Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wiscosnsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-150).

Thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-421) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D. (Sociology and Industrial Sociology))--Rhodes University, 2003.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2005. / Title from title page screen, viewed September 27, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Karen S. Coats (chair), C. Anita Tarr, Nancy D. Tolson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-149) and abstract. Also available in print.

Ho Kiu-Chor. / Thesis submitted in: July 2003. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i-ii / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Literature Review --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Methodology --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Media Discourse and Adolescent Experience of Consuming Media Images --- p.84 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Disciplinary Practices of Schools and Self-concepts of Adolescents --- p.121 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Discursive Tactics and Adolescent Subjectivities --- p.168 / Chapter Chapter Seven --- Conclusion --- p.195 / Bibliography --- p.i-v / Appendix --- p.i-iii

(Communication) Project (M.A.) - Simon Fraser University, 2005. / (Communication) Project (School of Communication) / Simon Fraser University. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 310-325). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A. (Journalism and Media Studies))--Rhodes University, 2006. / A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.

Within the context of debates concerning the impact of global media on local youth, this study explores how a sample of South African youth responds to texts which were produced internationally, but distributed locally. Recognising the profound rootedness of media consumption in everyday life, the research examines the way these youth, differentially embedded in the South African economic and ideological formation, use these texts as part of their ongoing attempts to make sense of their lives. The study rejects the 'either/or' formulations that often accompany competing structuralist and culturalist approaches to text/audience relationships. Instead, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, it seeks to highlight the interplay between agency and structure, between individual choice and the structuring of experience by wider social and historical factors. The findings of the study point to the complex individual and social reasons that lie behind media consumption choices, and the diverse (and socially patterned) reasons why local audiences are either attracted to, or reject, global media. These and other findings, the study argues, highlight the deficiencies of the media imperialism thesis with its definitive claims for cultural homogenisation, seen as the primary, or most politically significant, effect of the globalisation of media. As such, this study should be read as a dialogue with those schools of thought that take a more unequivocal point of view on the impact of globalised media culture.