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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Online media"”.
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Exploring representations of, and attitudes towards, snakes in online media: an ethnozoological approach
… the portrayals of snakes across different media sources might impact the potential for human hostility and conservation resistance or acceptance. I investigated the portrayals of snakes across online media content to discuss the potential impact on human acceptance of snake conservation. I …
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The development of online media to support design prototyping with a laser cutter
Online education has been growing and there has also been work done to support residential design education with online media. This thesis focuses on developing online media providing instruction on how to use the laser cutter, a tool that can be used in early-stage prototyping as part of the …
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A comparative analysis of the performance of traditional advertising media and online media for the promotion of tourism in KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree: PhD: Management Sciences (Marketing), Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2018.
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Killing Flies With a Shotgun: How the Internet Set a New Journalistic Standard and Style
… as the story itself. This study shows how online media sets new standards for narrative and continues some print traditions. This study focuses on the dialogue between print and online media. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of this dialogue through story length, readability, …
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Diseño de nodos inicales en cibermedios: un estudio comparativo
Since the first online media arise in1990, the design of which has been adapted to the content it offers and the technological evolution of the support; although, the above developments have occurred largely outside the journalistic environment where companies generally have not yet found their …
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Status of Accountability in Online News Media: A Case Study of Nepal
Scholars contend that media accountability to the public and professional stakeholders has been improving in recent years because of the increased use of digital platforms. Since most studies related to online news media accountability have focused on developed countries, this research study …
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The Gekko Effect: The Media's Framing of Michael Douglas' Ambiguous Public Health Disclosure and the Public's Online Health Information Seeking
… study investigated the presence and frequency of online media frames and frame combinations in stories related to Michael Douglas' public health disclosure, and the frames' relationship with the public's online information seeking of "Michael Douglas", "HPV", "throat cancer", and "oral sex". The …
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Perceptions and Content of Traditional and Online News: an analysis of Bias in Indian Media
… and analyse two different points of view on media polarization: one, from the public’s perspective through 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 …
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Advancing sustainability indicators through text mining: a feasibility demonstration
… and may be better monitored using other types of online media, such as blogs and reports. Such use of online media can improve the incorporation of society’s values in the process of selecting and tracking the indicators, a component that had been missing in previous approaches.
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Online Knowledge Sharing in a Multinational Corporation: Chinese and *American Practices
… understanding the complexity of technology-mediated knowledge sharing in cross-cultural contexts. One major contribution of this dissertation is that it has provided sound explanations for cross-cultural knowledge sharing patterns by synthesizing the factors from separate fields including …
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The personal is political: articulating women's citizenship through three African feminist blogs
Mediated public spaces both on and offline privilege the educated male elite, and thus cannot address the specific needs of women (Huyer and Sikoska, 2003:2), or their points of view. This study aimed to explore the extent to which three African feminist blogs realise the democratising potential of …
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Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment
<p>Serial murder has been a popular media phenomenon across the United States since the 1980s, and media representations of serial killers may significantly influence public opinion as well as impact capital punishment policies. This content analysis examined the portrayal of one dozen different …
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“Rantoul es como Jayuya:” (De)valued migrations, education, and progreso within media, Puerto Rico, and the rural Midwest
… representations of Puerto Rican migration in the media with narratives of individuals engaging in rural-to-rural migration between the island and the United States in the 21st century. Specifically, this qualitative project based on ethnographic methods unveils how (1) migrants, (2) people in …
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Moments When the Weak Gained Ground: Viral Video as a Curriculum of People
… appeared outside of school via shared online media between social networks. This new curriculum, identified by a relatively wide viewership and its challenge to social injustice, oppressive conventions or hegemonic forces, is a curriculum of viral videos shared because of their meaning …
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New media, identity, and Arab youth in Britain
The role of the new media in young people’s lives has led to a debate about the potential of the internet as a means of influencing identity formation and youth participation. A growing body of academic research has shown an interest in understanding this influence. This thesis sets out to study …
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Internet and diasporic communication: Dispersed Nigerians and the mediation of distance, longing and belonging
… mainly on the Internet, the role of other media are also highlighted in order to understand the complexities of long distance communication and the meanings of mediated connection within the broader context of international communications. The work analyses migrant uses and appropriations …
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Part of This World: A Personal Exploration of Media and Queer Identity
… exploring the impact of television, film, and online media on identity formation. I look specifically at my own identity as a queer person and how it has been shaped by what I have seen and experienced as a young queer and as an educator. Topics discussed include homophobia in the classroom and …
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Information behaviour of Nigerian undergraduates in the world of Web 2.0: The case of Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Delta State, Nigeria, a specialized university
… of Nigerian undergraduates with a focus on online media, especially Web 2.0. Nigeria has a laudable vision tagged Nigeria Vision 20:2020 (NV 20:2020), which is to be one of the top 20 knowledge economies by the year 2020. To achieve this grand feat, the nation requires a skilled population …
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