Browsing by Author "Meirick, Patrick"
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THE ADDITION OF VALENCE AND NARRATIVE ENDINGS’ INFLUENCE ON THE RISK CONVERGENCE MODEL
Lookadoo, Kathryn (2017-08-01)The risk convergence model (RCM) was developed as a theoretical framework to organize research on media effects and narrative persuasion (So & Nabi, 2013). The model identifies social distance to a fictional character as ... -
CAN YOU SPARE SOME (SOCIAL) CHANGE? PARTICIPATORY MEDIA AS CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE IN POOR AND HOMELESS COMMUNITIES
Vincent, Cindy (2014)Increase in empowerment and accurate representation for lower socioeconomic status groups is a dire and growing need in America. This dissertation examines how participatory media processes can serve as catalysts for change ... -
Constricting the body politic: Three studies of political communication apprehension and why they matter
Woodall, Ant (2024-05-10)Much work has been done to capture people’s discomfort with talking about politics. Previous research suggests people are uncomfortable with political conversations for a variety of reasons, though little has been done to ... -
Examining the Influence of Social Comparison on Psychological Reactance
Kang, Dingyi (2020-05)This thesis integrates social comparison theory (Festinger, 1954) and psychological reactance theory (Brehm, 1966) to examine the effects of controlling language and comparison types on psychological reactance and attitudes. ... -
Fanship scale development
Hubbard, Caleb George (2023-05-12)Fanship is known as the connection an individual has with a fan object (e.g., celebrity, film, sports team, etc). Through this connection, individuals are able to build relationships, create social change, enact ... -
Fire Side Chats to TikTok Influencer Tags: The Evolution of White House Computer-Mediated Communication to Youngsters
Pettigrew, Lauren (2023-05-12)This study aimed to analyze how young people understood emerging changes in White House communication, specifically that which utilized the collaboration of social media influencers. Convenience sampling was used to recruit ... -
Group Threat in the News: a Comparative Study of the Expression of Group Threat and Media Framing in European Union Immigration News Stories.
Cannon, Allen (2013-12)The member nations of the Europe Union (EU) faced a dilemma born of troubling economic times during the years between 2000 and 2012. The political turmoil currently plaguing the continent created an environment rife with ... -
Imitating and Innovating a Critical Television Studies Model for Communication
Castleberry, Garret (2015-05-08)This project imitates a television studies model of criticism by innovating a critical mixed-methods approach for communication scholars. Jonathan Gray and Amanda Lotz posit a television studies model that comprises ... -
MINT (STEM) MENTORING IN BAVARIA: TESTING A FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF MENTORING
Murry, Gabriele M. (2017-12-15)This research project develops an understanding of the MINT (STEM) mentoring programs geared to – and currently offered to – female students at Bavarian Universities of Applied Sciences. Using survey responses from mentors, ... -
National Symbols and Social Change: A Case Study of Poland
Igiel, Magdalena (2014-05-09)This study focuses on national symbols and the communicative role they play in social change as it manifests itself in social movements and revolutions. Symbols in social movements and revolutions play a crucial role in ... -
Navigating political identity in the big red dot: Political conversations among rural Oklahoman college students
Hurst, Elizabeth H. (2021-08)This study examines ways in which rural Oklahoman college students navigated their various layered identities in political conversations during a year fraught with political events, including those leading up to the 2020 ... -
NICHES IN THE NETWORKED MEDIA ECOSYSTEM: FUNCTIONALITIES, GRATIFICATIONS, AND A TYPOLOGY OF ONLINE NEWS AND INFORMATIONAL MEDIA
Yousuf, Mohammad (2016-05-13)The digital technologies and the Internet have transformed the media ecosystem from mass into networked (Castells, 2009; Chaffee & Metzger, 2001; Lowrey & Gade, 2011). Before the rise of the Internet, a small number of ... -
PAKISTANI ENGLISH-SPEAKING NEWS MEDIA FRAMING OF THE SALALA BORDER POST INCIDENT
Urich, Christina (2017-12-15)This dissertation research investigated framing in the Pakistani English-speaking press in the aftermath of the Salala incident in late-2011, during which 24 Pakistani soldiers died and over a dozen were wounded. Occurring ... -
Picking Our Pundits: Identifying Factors of Source Credibility in Politics
Schartel Dunn, Stephanie G. (2014-12)This paper assesses the role parasocial interaction has on perceptions of credibility, especially in terms of political commentators. Parasocial interaction and the concept of entertainment education create a framework to ... -
PROFESSIONAL, MARKET, AND CULTURAL VALUES IN NEWS PRODUCTION
Tahat, Khalaf (2015-05-08)In an era of global communication where efforts are increasingly paid to communicate with people of widely-varying cultures across the world, this study examines how one news organization communicates to international ...