Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 301-313). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ruperto Carola zu Heidelberg, 1910. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140).

Thesis (M.A. (Journalism and Media Studies))--Rhodes University, 2005. / "A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of a Masters of Arts Degree in Journalism and Media Studies" -T.p.

Diploma thesis on the topic Journalism on the internet covers using language resources, especially in lexical and syntactical plane, in electronic newspapers. It keeps to the analysis of electronic newspapers Neviditelnypes.zpravy.cz, Novinky.cz, Ihned.cz a Politikon.cz in period from May to October 2006. This diploma thesis is not divided into theoretical and practical parts, but the practical part is following immediately after the theoretical part. This makes the thesis well-arranged and more comprehensible. Self-division of thesis is using chapters. A general characterization of individual electronic newspapers, reportage and commentary characterization, as a part of journalism, are listed in an introduction. Substantial part of the thesis is created by chapters, where concrete examples of language resources applications in the internet journalism are analyzed. (Collocations, indirect denominations, buzzwords, expressive phrases etc.) Examples of some commentaries of individual electronic newspapers are listed as appendices.

This thesis empirically investigates alarm and prosocial words in online news headlines and the associated reads (the number of clicks), responses (including the number of likes, dislikes, and comments), and relays (the number of shares). I analyze over 170,000 online news headlines and mainly the associated number of reads and likes for each news story on an online news platform. Theoretically, based on the meta-level evolutionary theory－evolution by natural selection－I propose a middle-level evolutionary model of prosocial media effects from a nature-nurture interactive perspective. Then, I propose a specific evolutionary model that was derived from the proposed middle-level model, the human alarm system for sensational news, a psychological mechanism designed to detect and concern threatening news. I generate research questions from the specific model to test whether news headlines with alarm words attract more likes as a survival concern indirectly through an increased number of reads as a selection device, and whether prosocial words in headlines serve as a moderator. The results of a conditional indirect effect model showed that given that online readers click on (i.e, read) news headlines with alarm words, the fact that it has a prosocial word in the headlines leads readers more likely to "like" it. The empirical findings' theoretical and methodological contributions, research agenda, and examples of implications for future studies are discussed.

Thesis (M.J.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-256). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-164). Also available via the World Wide Web.