A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Johannesburg, 2018 / Environmental communication in media has been studied largely in American and European contexts, since the 1990s. These studies have revealed the trends in reporting on the greatest environmental threats of our time, and the predominant framing of environmental risks, most notably those posed by climate change. Despite the crucial role that media plays in developing environmental narratives, few studies on environmental media reporting in developing nations, especially African nations, have been conducted. This research thus evaluates the media role in communicating environmental issues and environmental science in the South African media context. By conducting coverage and content analysis on three environmental issues at the core of the industrial development that underpins the South African economy: acid- mine drainage, fracking and climate change and energy, in five commercial newspapers, it is shown that South African media coverage of environmental issues is still limited by demographic factors which influence the news agenda of publications; that social framing of environmental news is important to environmental journalists and raising the environmental agenda in the newsroom; and government voices speak loudest on these important environmental issues / MT 2019

by Alexander Y.M. Leung and Tony S.F. Wong. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves 82-83. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.vi / Chapter --- p.1 / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Significance of the Topic --- p.1 / Interbank Forex News --- p.2 / Research Approach --- p.5 / Chapter II. --- THE FOREX MARKET AND NEWS --- p.7 / Foreign Exchange --- p.7 / The Forex Trading --- p.11 / Electronic Financial Information Vendors --- p.16 / News --- p.22 / Chapter III --- .RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.29 / "Research Objectives, Theoretical Framework and Hypothesis Testing" --- p.29 / The Survey --- p.36 / Chapter IV. --- RESULTS AND ANALYSIS --- p.43 / Response Rate --- p.43 / Statistical Analysis --- p.43 / Assumptions --- p.44 / Statistical Techniques and Tests --- p.46 / Results on Relative Position --- p.49 / Results of Theoretical Frameworks --- p.60 / Results on Multiple Regression. --- p.64 / Results from Other Findings --- p.66 / Reliability Testing --- p.70 / Chapter V. --- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.72 / Market Share --- p.72 / Relative Position of Reuters --- p.73 / Implication on Market Share --- p.75 / Other Attributes --- p.77 / Concluding Statement --- p.79 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.80 / APPENDIX --- p.81

Chan, Oi Yan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-123). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in Chinese.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-206). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Since the emergence of business journalism as a genre within the broad spectrum of news reporting, most of the scholarly works into its development have focused on growth in the western (that is developed) world. This indicates that very limited research has been done in the field of business journalism in the developing economies. Thus there exist gaps in understanding the practice of business journalism in Africa and part of this is rooted in how the practice is defined. This study aims to shed light on the practice of business journalism in this African context. It explores the onset and development of business journalism and its evolution in Africa. The main focus in this case study was to understand the definition of business news in the specific context of the Cameroon Tribune. Individual in-depth interviews were used as the main (primary) data collection method along with observation and cursory reading as complementary (secondary) methods. This study is influenced by the sociology of news production which foregrounds theoretical frames such as news construction and gatekeeping. Findings from this study reveal that business news at the Cameroon Tribune is elitist, essentially defined around personality and, is in the most part, development news. Additional findings indicate that the absence of any editorial guidelines leaves most reporters secondguessing how to please management with socialised values mostly acquired through peer learning. In conclusion, this study advances the necessity for the Africanisation of business news. This would entail reporting financial, economic, consumer, and corporate affairs, from a vocabulary and composition context that unveils much exchange taking place in the lives of many Africans.

Pan, Qi. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-73). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Main Contributions --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2 --- Structure of Thesis --- p.6 / Chapter 2 --- Related Works --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1 --- Literature Review --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Existing Works on Bursty Feature Idenfication --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Classification --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Support Vector Machine --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Decision Tree and C4.5 Algorithm --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- PageRank and HITS Algorithm --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- PageRank --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- HITS --- p.11 / Chapter 2.4 --- Efficient Market Hypothesis --- p.12 / Chapter 3 --- Problem Statement --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- Volatility --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- Financial Model --- p.15 / Chapter 3.3 --- Problem Statement --- p.16 / Chapter 4 --- Volatility V.S. Trend Prediction --- p.18 / Chapter 5 --- Bursty Volatility Features --- p.22 / Chapter 5.1 --- ADFIDF Measure --- p.24 / Chapter 5.2 --- Bursty Volatility Features --- p.28 / Chapter 5.3 --- Bursty Volatility Features Selection --- p.29 / Chapter 6 --- Volatility Ranking --- p.32 / Chapter 6.1 --- Graph Construction --- p.32 / Chapter 6.2 --- Volatility Ranking By News --- p.35 / Chapter 7 --- Volatility Index for Stock Volatility --- p.37 / Chapter 8 --- Experiments --- p.41 / Chapter 8.1 --- Experiments for Volatility Index --- p.41 / Chapter 8.1.1 --- Effectiveness of Volatility Index --- p.42 / Chapter 8.1.2 --- Information from News --- p.42 / Chapter 8.1.3 --- Information from Market --- p.45 / Chapter 8.1.4 --- Correlation Value --- p.46 / Chapter 8.1.5 --- Bursty Feature selection --- p.47 / Chapter 8.2 --- Experiments for Ranking --- p.48 / Chapter 8.2.1 --- Ranking Quality Comparison --- p.49 / Chapter 8.2.2 --- Capturing Bursty Features --- p.51 / Chapter 8.2.3 --- The Effectiveness of Feature Rank --- p.52 / Chapter 8.2.4 --- The Effectiveness of Random Walk --- p.53 / Chapter 8.2.5 --- Combination of VbN and GARCH --- p.54 / Chapter 8.2.6 --- Ranking Result Sample --- p.56 / Chapter 9 --- Conclusion --- p.58 / Chapter A --- Most Important Features for Stocks --- p.60 / Chapter B --- Correlation Matrix of Stocks --- p.63 / Chapter C --- News Index Evaluation Result Table --- p.65 / Chapter D --- Stock Data in Experiments --- p.67 / Chapter E --- Constructed Graph --- p.68 / Bibliograph --- p.70

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 19, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Charles Davis. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on April 14, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 7, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130).