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Showing 1 to 20 of 17973 for “"media"”.
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Media menagerie
The Media Arts Building for a small Hawaiian college was designed following the guidelines set forth in the Hawaii Loa College International Design Competition. The central issue of this design problem concerned the dualism of the South Pacific cultures with the high-technology characteristic of …
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Emerging South-South media flows: Chinese media in Africa
… China reshape the global order, transnational media flows are undergoing significant transformation, featuring flows within the traditional periphery in the Global South that do not necessarily pass through the traditional center of the West. Recent digital migration in sub-Saharan Africa has …
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How people become media literate and their media habits
Media literacy is defined as the way people analyze and interpret messages from mass media. This project studies how people become media literate and methodologies that may be applied to make media education more effective. It is important to know and understand background information about people, …
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The Consequences of Mistrust in the News Media: Media Skepticism as a Moderator in Media Effects and as a Factor Influencing News Media Exposure
… audience trust in the institutions of the news media is fading. Most research to date has focused on the reasons for this decline in audience trust and ignored its outcomes. This dissertation seeks to explore the consequences of audience skepticism toward media institutions. Specifically, it …
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“According to social media…” Examining the influence of social media on political reporting within Zimbabwe’s mainstream media
… the basis of the existence of online alternative media that carries political content, that democratisation can be technology-led. Given that the question of source selection is connected to the democratising potential of the Internet (Lecheler and Kruikemeier, 2016) by some scholars – this study …
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Social media recruitment: Integration of social media in recruitment strategy
… identify the sentiments and behavior of social media users toward social media recruitment. It also contains the social media user’s opinion about social media marketing. Also, which social media channels are available for recruitment, and which channels are preferred by candidates to apply for …
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Mind over media: Conscious and unconscious responses to media messages
Human response to media images is a product of both conscious and preconscious processing, involving structural mechanisms within the brain as well as individual self-concepts, issues of identity, ideological beliefs, and relevance. Visual and auditory processing incorporates both conscious and …
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Media laboratory extension
… design project, it will reexamine the design of Media Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently proposes a design for the extension to the existing lab. The design of the lab was carried out by I.M. Pei & Partners in collaboration with a group of artists; a design move …
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Why Does Media Marketization Reinforce Media Control in Post-Tiananmen China?: A Political Economic Theory of Media Control
The current Chinese media political literature ascribes China’s effective media control to Communist Party censorship. Up until now, scholars and authors have overlooked how the enormous social and economic changes that China has undergone since economic reform has affected media control. This …
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Cross-media News Work - Sensemaking of the Mobile Media (R)evolution
… a longitudinal study of transforming tensions in media production processes. It focuses on the thoughts and actions of new and mobile media in the interplay between staff from editorial-, business and IT departments in an organization coupled with the old newspaper medium. It makes the story of …
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Diversifying the Media Landscape: Case Study of Two Alternative Russian Media
The Russian government tends to control most media outlets in the country either directly, through state-owned companies or through a so-called political elite. This, along with existence of various restrictive laws and their usage, forms a barrier to the flourishing of ethical, unbiased, and …
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Parents and the media: Causes and consequences of parental media socialization
Contains fulltext : 90823.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Media Transformations: Framing, Multimodality and Visual Literacy in Contemporary Media Spaces
… the creation, distribution and consumption of media texts and the need to find new ways of describing and explaining their role in representation and communication. Its development is historical. It is a response to change over time. The incorporation of the visual into social semiotics marks a …
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Political knowledge and social media use in the digital media system
My dissertation explores how social media exposure affects political knowledge among the American public. Political knowledge is central to any understanding of citizen competence, yet key questions remain about how to best increase citizens’ information levels. My dissertation project assesses to …
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Media Hegemony: The Portrayal of Rohingya Refugees in the Canadian Print Media
… genocide. This study focuses on how the Canadian media portrays the Rohingya minority after their displacement from Myanmar and resettlement in Canada. The primary objective is to analyze how different news outlets depict the Rohingya community, with a secondary goal of contrasting media …
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The Zimbabwean threat: media representations of immigrants in the South African media
… thesis is a multimodal discourse analysis of the media representations of Zimbabwean immigrants in the South African media. The aim of the investigation is to illustrate how Zimbabwean immigration and Zimbabwean immigrants are portrayed in the print media in South Africa. For the theoretical and …
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Parenting and social media: Exploring parental understanding of adolescent social media use
Social media (SM) has become an integral part of adolescent socialization. SM is widely accessible through advanced technology with resulting demands for constant connection. Existing research has focused on the negative aspects of SM while highlighting the need for an understanding of how to …
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Opsporing op social media
Voor informatie die burgers via social media naar buiten brengen bestaat vanuit opsporingsinstanties veel belangstelling. Het gebruik van deze informatie door de opsporing moet plaatsvinden binnen wettelijke kaders, en van het bestaande wettelijke kader is niet altijd duidelijk hoe het moet worden …
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