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Cross-Border Targeted Radio in North America
(2018-12-14)
This is a historic and contemporary study of cross-border targeted AM and FM radio stations licensed along the United States borders with Canada and Mexico. Each North American nation considered the airwaves a public ...
An Extension of the Extended Parallel Process Model to Promote Healthy Heart Behaviors
(2018-08)
The purpose of the current research was to extend the Extended Parallel Model (EPPM) by adding the variable of barrier from Health Belief Model (HBM) to EPPM. The study explored the role of threat, efficacy, and barrier ...
Beyond the Welfare Queen: The Rhetorical Construction of Single Mothers in American News Media
(2018-12-14)
This research employed a critical rhetorical lens to examine the construction of single mothers in American news media during four discrete but interconnected historical representative anecdotes that reflect periods of ...
Global civil society and a structural analysis of international NGOs's virtual networks
(2012)
This dissertation sought to examine the virtual structure of global civil society via three theoretical frameworks: World System Theory, World Polity Theory and the current discussion of Network Society. Virtual interactions ...
Timeline of trauma: A case study of newsroom management and support during and after the Oklahoma City bombing
(2018-05)
Multiple studies over the past three decades have recognized the emotional consequences of trauma exposure for journalists. The work of journalism requires that reporters, photographers, and other media professionals ...
Processing of texting-while-driving narratives and attribution of responsibility to the perpetrator: the moderating effect of need to believe in a just world, situational similarity and the mediating effect of internal, external locus of control and sympathy
(2022-05-13)
Texting while driving is a dangerous form of distracted driving that causes injuries and fatalities every year. Combined efforts, such as legislation, enforcement, social norms, and education, were recommended to aware ...
Designing Social Media Messages to Promote Action by Suicide Gatekeepers
(2022-12-16)
The act of suicide is a tragic and yet prevalent occurrence in the U.S. younger population. Suicide prevention professionals and programs have focused on reaching not only individuals with suicide ideation, but also family, ...
NICHES IN THE NETWORKED MEDIA ECOSYSTEM: FUNCTIONALITIES, GRATIFICATIONS, AND A TYPOLOGY OF ONLINE NEWS AND INFORMATIONAL MEDIA
(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 ...
PROFESSIONAL, MARKET, AND CULTURAL VALUES IN NEWS PRODUCTION
(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 ...