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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"media attention"”.
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Higher Education Policy Punctuations: An Assessment of Media Attention and Congressional Oversight
… between higher education oversight and attention has not been conducted. By utilizing McCubbins and Swartz’s Police Patrol and Fire Alarm Oversight Dichotomy, this experiment was able to discover that a relationship exists between fire alarm oversight and the amount of public attention …
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#METOO: NETWORKED CELEBRITY ADVOCACY AS CAPITAL PERFORMANCE
… movements utilize celebrity appeal to attract media and public attention for decades. Some researchers have found that celebrity advocacy failed to achieve exceptional performance in the legacy media age. Moreover, only a very few top-class celebrities have successfully attracted legacy media …
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The Ebola Experience: Media Lessons For Nurse Leaders
… 2014 the nursing profession gained unprecedented media attention when two nurses became infected with the Ebola virus, and another nurse who cared for Ebola patients defied two gubernatorial quarantine orders. Nurses have traditionally received little media attention, and the nursing profession …
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Synthesis of a Resveratrol Glycinate Derivative.
<p>Recently, the compound resveratrol has had media attention as an anti carcinogen. However, the bioavailability of resveratrol is low in the human system due to its hydrophobic nature. Therefore, it must be administered in high dosages to be effective. A plethora of derivatives have been …
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Mean girls in the press: a content analysis of two Toronto newspapers
Recent criminological scholarship characterizes media attention to aggressive girls, or “mean girls,” as a moral panic, which is correlated with the creation of increasingly punitive antibullying policies in North America. Content analysis was used to uncover how news attention to youth aggression …
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"Time for Teletubbies": Childhood, Child Participation, and the Struggle for Meaning
… controversies are analyzed along with the media attention surrounding the program. A textual analysis is presented, including the methodologies of narrative theory, semiotics/structuralism, and poststructuralism. The context is also analyzed, using a cultural studies and historical …
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Legal Recognition and Media Representation of Sign Languages: South African Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language as case studies
… representation of sign languages in newspaper media, using South African Sign Language (SASL) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) as comparative case studies. Drawing on sociolinguistic frameworks of language planning and policy, and language ideologies and attitudes, the study explores how …
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“Foids have no soul, they are not human.” A sociological examination of the language used by an online male supremacy group.
… has seen a rise in participation and mainstream media attention, largely due to recent mass murders targeting women committed by self-identified members. Scholarship has therefore focused on the community’s relationship to violence and its highly misogynistic nature. Jock Young’s theory of human …
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Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision
<p>Despite the Western media attention and the critique of female circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa, few studies consider the local populations' traditions, values, and ideologies.<em> Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision</em> investigates female circumcision …
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@GretaThunberg: Navigating Critique and Identity Within Youth Climate Activism on Twitter
… her activism and Twitter presence have sparked media attention, catalyzed youth activists globally to organize marches and strike from school, and have drawn critique. This thesis employs McKerrow’s (1989) critical rhetoric to uncover dominant discourses within tweets that undermine Thunberg …
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Millennium Bugs and Weapons of Mass Fear: Dialogs Between Science and Popular Culture in the 1990's
… for this research. For example, the increase in media attention to Ebola virus actually preceded the actual 1995 outbreak of this disease in Zaire, which occurred a full 19 years after the most recent previous outbreak. Mass media, including the news, do not simply reflect reality, but also …
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The Nature and Dynamics of Political Rhetoric
… movements in the unaligned, and levels of media attention. Elites do not compete with one another for the support of their leaners. Thus, the only factor that should be related to the timing of partisan appeals is the movement of one side's leaners away from the party. The analyses reveal …
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The Impact of US Foreign Policy on the Colombian Conflicts
… nearly half a century but the last decade the media attention has faded away, as the world’s interest has shifted its focus, towards covering news about war on terror. This lack of media interest has caused the drug trafficking to thrive. The US however has not lost interest in their strongest …
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Decreasing Medication Errors Through the Reduction of Avoidable Interruptions
<p>In recent years, the media has been rife with stories of medical mistakes in hospitals or other health care settings that lead to patient injury or death. While most of the media attention rightfully focuses on the horrific psychological and emotional toll such injuries and deaths impose upon …
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Parent-spectatorship in minor ice hockey
… minor hockey games that have received national media attention. To appreciate this social phenomenon in Canadian rinks, it is imperative to grasp the significance of the parent-child relationship to parent-spectatorship and the experienced emotions of parent-spectatorship. Located within a …
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The Barbaric Spectacle of Late Modern Fighting
… ignite public controversy and attract popular attention than that of violence. A fascinating new development - human cage fighting - has generated massive audiences and significant media attention. Existing beneath the visceral spectacle of mediated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is an underworld of …
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The demand for savings services among the urban poor - evidence from the Khayelitsha panel study (2000-2004)
… to the un-banked by 2008. Although much of the media attention and academic literature has been focused towards the challenge of providing basic transaction services, the charter has also set out specific savings targets for the 2008 deadline. It specified that by 2008, 80% of the poorest half …
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Armand Vaillancourt's social sculpture
… at in any depth though it has generated a lot of media attention. His bois brules, and The Tree of Durocher St., reflected a search for interiority through materials. Quebec libre and Je me souviens were both abstract and monumental, but the aesthetic is structural yet the process embodies …
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Finance of the fallow firmament : valuing air rights in contemporary Manhattan
… air rights in New York City. Despite widespread media attention and studies by community groups, examination of transferable development rights usage in New York has not included the application of rigorous financial analysis. This paper first provides a comprehensive account of the history of …
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Comparative study of base community relations in Japan
… Futenma have received an unprecedented amount of media attention. This thesis examines the relative level of controversy at four different U.S. installations MCAS Futenma, Kadena Air Base, Naval Station Yokosuka, and MCAS Iwakuni. It identifies five causal factors historical anti-militarism, major …
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