Theses and Dissertations - Department of Journalism & Media Communication
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Critical analysis of participatory research in the social sciences, A
In this dissertation, I put forward ethical, methodological, and epistemological reasons that warrant the presence of participants in the appraisal of social scientific research products. I discuss the nature of appraisal ... -
Gatekeeping in agriculture publications: agriculture editors' uses of information sources and channels
Agriculture producers have had a long-standing relationship with trade publications, turning to these sources for information that is used to make decisions in their production management, in turn affecting the entire ... -
Power of art for communicating complex health technologies, The
This project examines whether art can influence audience perceptions of complex health technologies, specifically, brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies. This study used an experiment to test hypotheses about differences ... -
Colorado journalists' application and understanding of guidelines for reporting on sensitive topics: suicides
Research suggests news reporting on suicides that does not follow recommended guidelines can cause vulnerable people to imitate suicidal behavior. Reporting guidelines for suicide have been created and disseminated with ... -
Framing female candidates for office: a comparison of newspaper coverage of the 2008 and 2009 Kuwaiti parliamentary elections
The way newspapers framed their news coverage may have influenced the perceptions of the Kuwaiti female candidates for office. This study examined if the Kuwaiti female candidates who ran unsuccessfully in 2008 but were ... -
Motivating environmentally responsible behavior: an examination of message appeals from the reasonable person model
This study operationalized a new model of environmentally responsible behavior as message appeals and tested its utility in predicting intention to reduce consumption of petroleum-based plastic shopping bags. The Reasonable ... -
Heuristic-systematic processing of environmental messages: promoting green initiatives to Colorado ski resort visitors
This study examined the effects of environmental advertising by Colorado ski resorts on individuals' decisions to ski at those resorts. By applying Chaiken’s (1987) Heuristic Systematic Model of Persuasion and Dunlap and ... -
Popcorn thoughts: a podcast economy of film criticism
This qualitative study questions how podcasters review films, engage with audiences, and contribute to film and media discourses. The literature exploring podcast cultures and film criticism had not intersected to a large ... -
Impact of message type and format on consumers' food quality perceptions and decision-making in online grocery purchasing, The
According to the Total Food Quality Model (TFQM), consumers evaluate many food messages and cues in order to assess food quality during the food purchase decision-making process. Consumers couple food cues with their own ... -
Sharing health risk behaviors on social media
The popularity of social media platforms has provided an outlet for young adults to display risky health behaviors. Previous research has shown sites, such as Facebook provide the perfect platform to share drinking, drug ... -
Mere music or more? Investigating the effects of soundtracks in video game narratives
Narratives in video games can be highly complex, and due to Game Studies' over-reliance on Film scholarship, the complexities of the co-creation of these narratives have yet to be understood. There are many elements within ... -
Narrating the self in a national context: a study of Barack Obama's the Audacity of Hope as election campaign material
The question "Why do people write autobiographies?" is quite salient because no form of writing exists in a vacuum, and writing is an instrument of power. Historically, autobiographical narratives have played a crucial ... -
Depart from study or be deported? Exploring international students' crisis response to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's (ICE) announcement on TikTok
On July 6, 2020, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) announced that international students would face potential deportation if they took all-online courses in the fall while matriculated on United States ... -
Visual cues and the bandwagon effect: do images and review votes make online reviews more credible?
Using the dual-process theory, this study aims at examining the impact of customers- uploaded images and the number of review votes on consumers' perceived credibility of the review, attitudes, and purchase intention towards ... -
Copper-nickel mining in Minnesota: cartography of a news media controversy
The Iron Range of northeast Minnesota became home to modern environmental controversies when logging and mining companies founded small communities there in the late 1800s. Ever since, news media have consistently engaged ... -
Autonomy in local digital journalism: a mixed-method triangulation exploration of the organizational culture and individual moral psychology factors of digital news workers
The main purpose of this mixed-method dissertation was to examine the shifting digital news industry, especially in regard to individual and organizational-level autonomy. Specifically, this work responds to calls in media ... -
Continue playing: examining language change in discourse about binge-watching on Twitter
Utilizing data from Twitter, this study characterized the change in the use of the term binge and its variants from 2009-2019. While there is a significant amount of literature looking at either language change or digital ... -
Presence, what is it good for? Exploring the benefits of virtual reality at evoking empathy towards the marginalized
This study examines the relationship between physical presence and empathy across three technology modalities: 1) virtual reality head-mount displays, 2) desktop virtual reality, and 3) text narratives with photographs ... -
Virtual reality and news audiences: empathy or more?
In this master's thesis, I analyzed the following question: "Does VR journalism increase empathy or prosocial behavior in news audiences?" In doing so, I also balanced considerations of other modifiers of prosocial behavior. ... -
Science communication and coproduction: applying the theory of motivated information management to the science-policy interface
Science communication scholarship claims that engagement, dialogue, and interaction are important communicative components. But there are relatively very few studies of dialogic science communication processes from a science ...
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