S. Press Representation of the Southern Sudanese Civil War, 1983-2005
… Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. News articles published on the subject in the selected print news media outlets over the entire stretch of the civil war were collected and analyzed. The analysis revealed that the narratives of the selected …
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Special education eligibility following the COVID-19 pandemic
… shifting between in-person and virtual learning (Newsweek, 2020; UNICEF, 2021; Wyse et al., 2020). Understanding how students were impacted by lost instructional time and exposure to trauma during COVID-19 is critical in the identification of students needing special education. This study …
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News Media Coverage of the Attack on the American Embassy in Saigon During the 1968 Tet Offensive
… and the major news magazines, Time, Life, and Newsweek. It is important to observe that the news media is still a business that must appeal to its customers (readers and advertisers). As the public view changed, the media reflected that change in order to appeal to its audience. At the same …
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Chinatown: Place and Memory, A Case Study of St. Louis' Chinatown
… accomplishments of their elders. An issue of <em>Newsweek on Campus</em> presents the Asian American students as having an inner desire to excel. This ethnic group is the epitome of the American dream: "work hard and you'll rise to the top". But these are just myths for there are failures within …
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Corporate Social Responsibility: A Financial Performance-Based Approach in Understanding CSR
… into key correlations between CSR and Newsweek’s 2011 Green Rankings using forensic-based financial and accounting measures. It somewhat replicates a previous study and further introduces new variables in looking at CSR from a financial perspective. Interestingly, this paper is …