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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"media form"”.
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Mass Media and the Evolution of the Environmental Movement: 1960-1979
This thesis examines how particular forms of mass media spurred and guided the United States environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Its objective is to better understand how mass media contributed to the evolution of the environmental movement. Three particular types of media form the basis …
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Controlling and constraining the participation of the hepatitis C-affected community in Australia: A critical discourse analysis of the first national hepatitis C strategy and selected news media texts
… persons at social risk (Candlin, 1989, p. ix), informs this study of the ways in which public health policy makers and journalists in Australia communicate about hepatitis C. The institutions of public health and the news media form part of the cultural context within which persons construct their …
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Native Advertising and Disclosure
… and editorial content in the converged paid media form of native advertisements. Because native advertisements have the potential to negatively impact the credibility of traditional news organizations by misleading consumers through hidden persuasion attempts, this text reviews native …
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Representing the American rifleman: how the NRA built and maintained a national community of gun owners
… may explain its power. The role of the NRA as a media producer and social institution is particularly understudied, and no media form has been more central to the NRA’s success than magazines. Therefore, this dissertation conducts an interpretive analysis of 100 issues of the NRA’s flagship …
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Phenotypic variation and bistability within flagellar gene network in Salmonella Typhimurium
… by FliZ. YdiV expression is enhanced in poor media and greatly reduced in rich media. Thus, FliZ and YdiV, in poor media, form a negative regulation loop which results in a bistable motility pheotype. However, the extent of bistability is unclear. This study aims to characterize the extent of …
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Islamophobia in the United States How American News Coverage and Social Media Perpetuate Fear & Hate Against Islam
… news coverage that people are exposed to, with media stories on terrorist attacks often conflating Islam and violence in both subtle and other ways. Furthermore, we see that similar coverage of acts of violence committed by non-Muslims is often markedly different, both in tone and language. …
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A Sitting Army?: Narrative, Presence, and Persuasion in the America's Army Computer Game
As new media forms are developed through innovations in technology, an increasing number of multimedia products, such as computer and video games, are employing new combinations of realism, mediated social interaction, and psychological immersion while allowing expanded interactivity. User …
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Nothing to See Here: Generative AI, Neoliberal Crisis, and Intensified Counterinsurgency
… develops a historico-genealogical account of media, visuality, and power, showing how media technologies reflect and intensify particular visualities, culminating in the emergence of algorithms as the media form native to a mode of visualization which ‘sees’ the social as a heterogeneous field …
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Lost in transcription: Enhancing the typographic description of prosody in written discourse through dynamic typography
… Its focus is the intersection between new media/experimental typographic practice, speech visualisation and oral history. This research emerged from the practice-based investigation of a problematic situation identified within the field, drawing upon the exploration of an appropriate …
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Remembering and Recollecting World War Two: South African Perspectives
… memories of the war can be located in different media. Accordingly the chapters herein are each delegated a media form, from newspapers, literature, memorials, film and photography to oral interviews, in which ‘memories’ of the war are located. The arrangement of the chapters mimics the history …
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Punishment in the slammer: penal spectatorship among college students.
… citizens is often experienced in a variety of forms, such as watching television, navigating the internet, playing video games, reading periodicals, and touring prisons. These experiences amount to a set of practices that tend to both exclude and punish. Each of these practices provide …
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The Internet Has Changed Many Things, But Not Everything: The Effects of Internet Use on Gendered and Political Views
… who use the Internet can obtain uncensored information about nearly any subject with ease. The unlimited access and the perceived freedom make the Internet an extremely popular media form. The purpose of this research is to examine the differences in how the types of sites individuals visit …
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From Peter Pan to Hannibal Lecter : The various faces of masculinity in popular cinema.
… to investigate how mass appeal within a popular media is possible given the cultural diversity of modem society. My hypothesis is that as well as differences between ethnographic groups there is probably similarities. As patriarchy is an aspect of our culture that crosses class, racial and …
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A Conscious Creation? Political Economy, Globalisation and Cultural Representation in Terrestrial South Korean Miniseries 2002-2017
… and the evolution of content within this media form. The contribution to knowledge of this research rests on its methods: the employment of a dual-strand approach of critical political economy and cultural studies. The critical political economy component relies on twelve semi-structured …
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Anadiplosis: In between Cemetery and City, Sacred and Secular
… in many ways. Architecture talks about the form, function, materiality, circulation, environment of artificial space. Narrative has its media, form, method, genre, rhetoric, in order to describe a series of related events or experiences. People are the users of all architectural spaces. The …
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Making Waves: Intra-actions with Educational Media at the National Film Board of Canada from 1960-2016
… extraordinarily diverse and innovative multimedia for the classroom. Multimedia is here understood as any media form that was not film, including filmstrips, slides, overhead projecturals, laserdiscs and CDs. To date, there have been no attempts to document the history of educational …
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Say It Loud: An Action Research Project Examining the Afrivisual and Africology, Looking for Alternative African American Community College Teaching Strategies
… the findings of this inquiry by using another media form of the Afrivisual. Lastly, it exposed weaknesses in the self-hatred thesis as it applies to African American adults, and called for the groundbreaking theoretical framework to be revisited.</p>
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Material Virtuality: Remaking Rio de Janeiro’s Past and Present through Digital Media
… economy served to make smartphones and social media ubiquitous across the country (Spyer 2017). This thesis focuses on how these two phenomena intersect in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on material gathered during fieldwork in 2019 and 2020, it examines how a selection of …
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Through the Eyes of a Bystander: Understanding VR and Video Effectiveness on Bystander Empathy, Presence, Behavior, and Attitude in Bullying Situations
… to take responsible action. While many different forms of campaigns, including print and media campaigns, have aimed at trying to reduce the presence of bullying in schools by informing bystanders, there is still a need to find new strategies for reducing bullying behavior. One potential media …
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The effect of violent video game playing on gamer's views of victims of crime
… and immersive, there has been concern that this media form offers a different perspective on violence to players than more passive forms of media. Much of the research in the area of violent video game research has focused on changes in players in terms of aggressive behaviour, following exposure …
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