Department of Communication: Recent submissions
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Mapping out the Vietnamese American experience: Parenting styles and communication satisfaction among Vietnamese American generations
(2022-01-06)Communication is vital for all communities and is particularly relevant for families. This study explored intergenerational communication on health and political topics within Vietnamese American communities. While a large ... -
International Broadcasting Downunder: A Content Analysis of Organizational Submissions to the Review of Australian Broadcasting Services in the Asia Pacific
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-06)As we approach 100 years since the first deliberate use by a country to broadcast to audiences beyond its own borders via radio, this research describes the state of international broadcasting in the Pacific region. Using ... -
PERCEPTIONS AND CONTENT OF TRADITIONAL AND ONLINE NEWS: AN ANALYSIS OF BIAS IN INDIAN MEDIA
(2021-05-07)The primary objective of this study was to compare and analyse two different points of view on media polarization: one, from the public’s perspective through a survey (analysis of their perceptions on news received from ... -
Analyzing International Radio Stations: A Systems Approach
(SAGE, 2007-12-01)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: For many years, international radio broadcasting has been used by nations around the world as a foreign policy tool. As the world political system changed following ... -
New Perspectives from the Sky: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Journalism
(Routledge, 2013-06-14)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a technology now impacting on many fields, including journalism and mass communication. Also referred to as drones, these small ... -
Framing Two Enemies in Mass Media: A Content Analysis of U.S. Government Influence in American Film during World War II
(Routledge, 2013-06-03)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This content analysis of World War II movies and Office of War Information documents was conducted to ascertain the influence of the U.S. government on the depictions ... -
Terror from the Skies: The Propaganda of Aerial Warfare in the Emerging Mass Media of the First World War
(2016)Aerial warfare was developed and used in the First World War to terrorize soldiers and population centers, and modern mass media played a dominant role in spreading the fear of the new innovation of war to a global audience. ... -
It is a Scary and Dangerous World: A Content Analysis of Xinwen Lianbo’s News Coverage of Foreign Affairs
(Mass Media & Communication Unit of ATINER, 2019-10)The television program Xinwen Lianbo has been China’s flagship state-run newscast since 1978. Today, even with competition from other options and a decline in interest from younger viewers, it still has an audience of over ... -
Believe it or not: Understanding the credibility and effectiveness of Radio Sawa in the UAE
(SAGE, 2011)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: As part of an overall strategy to influence public opinion in the Muslim world, the US government implemented two new international broadcasting tools — Radio Sawa ... -
Big Data and Journalism: How American Journalism is Adopting the Use of Big Data
(Catholic University of Colombia, 2021-02-01)This research uses in-depth interviews with three data journalists from the Houston Chronicle and the New York Times in the United States to describe the role of data journalists, and to illustrate how and why they use big ... -
New Challenges in Social Media Marketing: Exploring the Interaction Effects of Age and Message Format on Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Outcomes
(2020-06-08)The prevalence of social media and their increasingly diverse user demographics have started to pose new challenges to marketing communication researchers and professionals. Guided by the media richness theory (MRT), this ... -
Case Study Analysis of Shared Visual Arguments and Propaganda Techniques of Russian Propaganda Posters and Russian Internet Memes
(2019-12-06)Rhetoric, the study of argument using logic, has been studied for centuries. However, there is some disagreement among scholars on whether or not argumentation can be applied to visual imagery. Images are noted to have ... -
Communicating Death to Potential Military Recruits: A Terror Management Theory Approach
(2019-12-10)Efforts to encourage more citizens to join the military is a prominent duty within a military organization. In order to maintain force strength, military recruiters and marketing teams need to persuade the population to ... -
The rise of Twitter in presidential communication: An examination of the relationship between President Trump's Twitter feed and the media coverage of his first 100 days
(2018-08-09)The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between Donald Trump’s Twitter feed and the media coverage of Trump’s agenda expressed in his tweets during the “honeymoon period.” From the theoretical perspective ... -
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HYPHENATED AMERICANS: CHRISTIAN ARAB-AMERICANS’ IDENTITY STRUGGLE
(2018-08-07)The topic of this thesis is the understudied minority of Christian Arab-Americans (CAAs), and this research addresses the issues CAAs face in the United States with special attention to the factors that influence their ... -
The Right Stuff? Selective Exposure and Political Misinformation on Facebook
(2016-12-20)For a democracy to function optimally, its citizens must arrive at election booths armed with factual and complete information. If the voting public is equipped with misinformation, it is just as detrimental as if they ... -
NEWS NARRATIVES ABOUT THE HPV VACCINE FOR ADOLESCENT MALES
(2016-12-08)The goal of this research was to examine portrayals of gender roles and expectations related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for men and boys in U.S. newspapers within the theoretical framework of feminist theory, ... -
A Virtual Foot in the Door: How Avatar Similarity Impacts Group Identity in Computer-Mediated Communication
(2016-05-16)Communication researchers continue to explore the promise and the impact of the Internet and computer-mediated communication. While much research has shown that the effects have been distancing, polarizing and negative ... -
The butterfly effect of deceptive science: How media influence may have spread the illusory link between vaccines and autism
(2016-05-10)Delaying or refusing childhood vaccinations can increase a community’s risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. Agenda setting theory demonstrates that media can influence people's attitudes and opinions. One study in 1998 ...