This thesis is a study in the change of the use of audiovisual elements between the 1991 Gulf War news coverage and the 2003 Iraq War news coverage. The purpose of this study was to analyze audiovisual elements in war coverage from the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War in orde…
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In this dissertation, I will analyze and discuss the three pieces presented in Breaking News, a program of original percussion works I presented on January 13, 2008 in the Mandeville Recital Hall at the University of California, San Diego. This program represents my musical inve…
This dissertation studies the relationship between television news and the state in Lebanon. It utilizes and reworks New Institutionalism theory by adding aspects of Mitchell's state effect and other concepts devised from Carey and Foucault. The study starts with a macro-level a…
This narrative history of the desegregation of the daily press in America during the late twentieth century is structured around the career of journalist Robert Maynard, a leader and symbol of the crusade to change the color of news. Press desegregation evolved along with the la…
This thesis examines internal and external influences on news content at four Omani news organisations, Oman and Al-Watan (Arabic-language dailies) and Oman Observer and Times of Oman (English-language dailies). Three theoretical frameworks guided this study: the political econo…
A quantitative review of news articles covering the disappearance and search for Malaysia Flight 370 from China's People's Daily (PD), Malaysia's New Straits Times, and The New York Times (TNYT), extends an established cultural research epistemology by showing significant differ…
This study was influenced by the researcher's personal interest in the topic as well as a pilot study he conducted; it produced results that inspired him to do further research. The Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission assisted in distributing the Qualtrics survey through their Facebo…
This study investigates how access to information about the Arab-Israeli conflict by Western correspondents in Egypt and Israel is affected by: (1) the governments' information delivery systems, (2) the newsmaking roles and educational background of the correspondents, (3) the c…
Highly involved in the prolonged Israeli-Palestinian conflict includes four major U.S. newspapers through their uses of news sources who might have framed this issue. This dissertation endeavors to scrutinize the adoption and resulting impacts of news sources with an integrative…
Critics on the left and right make two popular claims about television news coverage of war. One, that television manipulates the public to favor war by hiding war's violence. (Nintendo War). Two, that television begins by manipulating public opinion in favor of force to help pr…
This thesis seeks to explain the contradiction of ethno-national conflicts in northeast India involving much terrorism and violence not resonating in the New Delhi-based national press. Evidence suggests that the media cover only a third of ongoing global terrorist conflicts eve…
Using a 3 x 2 experimental design, this study focuses on the cognitive processes of understanding and remembering from television news. Data were presented from an experimental 3 x 2 design in which the two independent variables (a) graphic visualization at three levels (no grap…
The government and private television news networks of Malaysia comprise the focus of this investigation. The case study shows government and private networks broadcast similar news products when sources are limited and journalists are under the same legal and social restriction…
In recent years that involved the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Qatar-based satellite TV network Al-Jazeera became both an important source of news and a controversial actor signifying a challenge to U.S. foreign policy. This cross-national study compares journalist…
Media play a pivotal role in bringing home news of distant conflicts. Simultaneously, news media also construct normal/deviant dichotomies, making judgment calls on actors and acts involved in conflicts. This dissertation investigates the construction of Palestinian political vi…
Between 1950 and 1970 television emerged as one of the most important forms of mass communication in Mexico. An analysis of television news scripts and film clips located at the Televisa (the nation's largest television network) Archives in Mexico City exposed tensions and tradi…
Grounded in the exploration of the conflict between the United States and Iraq which led to war in 2003, this dissertation considers the role that television journalism plays in international conflicts in which the United States is involved. Using quantitative and qualitative re…
This thesis analyzes the relationship between news items and advertising materials published on the front pages of two Kuwait daily newspapers, i.e., Al-Qabas and Al-Watan. These two newspapers were selected as they represent two different political and social views in the Kuwai…
This dissertation analyzed coverage of the 1991 Gulf War from five national television broadcasters: the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from the United States, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) from Germany, Televisión Nacional (TN) from Chile, Israeli Television (ITV), and …
The study investigated the depictions of Arabs and Muslims in the US news media. Depiction of Arabs and Muslims was compared to the depiction of Western Europeans and Israelis in headlines from the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times between January 1, 1956 an…