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Feldmann, Valerie. "Leveraging mobile media : cross-media strategy and innovation policy for mobile media communication /." Heidelberg [u.a.] : Physica-Verl, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0663/2005920593-d.html.

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Vavra, Curtiss John. "Policy Knowledge Communication in Nursing." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7440.

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Evidence-based practices in nursing improve patient outcomes, decrease healthcare costs, and can be implemented with policies and procedures. However, there is limited literature describing how nurses acquire policy knowledge, the dissemination of which may require a significant investment of resources by a hospital. The purpose of this study was to learn more about how nurses obtain policy knowledge. Rogers's diffusion of innovations theory guided the examination of communication channels and how they relate to the formation of policy knowledge. The research questions were designed to gather information on the relationship of policy communication channels, demographic factors, and the frequency of document access in policy knowledge formation. This correlational study, using select subscales of the Policy Communication Index, was conducted to examine how nurses create and communicate policy knowledge. The sample included 22 nurses who practice at the bedside in a small hospital. Data sources included an anonymous online survey and frequency of policy access data. Data analyses included multiple regression, Pearson's r correlation, and Spearman's correlation of the data. The results showed that nurses report meeting discussions are the primary source of policy knowledge rather than written documents. A subset of participants who supplied an employee identification number showed a strong correlation with electronically distributed. Based on these results, nursing leaders can concentrate policy knowledge dissemination through meetings and safety huddles. The positive social change implication of this study includes better practices to convey evidence-based policy knowledge to nurses practicing at the bedside.
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Lewis, Peter M. "Community media : field, theory, policy." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2010. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1217/.

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The submission consists of twenty-three outputs, spanning over three decades. These range from books and chapters to reports, journal articles and edited publications. The accompanying commentary aims to set the submitted work in context, demonstrate that it constitutes a coherent whole, and that it makes an independent and original contribution to knowledge and the advancement of the academic field of community media within the discipline of media studies. A number of overlapping contexts are summarised: the socio-historical setting in which the practice of electronic community media first emerged; the ‘personal/professional’ context in which reflection on practical experience led to developments in theory and policy analysis; the academic context of the development of British media studies where at first radio was marginalised and there was no discursive space for the notion of community media, then a later stage where a wider range of theoretical contexts brought community and alternative media into the academic frame. Three main sections discuss, respectively, the candidate’s contribution to the identification and categorisation of community media, the application to it of theoretical perspectives, and the development of policy analysis. All three areas, it is argued, were part of a wider strategy aimed at bringing recognition to the field and which involved activities outside the scope of the submission (advocacy, interventions in mainstream media) but which are part of the context of the submitted work. For that reason an appendix (B) lists all the candidate’s publications on the subject, while others list conference presentations and other relevant activities. In addition, the documentation includes a brief career summary and statements by co-authors.
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Bradshaw, Seth Caleb, and Seth Caleb Bradshaw. "Threat, Anger, and Support for War: Media Coverage of U.S. Policy toward ISIL." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621307.

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This dissertation focuses on media coverage and public opinion about United States foreign policy during a time of national crisis. It seeks to better understand the nature of news content by exploring the concept of press independence through the lens of two theories of news media: indexing and echoing. Focusing on the current U.S. military engagement with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the present study tracks media coverage between June 2014 and June 2015 across six distinct print and online news outlets. This content analysis reveals that the press offered limited criticism of policies, particularly early in the intervention. Print and online news media covered U.S. policy in similar fashion, each relying more on nongovernmental sources than on Washington elites. Combat and non-combat policies were more likely to appear together in the same story in print news than in online news and print offered more justifications for policy positions than did online news. This dissertation examined how news media affects public opinion by experimentally manipulating news coverage of U.S. policy toward ISIL. Based on a national sample, the current work utilized a 2 (high/low in-group threat)X 2 (high/low in-group strength) experiment to explore the mediating role of group emotions on support for foreign policies. Guided by intergroup emotions theory, this study found that group anger mediated the relationships between in-group threat and a host of combat and non-combat policies, while group anxiety did not. On the other hand, in-group threat and in-group strength interacted to predict group anxiety, resulting in two moderated-mediation models, which predicted support for negotiating with ISIL and modern racism toward Muslims. This experiment demonstrates that these group emotions operate in divergent ways, and that group emotions on the whole function differently than individual emotions when predicting political attitudes.
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Kumar, Keval Joseph. "Media education, communications and public policy : an Indian perspective." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9980.

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Mutua, Alfred Nganga, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and of Communication Design and Media School. "Media for development and democracy : a new paradigm for development incorporating culture and communication." THESIS_CAESS_CDM_Mutua_A.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/319.

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This thesis examines the use of media and journalistic practice for development. The study concentrates on Africa and argues that development strategies are dependent on a clear understanding of the contexts and constraints of a situation. It is argued that Africa's history and present political and socio-economic situations have contributed to the instability and poverty facing many of its nation states. It is also argued that continued dependency by African nations on richer Western nations is a problem originating from colonial imperialism and the failed dominant paradigm, recently reinvented as globalisation and global economic rationalisation. The work presents a view of communication for development which can only be achieved with an understanding of the relations between media, culture, dependency and the making of meaning.Solutions to Africa's problems may require Africans themselves undertaking development in a concept of their own 'voice' and self-representation. With this view, a model for how journalists, using media, should actively engage in development is suggested. Two case studies are presented : a study of communication dysfunction at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya and a study of the concept of Edutainment by South Africa's Soul City's organisation. Further, selections of media programs are presented as part of the dissertation's proposed body of work.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Stiegler, Zachary Joseph. "The policy and practice of community radio: localism versus nationalism in U.S. broadcasting." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1086.

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While localism is a particularly important aspect of Congress' mandate that broadcasters serve "the public interest, convenience or necessity," the history of US radio broadcasting exhibits persistent tensions between nationalism and localism, which have intensified in recent decades. Current concerns about the loss of localism in US radio broadcasting invite us to reinterpret US radio history from a local perspective. This dissertation traces the tensions between localism and nationalism in US radio broadcasting through four forms of radio broadcasting constructed specifically to serve localism and the public interest: the 10-watt Class D license, full power public radio as typified by National Public Radio, the Low Power FM (LPFM) license established in 2000, and the controversial use of low power radio by religious broadcasters. The Class D license, US public radio, and LPFM all originated with the stated objective of serving the public in meaningful ways which commercial broadcasting cannot. Yet to date, each of these has failed to meet this goal, whether due to legislative action, organizational failure or conflict amongst broadcast entities. Further, each of these case studies illustrates the conflict between nationalism and localism ever-present in efforts to establish radio broadcasting services that adequately and meaningfully serve local publics. Through a critical-historical analysis of the tensions between nationalism and localism in US radio broadcasting, this dissertation offers an understanding for the reasons and implications of the continued failure of radio's ability to serve local communities in the United States. In doing so, I look to the failures of the past to suggest how we may revise the current LPFM license to effectively serve local publics.
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Zaid, Bouziane. "Public service television policy and national development in Morocco." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003019.

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McCann, Kim. "Communication Policy and Public Interests: Media Diversity in Public and Commercial Broadcast Television in the U.S." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1189542869.

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Robb, Margo L. "Community Radio, Public Interest: The Low Power Fm Service and 21st Century Media Policy." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/315/.

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Hu, Shiran. "Persuasive effects of cuteness-coated political propaganda in China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/776.

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Ever-developing media and innovative propaganda strategies continually change the ways that political authorities exercise their manipulation of the public, which always causes great concern among scholars in the field of political communication. To respond to the lively debate on the roles new modes of communication can play in the processes of politics in modern society based on the experience of China and also to help scholars adapt to the changing context of China today, we chose one representative trend in the latest political propaganda of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on social media--"cuteness-coated propaganda"--of which we study the impacts on political support among Chinese youth and the mechanisms involved. After conceptualizing and theorizing the cuteness-coated propaganda of the CPC, we design and conduct two studies. In Study One, we firstly recruit 199 participants offline for a pair of between-subjects 2 (selling cuteness or not) × 2 (soft content or hard content) factorial design experiments. In Experiment 1, the cuteness is presented in the form of video, and in Experiment 2, it is presented in the form of pictures. In Study Two, we recruit 386 participants online to join in the online survey-embedded experiments, in which the cuteness is presented in the form of text in Experiment 3 and the form of pictures in Experiment 4. We find that in our research context when the CPC propagandizes with soft-oriented content using the selling-cuteness strategy in video form on Weibo, it improves the specific political support of Chinese youth by increasing their positive emotions or closing the psychological distance between themselves and the propagandist. This finding suggests that the "Double-Soft Model" of political propaganda (utilizing a soft propaganda strategy to publicize soft content) proposed in our thesis can be a very persuasive way of influencing young people's specific political support. However, when the selling-cuteness with soft content is presented in picture form or textual form, it is unable to influence the specific support because it cannot evoke significantly increased positive emotions or psychological closeness. Meanwhile, neither general political support nor national pride is influenced by the selling-cuteness strategy no matter in which form it is presented, which is consistent with the findings of previous scholars. Our research represents a pioneering study of cuteness-coated political propaganda on social media, both theoretically and empirically.
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Mutua, Alfred Nganga. "Media for development and democracy : a new paradigm for development incorporating culture and communication /." View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030402.125958/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, [2002].
"A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy " Supported by videocassette Africa 2000: Voices of the future (30 mins.) and Aids: An African perspective (30 mins.). Bibliography: leaves 245-277.
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Kingsley, Edafienene Aghogho. "Media exposure, policy agenda setting and risk communication in Sub-Saharan Africa : a case study of Nigeria's Niger Delta region." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2011. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/media-exposure-policy-agenda-setting-and-risk-communication-in-subsaharan-africa(4ca95e78-cb00-4677-bf3b-c65d261bde3e).html.

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My research 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, oil host communities and independent multinational oil companies operating in the Nigeria’s Niger Delta region over economic embarrassment due to underdevelopment and environmental degradation. Drawing on the recent academic literature on policy agenda-setting, risk communication and trust communication, my research explored Research Questions on risk communication and risk perception linking policy agenda-setting that would be of great benefit for the Nigerian policy-makers, and indeed oil companies to understand. The researcher addressed these Research Questions through a survey [1,200 questionnaires] of Nigerians and interviews [10] with key people in Nigeria. These Research Questions are very timely and penetrating, in what has been, to date, a very under-researched area – namely, investigating the flows and impacts of trust-risk communication in agenda setting in a less-developed country. The researcher used three states in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region namely, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers for the purpose of this research because conflict and risk issues is most pronounced in the aforementioned states due to oil exploration/exploitation and underdevelopment. Findings from this research revealed that the Nigerian media-policy-public agendas face specific problems in influencing one another on environmental risk issues and other facet of the conflict in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. These specific problems which reflect gaps in knowledge in the Niger Delta conflict have now been outlined, so needing further attention and work by stakeholders in the public policy field with regards to the Niger Delta conflict. To this end, areas in need of research focus were outlined and several recommendations were made by the researcher which if adopted by the Nigerian government/policy makers, the media, oil companies and other stakeholders will help douse Nigeria’s Niger Delta conflict.
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Pearce, Angelle Bertrand. "A Content Analysis of Media Coverage of Female U.S. Senate Candidates from the South." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163259.

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This thesis sought to narrow some of the knowledge gaps in political communication and advertising. By examining the content of local newspapers about U.S. Senate candidates, this research determined female candidates receive just as much, if not more, newspaper coverage than male candidates. There were few endorsements given to candidates, especially from national and state office holders. Additionally, this thesis found that many of the newspaper articles were focused on non-issues. Previous studies on women in politics suggested female candidates often face more media hurdles than their male counterparts, specifically receiving less print media coverage. In contrast, this thesis found that women may no longer face the same barriers as they once did.

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McCabe, R. V. "Communication and language strategies used in the democratic public policy process." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01252005-080031.

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Malila, Vanessa. "Globalization and communications policy : the role of the media in communications policy development in Kenya between 2002 and 2009." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3124/.

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This thesis is a case study analysis of the role of the media in communications policy development in Kenya. The aim of the research was to investigate whether the press in particular could play a role in policy-making as policy stakeholders, moving beyond the traditional role of the media in policy as agenda setting agents. This was done through a case study analysis of two policy-making processes, namely the process of developing the National ICT Policy and the process which resulted in the Kenya Communications Amendment Act. While traditional studies of the media’s role in policy have examined the manner in which media coverage has influenced policy-makers and the public, this thesis aims to investigate whether the media can play a more direct role in policy processes as stakeholders in policy discussions and debates. The media’s role in communications policy in Kenya was examined within the context of globalization and the potential of multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to create an enabling environment for the participation of diverse stakeholders, including the media, in the policy-making process. The findings have shed light on the political, social and economic context within which policy is made in Kenya and within which the press in Kenya operate and the obstacles that this has posed to their participation in policy-making processes. What has emerged from this thesis is that although there is some engagement by policy stakeholders other than the government, it is of a superficial nature and fails to ensure real diversity and participation by a range of different stakeholders from different sectors. Furthermore, the press failed to take advantage of avenues for debate and discussion to engage in policy discussions, and instead in the case of the KCAA used their agenda setting power to influence the policy negatively. Through biased, subjective and misleading reporting, the press were able to influence policy-makers to the point where the passed Act (KCAA) was returned to parliament for further amendments.
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Lightfoot, Michael D. "Education reform for the knowledge economy in the Middle East : a study of education policy making and enactment in the Kingdom of Bahrain." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021657/.

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The knowledge economy is a construct of a neo-liberal imaginary that is linked closely to the promotion of educational technology use in schools. In the belief that educational technology can assist in the rapid development and modernisation of the education systems in the Middle East, over the last 20 years, donor agencies, international conglomerates and supra-national organisations have encouraged governments in the region to embed information and communication technology into the policies for the reform and development of their education systems. Taking Michael Peters’ assertion that there are three elements to the knowledge economy – learning, creativity and openness, the study points to the paradox of promoting these concepts within the context of the deeply conservative authoritarian regimes in the Arabian Gulf. By way of an ethnographic case study into the formulation and subsequent enactment of education policy reforms in the small kingdom of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, this account analyses the historical context together with political and social conditions giving rise to the education reforms in this region and the conflicting pressures experienced by those in schools that are tasked with enacting the reforms. Comparisons are made with the situation in Jordan from whence much of the regional impetus for technology-led education reforms arose. The analysis of the findings uses the lens of New Institutional Economics as a way of focusing upon the conflicting cultural, social and political factors that influence the policy enactment. In this way a more satisfactory narrative is achieved than one simply centred upon a neo-liberal analysis or upon conventional models of technology adoption. Ultimately, the study concludes that it is only through a rebalancing of the conflicting forces of structure and agency that successful social reform and policy enactment can take place in this part of the world where autonomy and selfactualisation are novel concepts for the great majority of the population.
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Allwright, Janine. "Media Framing of Refugees in the United States and Canada." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5159.

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The ongoing war in Syria and the subsequent refugee crisis has brought the need for refugee resettlement to the forefront of policy debates. Canada and the United States display stark differences in the outcome of their refugee policies. Canada continues to welcome Syrian refugees, whereas the United States has become less willing to engage in resettlement. The purpose of this study was to use Entman's conceptualization of framing theory to compare media framing of refugees in Canada and the United States to deliver insight into the different policy outcomes. Data were acquired through a content analysis of 850 newspaper articles in each country that were measured with 2 separate Lexicoder instruments to represent the salience and selection of the media coverage about refugees. These data were then analyzed primarily through compare-means tests to determine if there were differences in media reporting between the 2 nations. Findings indicated that newspapers in the United States portrayed refugees more negatively than newspapers in Canada. The tone and frame of the articles differered significantly between the 2 countries (p < .001). These results suggested that newspaper articles in the United States portrayed a less favorable attitude toward refugees compared to Canada. The implications for positive social change include the necessity by intergovernmental, governmental, and nonprofit organizations who are tasked with refugee resettlement in the United States to counter the negative portrayals of refugees in the media in order to enhance the integration process of refugees in society and motivate additional resettllement opportunities.
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Sharag-Eldin, Adiyana. "The Role of Geography Space and Place in Social Media Communication:Two Case Studies of Policy Perspectives." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1571484284023254.

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Chang, Chung-jen. "Society, state, and electronic media policy : the introduction of cable to Taiwan /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1302628268.

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Garrison, Tara A. "Media Exposure and Social Response as Predictors of Citizen's Attitudes Toward Police." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6027.

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Police-involved deaths of African Americans have increased over the past two decades, with continued high-profile media exposure. The problem is that extant research provided only a partial understanding and disparate focus about how media exposure, social responses, social media use, and attitudes towards police were possibly related to citizens witnessing acts of police-initiated actions against African Americans in the United States. The purpose of this quantitative study was to assess the predictive nature of media exposure, social response, and social media use concerning citizens' attitudes towards police. The two theories supporting this study and shaped this hypothetical system are media dependency and the structural strain theory. Data were collected using a characteristic profile survey, Index of Social Networking, Offline and Online Activity Levels Measure, and Attitudes Towards Police Scale with a convenience sample of 132 respondents who were 18 year of age or older who are identified as users of the social media platforms Facebook and LinkedIn. Data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation and forward entry multiple linear regression. The overall model was significant (p = .002) and accounted for 12.3% of the variance in the respondent's attitude toward the police, however, media was not significant. This study represented an effort into understanding the sentiments of police and police activity coupled with media-driven and public attitudes towards police-initiated actions. These findings can be used to enhance relationships between communities and the police, especially in the practice of community policing and resolving negative perceptions based on cultural imprints that hinder effective policing.
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Browsh, Jared Bahir. "Consuming Before they Can Walk: An Analysis of Media Literacy Education on the Top Preschool Programming Blocks on Television." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/165133.

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Mass Media and Communication
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Preschool television is a growing segment of children's media, but there is limited research examining the structure of the top preschool content producers. The vast majority preschool programming is promoted as educational by the networks; however no show explicitly lists media literacy education as a primary learning goal even though children 2-6 spend, on average, more than two hours a day exposed to media. This thesis examines preschool programming through political economic theory to determine whether the business models of the top three preschool television networks influences their approaches to media literacy education in media themed episodes of their most popular series for preschoolers. The thesis first examines whether educational media works for preschoolers and how media literacy education can undermine attempts by media institutions to influence behavior. It also examines the history of the preschool series on PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney Channel to determine how the development of preschool programming on each network has contributed to the content they produce for preschoolers. The thesis then moves onto a study comparing media themed episodes from the top series from each network and a media themed episode from a series that has presented media literacy episodes throughout its history to help compare and analyze the current state of media literacy in preschool television. This study helps build a foundation for future research so we can recognize the best strategies to introduce young children to media literacy education in this increasingly media saturated society.
Temple University--Theses
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Baker-Jones, Melanie K. "Social media in emergencies: An examination of government accountability for risk communication and warning." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/108031/1/Melanie_Baker-Jones_Thesis.pdf.

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Emergency management agencies and government authorities increasingly use social media to warn the public of emergencies. The aim of this thesis is to provide clarification where there is uncertainty about liability, and to address concerns as to how the law will be applied. It does this by examining the responsibility of those entities to warn. It considers whether they are likely to be held legally accountable for their acts or omissions when using social media. The thesis also seeks to provide good practice principles for the use of emerging communication technologies.
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Louine, Jeannice LaToya. "Media Portrayals of Police-Involved Deaths in U.S. Newspapers, 2013-2016." Thesis, Mississippi State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840703.

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In the past five years, there have been numerous newspaper reports on police-involved deaths (PID) in the U.S, many of which have involved African American males as victims (Shane, Lawson, & Swenson, 2017). Police-involved deaths (PID) is defined as a death of an individual that results from police action (i.e., by firearm, by electroshock weapon [commonly known as a Taser©], or by vehicle). Given the amount of coverage of police-involved deaths, it is important to investigate which PID victims receive the most coverage in U.S. newspapers. This study merges three databases (Fatal Encounters , the Washington Post, and the Guardian ) which collect information about PID cases that occurred in the U.S. Once a list of PID victims was compiled, Nexis Uni (formerly Nexis Lexis) was used to obtain U.S. newspapers that covered PID incidents. In this study, I examine the race, age, region, and manner of death to distinguish which of these independent variables are the strongest predictors of the number of words and articles used in describing PID incidents. Using a linear regression model, the findings indicate that PID incidents involving African American males had significantly more articles and words written about them than PID incidents involving non-African American males and this effect remained after controlling for other correlates of PID incidents. Additionally, PID incidents involving firearm deaths received significantly more media attention as well. Given the amount of newspaper coverage on PID victims, the ways in which the media portray the victims in those contexts can influence the criminal process for officers involved in the killing. In addition, media portrayals of these incidents can impact policies that revamp the ways in which officers communicate with people of color, specifically African American men (i.e., cultural sensitivity training).

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Rios, Brittany N. "Social Media and the Voice of the Department." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/532.

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More law enforcement agencies are adopting social media as a progressive policing strategy each year. They utilize it for several reasons including, community outreach and engagement, public relations, notifying the public of safety concerns, recruitment, intelligence gathering for investigations, among other uses (IACP, 2017). This study explores Southern California Law Enforcements’ use of social media through a survey and content analysis. First, the survey results suggest that more than 93% of departments surveyed concentrate on community outreach through their social media channels. Second, the content analysis results suggest that when media (pictures/video), links, and hashtags (#), are included in posts the more engagement will take place. The more engagement a department receives online the more their voice and message are heard. The results of this study contribute to the sparse literature dedicated to law enforcement and effective use of social media.
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Wolken, Samuel. "National Media Systems, Affective Polarization, and Loyalty in Vote Choice: Contextualizing the Relationship Between News Media and Partisanship." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1586952294107063.

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Jacob, Rafael. "Party, People, or Policy? Uncovering the Impact of Advertisement in Ballot Initiative and Candidate-Centered Campaigns." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/433340.

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We have acquired, over the last several decades, a fairly rich understanding of the impact on voter behavior of political communication in general and of political advertising specifically. Yet much of this knowledge pertains to “traditional,” candidate-centered elections; comparatively very little is known with regards to ballot initiative races. In principle, these contests pit not people, but proposed policies, against each other. In practice, however, they not only feature ads discussing policy, but also frequently comprise ads highlighting a measure’s supporters and opponents, be they individuals, non-profit groups, media outlets, industries, or political parties. This, in turn, leads to a basic query: what types of advertising message carry the greatest weight with voters in initiative contests – and how do they differ (if at all) from the effects they have in similar ads run in candidate-centered elections? Through an original experiment, this dissertation aims to break new ground in the voter behavior, media effects, and direct democracy literature by tackling this question.
Temple University--Theses
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Laurent, Nathan R. "Mapping the landscape of public policy debate through analysis of evidence-based arguments in news media content: A case study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/98725/1/Nathan%20Laurent%20Thesis.pdf.

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This case study of the debate around broad-scale land-clearing in Queensland adds to knowledge about the place of news media in resolving public policy issues. It includes an historical account of the issue, and from the evidence of newspaper contents, observes that some parties in such debates are likely to only conditionally accept policy outcomes, such as enacted legislation. Focusing on the regulation of broad-scale land-clearing between 1998 and 2006, the study identifies, analyses, and compares relevant, evidence-based arguments from policy stakeholders published in two Queensland newspapers: a metropolitan daily and a rural industry weekly.
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Kihlgren, Simon, and Anders Lundborg. "Den sociala organisationen : En intervjustudie om svenska organisationers strategiska arbete med sociala medier." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-82795.

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Den teknologiska utvecklingen har skapat nya möjligheter för organisationer i deras externa kommunikation. Med framkomsten av sociala medier har organisationer fått en möjlighet att befinna sig på sina intressenters kanaler. Här finns utrymme för en kommunikationsprocess som tidigare inte varit möjlig och organisationer talar om den tvåvägskommunikation och den personliga relation man kan bygga upp på sociala medier. Organisationers kommunikationsarbete präglas ofta av tydliga strategier och styrdokument och policys. Styrdokument kring deras externa kommunikation är i regel väl utvecklade på flera plan. Ändå visar tidigare studier att organisationers arbete med sociala medier sker på ett mer experimentellt sätt. “Den sociala organisationen” syftar till att undersöka hur svenska organisationer på nationell nivå arbetar med sociala medier ur ett strategiskt perspektiv. Med hjälp av en kvalitativ intervjumetod studeras åtta stora svenska organisationer. Studien undersöker hur dessa åtta organisationer arbetar strategiskt med sociala medier. Vidare undersöks hur organisationerna arbetar för att utveckla sin kunskap om sociala medier samt till vilken grad organisationernas arbete på sociala medier styrs av styrdokument och policys. Huvudfrågan som denna studie ställer sig är: “Hur utmärker sig det strategiska kommunikationsarbetet via sociala medier i svenska organisationer?”. Denna huvudfråga söker författarna svara på med hjälp av ett antal arbetsfrågor som ska hjälpa dem att nå sitt syfte. De teorier som studien lutar sig emot är medialiseringsteori, med utgångspunkt framförallt ur Hjarvard’s och Schultz arbete inom området, samt tidigare forskning inom området gällande organisationers arbete med sociala medier. Dessa teorier och tidigare forskning bidrar till att studien kan koppla de teman som visar sig vid analysen av materialet. Resultaten visar att stora svenska organisationer fortfarande arbetar på ett relativt experimentellt sätt med sociala medier. Styrdokument finns i vissa fall, men de är i jämförelse med andra styrdokument mindre uppstyrda. Inom sociala medie-strategierna finns det också större utrymme för ändringar. Anledningen till detta är den ständiga förändring som sker i sociala medier vilket gör det svårt för organisationerna att skapa tydliga styrdokument som ska gälla över en längre tid.
Technological development has created new opportunities for organizations in their external communication. With the arrival of social media, organizations have been given an opportunity to be on their stakeholders' channels. This has created a possibility of a communication process that has not previously been possible and organizations talk about the possibilities with a two-way communication and the personal relationship you can build on social media. Organizations' communicational work is often characterized by clear strategies with documents and policies. Documents regarding their external communication are generally well developed on several levels. Nevertheless, previous studies show that organizations' work with social media takes place in a more experimental way. The social organization aims to investigate how Swedish organizations at the national level work with social media from a strategic perspective. Using a qualitative interview method, eight large Swedish organizations are studied. The study examines how these eight organizations work strategically with social media. Furthermore, it is examined how the organizations work to develop their knowledge of social media and to what extent the organizations' work on social media is based upon documents and policies. The main question that this study raises is: "How does the strategic communication work via social media in Swedish organizations' stand out? The authors seek to answer this main question with the help of a number of sub-questions that will help them achieve their purpose. The theories from which this study is based on are mediatization theory, based primarily on Hjarvard's and Schultz's work in the field, as well as previous research in the field of organizations' work with social media. These theories and previous research contribute to the study by linking the themes that emerge in the analysis of the material. The results show that large Swedish organizations are still working in a relatively experimental way with social media. Documents are present in some cases, but they are less strategic in comparison with other organizational documents. Within social media strategies, there is also more room for changes. The reason for this is the constant change that takes place in social media, which makes it difficult for organizations to create clear documents that will apply over a longer period of time.
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Sadic, Adin. "History and Development of the Communication Regulatory Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1998-2005." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1142281304.

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Zhou, Yuanzhi. "Capitalizing China's media industry : the installation of capitalist production in the Chinese TV and film sectors /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3290456.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4535. Adviser: Daniel Schiller. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-259) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Lindqvist, Magnus, and Fred Melin. "Digital kommunikation bland Uppsala läns kommuner : En studie om Uppsala läns kommuners externa kommunikation på Facebook." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353778.

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Over the past few years, more and more Swedish municipalities have chosen to establish a presence on social media with Facebook in particular in order to expand their communication with their citizens. At the same time, the level of citizen participation in local democratic and political processes has been low. With social media, an opportunity has been created for municipalities to reach out to a larger part of their audiences and get them more involved in the municipal operations that affects the daily lives of the citizens. The purpose of this study is to examine how municipalities within Uppsala County are utilizing Facebook to communicate with their citizens. The research questions are as following: “How does the municipalities communication on Facebook correspond with their communication documents” and “How does the municipalities communicate with their citizens based on representation and engagement?” The theoretical framework for this study is based on Ines Mergels theory on social media use and adoption among government organizations. The methods consist of a quantitative as well as a qualitative content analysis. In total, there were 100 Facebook posts examined with the main result showing that the municipalities generally do not focus on using Facebook posts as a way to increase democratic participation directly on Facebook. Rather, they use Facebook posts to inform citizens about democratic and political events happening in the real world. This study provides the perspective of eight different municipalities and by doing so contributes with a broader picture of how Swedish municipalities communicate with their citizens through Facebook.
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Christian, Jennifer L. "Understanding the intersection of public opinion, media, and elite discourse on policy change." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380068.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Sociology, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 12, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4860. Adviser: Clem Brooks.
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Hohl, Katrin. "The role of mass media and police communication in trust in the police : new approaches to the analysis of survey and media data." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/213/.

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The thesis contributes to the literature on public opinion of and trust in the police. The theoretical framework is based on Tyler’s procedural justice theory adapted to the British context. Procedural justice theory postulates that legitimacy and trust are largely based on perceptions of procedural fairness – believing that the police treat citizens with fairness and respect and that citizen’s views are heard and taken into account. The focus of the thesis is on the role of the mass media and police communication in shaping such perceptions, public trust, and other related aspects of public opinion of the police. The thesis contributes new empirical evidence of theoretical and practical significance with three empirical studies. The first study tests a series of hypotheses about media effects on public opinion. It combines a comprehensive content analysis of newspaper reporting on policing in five major British newspapers from 2007 to 2010 with public opinion data from a large-scale population representative survey fielded continuously over the same three-year period. The second study is a ‘real-world’ quasi-randomised experiment testing the impact of local police newsletters on public trust in the police in seven neighbourhoods in London. The third study examines the role of perceptions of information provision in public trust in the police more closely based on the survey data from the first study. The findings suggest that media and police messages about how the police conduct themselves towards individual citizens as well as towards the community at large have a bigger effect on public trust than messages about the effectiveness of the police in carrying out their duties. Overall, press reporting has a small effect on public trust in the police. Police communication can enhance public trust in the police and is important in particular for those who have least trust in the police.
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Tyler, David H. "Newsworthiness of threshold events| Exploring significant changes in print media coverage of police." Thesis, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10143670.

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While some have speculated there has been an increase in the public scrutiny of police over the last few years, little is actually known about the magnitude and scope of changes. This thesis investigates changes in the frequency of front-page articles, and the frequency of all articles, in The New York Times since 2010. Guided by Beck and Tolnay's (1995) Racial Violence Model, seven events were identified as potential threshold events for changes in media reports about the police. Findings indicate policing stories became more common after the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, while the remaining threshold events had no significant impact. This research provides a context for future quantitative and qualitative studies regarding media attention on police following specific events

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Osei-Hwere, Enyonam M. "Children's Television in Ghana: History, Policy, Diversity, and Prospects in a Changing Media Environment." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1218685896.

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Severson, Pernilla. "En gökunge i public service-boet? : Publikens roll i digitaliseringen av marksänd television." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Science, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4346.

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In a Swedish setting an audience orientation is applied to investigate public service TV in the ongoing development of terrestrial digital television. Focus is on institutionalized politics and public service TV companies Sveriges Television (Swedish Television) and Utbildningsradion (Education Radio). In a case study through a multitude of material, emphasizing policy documents and interviews but also including media coverage, it is explored how and why the audience is involved in public service digital TV development. Is it an operation in the public interest, and what does this mean for public service as a media policy principle? The empirical result indicates a complex and problematic audience, which is not constantly prioritized but always present. The audience legacy is threatened in public service TV by a consumer orientation. Concluding implications are on the one hand that feedback from the audience can not only be based in ratings and market analysis. On the other hand there is a need for an attitude towards public service legitimacy as utopian realism.

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Potschka, Christian. "Towards a market in broadcasting : a comparative analysis of British and German communications policy." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6324.

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Political structures and the evolution of late capitalism in liberal Western democracies lend a common frame to the development of national media systems. However, whereas media policy from the post-war period to the mid-1980s was largely driven by socio-political concerns and coextensive with policy for public service television, this model has been vehemently challenged. Key factors were the convergence of erstwhile-separated industries and infrastructures, as well as the ambitions of the corporate sector and governments alike, to benefit from the economic opportunities offered by the communications revolution. By assessing the changing relationship between the role of the state, economic structures and technological innovation, this research investigates these processes in the UK and Germany. Both countries have the two key public service systems but also feature striking differences such as the antithetic political systems and democratic processes (majoritarian vs. consensus democracy). The basic assumption suggests that a genuine understanding of contemporary developments is only possible if political/economic as well as historic/sociological perspectives are incorporated into the holistic approach applied. Thereby this study gives consideration to key processes and events which have determined transitions between communications policy paradigms and regulatory regimes. Given the Anglo-Saxon tradition of regulating, key processes and events in the UK are often indicated by the appointment and report of a committee of enquiry. For the purpose of this study the most crucial of these is the Committee on Financing the BBC (1986), which first applied market-driven politics onto British broadcasting, and whose recommendations still serve as a blueprint for current communications policy-making. In Germany the KtK Report (1974) formed the basis for decisive reforms in broadcasting and communications. Apart from that, however, Germany features the characteristic of administering state interventions in as detailed a manner as possible through legislation. Of central importance are, therefore, the rulings of the Federal Constitutional Court, which continuously set decisive parameters for the development of the broadcasting system. The thesis follows two driving themes which have been identified as crucial in terms of the comparative dimension and are elaborated continuously in more detail. First, the focus is on the interdependencies between public and private sector. Second, implications and responses of the central vis-à-vis federal characteristic of state formation are investigated. In doing so, the thesis draws on vast sources of archival documents as well as exclusive material from a series of elite interviews with a purposively-selected sample of very high-level sources, including Chairmen, Director-Generals, ministers, very senior civil servants and so on. The thesis demonstrates how communications policy-making is carried out in both countries and how these processes are determined by national regulatory frameworks which are rooted within the borders of the nation state. As such the research findings have broader implications for commercial and public sector regulation.
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Bonacchi, C. "Communicating archaeology : from trends to policy : public perceptions and experience in the changing media environment." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1353700/.

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This thesis advances existing literature and knowledge about public engagement in archaeology. Based on extensive, quantitative and qualitative audience research, it examines how the UK public perceive and experience archaeology, and suggests policy ‘strategies’ through which archaeological communication can be improved. First a theoretical framework of archaeological communication is developed; this allows the comparative examination of the ways in which experiences of archaeology are differently configured, depending on the contexts of communication (personal, social and physical), content and discourse. The framework has been used to conduct three large-scale surveys (samples of 500 people were used): a survey of visitors to the Medieval Gallery of the Museum of London (London, UK), one of Facebook fans of the TV series 'Time Team', and a survey of visitors to the exhibition 'From Petra to Shawbak. Archaeology of a Frontier' (Florence, Italy). From such programme, a better understanding is gained of the composition of the public for archaeology, in the UK (and comparatively in Italy), of the ways in which they participate, and of the real and perceived benefits that derive from public engagement in archaeology. Finally, templates of public engagement designed for university departments, museum institutions and Public Service Broadcasting are proposed, and prospects of future research outlined.
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Dastgheib, Darya. "En ideologikritisk analys av Facebook." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMK), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-39981.

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Facebook är ett centralt verktyg för mellanmänsklig kommunikation. Plattformen används dagligen världen över för diskussion och opinionsbildning. Samtidigt är Facebook ett privat företag som avyttrar vinst. Att en så betydelsefull mötesplats är privatägd innebär att användarna och deras kommunikation påverkas av företagets regler, intressen och värderingar. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i hur företaget förhåller sig till spänningen mellan marknad och offentlighet.

Syftet är att kritiskt undersöka företagets värderingar, ideologier och intressen, samt att försöka placera dessa i en bredare samhällskontext, i syftet att avtäcka vilka idéer och värderingar som diskursivt framställer, och därmed konstruerar, organisationens användare.

Det empiriska materialet består av företagets policy och regelverk, två dokument som finns tillgängliga för allmänheten genom deras hemsida. Genom en kritisk diskursanalys avtäcks vilka idésystem som på en manifest och latent nivå framställer och därigenom konstruerar Facebooks användare. Det teoretiska ramverkets utgångspunkter dras på Jürgen Habermas normativa och formalistiska beskrivning av offentlighet och demokratisk kommunikation, Howard Rheingolds teorier om den datormedierade kommunikationens potentialer, Saskia Sassens redogörelse för den datormedierade kommunikationen i relation till globalisering och kommersialisering, Lawrence Lessigs teorier om Internet och arkitektonisk makt samt James Bohmans teorier kring Internet och en ny form av offentlighet.

Facebook framställer deras användare som konsumerande publiker genom att formulera sig diskursivt i policyn och regelverket. Manifesta samt underliggande intressen och värderingar konstruerar användarna och reglerar deras handlingsutrymme. Jag har funnit en god förekomst av marknadsorienterade diskurser som tillsammans skapar en diskursordning inom vilken Facebooks användare framställs och därigenom konstrueras som konsumenter och producenter av information som en handelsvara, framför interagerande medborgare.

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Maršić, Tomislav. "Controlling the party or controlling the media? : how intra-party dynamics moderated, and reinforced, particularism in Croatia, 2000-2014." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:834082e1-abef-420f-9842-e8185626e9f5.

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This thesis explores the shape, the dynamics, and the main reasons for media capture and collusion in Croatia since the second transition in 2000. Using principal-agent theory to refer to the basic relation-ship between politicians, media and citizens, I intend to explain why politicians make use of particularism - behaviour aiming at the limitation of horizontal accountability - to force the media into cooperation with politicians (media capture) or to engage in an illicit, mutually agreed deal (collusion). Located in the literatures on democratization, party research and media studies, I aim to connect these fields in arguing that intra-party dynamics such as party leaders' rootedness, contestation and the institutionalization of rules play an important role in incentivizing executive politicians to capture or collude with media outlets. The empirical outcome of the study showing drastic failures of horizontal accountability contradicts dominant narratives of Croatia's high level of democratic consolidation between 2000 and 2014 and therefore challenges the suitability of indicators primarily designed to capture the institutionalization of institutions rather than the institutionalization of particularism. Croatia is a particularly appropriate case to study in this context since none of the traditional incentives such as Europeanization, inter-party competition, a strong civil society or economic modernization can fully explain shifts in the way politicians limit or reinforce horizontal accountability of the media. In order to address this puzzle I adopt a two-pronged research strategy based on both qualitative and quantitative elements in order to reliably and validly measure the shape and development of media capture and collusion.
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Järplind, Marcus, and Gunnar Lundberg. "”Skydda, hjälpa, ställa till rätta!” : En kritisk diskursanalys av Polisen Södermalms kommunikation på Facebook"." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-64872.

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Police presence on social media in Sweden has grown in recent years. New social networking tools have resulted in changes of practice in communication. This qualitative study examines how one local Police department in Sweden presents themselves on Facebook. Drawing on critical discourse analysis this paper focuses on uncovering personal values and power relations in various Police discourses but also how identity is shaped. Analyzing one year of Facebook posts from Polisen Södermalm, we identified several thematic discourses and found that content in the informal discourse reproduce some values not supported by policy or principles of public servantship. Our study contributes with qualitative analysis and findings in a field that still needs more work.
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Swift, Philip Joshua. "Active Shooter Event Severity, Media Reporting, Offender Age and Location." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3326.

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Following the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, it was hypothesized that offenders used knowledge gained from news media reports about previous events to plan mass shootings. Although researchers have studied active shooter events, little research has been conducted on the factors that influence an active shooter's decision and ability to carry out such events. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the rate of news media reporting about an active shooter event and the casualty rate of the ensuing event in the United States. The bracketed time of this assessment was between April 20, 1999, and June 15, 2016. The age and regional location of the subsequent shooters were examined as moderating variables. Social learning and social cognitive theories constituted the theoretical framework. Data were gathered from existing mass shooting and active shooter studies, Google News, and the ProQuest Central database. A Spearman's correlation analysis revealed no significant relationship between the rate of news media reporting about an active shooter event and the casualty rate of the ensuing event. The age and regional location of subsequent shooters were not moderating variables. However, a Spearman's correlation analyses did reveal a significant relationship between the casualty rate of an active shooter event and the amount of news media coverage the event received prior to the ensuing event. The study finding clarified the need for active shooter reporting guidelines, similar to existing suicide reporting guidelines. The implementation of such guidelines could reduce the regularity and severity of active shooter events, thereby improving public safety in the United States by reducing the regularity and severity of active shooter events.
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Sars, Lovisa. "”Den som granskar samhället måste också själv kunna tåla att bli granskad” : En fallstudie i Aftonbladets nyhetsrapportering av anklagelserna om våldtäkt och andra sexualbrott mot journalisten Fredrik Virtanen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-70172.

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The aim of the study was to examine how the newspaper Aftonbladet reported the accusation on the journalist Fredrik Virtanen concerning sexual harassment and rape. He was at the time of the accusations employed at Aftonbladet as a chronicler and columnist. Aftonbladet has been criticized for inadequate coverage of the case. The main questions this study examined are: How and what did Aftonbladet report regarding one of their own journalists being accused for sexual harrassment? And how did the reporting comply with the editorial policy at Aftonbladet? The method of the study was a case study and critical discourse analysis, with the aim to examine news and whether the newspaper followed its editorial policy. The main theme listed in the texts published by Aftonbladet was that an Aftonbladet employee was accused for rape. Additional themes where discourses regarding the work environment at Aftonbladet and a moral discourse regarding the ethics of publishing names and reporting openly about the accusations. Other accusations than rape are not mentioned in Aftonbladet, except in one article regarding an interview with Fredrik Virtanen. Further, the published texts mainly consists of opinions and interviews of management at Aftonbladet, including Fredrik Virtanen. Thus, Aftonbladet has reported the case one-sidedly. The message mediated in texts regarding press ethics and news prioritation is that the case was primarly treated as a staff issue rather than news. The criticism directed against Aftonbladet regarding lack of news reporting and openness has been answered by Aftonbladet with reference to the fact that the newspaper follows the press ethics and publishing rules.  However, it can be determined that Aftonbladet, despite its reference to press ethics, did not follow its own editorial policy when reporting the case.
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Hrgic, Dejan. "Hantering av sociala medier. : En studie om hur kommuner väljer att hantera sociala medier." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-14340.

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Befattningshavare av både stora och små organisationer har kommit till en punkt där det är viktigt att förstå vikten av sociala medier och ställa frågan, hur? och inte om? de ska möta sina kunder på denna nya arena. Sociala medier är fortfarande något väldigt nytt för många, och har förhållandevis få regler och rutiner för hur organisationer ska hantera det på bästa sätt. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur de undersökta kommunerna arbetar med och väljer att hantera sociala medier som ett kommunikationsverktyg för att stärka relationen till sina medborgare. Frågeställningen som har använts för att besvara syftet är: Hur ser de undersökta kommunerna på sociala medier? Vad är syftet med användningen av sociala medier inom dessa kommuner? Hur väljer dessa kommuner att hantera användningen av sociala medier inom organisationen? Jag har valt att genomföra en kvalitativ undersökning som består av intervjuer och en dokumentundersökning av kommunernas riktlinjer och policys. Intervjuerna har genomförts med vad anser vara högkvalitativa källor, det vill säga chefsinformatören på Ljungby kommun och kommunikationschefen på Växjö kommun. De har kunnat förse mig med korrekta och tillförlitliga uppgifter som har bidragit till studiens giltighet. Studien har avgränsats till två kommuner i Kronobergslän, denna avgränsning har varit viktig att göra för att kunna fördjupa studien och garantera en bredare förståelse av ämnet. Den insamlade empirin har sedan analyserats utifrån lämplig teori och resultaten har därefter redovisats under passande rubriker som bygger på dels den teoretiska referensramen och dels studiens frågeställningar. Resultatet av studien visar att de undersökta kommunerna har en positiv syn på sociala medier. De vill använda kommunikationskanalen för att bedriva en dialog med sina medborgare samt för att informera om viktiga händelser och kommunicera kommunens samhällsnyttiga uppdrag
Officials of both large and small organizations have reached a point where it is important to understand the significance of social media and ask the question, how? and not if? They should meet their customers in this new arena. Social media is still something very new for many, and has relatively few rules and regulations for how organizations should handle it in the best way. The purpose of this study is to examine how local authorities are working with, and choose to manage social media as a communication tool to strengthen the relationship with its citizens. The questions that have been used to answer the purpose of this study are: How do local authorities perceive social media? What is the purpose of social media within the municipality? How do local authorities choose to manage the use of social media within the organization? I have chosen to conduct a qualitative study consisting of interviews and a document examination of local guidelines and policies. The interviews were conducted with what I consider to be high-quality sources, namely the Chief Information Officer of Ljungby municipality and the communications manager at Växjö municipality. They have been able to provide me with accurate and reliable information which has contributed to the study's validity. The study has been limited to two municipalities in Kronoberg County, this distinction has been important to deepen the study and ensure a broader understanding of the subject. The collected empirical data has then been analyzed based upon appropriate theory and the results have then been presented under appropriate headings, which are based both on the theoretical framework and also study issues. The results of this study show that the surveyed municipalities have a positive view of social media. They want to use the communication channel to engage in a dialogue with their citizens and to provide information on important events and communicate the municipality's public benefit mission.
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Rennie, Elinor Mary. "The future of community broadcasting : civil society and communications policy." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15829/1/Elinor_Rennie_Thesis.pdf.

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Will community television one day be lamented in the same way as the Glenn Valley Bridge Club in Pennsylvania, where no one remains 'who can tell us precisely when or why the group broke up' (Putnam, 2000: 15)? Robert Putnam's bestseller Bowling Alone proposed that people 'need to reconnect with one another' and rebuild their communities for the good of society. Although he may not have succeeded in instigating a revival of lawn bowls and bridge, Putnam did spark a debate about the meaning of "community" today and its role in bringing about positive social change. At a time when the communications landscape is set to transform with the introduction of digital broadcasting technology, this thesis looks at the status of community broadcasting and its role within civil society. Taking Australia's community television sector as its starting point, it aims to define the pressures, public philosophies and policy decisions that make community broadcasting what it is. This thesis is structured thematically and geographically. The introductory chapters establish the research question in relation to Australia's community broadcasting sector. As well as tracing the intellectual path of community media studies, it sets out to locate community broadcasting within broader intellectual debates around notions of community, governance and the media. These are brought back to the "on-the-ground" reality throughout the thesis by means of policy analysis, interviews and anecdotal evidence. Chapters Three to Five map out the themes of access, the public interest and development by reference to community broadcasting in different regions. In North America I explore notions of free speech and first-come-first served models of access. In Europe, notions of "quality", public service broadcasting and the difficult relationship that community broadcasting has with public interest values. Through the Third World and the Third Way I examine how community broadcasting is implicated within development discourse and ideas of social change. The final chapter of the thesis moves into the virtual region of the Internet, looking at changing notions of access and the relevance of new communications rationales to the community broadcasting project. At the intersection of the various themes and models discussed throughout the thesis exists a strong rationale for the future of community broadcasting. Although new technologies may be interpreted as the beginning of the end of community broadcasting, I have argued that in fact it is an idea whose time has come.
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Rennie, Elinor Mary. "The Future of Community Broadcasting: Civil Society and Communications Policy." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15829/.

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Will community television one day be lamented in the same way as the Glenn Valley Bridge Club in Pennsylvania, where no one remains 'who can tell us precisely when or why the group broke up' (Putnam, 2000: 15)? Robert Putnam's bestseller Bowling Alone proposed that people 'need to reconnect with one another' and rebuild their communities for the good of society. Although he may not have succeeded in instigating a revival of lawn bowls and bridge, Putnam did spark a debate about the meaning of "community" today and its role in bringing about positive social change. At a time when the communications landscape is set to transform with the introduction of digital broadcasting technology, this thesis looks at the status of community broadcasting and its role within civil society. Taking Australia's community television sector as its starting point, it aims to define the pressures, public philosophies and policy decisions that make community broadcasting what it is. This thesis is structured thematically and geographically. The introductory chapters establish the research question in relation to Australia's community broadcasting sector. As well as tracing the intellectual path of community media studies, it sets out to locate community broadcasting within broader intellectual debates around notions of community, governance and the media. These are brought back to the "on-the-ground" reality throughout the thesis by means of policy analysis, interviews and anecdotal evidence. Chapters Three to Five map out the themes of access, the public interest and development by reference to community broadcasting in different regions. In North America I explore notions of free speech and first-come-first served models of access. In Europe, notions of "quality", public service broadcasting and the difficult relationship that community broadcasting has with public interest values. Through the Third World and the Third Way I examine how community broadcasting is implicated within development discourse and ideas of social change. The final chapter of the thesis moves into the virtual region of the Internet, looking at changing notions of access and the relevance of new communications rationales to the community broadcasting project. At the intersection of the various themes and models discussed throughout the thesis exists a strong rationale for the future of community broadcasting. Although new technologies may be interpreted as the beginning of the end of community broadcasting, I have argued that in fact it is an idea whose time has come.
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Ryoo, Woongjae. "The South Korean Mediascape: State, Civil Society and the Implications of Regional Political Economy for Cultural Transformation." restricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08042006-154333/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. David Cheshier, committee chair; Michael Bruner, Leonard Teel, Carol Winkler, James Hamilton, committee members. Electronic text (238 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 13, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238).
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Ofori-Birikorang, Andrews. "Promoting a New Health Policy in the Ghanaian Media: Newspaper Framing of the National Health Insurance Scheme from 2005-2007." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1249077245.

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Barbulescu, Georgeta V. "The politics of media and information in countries emerging from totalitarian regimes: the case of Romania." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42627.

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This thesis problematizes the interplay of power and media institutions as a general difficulty in democratic societies and as a specific challenge in countries that are emerging from authoritarian regimes. Based on more comprehensive studies about power, dominance, compliance, resistance and information monopoly developed in the United States, the project approaches a particular case in modern history, namely Romania, during the period of transition following Ceausescu's overthrow, in December, 1989, and before the first free elections, in May, 1990. The bulk of the work concentrates on deconstructing political and media discourses developed throughout this period, while trying to address the role that the political and media environments had in reshaping post-communist Romania. My major argument is that, given a number of difficulties that have marked this period, ranging from economic setbacks, political ambiguities, and social confusion, the May elections have been monitored and orchestrated starting early in this period by the provisional authorities (a group of former communist bureaucrats), in tandem with a number of central media outlets. From this combination of power interests, the Romanian public was deprived of correct information on a number of issues that pertained to the future of the country and was trapped in the web of a carefully designed imagery that fostered a dissimulated totalitarian propaganda. The last part of the project advances these contentions and considers them in turn, while trying to capture how the specifics of the case inscribe themselves in larger patterns of dominance and compliance.
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