Browsing by Department "Mass Communications/Journalism"
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Birds of a Feather…Gatekeeping human rights online news coverage via traditional and humanitarian news media
(2016-05)Raising awareness through news coverage has placed journalists in an important role in the human rights process (Joyce, 2013) because of their ability to document history, create evidence, inform the public, and ultimately ... -
Comparing levels of incivility across religious and political blog posts
(2014-12)Levels of incivility in 1,200 messages posted on the blogs of 30 religious and/or political websites during the 2012 presidential election year were compared, as were comments made about those messages. To capture this ... -
Deadly lede: Framing and attacks on the Mexican press
(2019-08)This thesis analyzes the content of stories and social media posts of Mexican journalists from January 2017 to July 2018. This content was then evaluated in search of trends and consistencies in coverage, ultimately providing ... -
Narrative literary journalists, ethical dilemmas, and ethics codes
(2014-12)This study discusses ethical dilemmas that journalists face when they transition from journalistic feature writing to narrative literary journalism and the written and unwritten ethical codes they use to guide them through ... -
Patching the melting pot: Social networking and social capital in America
(2014-05)Historically, America has the reputation of a melting pot, a place where different cultures can interact and hybridize. But empirically, this hasn’t been true for more than 50 years. At present, as U.S. communities diversify, ...