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FRAMES, CLAIMS AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE MEDIA COVERAGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN VIETNAM: EVALUATING EMERGING THEMES AND ACTION.
(2020)
Vietnam is a country already being affected by the consequences of global warming and climate change. By 2030, the World Bank predicts that climate change will continue to impact Vietnam, with an estimated 400,000 to one ...
DESCRIBING THE POOR: AN EXAMINATION OF NEWS MEDIA LANGUAGE ABOUT WELFARE REFORM AND RECIPIENTS FROM 1996 TO 2016
(2020)
This study examined the language used by four mainstream newspapers to represent welfare recipients between 1996 and 2016. Using a mixed-method analysis developed on qualitative and quantitative analysis and guided by ...
ANTI-MEDIA POPULISM: MEDIA CRITICISM BY RIGHT-WING ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN INDIA
(2020)
This study explores the anti-media populist sentiments expressed by emerging right-wing alternative news media in India. News websites, television network, and the 'online digital work' done by right-wing supporters—are ...
AMERICAN JOURNALISM AND THE DEVIANT VOTER: ANALYZING AND IMPROVING COVERAGE OF THE ELECTORATE IN THE TRUMP ERA
(2020)
This study examined media coverage of the 2016 presidential election to identify whether Trump voters were framed as deviant as defined by Daniel Hallin’s Sphere Theory (1986). In a content analysis of 384 reports produced ...
Riot on the Hill: International Coverage of a U.S. Insurrection Attempt
(2021-08)
On January 6, 2021, thousands of protesters violently breached the U.S. Capitol during a joint session of Congress convened to certify the election of Joe Biden. This study interrogates how the riot was covered by international ...
RURAL REDLINING: HOW RILEY ROBERTS ROAD LOST ITS WAY
(2021)
Historians, journalists, and sociologists have documented how 20th century bankers, insurance agents, and city officials discriminated against Black Americans through a system known as redlining. This practice segregated ...
Negotiating the “F word”– Croatian Women’s Movements and the News Media
(2022)
By applying qualitative thematic analysis to mainstream media coverage of three hashtag (online) feminist initiatives in Croatia– Prekinimo šutnju, #spasime, and Nisam tražila, this thesis explored how initiatives addressing ...
The Effects of Opinion Labels on News Source Credibility Online
(2022)
This dissertation seeks to answer the pressing question of whether labeling opinionated content online as opinion affects readers’ perceived credibility of news sources and trust in the news media. This research was motivated ...