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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Television news"”.
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User-Generated Content and Television News
… is to investigate the relationship between television news stations and user-generated content. With the technological growth our society has experienced over the last several years, user-generated content has become a popular way for television stations to gather news. This relationship was …
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Hurricane Katrina and the Television News Industry
… relationship between Hurricane Katrina and the television news industry. My goal was to record the experiences of my fellow co-workers at WWL-TV, which was the only local television station to remain on the air throughout the hurricane. I also wanted to perform a review of the news industry up …
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Representation of Missing Children in National Television News
… closely representations of missing children in television news reflect missing children statistics from "official" sources. The methodology used in this study was a content analysis of five national television news stations from 1987-2011 using the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. News …
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Local Television News in a Changing Media Environment
The rapid decline in the number of US news outlets, especially at the local level, has alarmed scholars because democratic societies depend on the media to provide citizens with information. Recent social science research suggests local television news helps with this information provision task; …
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Local Television News, Political Participation and Political Knowledge
… is limited by its focus on national broadcast news programs and national newspapers in the United States with comparatively less attention directed toward local television news. This drawback becomes more significant given that national surveys routinely find larger audiences for local than …
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Acquisition of geographic information from television news maps
University students were shown simulated television newscasts and then tested on the news material to see if maps within the newscast aided learning world geographic information. Students were shown one of eight simulated newscasts, of three news stories, Each newscast contained maps, varying in …
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Depictions of race: An analysis of local television news
… Americans and Euro-Americans aired on four local television stations in Las Vegas, Nevada. The study covered a one-week period with a sample set of 20 newscasts and 1,780 individual camera shots. One hypothesis of this study suggested that there are significant differences in the use of camera …
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Competition in local TV news: Ritual, enactment, and ideology
… understanding of competition in local television journalism. Using methods of participant observation, focused interviews, and critical textual analysis, the author argues that competition is ritualized within and among news organizations. Television news can be seen as a kind of race: …
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Auto-cassette : (the automatic clipping service for TV news)
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986.
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News as brands : branding television news channels in the Arab World : a case study of Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlEkhbaria and Nile television news channels
This research is an attempt to examine the use of news programmes as a means of branding television news channels in the Arab World. The researcher used a quantitative content analysis of the news programmes as well as semi-structured interviews with officials representing the four selected …
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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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Distant places and television news: A phenomenology of viewers' understandings
Empirical studies of place perceptions have until now been limited. Projects have focussed on places which are immediately present to the perceiver, such as urban landscapes, and have used methods such as sketch maps or distance estimates. These projects place unnecessary limits on the study of …
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Cultivation of fear of Blacks in Las Vegas television news media
This study was a content analysis of Las Vegas television news ( N = 1,145) and was designed to determine whether the potential exists for media consumers in the Las Vegas market to become fearful due to the overrepresentation of crime committed by Black offenders. One research question and two …
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Public service and commercial television news in Sweden : ideas and influences
… as well as the day-to-day work of gathering news. In the field of media studies, public service broadcasting is often posited as being inherently different from commercial broadcasting. Some scholars, however, have taken the opposite position: that public service and commercial entities …
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The Mediation of Personal Distress on Negative Television News and Donations
Previous research has shown that negative television news can lead to a reduction in positive affect (Harrell, 2000; Szabo & Hopkinson, 2007). What has yet to be investigated though is how negative television news influences an individual's interactions with others; precisely, how negative …
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Reporting on contested territory: television news coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict
This thesis 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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"Other" news : enemy image construction and otherization of Al Jazeera in American television news
… thesis explores the construction of the Arabic news network Al Jazeera on mainstream American television news. A textual analysis of transcripts from American television news programs on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox News was conducted using a model of enemy image construction and Otherization in …
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The future of local television news: Is there a possible strategic planning approach?
… with the planning process used in a sample of television news departments. The purpose was to determine if commonalities exist; in what circumstances, and whether techniques and approaches used for many years by businesses could advance the process of planning in the fast-paced environment of …
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Effects of narration on recall of television news: Remembering the video photo essay
Television viewers were tested on their level of information gain from the visual as well as the auditory channels of a TV news story. A story was presented in two modes: one with narration (narrated mode) and one without narration (video photo essay mode). In each presentation, the story was shown …
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