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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"media organizations"”.
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"Mobilizing ""Asian American"": rhetoric and ethnography of Asian American media organizations"
… or if so negatively, in the mainstream media and not through their own accord. As a result, popular images of emasculated or villainous Asian American males, submissive or sexually threatening Asian American females prevail as the most salient representations. However, Asian American …
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Evaluating interactive documentaries : audience, impact and innovation in public interest media
Public interest media organizations are increasingly interested in experimenting with interactive and participatory approaches to documentary storytelling enabled by digital technologies. However, due to the experimental nature of these interactive documentaries, it is not yet clear whether the …
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Baylor in black and white : a study of desegregation at a Texas University as it played out through the student newspaper.
As social spaces began to desegregate, media organizations across the nation covered the process. This reporting left behind what we now use as the first draft of history. At Baylor University, the messy process of desegregating the campus was covered by the student newspaper, the Baylor Lariat. …
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Fairer, Not Equal: Elite Professional Female Athletes And Women's Sports Media Coverage
… professional female athletes in regards to the media coverage of women’s sports and explores how these athletes view themselves as members of society. Method: Data were collected by individual semistructured interviews between the primary researcher and 12 members of the National Women’s Soccer …
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Breaking down the gates with participatory journalism: leveraging user-generated content for today's journalistic practices
… to leverage UGC in their reporting. Because media organizations are continuously looking for creative and innovative ways to harness UGC to keep pace with today's ever-changing digital environment, there is a considerable amount of room to explore the effects on what this type of content has …
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WikiLeaks: A Critical Analysis of the U.S. Government's Response to the Disclosure of the War Logs
In the summer of 2010 the media organization WikiLeaks began a massive disclosure campaign that would come to see the publication of nearly 500,000 secret and classified documents pertaining to the United States' wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. Following this series of unprecedented leaks, the …
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"THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ANOTHER WAR": A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT'S RETROSPECTIVE ON REPORTING FROM AROUND THE WORLD
… high price that is not fully recognized by news organizations, the public, and often not even by the correspondents themselves. This thesis helps provide an understanding of that human cost. The methodology is autobiography, which allows for an intimate look at the behind-the- scenes experiences …
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When the News is the News: A Textual Analysis of NBC and CBS networks' Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations in the Wake of the #MeToo Movement
… Applications of image repair discourse to news media organizations is a relatively novel examination and it highlights the complex duality of an organization's right to uphold its image but obligation to present the news objectively, even when it has become the news.
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Exploring Contextual Factors and Trainee Characteristics: A Mixed Methods Study on Transfer of Training
… to the workplace remains a key challenge facing organizations, including those operating in developing countries such as Pakistan. Studies have found that in general employees transfer less than 10% of the training they acquire to their workplaces (Georgenson, 1982; Kelly, 1982; McGuire, 2014). …
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Resources for tackling post-traumatic stress disorder in local newsrooms
… to bridge this gap. 10 journalists from local media organizations who were sent to Joplin to cover the tornado in 2011 were interviewed for this study. They spoke confidentially about their experiences in Joplin and whether their employers offered any counseling programs for those who needed …
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Public service and commercial television news in Sweden : ideas and influences
… work of gathering news. In the field of media studies, public service broadcasting is often posited as being inherently different from commercial broadcasting. Some scholars, however, have taken the opposite position: that public service and commercial entities operate in strikingly …
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Say No to the Liberal Media: Conservatives and Criticism of the News Media in the 1970s
"Say No to the Liberal Media: Conservatives and Criticism of the News Media in the 1970s" examines the significance of news media criticism among conservative opponents of liberalism in the 1970s. Critiques of the mainstream news media were levied by a wide array of conservatives of the 1970s, …
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Model Interventions: The Evolution of Media Development Strategies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Macedonia from 2000 to 2007
… with European governments and international aid organizations, has sponsored the development of independent media as a major component of both conflict interventions and democratization programs, and more recently as part of nation building efforts. This study explores the evolution and export of …
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The Political Role of Social Media in Emerging Democracies
… (ICT) enables the emergence of new forms of media. One of these new forms is social media. The research literature suggests that the strengthening of the media as an independent institution is essential for social development because, in a regimen of a free press, the media can report and …
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Poor, black and female : an analysis of South African print media framing of people living with HIV/AIDS
Media coverage of HIV/AIDS issues influences how the public views the epidemic and people living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs). This dissertation investigates how two key lwge circulation English ianguage newspapers in South Africa frame PWAs. The research examines both the content of selected print media, …
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The Road to Rio: Infrastructure, Image, and New Media
… is role that citizen journalists and traditional media journalists play in the construction of the "media geography" of mega-events. This research examines the dominant narratives in the international media coverage of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil before the 2014 FIFA World Cup, specifically the 12 …
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Drugs in the News: What Do the Afghan News Media Say About Illicit Drugs?
Globally, research has shown that media coverage of illicit drug issues can play an important role in influencing public opinion and shaping drug policies. However, in Afghanistan, the world’s largest opium producer, very little is known about the media coverage of illicit drug issues. Afghan …
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Orienting fandom: the discursive production of sports and speculative media fandom in the Internet era
… of the changing relationship between media industry and audiences after the Internet. Because fans have traditionally been associated with an especially participatory relationship to the object of fandom, the shift to a norm of media interactivity would seem to position the fan as the …
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African Americans in North Dakota 1800-1940
… not avoid racism even in North Dakota. Local media, organizations, and institutions contributed to pre-existing sentiments of bias against African Americans. Segregation, stereotypes, and suspicion display ed the various aspects of discrimination that black people encountered in North …
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Examining community media sustainability in the digital age : a study of community radio stations in the North-West province of South Africa
Studies abound on different approaches by which media firms can achieve sustainability. However, there is intense paucity of literature on ways in which local media firms (community radio in South Africa) can achieve sustainability amidst the prevailing digital challenges. Hence, the knowledge gap …
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