This dissertation argues that Victorian novels commonly depict newspaper reading in order to explain and critique the kind of national feeling elicited by the popular press. While Benedict Anderson considers the ways in which reading newspapers and novels fosters a sense of nati…
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The antebellum period in America saw the beginnings of a mass-mediated sport and leisure culture. Bare-knuckle prize fighting, which was illegal in most states, became the most popular sporting event of the period, and fights received extensive newspaper coverage. Only one publi…
I present a series of essays examining the industrial organization of media industries, and these industries' broader social and political impact. The first chapter develops new methods for analyzing the impact of new goods in the presence of possible complementarities, and appl…
The media acts as a gatekeeper and decides what material to cover and what not to cover. In order to better understand why one disaster receives media coverage and another crisis is virtually unnoticed by the media, the motives behind covering one story over another is analyzed …
Studies have identified credibility as an important factor in newspaper readership, since people tend to select the medium that provides them with the most accurate information. Studies have also found a decline in readership, which many attribute to the arrival of television. A…
This thesis studies the reportage in the English language press, primarily in Calcutta (but also covering Burma and Britain) of the Second and Third Anglo-Burmese Wars of 1852 and 1885, respectively. The wars were overwhelmingly the result of a combination of aggressive mercanti…
My research into ethnic representations in the major newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee, the Commercial Appeal, between 1990 and 2006 looks at the relationship between changing patterns of immigration, particularly in Memphis, the dominant political ideologies during this period--n…
This dissertation explored how members of an imagined community, a nation, negotiate their national identity and belonging on newspaper opinion pages in times of crisis. It took a textual analysis approach to examine opinion discourses of Arab-Americans (letters to the editor, e…
Standardization versus adaptation of advertising has been a subject of great controversy that has been debated for more than 50 years. Scholars have pointed out the increasing demand for more cross-cultural research on advertising content that can contribute to the standardizati…
She bomber, "lipstick martyrs," and "cheerleaders for the jihad" are names Western newspaper texts have proposed for the Palestinian female suicide bomber. Images of the "gentler sex" putting on a vest full of loaded ammunition and blowing herself up in an attempt to kill as man…
This research analyzes media coverage of the Iraq War from the perspective of the invading forces, the United States and the United Kingdom. The New York Times and The Guardian were chosen to represent news from their respective countries because of their high circulation rates …
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…
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…
Scope and method of study. A content analysis was conducted of all news stories done by the Associated Press (AP and New York Times during 1995 and 1996 about sending U.S. troops to Bosnia, or keeping them there. Coders determined the number and type of sources contained in all …
This thesis focuses on New Zealanders’ perception of the Home Guard through a specific lens of culture demonstrated through wartime printed newspapers across New Zealand. These newspapers allowed for a public forum for New Zealander’s thoughts on the Home Guard, enabling a natio…
This study analyzes the role of three major Bangladeshi newspapers, Janakantha , Prothom Alo and Amar Desh , in shaping national identities in contemporary Bangladesh. I combine two methods: Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Content Analysis, to examine these newspapers' con…
An important nexus in the emergence of several of the trends of nationalism that began in Palestine in the pre-World War I period and continued to be important in the years that followed was the close linkage between Arabism, Palestinian identity, and opposition to Zionism. For …
This dissertation examines the discourse of Egyptian newspaper advertisements, and describes its particular linguistic characteristics. The study is timely because of contemporary developments in Egypt, as the economy is becoming increasingly privatized and hence advertising nee…