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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"U.S. Media"”.
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Reporting Laos: The U.S. Media and the "Secret" War in Laos: 1955-1975
… challenged seriously by the mainstream American media is the subject of this study. The thesis incorporates relevant secondary sources as well as interviews with more than 30 personalities associated with the war or the American media coverage. It concludes that the press corps did not begin to …
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Constructing Evil: U.S. Media Discourse and the Iranian State Murder of Neda Agha-Soltan
… protest and subsequently posted to social media networks showing a graphic fist-hand account of the savagery of a state crime. Media discourse presented the idea that Neda's murder was committed by the Iranian government unafraid to implore repressive measures to control its population. The …
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U.S. Media Framing of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1999: Religious Framing in anInternational Conflict?
This study examines the framing of religion in the news coverage of a conflict between India and Pakistan which happened from May 5, 1999 and July 30, 1999 in selected U.S. news outlets. The study looks into the coverage of the conflict in seven national and regional U.S. newspapers, and three U.S. …
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Emotional eating in early Jamaican adolescents: the role of remote acculturation, psychological distress and U.S. media
… and (3) to determine if remote acculturation mediates the association between consumption of US-produced media and emotional eating. Data were used from the Culture, Health, and Family Life Study, a multidisciplinary exploration of Americanization as a potential risk factor for adolescent …
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Reading The Tea Leaves: The Media And Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972
… dissertation aims to find out what role(s) the media in the United States and China played in their historic rapprochement from 1963 to 1972. In order to examine how they covered the major events that affected Sino-American relations, I select seven elite U.S. media and two Chinese official …
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Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945--1949
… research, this study historicizes current media policies and reform efforts by analyzing the 1940s postwar critical juncture when policymakers, social movements, and communication industries grappled over the role of a commercial press in a democratic society. By focusing on policy …
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Improving English skills through Video: A Conversation-Based Curriculum for Chinese EFL Adult Learners
… create video teaching resources, based on U.S. media like television shows, to be used in EFL classes in China to improve the conversational skills of students.</p>
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The Antioch Debacle: A Corporatist Misadventure in Higher Education
… by Antioch University, Antioch College, and U.S. media, I examine differing interpretations regarding the purpose, function, and role of institutions of higher education. Ultimately, I contend that the struggle to save the College represents the dual conflict of purpose and process in higher …
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When to start freaking out : audience engagement on social media during disease outbreaks
As the media landscape in the United States has shifted and changed, the emphasis placed on digital technologies - particularly with respect to audience engagement - has become increasingly noteworthy. However, when situated against a backdrop of risk communications and sensationalized spectacle, …
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
… China serves as paradigmatic example; and U.S. media, fiction, and film, ranging from Jack London to Don DeLillo and Martin Scorsese, that offers an historicist interpretation of China. The emergence of this new orientalism---documented at length for the first time here---has multiple …
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Latinas Talk Back: The Latina Body, Citizenship, and Popular Culture
… construction of the Latina body across media institutions, popular culture, and lived experience. In particular, it asks: what is the discursive construction of the Latina body in mainstream U.S. and Latina/o popular culture and how do Latinas engage with these representations of their …
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Beautification Practices Among Asian And Asian American College Students
… and, therefore, underrepresented in the U.S. media. Moreover, some Asians and Asian Americans take this for granted and unconsciously adopt western beauty standards into their routine beautification practices. Asians' and Asian Americans' beautification practices function as their habitus to …
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Stop Talking about Sorrow: Nixon’s Communications Strategy after Lam Son 719
… from the Nixon Presidential Library, the U.S. media, and television transcripts to explain how and why Nixon re-shaped the story of Lam Son 719 and his Vietnamization policy to persuade a dispirited American people to accept withdrawal from Vietnam. This political comeback, often overshadowed …
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Embodiments of Difference: Representations of Vietnamese Women in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary
… maintains a neocolonialist agenda through its media representations of Vietnamese women. This neocolonialist agenda began with the U.S. attempt to police global politics by intervening in the Vietnam civil war beginning in the mid-1950s and continued when in the early 1990s the U.S. normalized …
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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
… economy received heavy coverage from the U.S. media. Manheim positions valence--"the general sense of favor, neutrality, or disfavor associated with the portrayal of a given subject" in transference of general negativeness to the public--as one of the three important dimensions of the media …
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Surviving prejudice : a feminist ethnography of Muslim women living and studying in Middle Town, Indiana, United States.
… negative stereotyping propagated by some U.S. media and some people in general. Women in this study tended to be very deliberate in defining their status as women and as learners by examining and referring to the most legitimate resources of Islam: The Qur’an and Hadith. The participants also …
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Patterns in the Chaos: News and Nationalism in Afghanistan, America and Pakistan During Wartime, 2010-2012
… examines the United States's elite news media's hegemony in a global media landscape, and how it can come to stand for the entire American nation in the imagination of outsiders. In this transnational, instantaneous digital media arena, what is created for an American audience can fairly …
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Crisis of consumerism: advertising, activism, and the battle over the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 1969—1980
… a result of vigorous debates about how the U.S. media should serve in public interest. Using Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony as a theoretical lens, this dissertation reveals the ways in which the Federal Trade Commission’s regulatory renaissance was evidence of an important moment of …
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Framing the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in Bangladesh and the United States
… investigates how Bangladeshi and U.S.-based media outlets framed the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh. While prior research has highlighted media ownership or ideology, this work explores how the national context influences framing across global North and South outlets. Drawing on …
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THE MEDIA IS A FUNHOUSE MIRROR: COMPARING ECONOMIC INTERACTION ISSUES IN THE U.S. AND CHINESE MEDIA
… two countries. The research focused on the key media frames in the two sets of news media, the factors that shaped these media frames, and the real meanings behind those reports. The study found both similarities and differences. The two sets of media showed significant differences in their …
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