Novek, Eleanor
Person
Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:
Nurses as media sources : invisible or inaccessible?, 2002
Item — Call number MU Thesis Car
Identifier: b2271262
Introduction [excerpt]
The public interest in healthcare information from the media presents nursing with its greatest opportunity to make sure nursing research and practice is known to the public. It is the opportunity to demonstrate how in-tune nursing is with the health care needs of the 21st century, to gain a voice on how health care ought to be organized in this country and to be a full-fledged "player" (Buresh, 1998). "A profession's public status and legitimacy is...
Dates:
2002
Objective fairytale : American journalism in the 21st century, 2007
Item — Call number MU Thesis Riv
Identifier: b2233265
Introduction [excerpt]
In the contemporary United States many newspapers have been criticized for not being objective. American readers have claimed that journalists take political positions and make value judgments in their daily reporting. In fact, scholars like Noam Chomsky (2001), Albert Gunther (1998), and Gaye Tuchman (1972) have conducted studies that support a journalistic bias in news reporting. By what yardstick can objectivity be measured? ...
What does it exactly mean for journalists to be...
Dates:
2007
Public input : conflicting objectives, 2008
Item — Call number MU Thesis Kir
Identifier: b2271125
Introduction [excerpt]
Public communication that focuses on the communication elements in the formation of public opinion, policy, and regulation ... is often examined in the areas of public relations and mass communication. How an individual interprets and discusses information about factors, issues, or events that impact him or her is worthy of further analysis. This research study will examine how public officials perceive the public input process when citizens engage in various communication formats to make...
Dates:
2008
Racial and sexual representation : content analysis of African American magazine advertising, 2002
Item — Call number MU Thesis Lat
Identifier: b2271071
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to give insight and help build up information in regards to advertising practices within minority magazines. There is much research in the area of minority magazine advertising and how these magazines use ads that stereotype people and cultures and lacks proper racial proportions with the use of models, but there is very little research in the areas of how minority magazines advertise. This research is to help show that minority magazines use the same...
Dates:
2002
Teenagers' report of the relationship between food advertising and their eating habits, 2007
Item — Call number MU Thesis Har
Identifier: b2271145
Introduction [excerpts]
My topic of interest is the relationship between teenagers' self-reported eating habits and food advertising exposure....
This is a communication topic because it focuses on messages and media influence. I am interested in researching what teenagers think about the influences that food advertising exposure may have on their concepts of eating and nutrition and the influence, if any, that it may have on their eating habits....
This study will gather qualitative data in order...
Dates:
2007
The blame game : newspaper editorials and the assignment of blame in school shootings, 2007
Item — Call number MU Thesis Kol
Identifier: b2271073
Introduction [excerpt]
Questions as to why humans feel a need to place blame for violent acts like school shootings will likely never be answered beyond the shadow of a doubt. However, by taking a closer look at news coverage of these events, communication research can bring light to the possibility that the media sets an agenda that questions culpability and places blame. The research that follows will examine newspaper editorials about school shootings in hopes of better understanding how issues of blame are...
Dates:
2007
The effects of positive frames in presenting AOL & Time Warner merger in Time Warner news publications, 2000
Item — Call number MU Thesis Dav
Identifier: b2271227
Thesis Statement
This paper argues that AOL & Time Warner have framed stories printed in publications of Time and Fortune to encourage a favorable public image of the [AOL-Time Warner] merger. It presents coverage of the merger as an example of the potential misuse of mass communication. When accumulated in greater numbers, the author believes research studies of this type may be an important factor in turning the tide away from the...
Dates:
2000
The forgotten realm : relationship development in online gaming, 2005
Item — Call number MU Thesis Fra
Identifier: b2271195
Introduction [excerpt]
As humans, we tend to be social creatures and because of our social nature we are inclined to want to create and sustain relationships. It is no surprise then that when the Internet emerged people found ways to utilize this new medium to communicate with one another. By transcending the elements of time and location, Computer Mediated Communiciation (CMC) has forever changed the way in which people communicate. CMC is thought to be weak in comparison to face to face (FTF) communication...
Dates:
2005
The practice of photo manipulation : how photojournalists make sense of it and does it affect perceptions of credibility, 2006
Item — Call number MU Thesis Lew
Identifier: b2271069
Introduction [excerpt]
Photojournalists possess the responsibility to present audiences with imagaes that truthfully represent what the adjoining story is communicating. This is why the topic of photo manipulation is important to the field of communication, because being honest with the public and conveying tangible evidence to them is crucial to the authenticity of the publication. This study will set out to find why photo manipulation is used by photojournalists and how its process may affect the way society...
Dates:
2006
The role of designer handbags as a status symbol, 2005
Item — Call number MU Thesis Man
Identifier: b2233270
Introduction [excerpt]
Why study designer handbags as a communication problem, one might ask? Well, for the past few years this trend has exploded throughout the female population. Younger and younger girls are carrying handbags made by designers such as Coach, Fendi, Gucci, Prada, and Louis Vuitton (to name a few), which each can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. Workingwomen can afford to splurge on themselves from time to time, however, it is astonishing how many women are spending their hard earned...
Dates:
2005