This dissertation analyzes the news framing of Japan's two largest major newspapers, Asahi and Yomiuri, and argues that the foundation of their news framing consists of their competing views on the state and nation, by doing a systematic content analysis of their editorials and …
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The purpose of the present study was to explore how the media frames news stories during times of war. A descriptive content analysis was conducted on print media from The New York Times and Time magazine to determine whether media frames during the first four years of Vietnam (…
This thesis examines the social integration of a new media technology. As a communication medium, the World Wide Web occupies an increasingly important place in the transnational electronic media landscape in which the Arab countries are involved. Our aim is to present a general…
This study determines whether a country's degree of press freedom and national biotech policy influence its newspapers' performance in reporting about GM crops. Using the tenets of social amplification of risk framework, agenda setting, and framing theory, a content analysis of …
The current study both supports and extends previous research on the content and discovery of Canadian males' dreams to the dreams of Canadian soldiers. Participants included 25 Canadian male soldiers with operational experience in Afghanistan as well as an age and gender matche…
There has been a lot of research completed on advertising strategies in specific countries, but little research has been done to explore advertising strategies of a single company across different countries. This study sought to discover what trends existed in Coca-Cola's global…
Why do some international events make news headlines in autocratic countries, while others do not'? When do they give events prominent, attention, and when do they bury them? When do they present the news with bias? This dissertation offers answers to these questions. It evaluat…
On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first American state to legalize same-sex marriage. In what was widely seen as a historic milestone in North America, the marriage equality debate was quickly thrust into the head beams of global media networks. Images of protestors, act…
This study reports the findings of a systematic visual content analysis of 356 randomly sampled images published about the Iraq War in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report from 2003-2009. In comparison to a 1995 Gulf War study, published images in all three newsmagazin…
This study was designed to examine the agenda of traditional newspapers of Saudi Arabia and the agenda of Saudi Twitter users, and to compare between the two agendas. The salient issues in both traditional Saudi newspapers articles and tweets by Saudi users had to be content ana…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the degree of Westernization in advertisements published in major Kuwaiti daily newspapers over the past 21 years (1992-2012). Utilizing a quantitative content analysis, the diffusion of Westernization into the content and form of the adv…
When protests are successful, they force us to realize another world is possible. To be successful they have to communicate their message effectively and be persuasive. News coverage can often determine whether a protest will be successful or unsuccessful at amplifying its messa…
This thesis examines, through a diachronic analysis, how the British and Danish press utilise national identity when constructing a representation of Muslims. Key cluster events are examined to identify media discourses over a ten-year time period between 2005 and 2015. Textual …
Davranışsal iktisat, bireylerin bilişsel yetenekleri ve kısıtlayıcıları ışığında davranışlarını değerlendiren, geleneksel iktisadi yaklaşımları sorgulayan disiplinlerarası bir alandır. Geleneksel iktisadi yaklaşımların ekonomik olayları öngörmede yetersiz kalması, karar süreçler…
After the outbreak of chaos in 2011 in Syria's Arab Spring uprisings, Turkey implemented an open door policy for those who were subjected to forced migration. In this process, Syrians faced the consequences of being in a different country. Entering a social cohesion process with…
This thesis is a comparative content analysis of four newspapers from Bangladesh and the US about framing the Rohingya crisis of 2017 under the light of framing theory. Four major frames were studied in this thesis and compared between Bangladesh and US newspaper articles. Overa…
The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of the scholarly literature on marital quality in African American marital unions in 20 scholarly journals, and in TWU dissertations published from 2008-2018. This content analysis study used a combination of qualitativ…
Media messages help construct and express intergroup perceptions, define boundaries between ingroups and outgroups, and shape a sense of belonging to social groups. Drawing upon social psychology, intergroup and mass communication, this study focuses on Muslims, a group that has…
Personalized learning has no agreed upon definition, models, or systemization of how to employ it. There is even variation in concerning its benefits. This research attempts build an understanding of personalized learning based on the existent literature. Using qualitative conte…