Thesis (B.A.Hons. 1979) from the Department of History, University of Adelaide.

M.A. (Communication Science) / This dissertation is a profusion in combining two sub disciplines of the communication science, namely journalism and persuasion theory. An. analysis of journalism as a form of persuasion is made in which is shown that not only in explicit commentary, but also in everyday news stories the contents is slanted. This is because of the inescapable subjectivity of man that de-objectifies information. The sources of de-objectification is localized in the study by means of a model of the press process, which traces the development of the news item and identifies the different phases in which the information is, mostly unknowingly, given new meanings by subtle slanting. As a pilot study, and therefore as a matter of testing the validity of combining the two communication subdisciplines mentioned, a simple comparative study is done. The most explicit commentary article, namely the leader, of three Johannesburg newspapers are sampled and judged by means of three of the most simple persuasion principles. A comparison is made of the effective use of these persuasive techniques by the three newspapers' leader writers. The conclusion is reached that further studies in this field could be very fruitful, keeping the following two qualifications in mind firstly, that the many contradicting conclusions reached within persuasion research should be cleared up, and secondly, that some sort of stable scale for measuring the effectiveness of journalistic persuasion, except by comparative means, be devised.

Thesis (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 95 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-93).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 41 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-41).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université d'Orléans, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [474]-481) and indexes.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1967. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1936. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [473]-503).

This dissertation concerns the extent to which the propaganda model advanced by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is still applicable to the current media ecosystem, where both legacy and new media converge, especially given the emergence of global democratic resistance both to the excesses of neoliberalism in general, and to the problems associated with shale gas mining through hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) in particular. In this regard, firstly, the tensions between the views of seminal propaganda theorists and of critical theorists opposed to propaganda will be thematized in relation to Chomsky and Herman’s propaganda model, through which they sought to account for the negative impact of neoliberalism on journalistic freedom. Secondly, the primary features of neoliberalism will be considered in relation to the advent of the Internet, which has helped spread laissez-faire capitalism globally, both through integrating financial markets and augmenting consumerism, and through facilitating new practises of consent engineering via digital forms of censorship and surveillance. Thirdly, the correlative emergence around the world of digital democratic resistance on the part of new social movements and through both new and legacy media means, to the excesses of neoliberalism in general, will be investigated. Fourthly, the corporate underpinning of fracking in the United States will be explored, along with the media strategy by which anti-fracking groups – following Vera Scroggins’s activism – have contested government endorsement of such resource extraction. Fifthly, the resonances/dissonances between the media strategies of the American anti-fracking movement and the South African anti-fracking movement – most notably the Treasure the Karoo Action Group (TKAG) – along with the different contexts out of which they emerged and their respective efficacy, will be examined. Finally, some potential deficits in the TKAG media strategy will be identified, and appropriate recommendations will be made.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Louis University, 2005. / Chair: Matthew Mancini. Includes bibliographical references.