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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"media logic"”.
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Redefining journalism : convergence in the public sphere
… for daily news shows. Through the lens of media logic, using the theories of convergence culture and the public sphere, I develop strategies to involve more citizens in the newsmaking process, thus invigorating public discourse and subverting news production that is designed to entertain …
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Making sense of media emotions around traffic reduction schemes: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and School Streets in news and social media
This thesis provides an understanding of online media’s reception of urban traffic reduction schemes, examining a gap in the literature regarding the emotive media coverage and public social media discourse surrounding Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) and School Streets in the UK. Moving beyond …
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Metrics and analytics in the newsroom: an ethnographic study exploring how audience data are changing journalistic practice.
… but as a means of reputation building for media outlets fighting to retain relevance and public trust, both of which are intrinsically tied to revenue and/or funding. This thesis explores the potential conflicts between journalism’s mandate to keep the public informed through quality, …
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Aid and the news agenda: Exploring the forces shaping NGO-produced humanitarian media
… consider most effective for achieving mainstream media coverage, how they access such content, and any forces influencing their eventual production of news. In line with notions of media logic (Altheide and Snow 1979; Cottle and Nolan 2007) and news cloning (Fenton 2010), it uncovers a reliance on …
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Oh, What a Novelty! The Paradoxical Pop-Up Book
… achieved such a profound status in children’s media culture, by examining the under-researched phenomenon of the remediated pop-up book: the pop-up book that is reimagined within, and dispersed across, non book media. I employ Bolter and Grusin’s theory of remediation to demonstrate how the …
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The Value of Social Media: What Social Networking Sites Afford Organizations
Social media are a phenomenon that has quickly become deeply rooted in the mechanics of our everyday lives, dramatically changing how we interact and collaborate with family, peers, and society. Meanwhile, organizations have increasingly been exposed to and affected by this societal use, and hence …