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Ching, Gillian A. "The influence of the media in framing policy debates : a case study of the Port Arthur Massacre and gun laws policy." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.
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The 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in which 35 people were shot and killed and several others wounded was an alarming event in Australia's history. The Port Arthur massacre showed Australians that they were not immune from terrible acts of violence. The massacre dominated discussions, conversations and attention in the Australian community and also received international attention. It was an emotional and heart felt incident which caused a nation to pause at the devastation but also question the very fabric of Australian society and personal and public
safety and the availability and access to firearms in the community. The media identified the story and reported it substantially. They identified community concerns
at the event and the perceived inadequacies of the existing gun laws. The framing of the issue by the media and its ongoing interest and reportage of gun laws was a key factor in the action and policy response by the Government.
Being aware of the community concern, Government's responded quickly to the tragedy, announcing an historic agreement among state police Ministers and the Commonwealth
Government to introduce National Uniform Gun Laws. The massacre and the gun laws reform was a major issue of reporting by the media. The coverage was extensive and ongoing. While not in a position to enact decisions on policy-making, the media was an active participant
in lobbying for reform, keeping the issue alive and pressuring government through its reporting to act decisively towards reform.
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Ivančević, Bosiljka. "Mass Media Influence on Foreign Policy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165346.
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A main purpose of the thesis is to demonstrate and explain to what extend do media influence foreign policy of a state. Foreign policy is always under internal and external influences and media are considered to be one of those external influences that shape it. Agenda setting theory forms the theoretical frame for this thesis because it takes into consideration not just direct media-government relations but the public as well that inside of this relation serves as some sort of mediator. Besides this theory and the CNN effect as its main 'extension' identifiable victim effect and third person effect as important elements in the process of influence will be introduced as well as influence of visualization. When word 'media' is mentioned in this case it implies to television and newspapers' (both printed and online versions) messages and their influences (not just verbal but the visual ones as well). Examples and case studies in this case focus mostly on the US foreign policy due to its influential role, fact that the US is still the country with the most superlatives inside of international arena and the size, influence and role-model identity of its big media companies (for ex. CNN).
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Elder, Dennis Samuel. "Media Influence in Urban Government." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625399.
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Morris, Pamela Kay Shoemaker Pamela J. "Explicating culture and its influence on magazine advertisements." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Cartledge, Jillian Maree. "Representations of minority groups in Australian media a case study of the Beach Riots, Sydney, Dec. 2005 /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38702149.
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Macnamara, Jim R., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Education and Early Childhood Studies. "Representations of men and male identities in Australian mass media." THESIS_CAESS_EEC_Macnamara_J.xml, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/735.
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Gender has been identified as a key element of human identity. Feminism has focussed particular attention on gender issues over the past five decades. Gender discourse has been dominated by discussion of women and women’s issues - “feminists have somehow set the agenda for men’s studies” as well as women studies. Mass media have been identified as key sites of discourse in feminist studies. Numerous studies have examined representations of women in mass media and argued that these have significant effects on women, on men, and on societies. A number of researchers have found that the treatment of men in mass media is not unproblematic and say that that feminist-led discourses have presented pictures of men as rapists, batterers, pornographers, child abusers, militarists, exploiters, and images of women as targets and victims. But studies of representations of men have been far fewer than those focussing on women. Furthermore, some media content analyses have been limited or unreliable because of small samples or lack of methodological rigorDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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McManus, Sarah E. "Influence of the CSI effect on education and mass media." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4595.
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Forensic science television shows, especially CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, have been said to influence the public's perception of how forensic science is used and create interest in studying forensic science and pursuing jobs in the field. This study investigates this claim through a variety of methods. First, definitions of the CSI effect are discussed, including how it was first used and mentioned in the media. Second, survey data from students in a forensic anthropology course regarding interest in forensic science media and educational and career choices are analyzed. Third, the number and debut dates of forensic science non-fiction books, novels, non-fiction television shows, and television dramas are investigated. Finally, a content analysis of the television show Bones is undertaken in order to understand how the forensic anthropology presented in this show differs from the actual practice of forensic anthropology. Results of this study indicate that, overall, students who wanted to pursue forensic science careers and graduate study did not watch more forensic science television shows and read more forensic science novels than those who did not want to pursue forensic science careers and graduate study. Also, based on the decreased interest in a number of forensic careers, it appears that respondents may have started the course with false perceptions regarding the actual job descriptions of these careers. Regarding the number and debut dates of forensic science media, this study found that the majority of non-fiction forensic anthropology books, non-fiction television shows, television dramas debuted after CSI appeared, corroborating the claim that CSI led to an increase in interest in forensic anthropology. In addition, this study found that while much of Bones is fictionalized for entertainment purposes, many of the techniques and analyses presented on the show have a peripheral basis in scientific methods.ID: 029094425; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130).
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Okey, Jessica. "Sex in the media an influence on adolescent development /." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002okeyj.pdf.
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Lewis, Kieran. "Profits, pluralism and the press : a study of print media ownership in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1996. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36284/1/36284_Lewis_1996.pdf.
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This thesis undertakes a study of the research question: 'What is the
nature of Australia's print media ownership and what is its impact on the
diversity of print media, the diversity of views presented by the print media, and
the incidence of bias within the print media in Australia?' This research question
was developed after a study of submissions to Australia's 1991-1992 House of
Representatives Select Committee on the Print Media, more commonly known as
the Print Media Inquiry, revealed a dichotomy between submissions presented by
proponents of a pluralist press and submissions presented by proponents of a
market-based press.
An examination of literature on pluralist and market-based press theories,
and a comparison of these theories with the attributes of the Australian print
media, shows that Australia's press is exclusively market-based and that the
country's major newspaper owners have formed a powerful press oligopoly.
Further, these owners act as members of an oligopoly tend to act. That is, they
rationalise their operations where possible, draw substantial benefits from
economies of scale, and are protected from the entry of competition into their
markets. The formation of this print media oligopoly has led to some 88.4 percent
of the country's national and capital city daily newspaper circulation being
concentrated in the hands of two newspaper proprietors, Rupert Murdoch, who
controls News Limited, and Conrad Black, who controls the Fairfax group
(Communications Update, 1995, p.22). This concentration, the highest in the
western world (Henningham, 1993, p.59), is claimed to adversely affect the print
media industry, particularly in terms of a lack of print media diversity and a lack
of diversity of views presented by the print media to the public.
In 1991 moves by the Tourang Consortium (comprised, among others, of
media magnates Kerry Packer and Conrad Black) to purchase the Fairfax group
of companies caused a political outcry and were responsible, for the most part,
for the Federal Labor Government's establishment of the Print Media Inquiry. The Inquiry was a wide-ranging review of the state of the nation's print media
industry. It received 164 written submissions and 72 oral submissions from
newspaper owners, industry personnel, union representatives, media researchers,
academics, and the wider community. An examination of these submissions
shows that most can be categorised as supporting either a pluralist or a marketbased
view of how Australia's print media should operate. The principal concerns
expressed to the Inquiry by proponents of a pluralist press were that Australia's
print media ownership had resulted in a lack of diverse print media, mainly
through the erection of barriers to the entry of competition, a lack of diversity in
the views presented by the print media, and bias in the presentation of those
views. Proponents of a market-based press argued, conversely, that Australia's
print media were so diverse that no one person could effectively access all of
them, that barriers to entry to the industry were confused with a guarantee of
entry, and that a diversity of views was assured, as newspaper owners were
required to appeal to as broad a readership base as possible to remain profitable.
The House of Representatives Select Committee conducting the Print Media
Inquiry ultimately concluded (although not unanimously) that Australia's
concentrated print media ownership had not resulted in 'biased reporting, news
suppression, or a lack of diversity' in the Australian print media industry
(Simper, 1992, p.17), a conclusion that led to the Inquiry being labelled a farce,
a political sop, and a whitewash.
The results of three case studies undertaken for this thesis, however,
supported both the findings of the House of Representatives Select Committee on
the Print Media and claims by proponents of Australia's market-based press that
barriers to entry were not erected by existing print media owners, that a diversity
of views was presented by the print media, and that newspaper owners provided a
reasonable balance in the editorial of their newspapers.
The first case study, an examination of the establishment and subsequent
failure of the Brisbane Weekend Times newspaper in 1993, found support for
claims made by News Limited to the Print Media Inquiry that, in arguing that Australian press owners had erected barriers to the entry of competition, critics
of the market-based press had confused ease of entry to the industry with a
guarantee of entry. In examining start-up and delivery costs, the costs of news
sources, readers' habits and advertiser support, the ability for the fledgling
newspaper to absorb losses, and the influence of News Limited in the
newspaper's proposed market, the case study found that the primary reason for
the failure of the Brisbane Weekend Times was that its owner had insufficient
capital to sustain its publication, rather than any specific barriers which the
Australian press oligopoly had itself erected to preclude competition.
The second case study, an examination of 254 news stories appearing in
Fairfax's Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald and News Limited's
Melbourne Herald Sun and Sydney Daily Telegraph Mirror during a composite
week from 6 September 1995 to 17 October 1995, found support for claims that
Australia's newspaper owners encouraged a diversity of views to ensure they
appealed to general rather than niche audiences. The study linked diversity with
the incidence of identical, near-identical, and non-identical political news stories
that appeared in the above newspapers during the period defined. It found that, of
the total news stories studied for both newspaper groups, 7.08 percent were
identical, 34.64 percent were near-identical, and 58.28 percent were nonidentical,
and concluded that a diversity of views (on matters political at least)
did exist in the newspapers examined.
The third case study, an examination of the incidence of political bias
towards or against the Australian Federal Government in the above newspapers
over the same composite week, found support for claims that Australia's
newspaper owners provided a reasonable balance in the editorial of their
newspapers. Averaging the results returned by three coders used for this
examination, the study found that, for the total number of news stories analysed,
41.67 percent were coded as having a neutral bias, 40.47 percent were coded as
having bias against the Federal Government, and 17.86 percent were coded as
having a bias towards the Federal Government. However, the case study concluded that bias itself was difficult to ascertain, as a single definition of bias
upon which to code the stories could not be obtained.
In its conclusions the thesis contends that:
Australia's newspaper ownership structure fulfils the criteria of an
oligopoly and the owners of Australia's press act as members of an
oligopoly tend to act, that is, they rationalise their operations where
possible, draw substantial benefits from economies of scale, and are
protected by the difficulty competitors have in entering the market; and
the formation of this press oligopoly has effectively precluded the
development of a truly pluralist press in Australia; however
the results of three case studies undertaken for the thesis suggest that
Australia's print media oligopoly does not lead, intrinsically, to the
erection of barriers to entry, a reduction in the diversity of views
presented by the print media, or an increase in the incidence of bias
presented in those views.
In a discussion of these conclusions, however, it is recognised that there are
limitations to the overall study of this research question. These include the
worldview brought to the writing of the thesis, where the discussion of
Australia's print media is itself based in the socio-political structure within which
the Australian press operates; the population sample for the second and third case
studies, which has been restricted to news stories that deal exclusively with
matters of federal politics; and the term print media, which has been limited to
newspapers only, and does not include other printed media such as newsletters,
magazines, or niche publications.
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Lauricella, Alexis Re. "Infants' learning from videos influence of character interaction & character familiarity /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/648982204/viewonline.
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Taylor, Elizabeth Lee. "A cross-media study of audience choice : the influence of traits, needs, and attitudes on individual selection of "media repertoires" /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Haussamen, Lindsey Marie. "United States media portrayals of the developing world: A semiotic analysis of the One campaign's internet web site." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3387.
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The goal of this research was to examine how the One organization's web site either supports or rejects established literature that concludes that U.S. media contains negative representations of the developing world.
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Barnes, Latarcia R. "Public opinions of the courts| Does mass media influence public opinion?" Thesis, Capella University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3614483.
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The general public knows very little about the criminal justice system overall, which can result in an assorted, often negative, opinions of the criminal justice system. The public's confidence in the criminal justice system is imperative to the operation of the criminal justice system. Our criminal justice system relies on the participation from the community in order to work. One speculation as to why the public has a less than favorable opinion of the criminal justice system is that the system is viewed a mystery. The public has no idea how each component of the criminal justice system works because the majority of the public has had no direct contact with the criminal justice system. Most information obtained about the criminal justice system, the public gathered from what they hear and see from the media or from other people. Using secondary data from a national survey, this dissertation analyzed mass media, specifically TV news, newspapers, and TV judge programs, to determine these variables have an influence on the relationship of the courts and public opinion in the United States. This dissertation can be viewed as ground zero in terms of how the media began to influence the public's opinion of the criminal justice system, especially the court component. For this study, a quantitative approach using a descriptive survey design was used. It was determined that the respondents were not as influenced by mass media as anticipated. The findings of this study were more consistent with the international literature than domestic literature on this topic. This dissertation offers a better understanding of the connection between mass media, even without the more modern aspects of the media such as the internet, and the public's views of the courts. This dissertation presents valuable information for satisfaction with the courts and attitude toward the courts that has not been seen in the current literature on this subject. In conclusion, recommendations were provided offered to further advance the research in this area.
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Cameron-Dow, Joy. "Spinning the web :the influence of the internet on the reporting of crime and criminal justice in traditional media." ePublications@bond, 2009. http://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/16.
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This thesis investigates the influence of the Internet on the reporting of crime and criminal justice in traditional media, focusing on the hitherto unexplored nexus of media, crime and the Internet. The Internet as a medium acknowledges no boundaries or geographical barriers and the implications of such globally unrestricted access are far wider than the mainstream consideration of several legal and ethical ramifications that accompany reportage on an international scale. This research represents a triangulated study, based on results obtained from an analysis of Internet crime sites, a process of elite interviewing of practising journalists and academics and demonstration case studies of three high-profile crimes.This research suggests the Internet audience wants shorter, more concise crime stories at first point of access, focusing on the main or more sensational aspects, with further background and detail available through links to the requisite multi-media facilities. These multi-media facilities often offer far more graphic detail and specificity than is available in mainstream media, particularly when the latter, constrained by such restrictions as deadlines and space, are compelled to dispense with superfluous detail, with no reader access to further information. In addition, the media theories of agenda-setting and framing undergo a noticeable transition when applied to online reporting.Crime reports on the Internet now complement the text of their narrative with audio and visual detail, bringing the audience ever closer to the scene of the crime and, in many instances, to the perpetrator and victim, again raising ethical issues and reopening the argument of the public‟s right to know versus the individual‟s desire for privacy.In addition, the speed of transmitting information and the ability to update it almost instantaneously must give the Internet a competitive edge in the media focus on attracting an audience and meeting its needs. Yet, despite the widely held consensus that the Internet is free from control, this coverage encounters some degree of gate-keeping.Exploration of available literature has complemented the study, which demonstrates conclusively the influence of the Internet on such journalistic elements as news values, legal and ethical issues, framing and agenda-setting in crime reporting in traditional media.
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Wang, Ning. "Media exposure and perceived opinion diversity : effects and mechanisms." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1054.
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Wang, Wei. "Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia a contrastive genre study /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1701.
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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)This thesis is a contrastive genre study which explores newspaper commentaries on terrorism in Chinese and Australian newspapers. The study examines the textual patterning of the Australian and Chinese commentaries, interpersonal and intertextual features of the texts as well as considers possible contextual factors which might contribute to the formation of the newspaper commentaries in the two different languages and cultures. For the framework of its analysis, the study draws on systemic functional linguistics, English for Specific Purposes and new rhetoric genre studies, critical discourse analysis, and discussions of the role of the mass media in the two different cultures. The study reveals that Chinese writers often use explanatory rather than argumentative expositions in their newspaper commentaries. They seem to distance themselves from outside sources and seldom indicate endorsement of these sources. Australian writers, on the other hand, predominantly use argumentative expositions to argue their points of view. They integrate and manipulate outside sources in various ways to establish and provide support for the views they express. It is argued that these textual and intertextual practices are closely related to contextual factors, especially the roles of the media and opinion discourse in contemporary China and Australia. The study, by providing both a textual and contextual view of the genre under investigation in the two languages and cultures, aims to establish a framework for contrastive rhetoric research which moves beyond the text into the context of production and interpretation of the texts as a way of exploring reasons for the linguistic and rhetorical choices made in the two sets of texts.
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Oesterle, Ulf. "Organizational influence on recorded music a look at the independents /." Related electronic resource:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1354131191&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3739&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Casey, Cara C. "Imaginative play a review of literature on the influence of media and educational changes /." Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008caseyc.pdf.
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Parker, Jazma Mekelle. "Law Enforcement Perception of Social Media as an Influence in Mass Shootings." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7891.
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Mass shootings have been a persistent issue in the United States, and the underlying factors that continue to influence this crime are not yet evident. This study explored the effects of social media as an influence on mass shootings in the United States. Its purpose was to address the role of social media in spreading opinionated ideologies. The research question addressed the role of social media in influencing the actions of perpetrators of mass shootings in the United States. The study framework was based on the social-ecological model to facilitate classification of the susceptibilities of social media users to adverse ideologies; 7 experts on mass shootings were interviewed in the study. Findings revealed that social media tend to influence mass shooting in 4 capacities: as enablers of the conceptualization process of the crime until the final act of mass violence; as facilitators of the individual or personal agenda of the mass shooter; as platforms that harness emerging technology for knowledge building during the planning phase and create operational efficiency for the final act; and as coordinators of group or symphonic terrorism. Government authorities in charge of combating mass shootings perform their tasks through actionable intelligence, legislation and policy, training of police and other first responders, mechanical barriers or deterrents, and brainstorming for new techniques and strategies. They are, however, constrained by considerable odds, which often come conjointly with their methods of crime resolution and strategies. Predictive technologies, as vehicles to fight or prevent mass shootings, have limiting influences on government action, particularly relating to the First and Fourth Amendments and the culture of hate that is nurtured and sustained through social media.
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Tosco, Amedeo, and n/a. "The Italo-Australian Press: Media and Mass Communication in the Emigration World 1900-1940." Griffith University. School of Humanities, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070215.111854.
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L'idea di questa tesi nasce da una serie di circostanze, prima tra tutte la professione dell'autore che per quindici anni ha svolto in Italia l'attività di giornalista, lavorando prima al Messaggero di Roma, come cronista, e successivamente alla Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana in qualità di redattore di 'giudiziaria' . Inoltre, l'autore di questa tesi, ha fatto una interessantissima esperienza professionale sia come critico cinematografico e sia come 'pastonista politico' presso la redazione romana del Giornale Nuovo - coordinata in quegli anni da Cesare Zappulli - quando era direttore il grande e indimenticabile Indro Montanelli, prima cioè che quell'arruffapopoli di Berlusconi affondasse completamente il giornale, trasformandolo nel bollettino parrocchiale di quel guazzabuglio politico che è 'Forza Italia' Questo non è il nostro primo cimento nel campo della storia del giornalismo in quanto segue una tesi di Master, conseguita al dipartimento di Storia dell'University of Queensland e che ha avuto come relatore il Dr. Don Dignan, dal titolo 'Press and Consensus in Fascist Italy'. In questa prima tesi è stata affrontata la fascistizzazione della stampa italiana tra il 1922 ed il 1940 e il modo in cui Mussolini, che capì esattamente l'importanza dei media e del controllo dell'informazione, creò quella corrente di consenso che permise al fascismo di governare indisturbato per tutto il 'ventennio'. In quella tesi di Master è stato anche affrontato e studiato il modo in cui i giornalisti (gli sceneggiatori del regime) ed i giornali, sia essi 'indipendenti' e di partito, manipolarono le notizie per darle in pasto ai propri lettori, con tutte quelle interpolazioni, ridondanze ed ombre che identificano il modo tuttora esistenze di concepire e fare un giornale. Nella nostra tesi di Ph.D. seguiremo una traccia similare, cercando di vedere e di analizzare se anche la stampa etnica ha usato, direttamente o indirettamente, forme di manipolazioni, di interferenze o di ridondanze nel creare e porgere le notizie al lettore italo-australiano. Inoltre è nostro intento accertare fino a che punto questa stampa ha creato un consenso verso particolari scelte politiche, sociali e di costume e se questo consenso è stato accettato dai lettori etnici, e in che misura. In altre parole il quesito che in linea di massima ci poniamo è identificare che influenza ha avuto la stampa etnica sulla comunità italiana. I problemi che questo tipo di ricerca implica sono stati numerosi, soprattutto dovuti al fatto che non esiste una letteratura specifica e non vi sono studi, nel campo del giornalismo italo-australiano, dei primi quaranta anni del novecento. Inoltre la maggior parte dei giornali pubblicati in quegli anni sono andati distrutti. Si è cercato inoltre di delineare una immagine dei problemi e delle aspirazioni della comunità italo-australiana attraverso l'analisi della stampa etnica, visto che la maggior parte degli autori hanno affrontato, fino ad oggi, questo tema usando documenti ufficiali o racconti e testimonianze di persone vissute nel periodo analizzato dalla nostra tesi. Abbiamo cercato, quindi, di dare una nuova luce e, quando è stato possibile, di dare la giusta dimensione agli avvenimenti accaduti dato che quanto veniva pubblicato sulle colonne dei giornali era scritto a 'caldo', senza influenze burocratiche e senza il filtro del tempo e delle memorie che spesso distorcono la realtà creando affabulazioni lontane dalla realtà.
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Aly, Anne M. "Audience responses to the Australian media discourse on terrorism and the 'other' : the fear of terrorism between and among Australian Muslims and the broader community." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/176.
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The terrorist attcks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 heralded an era of unprecedented media and public attention on the global phenomenon of terrorism. Implicit in the Australian media's discourse on terrorism that evolved out of the events of 11 September is a construction of the Western world (and specifically Australia) as perpetually at threat of terrorism.
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Gill, Roy Mitchell. "Stalking the fan : locating fandom in modern life." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1779.
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The thesis begins by acknowledging the writer's status as a fan. The stimulus for the enquiry emerges from the discrepancy the writer encounters between his fan experience and the ways in which the academy conceptualises fandom. Such theories serve to position the fan at extremes of the field of reader response: as either a passive, cultural dupe or as a radical, textual freedom fighter. By contrast, this thesis aims to take the diversity of fan response into consideration, and situate its analysis in very real concepts of people's lives. In the first of three parts, a typology is developed that examines the contested and disputed nature of fandom. Reference points are drawn from academic writing, popular media and a focus group session with fans of diverse interests. The second part is devoted to fieldwork. Fan conversations, observations and reflections are combined to create six intimate pen-portraits that convey differing ideas of fandom. Topics covered include fans of Doctor Who, The Adventure Game, Sheffield Wednesday football club; the users of archive TV website The Mausoleum Club; attendees at a Kirsty MacColl get-together;Panopticon( a Doctor Who convention); Forbidden Planet (a collector's shop). The final part, `Fandom and Modem Life', draws together the ideas of the thesis to propose a series of maxims on how fandom operates that emphasise complexity, diversity, the significance of emotional attachment, and fandom's interrelation to capitalism (of it, but not about it). Fandom's role is considered in relation to notions of religiosity and sexuality. Fandom is defined ultimately as a form of social identity possible in contemporary western society. The thesis concludes by speculating on how fandom may evolve in the future.
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Al-Ameri, Mamdoh Suleiman. "Media and USF Students' Perception of Terrorism." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4429.
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This study examined the influence of mass media on students' perceptions of terrorism by applying the situational theory of publics (Grunig & Hunt, 1984). Behavior is the consequence of perception of reality. But perception of reality is not always consistent with the reality itself. Because of the important role of the media in shaping perceptions, terrorist organizations rely on it to spread fear and advance their political goals beyond the people directly affected by their attacks. The media not only spreads the news of an attack, it contributes significantly to formulating and disseminating the message of terrorist organizations. This study explores University of South Florida (USF) students' perceptions of terrorism, and the role of mass media in shaping such perceptions. It also examines assumptions, asks pertinent questions, and seeks answers by conducting a survey of college students. The findings of this study support the basic premise of the situational theory of publics and contribute to better understanding of how media influences perceptions of terrorism. The findings of this study and future studies on the same subject might be used to better educate students, and inform communication professionals about methods to increase awareness about the U.S. position on terrorism.
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Martin, Andrea Roxanne. "Family and media influence on perceived body image." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3078.
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This study has found that negative body image is present in third graders, as young as seven years of age. One interesting finding was that a high number of students who viewed body-oriented magazines had a negative body image.
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Taylor, Anthea School of English UNSW. "Stones, ripples, waves: refiguring The first stone media event." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22506.
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This interdisciplinary study critically revisits the Australian print media???s engagement with Helen Garner???s controversial work of ???non-fiction???, The First Stone (1995). Print news media engagement with the book, marked by intense discursive contestation over feminism, has been constituted both by feminists and other critics as a significant cultural signpost. However, the highly visible print media event following the book???s publication raised a plethora of critical questions and dilemmas that remain unsatisfactorily addressed. Building upon John Fiske???s work on media events as sites of maximum visibility and discursive turbulence (Fiske: 1996), this study re-theorises the public dialogue following The First Stone???s publication in terms of four constitutive elements: narrative, celebrity, audience, and history and conflict. Through an analysis of these four diverse yet interconnected aspects of the media event, I create a critical space not only for its limitations to emerge but also the frequently overlooked possibilities it offers in terms of the wider feminism and print media culture relationship. As part of its central aim to refigure The First Stone media event, this thesis argues against prior characterisations of the debate as constitutive of either a monologic articulation of conservative, antifeminist voices or an unmitigated attack on its author by a homogenous feminism. In particular, I use this media event as indicative of the sophistication and complexity of media engagement with contemporary feminism, despite both continued derision and overly simplistic celebration of this relationship. Texts subject to analysis here include: The First Stone, various ???mainstream??? media representations and self-representations of three ???celebrity feminists??? (Helen Garner, Anne Summers and Jenna Mead), letters to the editor of newspapers and magazines, ???popular??? feminist books by Kathy Bail and Virginia Trioli, and a number of media texts in which those claiming a feminist subject position and those sympathetic to feminism act as either news sources or columnists/commentators. Although Garner???s narrative is throughout identified to be deeply problematic, I argue that the media event it precipitated provides valuable insights into both the opportunities and the constraints of the print media-feminism nexus in 1990s Australia.
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Muller, Denis Joseph Andrew. "Media accountability in a liberal democracy : an examination of the harlot's prerogative /." Connect to thesis, 2005. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1552.
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This thesis is both a normative and empirical study of media accountability in a liberal democracy. While its focus is predominantly on Australia, it contains some international comparisons. Media ethics and media performance in relation to quality of media content are identified as the two main dimensions of media accountability. They may be conceived of as the means and the ends of media work. The thesis represents the first combined survey of both external mechanisms of accountability in Australia – those existing outside the various media organisations – and the internal mechanisms existing within three of Australia’s largest media organisations. These organisations span print and broadcasting, public and private ownership. The thesis is based on substantial qualitative research involving interviews with a wide range of experts in media ethics, law, management, and accountability. It is also based on two quantitative surveys, one among practitioners of journalism and the other among the public they serve. This combination of research is certainly new in Australia, and no comparable study has been found in other Western countries. In addition to the main qualitative and quantitative surveys, three case studies are presented. One deals with media performance in relation to quality of media content (the case of alleged bias brought against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by the then Senator Richard Alston); one deals with media ethics (the “cash-for-comment” cases involving various commercial radio broadcasters), and one deals with accountability processes (the “Who Is Right?” experiment at The Sydney Morning Herald).
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Cheng, Qijin, and 程绮瑾. "Suicide and the media in the Chinese contexts." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49617606.
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The suicide and the media research field are generally concerned with the effect, content, and production of mass-disseminating suicide information. Most of the previous studies in the field were conducted in western countries. This dissertation is devoted to extending the research map to the Chinese contexts and moving the field forward into the new media era. It proposes a conceptual framework based on the social construction of reality theory and refines the framework through a combination of five studies.
Study 1 might be the first investigation on mass-disseminating suicide information’s effect on suicide occurrences in Mainland China, using the Foxconn suicides as a case study. It finds that the Foxconn suicides were temporally clustered and influenced by inter-person contagion within the company, as well as the newspapers’ reporting about the topic in Beijing, the nation’s capital.
Study2 examines the prominence and representation patterns of reporting the Foxconn suicides in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in 2010 calendar year. It demonstrates that the media coverage of the Foxconn suicides in the three societies generally experienced a three-phase evolving process in 2010. Meanwhile, within every phase, the media in different societies showed differences in their representations. Furthermore, the study investigates how the representation can be influenced by news sources and social contexts and explores possible explanations why the Beijing media’s reporting influenced the occurrences of the Foxconn suicides.
Study3 compares representation of suicides in case-control psychological autopsy studies with representation of the same suicides in Hong Kong media. Considering the psychological autopsy as relatively more rigorous and validated, the comparison examines the suicide news representation’s accuracy and stereotyping tendencies. It finds a strong homogenisation of the Hong Kong newspapers in accurately reporting suicide methods but inaccurately reporting suicide risk factors, and that their reporting was problematic in stereotyping of gender-and method-specific suicides.
Study 4 is a qualitative study of 33newspaper journalists’ experiences with producing suicide news from representative daily newspapers in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Utilising the grounded theory method, it extracts how the journalists construct media reality of suicide within a social context. The study summarises criteria of suicide news values, identifies three types of key agents which are often engaged by the journalists in constructing suicide news, and also generates a comparative framework of suicide news production in the Chinese contexts.
Study 5 examines what suicide-related information is easily accessible online in Mainland China and Hong Kong and compares it with its counterparts in English. It explores how the comparative framework proposed by Study 4 can also be applied to understand the nature of the online suicide information and serves as a bridge connecting the thesis with future studies on suicide and the new media.
The five studies collectively contribute to understanding the nature and mechanism of constructing media reality of suicide in the Chinese contexts. By applying the research findings, suicide prevention professionals would be able to develop context-sensitive strategies to cooperate with the media and prevent suicide.published_or_final_version
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Sparhawk, Julie M. "Body image and the media the media's influence on body image /." Online version, 2003. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2003/2003sparhawkj.pdf.
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Taylor, Todd M. "Internet influence on sports information gathering." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1347737.
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The Internet is changing the way people obtain their information, growing at a faster rate than any previous media outlet. Experts fully expect this growth to continue. The power of the Internet as a new media source has led to research concerning its effect on traditional media (newspaper, television, radio, and magazines) for certain tasks. However, research has yet to focus solely on sports information gathering, which has been identified as the number one reason men between eighteen and thirty-four years of age access the Internet. The purpose of this study was to examine where students get their sports information, to determine whether gathering sports information through the Internet leads to a decrease in gathering sports information through traditional media.Department of Journalism
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Rosenkranz, Rolf J. "Perceptions of journalistic freedom, and the factors that influence them : a case study of journalists at the Star, South Africa /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1426101.
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Holloway, Donell Joy. "Multiply-mediated households : Space and power reflected in everyday media use." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1314.
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This study investigates how contemporary Australian families incorporate the consumption of multiple media technologies within their home environments. It uses an approach similar to David Morley's (1986) Family Television where he explored the consumption of television programs in the context of everyday family life. He viewed the household (or family) as the key to constructing understandings of the television audience; where there were gendered regimes of watching, and where program choice often reflected existing power relationships in the home. However since then (a time when most families had only one television set) the media environment of many homes has changed. The addition of multiple television sets, along with newer digital technologies such as computers and game consoles, has introduced a new dynamics of social space within the household. Therefore, the family living room, with its erstwhile shared television culture, has become a less critical site of domestic media consumption. With the migration of television sets and new digital technologies to other spaces in the home, claims over time and space have become even more intimately involved with the domestic use of media technologies. Consequently, this study critically analyses the relationship between media consumption and the geographical spaces and boundaries within the home. Drawing upon interviews with all family members, this thesis argues that the incorporation of multiple media technologies in many households has coincided with significant changes to the spatial geography of these homes, along with a rearticulation of gendered and generational power relationships. Extra media spaces in bedrooms, hallways, home offices and 'nooks’ have freed up the lounge room, possibly allowing for more harmony and accord within the family, but also reducing the amount of time the family spends together. At the same time the newer media spaces become additional sites for gendered and generational conflict and tension. This study uses an audience ethnography approach to explore and analyse media consumption at the micro level, that of the individual within the household/family. Twenty-three in-depth conversational interviews and observations of children and adults living in six technologically rich households in suburban and regional areas of Western Australia formed the basis of this thesis. Themes and issues that emerged from this qualitative research process include the gendered nature of screens in children's bedrooms, the extent to which a media-rich bedroom culture is evident in Australia, the existence of a masculine gadgeteer culture within some families in the study, the social construction of gaming as a gendered (boy) culture, gendered pathways on the Internet and the reintegration of adult acknowledge-based work into the family home. The thesis also addresses digital divide issues relating to inequities in access, technical and social support, motivation and the quality of new digital technologies available in the home.
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Morris, A. J. L. "A study of John St. Loe Strachey's editorship of the Spectator 1901-1914." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377214.
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Bly, Theresa. "Impact of public perception on US national policy : a study of media influence in military and government decision making /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02sep%5FBly.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Information Systems and Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2002.Thesis advisor(s): Steven J. Iatrou, Anthony Pratkanis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-144). Also available online.
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Rowe-Cernevicius, Brittany. "As Seen on TV: Brand Placement and Its Influence on the Identity of Emerging Adults." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1321669523.
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Krutoff, Alissa. "Student leadership : the influence of television and film on today's student leaders /." Full text available online, 2009. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Muir, Kathie. "'Tough enough?' : constructions of femininity in news reporting of Jennie George, ACTU president 1995-2000 /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm9531.pdf.
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Whittenton, Brandy J. "Media role model influence on adolescent identity development." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2000. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/211.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Nagley, Andrew Guy. "Changing People's Reaction to Terrorism." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501129/.
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Two hundred and fifty-three subjects were used in an experiment to try to determine how differences in news media presentations affect the reader's view of terrorism. Two stories about a terrorist attack were used, one describing a bombing, the other a hijacking. Both stories had two versions using no one injured or eight innocent people injured. One group of subjects was given no additional information about terrorism. The second group was given information after the description that emphasized the salience of terrorism. The third group received information that de-emphasized the seriousness of terrorism. Subjects were also given a questionnaire designed to measure authoritarianism and one to measure conservatism. It was found that subjects scoring high on authoritarianism or conservativism favored more severe punishment for terrorists than did those scoring lower on the two scales. Findings did not support the hypothesis that providing people with information about terrorism could lessen the impact of terrorist events.
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Robins, Clark. "Perceptions of homelessness : an exploratory study on the mediated inference process." Scholarly Commons, 1999. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/524.
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For the last two decades displaced homeless people living in public places have doted the American landscape, despite increasing national wealth. Two factors which may contribute to this phenomenon are: 1) how the issue of homelessness is perceived through media coverage, and 2) what attributions of causality and responsibility are extricated from the vast multitude of media messages. An integration of theoretical frameworks within social-psychology (attribution and priming theory) and communication (agenda setting and framing effects) was consummated in a hypothesized mediated inference process: conceptualized as a cognitive continuum where the issue of homelessness first enters the cognition of the social observer (inaugural prime); is then given salience by the frequency of media coverage (agenda setting); thereupon shaped by media portrayals (framed); and attributions of causality and responsibility are formed. To examine the proposed mediated inference process a survey questionaire (n=283) was administered to college students revealing a significant correlation between the importance placed on the issue of homelessness (agenda setting) and resultant attributions of causality. As respondents' perceptions of the importance of homelessness increased, their societal attributions of causality increased. Conversely, as perceptions of importance decreased personal, internal attributions of causality increased. Additionally, high television use was found, through regression analysis, to be a significant predictor of situational attributions of causality. An experiment (n=96) was also administered to examine how different newspaper and television framing conditions effect attributions of causality. The results indicate that newspaper portrayals presented as isolated events lead subjects to attribute causality to personal dispositions; whereas portrayals presented as overall accounts lead subjects to societal attributions. Although the evidence for a mediated inference process was inconclusive, the results suggest that the frequency and framing of media coverage significantly affect the process of attributing causality for social issues such as homelessness.
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Serban, Liliana. "Influence of Mass Media on Ohioans’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Physical Activities and Health." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1103231890.
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Roeder, Michael F. "Examining the impact local newspapers have on local decision making : a study of Indiana mayors." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/958772.
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Researchers have long-studied whether the media have an agenda or are strictly objective in their coverage. Using several agenda setting studies, this study built upon them and used the third-effect theory, which assumes people will the influence that mass communications has on the attitudes and behavior of others, to examine perceptions.This study examined whether Indiana mayors allowed the local newspaper to impact policy decisions. The effort determined that mayors perceived newspaper headlines impacted others more than the mayors.Indiana’s 115 mayors were divided by population classes and used to compare and contrast the results to questions examining agenda setting. One hypothesis assume mayors of larger cities would be impacted greater by the local newspaper than mayors of smaller cities. Statistically there was no correlation between the city size and how stories influence the operations in city hall. In fact, all mayors tended to agree that newspapers have little effect on policy decisions.The second hypothesis was based on the assumption that mayors perceived information in the newspaper had a greater effect on general readers of the newspaper than it did on the mayors. The results supported the notion and other third-person effect theories, which assume people will say information has a greater impact on someone else, the "third person," than it does on themselves.Department of Journalism
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Uždalevič, Aelita. "The influence of the English language over Lithuanian and Russian lexis." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090629_115332-34899.
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The study analyses the influence of the English language over Lithuanian and Russian lexis and explores the main tendencies. The aim of the research is to describe English borrowings in Lithuanian and Russian mass media in the last two decades. The objectives of my analysis are: to describe main factors (linguistic and extra linguistic) which influence the influx of the English borrowings; to reveal usage tendencies of the loanwords in the Russian and Lithuanian languages, and present examples of modern borrowings; to classify English borrowings semantically and structurally. The research methods used in this study are: descriptive method and content analysis. The results of the research have shown that both languages experience the influence of the English language while borrowing lexical units of different significance as a result of industrial and technological changes, new technological developments, changing attitudes, cultural transmission and other social determinants. Due to the fact, words borrowed from English represent nearly all semantic areas. Moreover, in Russian and Lithuanian languages, loanwords are subjected to various exposures to adapt them to the possibilities of a language system and the needs of those who use these languages: they acquire suffixes and/or endings of Lithuanian and Russian; they become a basis for further word-construction. In relation to this it can be stated that at the expense of borrowings, and on their basis, in the result of... [to full text]Tyrinėjant medžiagą ir analizuojant pavyzdžius buvo įrodyta, jog abi kalbos patiria Anglų kalbos įtaką skolinant leksinius unitus. Be to, Anglų kalbos skoliniai plačiai naudojami Lietuvių ir Rusų kalbos žiniasklaidoje. Pastebėtas naujų reikšmių vystymasis dėl Anglų kalbos įtakos ir vartotojų poreikius. Tai pat tas faktas, kad skoliniai ne iš karto įtraukiami į literatūrinę kalbą yra akcentuojamas, nors jie plačiai naudojami šnekamojoje kalboje. Semantišku požiūrių naujausius Rusų ir Lietuvių kalbos skolinius galima padalinti į keletą semantinių grupių, kuriuos visiškai atspindi tas sferas, kuriuose yra didelis žmonių susidomėjimas, ir tas sferas kuriuose vyksta visuomeniniai pakeitimai. Didžiąją dalis skoliniu Rusų ir Lietuvių kalbose priklauso ekonomikai (deliveris, брокер), technikai (failas, роуминг), muzikai (singlas, римейк), kosmetikai (tattoo, типсы), paslaugoms (single room, шоппинг), kompiuteriui (hakeris, кликнуть) ir politikai (impičmentas, спикер). Be to, galima rasti nemažai skolinių susijusiu su drabužiais (bodis, сникерсы), valgiu (miusliai, спреды), teatrais (kastingas, блокбастер), žmonėmis (breikeris, киллер) ir sportu (geimas, шейкдаун). Kai kurie skoliniai Lietuvių kalboje priklauso kultūrai (pubas) ir statybai (deckas), tuo metu kai Rusu kalboje dalis skoliniu susijusi su antgamtiniais dalykais (суперме). Abi kalbos pasirenka tos skolinius nes Anglų kalbos įtaka labai didelė, ir visos svarbiausios kasdieninio gyvenimo srytis pripildyti neologizmais... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Li, Yuen. "Media Influence and News Production Centralization| The Role of China News Service in Overseas Chinese Affairs." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10278974.
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After the bloody Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China (CCP) suffered a devastating blow among the overseas Chinese (OC). The CCP responded to the challenge by implementing transnational outreach policy in the OC community, which includes substantial efforts to increase the Party’s influence in the overseas Chinese-language media (OCLM). By conducting a qualitative analysis of the evolution of the CCP's OC policy, this thesis finds that the Party has made tremendous progress in achieving the policy’s strategic goals: modernization and transnational legitimacy. The CCP’s increased influence in the OCLM has made crucial contributions to the Party's success in restoring transnational legitimacy in the OC community. This thesis finds that the China News Service (CNS), China's second-largest news agency operating under the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, plays a major role in the CCP's attempt to influence the OCLM and centralize the production of Chinese-language news.
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Vine, Josie, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "'...we are not competing with bigger papers - we are doing a different job': A study of country Australian news values." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050815.100534.
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Mbunyuza, Lindani. "Shaping public opinion : an investigation of media framing of Trevor Manuel in 1996 and in 2007, in the Financial Mail." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1356.
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The discussion that follows seeks to critically examine the manner in which a South African financial publication, the Financial Mail (FM) magazine, reported on the country’s Finance Minister over two time periods. The specific time periods are April – June 1996, and February – April 2007. This will be done to assess whether the style of reporting changed over time. In order to accurately analyse the coverage, a content analysis of a number of articles published by the FM over two periods will be conducted. The first period to be examined correlates with Manuel’s first three months in office (April to June 1996) as finance minister, a role he took over after the resignation of then Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg, and the subsequent cabinet re-shuffle. This time period also coincides with the adoption of the internationally acclaimed South African constitution which pre-supposes, amongst others, freedom of the press. Manuel’s first three months in office furthermore coincided with the African National Congress’ (ANC) first period in government under the stewardship of President Nelson Mandela, having taken over power in 1994. The second time period selected is during Manuel’s 11th year in office (February to April 2007). The second time period coincides with a different economic and social situation, with the country’s economy having strengthened to the extent of recording a budget surplus. Relevant media theories and principles will be studied to evaluate which theories, if any, reflect the Financial Mail’s style of writing, language use and choice of stories to cover regarding Minister Manuel. An analysis of the first time period will include a look at the socio-economic conditions that prevailed at the respective times, against the background of the political situation during both periods. Dominant economic policies implemented and decisions taken during both periods relevant to the particular office Manuel held will be critically examined, since FM is a financial publication mostly covering financial and economic news. Research conducted will be qualitative in nature, and include an in-depth content analysis of articles.
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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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Wilding, Derek. "AIDS and pro-social television : industry, policy and Australian television drama." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36314/6/36314_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines the intersection of popular cultural representations of HIV and
AIDS and the discourses of public health campaigns. Part Two provides a
comprehensive record of all HIV related storylines in Australian television drama
from the first AIDS episode of The Flying Doctors in 1986 to the ongoing narrative
of Pacific Drive, with its core HIV character, in 1996. Textual representations are
examined alongside the agency of "cultural technicians" working within the
television industry. The framework for this analysis is established in Part One of
the thesis, which examines the discursive contexts for speaking about HIV and AIDS
established through national health policy and the regulatory and industry
framework for broadcasting in Australia. The thesis examines the dominant liberal
democratic framework for representation of HIV I AIDS and adopts a Foucauldian
understanding of the processes of governmentality to argue that during the period of
the 1980s and 1990s a strand of social democratic discourse combined with
practices of self management and the management of the Australian population. The
actions of committed agents within both domains of popular culture and health
education ensured that more challenging expressions of HIV found their way into
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Harris, Kira Jada. "One percent motorcycle clubs: Has the media constructed a moral panic in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia?" Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1881.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate an instrument designed to assess the influence of the media on opinions regarding the one percent motorcycle clubs in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, establishing whether the media had incited a moral panic towards the clubs. The concept of the moral panic, developed by Stanley Cohen iii ( 1972), is the widespread fear towards a social group by events that are overrepresented and exaggerated. Exploring the concept of a moral panic towards the one percent sub-culture, this study compares the perceptions from two groups of non-members in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. One group of participants had interacted with club members (n =13); the other had no direct contact with club members and identified themselves as basing their opinions towards the clubs on information from the media (n =13). It was hypothesised that the two patticipant groups would differ on their opinions regarding the clubs' autonomy, brotherhood, the righteous biker model, and the perceived image of one percent members. Participants were requested to complete the Perception of the One Percent Motorcycle Sub-culture Questionnaire. Quantitative data were analysed using the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test. The findings suggest little differences between the groups, indicating a moral panic towards one percent motorcycle clubs has not been identified by the instrument. Recommendations for improvement in the research design for a comprehensive study include modification to sampling techniques, Likert scales and analysis techniques. Further research is required to validate the present findings.
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Chen, Cong. "China's influence on media in southeast Asia : a case study of the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/752.
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This thesis interrogates how China influences one of its neighboring regions, Southeast Asia, in the aspect of media. Issues of how China's growing influence extends to media coverage and framing of news involving China and China's engagement in Southeast Asia have been brought up but has not been examined with empirical evidence. The research questions of this thesis concern how China is presented in local reporting in Southeast Asian media and why it is framed as it is portrayed in news media in the region. This research considers whether China's political and financial interests through media ownership, funding, soft power, and other factors are exerting influence on media coverage in Southeast Asia. Drawing on theoretical contributions from the theory of the political economy of media, comparative media systems theory and the theory of public diplomacy, the thesis assesses the situations based on a case study of the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia by collecting and analyzing empirical data from these three Southeast Asian countries. The mix-method approach has been adopted in this study, which includes a quantitative content analysis on the news content of the selected Southeast Asian newspapers, and a qualitative analysis depending on semi-structured interviews with local media practitioners who share their understanding of journalistic routines and personal experiences in reporting China-related news in the field study. Some noteworthy findings have been drawn from the analysis. China has observable impacts on the media content in the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia, limited to certain aspects in relation to China's growing regional power. Philippine newspapers adopt considerably more negative frames than newspapers of Thailand and Cambodia. There are unwritten guidelines in their news outlets and certain principles that media practitioners in Southeast Asia need to follow when covering China-related issues.
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Yu, Xun. "I observe media, I learn a mediated culture a framing study of media's influence on American and Chinese collage [sic] students' perception of each other /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1798967461&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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