Employing the agenda setting perspective, this study examined the values in two Saudi national channels' newscasts. These government owned channels have been content analyzed. They are: KSA 1 which is targeting Arabic viewers, and KSA 2 which broadcasts in English. The results s…
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Southern Appalachian attitudes about the religion of Islam and Muslim adherents are influenced largely by mass media's representations. With more than 80% of Appalachia’s population following Protestant Christianity, exposure to Islam in daily life is limited. Media outlets offe…
This research compares the narratives of NATO press releases with Associated Press and Reuters news articles, focusing on the counterinsurgency themes of security and stability in the war in Afghanistan. Seven hundred sixty press releases and two hundred eleven news articles con…
This doctoral dissertation examines whether incumbency affects democracy, and if it does, how re-election impacts on the political system. This thesis links and extends two theoretical traditions that hardly ever have been combined: political support theory and incumbency theory…
The main aim of this research is to analyse the CSR disclosure and examine its determinants and consequences among Islamic banks in the GCC (Gulf Countries Council). In fulfilling the research aims, annual reports of GCC Islamic banks for the period 2010- 2014 are analysed using…
This dissertation focuses on Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS). It aims to understand what these businesses are and to examine variety among them. In seeking to understand their diversity, I focus especially on the ‘knowledge bases’ at the core of their activities. Th…
Two beliefs drove this dissertation to be centered on the analysis of the UK corporate disclosure (CD) related to global climate change (GCC). Firstly, GCC is the most significant environmental concern of our current age (IPCC, 2001; Stern, 2006; IPCC, 2007). Secondly, CD could …
Within the growing field of surveillance studies, national identity cards and related issues have become an important research topic. Most research in this field, however, does not consider the role of media in the development of surveillance. This research examines the history …
Major defence projects have a reputation of cost increases, time delays and in some cases not meeting user requirements. The aim of this study was to discover the factors which create the difficulties in UK defence acquisition projects. The dataset used in this research are seve…
Media coverage of international conflicts has always captivated students of communication, and the Israel-Palestine conflict is one among many such international conflicts that has attracted substantial academic research. Several scholars have conducted studies of this conflict …
Leaders of national governments often create and promote a certain image of another nation's government to elicit public support for policy positions toward that nation. Image theory investigates how these images emerge by studying similarities and differences in the two governm…
The use of Web sites by terrorist groups has been evident since the mid 1990s. Security experts and researchers have identified terror-related Internet activity as a growing area of concern, especially following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Terrorist groups using the Inter…
This study analyzes rationales for war, focusing on three questions: What rationales have U.S. presidents used to justify war and to what extent have they relied on these rationales?; To what extent have television news media echoed these rationales?; Do rationales for war prese…
This study content analyzed 445 stories from three networks and three cable channels to examine the news media framing of the Iraq issue in the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign. In order to examine how various factors influence the structural qualities of news in terms of framing…
How presidents talk us into war merges the study of problem definition in public policy with the study of rhetoric in communications. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this research analyzes the key words used by two presidents, Lyndon B. Johnson and George W. Bus…
The purpose of this study was to determine how many courses exist, or how much course content exists in Division IA colleges/universities regarding the Armenian Genocide in undergraduate higher education throughout the United States. Armenians throughout the world commemorate th…
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 …
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…