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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"sensationalism"”.
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Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment
<p>Serial murder has been a popular media phenomenon across the United States since the 1980s, and media representations of serial killers may significantly influence public opinion as well as impact capital punishment policies. This content analysis examined the portrayal of one dozen different …
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Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem
… travel literature presents a paradigm based in sensationalism and population removal due to their focus on entertainment and wonder, rather than education and dissemination of knowledge.</p>
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Where Was the Outrage? The Lack of Public Concern for the Increasing Sensationalism in Marvel Comics in a Conservative Era 1978-1993
<p>This thesis explains the connection between comics and public reactions in two separate eras of conservatism. Comic books were targeted by critics in the 1950s because their content challenged conservative norms. In 1954, a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on Juvenile Delinquency tried to …
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Surrealism: the spirit and the letter in twentieth-century English poetry
… at the essence of the overt, by penetrating the sensationalism that has hitherto tended to obscure it.
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The “Man Walks Outside Time Now”: Verbal Representations of Photographic Images in the Poems of Larry Levis
… 1966,” “The Assimilation of the Gypsies,” “Sensationalism,” and “Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967.”
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Purveying affect: Canadian newspaper coverage of the Diana Spencer and Karla Homolka chronologies
… histories and associated more closely with the sensationalism of tabloid reporting.
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David Shaw in the continuum of press self-criticism
… In addition to calling attention to bias, sensationalism, arrogance, and unresponsiveness in the press, Shaw has sparked internal criticism from his colleagues at the Times; At a time of declining public confidence in the media, Shaw asserts that the press has a duty to explain itself and …
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When to start freaking out : audience engagement on social media during disease outbreaks
… In doing so, I use a theoretical framework of sensationalism, gatekeeping, and media figurations to argue that audience engagement is not merely a journalistic, revenue-oriented concern - it is a public health concern too.
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Tourism Sector Perceptions of Vulnerability to Environmental Change in Glacier National Park, U.S.A.
… access to Going to the Sun Road and media sensationalism were key factors identified. A few operators thought the longer summer season might benefit them. Operators are adapting to these impacts by undertaking “green” business practices, diversifying their businesses, and shifting marketing …
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Tourism Sector Perceptions of Vulnerability to Environmental Change in Glacier National Park, U.S.A.
… access to Going to the Sun Road and media sensationalism were key factors identified. A few operators thought the longer summer season might benefit them. Operators are adapting to these impacts by undertaking “green” business practices, diversifying their businesses, and shifting marketing …
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Narrative as an aid for the doctor-patient relationship in China
… doctors, using misleading narratives to create sensationalism, thereby aggravating the antagonism between the society and medical professionals. Much scholarship has focused on exploring the social, economic, political, legal, and medical aspects of the doctor- patient relationship. In contrast, …
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The limitations of law pertaining to incest cases: observations of the confines inherent in the current criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Victoria, which may limit justice for the victims of incest, and the resultant equivocal footing of social policy in this area
… cases of physical abuse, by a media hungry for sensationalism. Likewise, incest is effaced amid the current outrage over the deviant outsider - typically perceived as the paedophile. It is the very nature of the sphere in which incest is committed, which makes the crime 'hermetic'. The view that …
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How teachers perceive the "school violence issue"
… school violence who are less affected by media sensationalism are, in fact, less fearful of school violence. Interestingly, however, the amount of time watching television was not associated with endorsing media sensationalism. Media consumption had an important effect but not in the expected …
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“THE HOODOO YOU KNEW”: AN AFROCENTRIC (RE)LOCATION OF CONJURE AND HOODOO COSMOLOGY
… Diasporic historiographies. Moving beyond the sensationalism of 19th and 20th-century literature and folklorist analyses, this project critically examines the terminology applied to Hoodoo, such as syncretism and creolization, and situates Hoodoo as an extension of African traditional religions …
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Lights, camera, emergency : preemptive planning for disaster relief
… and organization in the midst of great loss and sensationalism.
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Ethics of the Grotesque
… novels Wieland and Ormond, each marked by Gothic sensationalism and psychological realism, Brown’s narratives function to challenge the ethics of ethics, to subject ideas to reality-grounded counterfactual scenarios so as to expose the humanity and justice or lack thereof of moral systems. Brown’s …
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Transgender representations in television: a provisional study of trans people watching trans people on TV
… to representations instead of relying on sensationalism and stereotypic tropes to speak for them.</p>
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Ανήλικη παραβατικότητα & αποτύπωση στα Μέσα Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης
… παραβατικότητας, τη συχνότητα δραματοποίησης και sensationalism, καθώς και την παρουσίαση παραγόντων και μέτρων αντιμετώπισης. Τα αποτελέσματα δείχνουν ότι τα ΜΜΕ συχνά επιλέγουν ουδέτερη και ποινικοκεντρική κάλυψη, με έμφαση στην ηλικία των εμπλεκομένων, απουσία εθνικότητας, χρήση τεχνολογίας των …
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A Life In Words, Thoughts, Ideas, Images and Movement
… geared it toward or written it for success or sensationalism, then I have failed, and this amounts to little more than advertising or cheap unsatisfying tabloid television. But if this in any way grabs, challenges, informs, suspends you, makes you question or dream then like theatre when it is …
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Occult poetics and the production of English verse, 1558-1603
… occult from the realm of the magus and dramatic sensationalism, this thesis begins with the premise that occult discourses are present within Elizabethan culture and are absorbed into textual practice. It adopts the term occult poetics to describe the processes of writing that rely upon occult …
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