Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Art History. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis--Göttingen. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-738).

This thesis centres on one of the most widely read illustrated fiction magazines of the nineteenth century, The London Journal. Despite its popularity, this penny weekly has received scant attention from either media historians or critics, partly because of the lack of bibliographical tools. My account of its first series (1845 - 1883) aims not only to make up for this lack (notably through its electronic appendices), but, in treating it as a case study, to explore various methods of writing about periodicals in general. I argue the necessity for an interdisciplinary vision that recognises that periodicals are commodities that occupy specific places in a changing market. "Place" here can be understood as where the periodical is located in cultural and geographical space by those who describe it, as well as where it positions itself through its contents in terms of gender and other identity categories. After an Introduction in which I review academic work on the periodical and lay out my theoretical presuppositions, I view the magazine from four main angles. Chapter 2 discusses nineteenth-century accounts of The London Journal, treating it not as a material body but as a polyvalent discursive entity. In the third chapter I read the magazine through the optic of production, examining available circulation figures, labour costs, and profits. I sketch the lives of several of its editors, proprietors and authors, relating them to changes in the magazine's contents, and considering the effects of rivalry with competitors in the same cultural zone and of relations with other now more canonical literary areas. Chapter 4 looks at The London Journal's changing gender profile over its first series, linking it to politics and to consumerism. The electronic appendix maps The London Journal bibliographically. Throughout I seek to locate and thereby defetishise the commodity-text, not least by treating some units of reading that are today considered paracanonical novels as parts of a periodical, rather than as freestanding units. These serials comprise Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1863) and a version of Zola's The Ladies' Paradise (1883). A Conclusion seeks an autocritique and proposes areas for continued research.

Thesis advisor: Natalia Sarkisian / In an attempt to address issues with the changing demographics in Major League Baseball, most notably the declining black presence in the game, this study researches the sports media industry and its influence on professional baseball. Using a quantitative content analysis on Sports Illustrated articles, this study is able to find important results regarding the sports media’s coverage of race/ethnicity, specifically in terms of numerical representation. With agenda-setting theory as a foundation, this study converts sports media coverage results into wide-ranging conclusions about the potential benefits of using targeted sports media coverage to extend affirmative action efforts in professional baseball. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Sociology.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Art History, Aug. 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

There is no abstract available for this dissertation.

Thesis (D.L.S.)--Columbia University, 1983. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 477-488).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, August, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-139).