Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-123). Also available on the Internet.

<p>Authors: Siri Amram and Cecilia Hedquist</p><p>Title: Big equality between the sexes in a small form- a quantitative and qualitative thesis of</p><p>Lilla Aktuellt from a gender perspective.</p><p>Language: Swedish</p><p>Level: BA thesis in journalism</p><p>Location: University of Kalmar</p><p>Number of pages: 43 (with appendices 64)</p><p>Abstract</p><p>In this study we have analyzed a television news show in Sweden for children – Lilla Aktuellt</p><p>– from a gender perspective. We have analyzed the program both from quantitative and</p><p>qualitative aspects. In the quantitative analysis of twelve episodes we compared females and</p><p>males in the following respects: number of participants and for how long the participants were</p><p>allowed to speak. In the qualitative analysis of three episodes we aimed to discover what</p><p>different roles and stereotypes the participants displayed.</p><p>We have in our study applied the theory about gender and the theory of representation,</p><p>stereotypes and identity with the aim to find out if the girls/women and the boys/men</p><p>appearing in the programs were ascribed different characteristics and attributes and if they</p><p>were divided in different spheres.</p><p>Our study shows that the allotment between the genders in Lilla Aktuellt is very even. In our</p><p>quantitative analysis the participants were approximately 51 percent girls and women and 49</p><p>percent boys and men. The same allocation between females and males applied when it came</p><p>to for how long the participants were allowed to speak. In our qualitative analysis we found</p><p>that the children and the adults did represent different stereotypes and played different roles</p><p>but that there were hardly any differences in this respect between the genders.</p>

Thesis (M. A.)--University of Texas at Arlington, 2006. / "December 2006." Title taken from title screen (viewed October 24, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-126).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-117)

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-45).

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 November 20, 2009). Thesis advisor: Jennifer Reeves. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis aims to examine the News Usage practices of young Pakistani university students in the networked news media environment. The development of internet and its subsequent technologies have played a significant role in the transition from Mass Media towards Networked Media and this transition has directly influenced news usage practices. In Pakistan, almost 99% of the sample population of this research has mobile phones. The introduction of 3G and 4G mobile technologies in 2014 and recent ICT policy initiatives suggests that there are plans to subsidize smart phones in the country, which will further boost the digital environment. The news users in Pakistan now have more choices to follow news from multiple platforms and via multiple devices. There is a networked media ecosystem around users and it is continuously evolving and consequently transforming the news media institutions and the users’ news usage experience. The practice of using news is changing and transforming the user’s news usage experience but the available theoretical framework did not adequately address this, until the emergence of the ‘Theory of Mediatization’. The four main contributors to mediatization theory have been Lundby (2014) Hepp (2009), Hjarvard, (2008), Couldry (2008) and Krotz (2007) .Building on their contribution, and including the valuable addition by Winfried Schulz (2004), I am applying the framework of mediatization to a cohort of university students in Pakistan to investigate their changing news usage practices in the networked media environment. I have adopted a mixed method approach, following the double sequential loops method.

Research has demonstrated a positive relationship between consumption of traditional news media and engaging in mainstream political participation including voting, donating money to a political campaign and volunteering for a political campaign. Significantly less attention has been directed toward understanding how new media, including websites, social networking sites and blogs, may affect political participation. Data from the 2008 Pew Internet and American Life Project is used to analyze the relationship between traditional news media, radio and new news media and different forms of political participation, including traditional participation, unconventional or protest participation and those who engage in both, called heavy participators. Results suggest the importance of new media for political participation. Although traditional media had no significant relationship with any form of political participation, those who reported new media as a more important source of political information were more likely to engage in traditional participation relative to non-participation and heavy participation relative to non-participation, mainstream-only and unconventional-only participation.

This thesis is a study in the change of the use of audiovisual elements between the 1991 Gulf War news coverage and the 2003 Iraq War news coverage. The purpose of this study was to analyze audiovisual elements in war coverage from the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War in order to better understand critics' complaints that the news coverage of the 2003 Iraq War was sensationalized through the use of techniques more commonly associated with the entertainment industry. Specifically, this paper examines the use of descriptions, parasocial relationships, sound effects, music, and superimposed graphics to understand how war coverage has changed between the two wars. The results indicate that portions of the substantive content of the news coverage have been replaced with superficial content.

abstract: Scholars have identified the mass media plays a crucial role in the dissemination of terror messages. Since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, much attention has been paid to terrorism in the global television landscape. More recently, the discourse surrounding acts of terror has changed, in part due to the people behind the attacks. This study seeks to understand how global television news broadcasts frame acts of terror based on two current threats: the individual terrorist (the Lone Wolf) and the organized group (the Islamic State). Using the theoretical framework of Entman’s framing theory and Altheide’s (1987) notion of a global drama, this research identifies the ways global news organizations frame acts of terror both visually and verbally based on the classification of the attacker. Using content analysis methodology, this study analyzed six terror attacks that took place between November, 2015 and December, 2016. Three of these attacks were classified as “Lone Wolves” and three were carried out by the terrorist organization called the Islamic State. This study looked at 562 stories on six global news channels and examined 9,479 images. Through a comparative analysis, three American and three International news channels were examined. It was discovered global news networks contain visual differences in framing, but similarities in verbal framing. Although it was expected to find vast differences in global news’ framing of acts of terror, this study finds a homogenization of the television news narrative following terrorist attacks. This study builds on existing research and suggests a global script for covering acts of terror that has several implications from a theoretical and practical standpoint. Findings indicate global coverage of Islamic State attacks employ and “Us vs. Them” frame, while Lone Wolf attacks are framed as “Us vs. Us”, a new frame presented in this study. The results advance the literature focused on framing theory, comparative journalism research and global television news coverage of terrorism. As terrorism has garnered extensive media attention, understanding the ways that global news frames terrorism has vast implications. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Journalism and Mass Communication 2018