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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"broadcast media"”.
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Talking Heads: How Broadcast Media Frame the Public Relations Industry.
… relations industry in 354 English language broadcast transcripts from the United States, Canada, and Australia from Sept. 1, 2009 to Aug. 31, 2010.</p><p>The overall tone toward public relations was strongly negative. Mentions reflected one-way forms of communication and mentions of the …
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Analyzing the Effects of Preprimary Broadcast Media on Presidential Nominations from 1980-2016
<p>This study attempts to discover if broadcast media released during the preprimary period has an effect on the Presidential nomination process, and if so in what way? Several OLS regression models, based on Randall Adkins and Andrew Dowdle’s Presidential nomination forecasting models, were …
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Creativity is king: an exploration of the role of brand orientation in the collaborative strategies of UK broadcast media organisations.
Although media brands possess distinct characteristics that differentiate them from commercial brands, their strategic management has only recently been recognised as important in the field of media management research. Organisations with a strategic orientation around the brand, known as a brand …
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An analysis of the impact of the United Kingdom print and broadcast media upon the legitimacy of the european parliament in Britain
… examines whether and to what degree the UK media undermine the legitimacy of the European Parliament in Britain. It begins by arguing that in respect of the EP, the concept of legitimacy needs reappraisal. It then offers a definition of "meaningful legitimacy" for the EP and identifies those …
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Community Warning Systems: Factors influencing citizen decision-making
… and outreach programmes, via collaboration of broadcast media, broadcast meteorologists and emergency management.<br/><br/>Electronic web-based surveys were made available to the general public, to broadcast media and to emergency management personnel to collect quantitative data related to …
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Theatre : the art of human being : locating the cultural value of theatre in the Age of Broadcast Media and a retrospective paper on the process leading towards the 2000 performance Involving Eternity
… commerce in the postmodern milieu of electronic broadcast media. It is the partial fulfillment of an MA degree in Theatre Making as studied from a performer's perspective. The other part of my final project was comprised by the 2000 performance of a play entitled Involving Eternity, a video of …
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The development and structure of Libyan television broadcasting, 1968-1995
… delay the establishment and development of its broadcast media (particularly television) until 1968. Libya has since developed into a modern State, thanks largely to its oil resources and its considerable commercial attributes. In turn, this has brought about rapid changes in Libyan society and …
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The effects of network factors on the performance of 3G UMTS applications
… FTP, email, MMS, SMS, HTTP web browsing, broadcast media, video calling and streaming media.
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Broadcast news and abortion : the effects of conservative narratives on the reproductive health debate
… and popular opinion? Using analysis of broadcast transcripts from CNN and FOX News, I examine the arguments articulated by politicians, activists, and members of the media on issues concerning reproductive health. I argue that, beginning in 1996, conservatives used the venue provided by …
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Effect Of Candidate Spending On Vote Share
… Additionally, I show that isolating spending on broadcast media reduces underestimation of the effect candidate spending has on vote outcomes, and employ a new instrumental variable incorporating differences in television advertising costs to find both incumbent and challenger spending have a …
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Storytelling and Self in Public Broadcast: A Visual Ethnography of Rocky Mountain PBS
<p>Embodied storytelling in Denver's public broadcast media establishes how the intersectional identities of storytellers influence narrative practices in Denver's public sphere. Five approaches to communicating identity informed my theoretical background: embodiment, visual anthropology, the …
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The Representation of the Northern Irish Conflict in the British Media with specific reference to the Lee Clegg case in the British Press
… has received considerable attention from the media, since the present ‘Troubles’ began, almost thirty years ago. There has been much criticism of the media coverage of the conflict, which is seen to blindly support the conduct of the British State, regardless of its actions. The British Press …
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Religion and public broadcasting in South Africa
… of religion and freedom of expression. Public broadcasting in general and the South African Broadcasting Corporation in particular constituted critical sites where the material possibilities and impossibilities of these rights were to be defined, negotiated, and regulated. This thesis …
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Halls without walls : perpetuation, development & dissemination of the discourse on blues music and blues culture in the digital age (1996-2016)
… an overview of the effects of technological mediation and specifically, digital remediation, on the discourse on blues music and blues culture since the introduction of the world-wide web in 1989, and the proliferation of computer-mediated communications (CMC) from 1996. In other words, blues …
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Shakespeare on South African television
… produced for television by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) between 1977 and 1988. The plays that were selected for production are Much Ado About Nothing (1977) Macbeth (1980) Twelfth Night (1981), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982), Hamlet (1983), and The Merchant of Venice …
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Humanizing Digital Experiences: Three Essays on the Design of Digital Entities
Marketing and branding efforts have shifted from broadcast media, as in magazines or television, toward bi-directional/conversational media. Firm representatives are increasingly digital, and thus dynamic, autonomous and personalizable. Rooted in the shift in marketing practice, this dissertation …
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Darkness in the shadows: post-conflict trauma and the documentary image
… international dynamic to the agreement with media outlets readily reporting the success as a template for other global conflicts. However, when the bright lights and media frenzy had moved on, difficult legacies of the conflict remained to be addressed. In particular, the growing community of …
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Emirati women journalists bargaining with patriarchy in search of equality
… the 1960s and 1970s. In addition, the field of broadcast media and journalism has proven to be a challenging one for Emirati women to enter, due to socio-cultural constraints set by a patriarchal society that prefers the practise of traditional gender roles. To shed light on this phenomenon, …
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Power, Policy, and Digital Switchover: An Analysis of Communication Policy Making and its Challenges for Regulating Ghana’s Digital Television Sector
… interest that went beyond the modernisation of broadcasting transmission infrastructure and the innovations digital switchover brought. The thesis investigates whether, and the extent to which, structural and institutional characteristics in the communication policy arena facilitated or hindered …
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The Challenges of Digital Switchover in Nigeria within the Global Trend in Digital Broadcasting
… (ASO). The global trend in digital terrestrial broadcasting has profoundly impacted the broadcast media and telecommunication sectors due to its efficient use of the radio spectrum. Thus, digitisation presents an opportunity for countries with weak broadcast policy architecture, such as Nigeria, …
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