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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"media policy"”.
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The Importance of an Appropriate Social Media Policy for K-12 Education
… study is to explore creating appropriate social media policies to ensure these tools are used properly for positive uses and control the negative impacts of social media in the school environment. Although social media can be used as a great tool for modern classrooms, there are a variety of …
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An Examination of Social Media Policy for Educators in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… issues arising from educators' use of social media. The study also explored Virginia school divisions' policy implementation practices and resolutions for educators' social media use issues. Survey response analysis and policy review are combined to define: 1) Virginia school divisions' …
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The business of broadband and the public interest : media policy for the network society
Media policy in the United States has, since its inception, been governed by the principle that infrastructure providers should serve "the public interest." The Federal Communications Commission has traditionally been charged with enforcing various obligations on businesses under this principle. …
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Social Media Policy Implications in Higher Education: Do Faculty, Administration, and Staff have a Place in the "Social Network"?
… communication afforded by the use of social media also opens privacy and safety concerns for potential users inside and outside the realm of higher education. As the promise of the positives afforded by weaving social media into the fabric of higher education has been realized, so too have …
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OPSEC v. RTK: Media Restrictions in United Nations Peacekeeping
The United Nations currently adopts media policies for peacekeeping missions on an ad-hoc basis, often relying on US or NATO rules. Some have suggested that a standardized media policy for all peacekeeping missions should be the norm. This project examines that proposition with an eye to the …
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Contradictions in the Arab media: The case of Arabsat
In the construction of their media infrastructure, most of the Arab countries are spending millions of dollars on US and Western contracts. Regarded as one of the fastest growing and dynamic markets for media technologies in the world, the region may lack a clear media policy as a guideline to shed …
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The Politics of Social Media in the Department of Defense; How DoD's Status Changed From Friend to Defriend to Friend Again
The introduction of social media presented a significant challenge to the often secretive culture of the U.S. military. DoD struggled with publishing a social media policy forcing the armed services to develop their own policies, which were all inconsistent. When DoD finally established a social …
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Religion and public broadcasting in South Africa
… the history and development of the South African mediascape. Substantial chapters analyse the role of religion in the banning and introduction of television under apartheid, the place of religion in the formulation of new media policy in the democratic era, and the regulatory role of the …
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Grey areas: a cross-country comparative study of user-generated hate speech, incivility and journalistic responsibility for online comments
… which might be due to specific features of the media system. While the level of user-generated hate speech is lower in the UK and Hungary, the findings point to a gap in media policy that results in the presence of such content on the sites of newspapers from all three countries.
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Minority language television - social, political and cultural implications
… an analysis on state level of French and British media policy, particularly with regards to their linguistic minorities. This part of the thesis deals with the historical, political and institutional background for the provision of minority language media in Breton and Welsh. It takes as points of …
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Implementation of social media policies: A case study of the ministry of information and communication technology and mobile telecommunications company
This study set out to assess social media usage by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) and Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC). The main objectives of this study were to assess MICT and MTC’s social media policies; to evaluate the implementation of MICT and MTC’s …
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Impact of globalisation on the local press in China : a case study of the Beijing Youth Daily from 1981 to 2006
… and internal influences, the Party-state and the media as well as the media and the market. The central argument is that globalisation impacts many aspects of local newspapers including media policy, organisation, journalistic practice, journalists' roles and coverage of world news. Such impact is …
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Media exposure, policy agenda setting and risk communication in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Nigeria's Niger Delta region
… investigated the extent to which the Nigerian media have alerted the public and key opinion formers to risk-related issues / conflict in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region in order to shape the Nigerian public policy sphere as a response to the reoccurring [1958-2009] conflict between the government, …
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What’s in a Frame? Cosmopolitan Morality, the Media and Interventionism
This thesis examines the media-foreign policy nexus through a specific focus on the moral framing of conflict and interventionism within British media and policy discourses. While morality has been identified as a frequently used frame through which we may understand issues, there has been little …
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Radio's digital dilemma: broadcasting in the 21st century
The interaction of policy and technological development in the era of “convergence” is messy and fraught with contradictions. The best expression of this condition is found in the story behind the development and proliferation of digital audio broadcasting (DAB). Radio is the last of the …
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Broadcasting policy in Italy's 'second republic' 1994-2006
… this thesis provides an analysis of television policy in Italy’s Second Republic from 1994 to 2006, focusing on four distinct policy issues: the reform of broadcasting regulatory structures resulting in the establishment of a single communications authority (AGCom); the reform of ownership rules …
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International news contraflow in the United States and Canada: struggles over North American media markets and regulation of Al Jazeera and China Central Television
In this dissertation, I examine news media contraflow, flows of news and information from historically underrepresented parts of the globe into advanced media systems. I assess North American governance of news media flows in light of increased availability of nonwestern news organizations. The …
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Crisis of consumerism: advertising, activism, and the battle over the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 1969—1980
… a result of vigorous debates about how the U.S. media should serve in public interest. Using Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony as a theoretical lens, this dissertation reveals the ways in which the Federal Trade Commission’s regulatory renaissance was evidence of an important moment of …
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The Norwegian Newspaper Industry in the Digital Age
… but the economic consequences for legacy media were severe. Advertising revenues plummeted, print circulation deteriorated, and most organisations have struggled to make readers pay for online news. Many newspapers in the Anglo-American world were forced out of business, and those managing …