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Нефедченко, Оксана Іллівна, Оксана Ильинична Нефедченко, Oksana Illivna Nefedchenko, and D. Chernova. "Mass media in Britain." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2008. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/16006.
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Al-Homood, Mohammad. "Drugs and the mass media : a study of Saudi Arabian mass media prevention of drugs." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1995. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6952.
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The mass media nowadays hold a high position in the educational world, / and have a strong influence over societies. They influence and shape people's thoughts and behaviour. They have been used for a long time in many western countries in drug prevention campaigns, both successfully and unsuccessfully, Drug abuse has recently become a serious problem in Saudi Arabia . At first the Government tried to tackle the problem only by using the police force and without any publications . However, recently the Government has tried to utilize the advantage of the widespread mass media in teaching the population about the dangers of drug abuse. It started to publish a large amount of information about drugs in the mass media. This study is an evaluative research to assess the Saudi Arabian mass media coverage of the drugs issue in two respects. First is a study of the content of the coverage with regard to its presentation, style, and appeal. The second part concentrates on the effect of that coverage on the target audience: Saudi Arabian pupils, their knowledge and attitudes toward drugs, and whether those publications have benefitted them or not. This study has adopted the information-processing model as a theoretical framework. According to that model the first step in the change process is exposure to the message with a certain level of attention, that will lead to increase in knowledge and that automatically will lead to attitude change. The respondents' exposure to the newspaper messages about drugs has been measured and the result indicates that the majority of the respondents received the messages and are interested, like and believe them. Statistical tests indicate that their knowledge about drugs has been increased. Their attitudes have been assessed and the results indicate that most Saudi Arabian pupils aged from 12 to 25 years old have negative attitudes towards drugs. The results indicate that the newspaper coverage of the drugs issue has had some influence upon the Saudi Arabian pupils' knowledge and their attitudes towards drugs.
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Dixon, Lindsey. "Public Trust in the Mass Media." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/394.
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The purpose of this research is to determine whether the public has an elevated amount of trust in the industry of the mass media. The data for the research come from the 2005 Eurobarometer 64.2. The participants consist of the population of the respective countries of the European Union Member States. The participants are all more than 15 years of age. The results of this study show that certain groups of people have an elevated amount of trust in the media, but overall the dependent variables used explain little with regard to trust in the mass media.
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Lawlor, Andrea. "Understanding public policy through mass media." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121392.
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Media have both direct and indirect influences on policy, and can, at various times, serve as a contributor to policy, a conduit of policy information, and a mirror to the policy process. Although the scholarly literature acknowledges media's role in the policy process, particularly their ability to affect policymakers directly, systematically push policy alternatives, or influence public opinion, the literature often omits a critical role for media: reflecting the policy process. Mass media are the public's largest source of information on policy, yet the volume and tone of media reporting on policy over time, not to mention what we can learn about public policy through media data, are often overlooked. This dissertation examines how we can use media as a tool to better understand the complexity of public policy narratives, framing and change. It also suggests an approach to using media data as a tool to examine the relationships between policy actors and domains. Using automated content analysis of over 25-years of comparative media data, this dissertation consists of three articles: each makes a contribution to the policy literature, namely in the areas of pension policy, immigration policy, and the literature on issue ownership. When taken together, these articles make a broader contribution to the field's understanding of how framing, language and narrative impact the public's understanding of many facets of the policy process. Results demonstrate the value of understanding media's role as a mirror. Additionally, the approach used can be considered a contribution to the methodological toolkit available to policy and political communications scholars to assist them in better understanding the complex relationships between policy and media.<br>Les médias ont des effets directs et indirects sur les politiques. À différents moments, les médias peuvent participer à la création et à la diffusion de politiques, tout comme ils peuvent éclaircir le processus d'élaboration de ces politiques. Le rôle des médias dans ce processus, surtout par rapport à leur capacité d'influer sur les décideurs de façon directe, d'avancer systématiquement des politiques de rechange ou d'influencer l'opinion publique, est reconnu dans la littérature spécialisée. Toutefois, on y aborde rarement un autre rôle fondamental des médias, qui est celui de nous faire comprendre le processus de création de politiques. Pour le public, les médias de masse constituent la principale source d'information sur les politiques, mais le volume et le ton des rapports médiatiques à ce sujet au fil du temps – sans oublier les apprentissages sur les politiques publiques que nous pouvons tirer des données des médias – sont souvent négligés. La présente dissertation traite de l'utilisation des médias comme outils pour approfondir notre compréhension du récit, de la formulation et de la modification des politiques publiques. Elle propose également une approche pour appliquer des données médiatiques à l'examen des rapports entre acteurs politiques et domaines. La présente étude s'appuie sur une analyse de contenu automatisée de données comparatives des médias, couvrant une période de plus de 25 ans. Chacune des trois grandes sections de l'analyse apporte une contribution à la littérature spécialisée, en explorant les politiques en matière de pension et d'immigration, ainsi que la question de l'adhésion aux politiques. Dans son ensemble, l'étude renseigne sur la portée de l'expression, du langage et du récit sur la compréhension populaire des nombreux aspects du processus d'élaboration de politiques. Les résultats de l'analyse soulignent l'importance de comprendre le rôle des médias dans la traduction de ce processus. De plus, les chercheurs qui s'intéressent aux politiques et à la communication politique peuvent utiliser l'approche méthodologique proposée pour étudier les rapports complexes entre les politiques et les médias.
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Palfreman, Jon. "Communicating controversy in the mass media." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2005. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/communicating-controversy-in-the-mass-media(65320260-4d82-4ec9-82ac-a7cf363f0e13).html.
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This doctoral submission grew out of a series of long form documentaries that I wrote, produced, and directed between 1993 and the present. The films, which were broadcast on US television's PBS network, all deal with scientific, medical, or environmental issues that developed into prominent national and international controversies. DVDs and scripts of the seven programs are provided along with a detailed overview. The submission is organized as three projects and an overview. 1. Project One (discussed in chapters 3-7) consists of three documentaries: the first about a novel therapy for autism ; the second dealing with the alleged health effects of power line electromagnetic fields ; and the third focused on the silicone breast implant controversy. 2. Project Two (discussed in chapters 8-11) consists of programs on nuclear energy, Gulf War Syndrome, and genetically modified foods. 3. Project Three (discussed in chapters 12-14) features a two-hour special investigation of global warming. 4. The Overview, Communicating Controversy in the Mass Media not only provides an overarching analysis of the portfolio of films and the attendant theoretical issues, but also serves to summarize the works themselves. In the Project sections of the written overview (chapters 3-14), the analysis is interwoven with extracts from the various documentaries. This portfolio and overview tells the evolving story of a body of work at the intersection of documentary, investigative journalism and science. It reveals the journey of one producer who started out with an interest in unpacking complex controversies, but became increasingly fascinated with the psychological and political dimensions of these narratives. Whether a particular controversial belief holds up under scrutiny is undoubtedly important. But there are other fascinating questions: why do people adopt such beliefs in the first place; why do individuals cling to their beliefs in the face of contrary scientific evidence; and what roles do special interests and the media play in amplifying or attenuating the public's hopes and fears? This portfolio and overview, therefore, not only examine a series of high profile controversies, but go further by: explaining the process by which these topics were turned into documentaries; exploring the way humans analyze, perceive and communicate benefits and risks; and critically examining the validity and ethical standing of modern television journalism. This submission represents a significant contribution to knowledge in several ways. First this series of in-depth, original investigations of environmental and health controversies from one producer is unparalleled in broadcast journalism. Second, the overview's analysis synthesizes and extends a wide range of social science research on risk assessment, risk perception and risk communication and applies this research to the featured controversies and the media's role in them. Third, the portfolio and overview reveal how a blend of documentary, journalism and science is an especially effective way of advancing public understanding of and engagement with modern scientific controversies and goes on to suggest some exciting new directions for communicators. Finally, the case studies in this portfolio provide a basis of knowledge about how communicators can effectively use audiovisual media to navigate the world of risks and benefits that permeates many of society's most crucial policy dilemmas.
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Ivančević, Bosiljka. "Mass Media Influence on Foreign Policy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165346.
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A main purpose of the thesis is to demonstrate and explain to what extend do media influence foreign policy of a state. Foreign policy is always under internal and external influences and media are considered to be one of those external influences that shape it. Agenda setting theory forms the theoretical frame for this thesis because it takes into consideration not just direct media-government relations but the public as well that inside of this relation serves as some sort of mediator. Besides this theory and the CNN effect as its main 'extension' identifiable victim effect and third person effect as important elements in the process of influence will be introduced as well as influence of visualization. When word 'media' is mentioned in this case it implies to television and newspapers' (both printed and online versions) messages and their influences (not just verbal but the visual ones as well). Examples and case studies in this case focus mostly on the US foreign policy due to its influential role, fact that the US is still the country with the most superlatives inside of international arena and the size, influence and role-model identity of its big media companies (for ex. CNN).
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ROUBIDIS, CHRISTOS. "Mass media et conscience collective europeenne." Strasbourg 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001STR20006.
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L'europe est en pleine transformation, et elle est en meme temps en train de se construire. Depuis longtemps, il y a une volonte des hommes politiques europeens de voir se realiser une europe unie. Ils ont fait beaucoup d'essais en ce qui concerne la construction europeenne. Aujourd'hui, l'union europeenne se trouve en plein developpement, et plusieurs etats souhaitent devenir membres de l'union. Dans ce processus, les medias jouent un role preponderant, parce qu'ils ont la possibilite de transmettre des messages dans toutes les directions et de creer les conditions necessaires pour faire naitre une conscience europeenne. Cette derniere est importante et doit permettre aux individus de comprendre le sens du processus de la construction europeenne. La conscience permet aux individus d'accepter l'entree de leur pays dans l'union europeenne. Les medias et la conscience europeenne vont ensemble dans la tentative de faire avancer l'union europeenne.
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Mathurine, Jude. "Towards a critical understanding of media assistance for "new media" development." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002914.
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The field of media assistance has grown ever more complex with the inclusion of ‘new media’ networks, channels, tools and practices (such as the Internet, satellite television, mobile devices, social media and citizen journalism) to the media development mix. Adding to the ferment is the increasing convergence between the formerly discrete terrains of ICT for development, media for development and (mass) media development. Much of the discussion regarding the utility and objectives of media development in general and ‘new media’ in particular has been viewed through a modernist and techno-determinist prism which offers a limited ideological view of media development and its objects and consequently, a limited set of communication approaches and strategies. This study contextualises the assumptions of media development historically and critically, with particular focus on new media’s roles and relationships with the media environment, and its objectives democratisation and development. Through the application of literature, theory and various research studies, this thesis establishes a broader view of new media’s role and diverse consequences for media development, democracy and development. The study recommends greater collaboration, contextual research and theorisation of media development and new media as part of mixed media systems and cognisant of the multi-dimensional natures of its objects of democracy and development. One implication is the need for professionalisation of the media development and media assistance sector. In relation to the influences of new media on media use and the media as an institution, it motivates the need to address digital divides and emphasise the sustainability of the practice of journalism.
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Merz, Nicolas. "The Manifesto-Media Link: How Mass Media Mediate Manifesto Messages." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18863.
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Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, inwiefern die Medien während des Wahl-kampfs über die Wahlprogramme der Parteien berichten. Die Wahlprogramme der Parteien enthalten Informationen darüber, was Parteien nach der Wahl vorhaben. Allerdings lesen wenige Wählerinnen und Wähler Wahlprogramme. Die vergangene Forschung über und mit Wahlprogrammdaten hat bisher angenommen, dass der Inhalt von Wahlprogrammen von den Medien verbreitet wird. Diese Doktorarbeit untersucht diese Annahme empirisch und analysiert, ob und wie Massenmedien während des Wahlkampfs über die Inhalte der Wahlprogramme berichten. Wenn Massenmedien nicht die Inhalte der Wahlprogramme verbreiten würden, hätten Bürgerinnen und Bürger kaum Chancen sich über das programmatische Angebot der Parteien zu informieren. In dieser Arbeit wird das Konzept des Manifesto-Medien-Links entwickelt. Das Konzept bringt Theorien des Parteienwettbewerbs und Theorien der Medienselektion zusammen. Der Manifesto-Medien-Link formuliert drei Bedingungen, welche empirisch getestet werden können. Diese sind: Erstens, Medienberichterstattung und Wahlprogramme müssen zumindest zu einem gewissen Grad dieselben Themen diskutieren. Zweitens, Journalisten müssen Sachfragen mit jenen Parteien verknüpfen, welche diese Themen in ihren Wahlprogrammen stärker betonen als ihre Konkurrenten, um Wählerinnen und Wähler über die Prioritäten der Parteien zu informieren. Drittens, Medien müssen die ideologische Orientierung einer Partei sowie Veränderungen dieser korrekt wiedergeben. Methodisch werden in der Arbeit Wahlprogramm- und Mediendaten kombiniert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Manifesto-Medien-Link relativ stabil ist. Außerdem wird gezeigt, dass es nur geringe systematische Verzerrungen zugunsten bestimmter Parteien gibt. Jedoch zeigen sich Unterschiede zwischen Qualitäts- und Boulevardmedien. Die Ergebnisse haben Implikationen für unser Verständnis von politischer Repräsentation und den politischen Wettbewerb.<br>This study analyzes whether media coverage covers messages from parties’ electoral programs (manifestos). Electoral programs contain detailed information on a party’s future policy-making. However, few voters read electoral programs. Still, prior research often assumed that the content of manifestos is known to voters because media disseminate the content of manifestos to voters. This dissertation evaluates this “mediation assumption” empirically, and analyzes whether and how the mass media cover parties’ electoral programs during the electoral campaign. If media coverage did not reflect parties’ electoral programs, citizens would have no chance to base their vote choice on evaluations of those programs. This study introduces the concept of the manifesto-media link in order to describe how media coverage can reflect programmatic offers. The manifesto-media link is formulated as three conditions that can be empirically evaluated and tested in a similar way to the conditions of the responsible party model. These are: First, media must cover similar issues to those that parties cover in their electoral programs. Second, media coverage must link issues with parties that emphasize these issues more than their competitors, in order to inform about the parties’ issue priorities. Third, media must frame parties as left or right in a way that represents how parties emphasize left or right positions in their own manifestos. Methodologically, the study combines secondary content analytical data on media coverage during the electoral campaign with data based on electoral programs. The findings suggest that the manifesto-media link is stable and robust. There is little to no systematic bias in favor of a certain type of party, however there are differences between quality and tabloid media. These findings contribute to our understanding of political representation and the functioning of political competition.
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Miller, Alanna Rachel. "Negotiating Religious Identity and Mass Media: Examining the Relationship Among Lived Religion, Mass Media, and Narrative Identity." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/340862.
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Media & Communication<br>Ph.D.<br>The purpose of this dissertation is to further clarify the role of mass media for evangelicals in negotiating religious identity. This project uses lived religion, cultural studies, and narrative identity as a framework. Over the course of seven months, I conducted participant observation in an American Baptist congregation, where I observed both their religious and media practices. Additionally, I conducted qualitative interviews with selected key congregants to get a fuller picture of both their media use and their narrative religious identity. I found that narratives about media and media use led participants to certain strategies of distancing and/or integrating media with their religious identity. Various narrative tools, such as maps, symbolic inventories, tropes, and spiritual anchors, were used by participants to juxtapose media with their religious practice. By using these tools, participants sought to gain more moral and religious certainty by using media as both a proxy for self and as a proxy for Others. As moral and religious uncertainty is a characteristic of modernity, I conclude that there may be ramifications for larger media use and moral thought.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Withers, Edward John. "The political impact of the mass media : theory and research in media sociology." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75992.
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In the area of mass communications and media sociology, connections between theoretical claims and empirical evidence have often been tenuous. Using American national Election Study data gathered by the Center for Political Studies, this dissertation tests a series of hypotheses about the political impact of the mass media. The work profiles the news audience, and examines the public's reliance upon television and newspapers as sources of political information. Next, evidence is brought to bear upon the set of pessimistic assumptions that television news personnel hold about the tastes and capacities of the news audience. Finally, a crucial test is developed in order to evaluate five competing and contradictory hypotheses, all attempting to explain the relationships between the consumption of political materials through the mass media, political interest, and political participation. Of the previously untested claims assessed in the thesis, few were supported by the evidence gathered in research.
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Dewenter, Ralf. "Essays on interrelated media markets." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/57182358.html.
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Radovich, Tom. "Critical Mass." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/494.
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Kennedy, Cameron. "Mass media and media complex adaptive systems, towards a complex methodology." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0002/MQ43352.pdf.
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Kennedy, Cameron (Cameron John) Carleton University Dissertation Journalism and Communication. "Mass media and media complex adaptive systems; towards a complex methodology." Ottawa, 1999.
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Haussamen, Lindsey Marie. "United States media portrayals of the developing world: A semiotic analysis of the One campaign's internet web site." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3387.
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The goal of this research was to examine how the One organization's web site either supports or rejects established literature that concludes that U.S. media contains negative representations of the developing world.
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Borisenko, Elena. "Discourse on Immigration in Swedish Mass Media." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-376.
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<p>Mass movement of people over national borders constitutes the major feature of the today's world. Immigration and its implications are widely debated, whereby the term 'immigration', whenever appeared in a text, hardly ever refers to some unambigously defined concept. To deal with the question of immigration is, therefore, to be faced with a variety of definitions and connotations. The thesis constitutes an attempt to understand how the phenomenon of immigration is conceptualized in Swedish mass media debate, and explore the dynamics of the discourse over the last decade. To do so, the study develops a theoretical framework that takes a form of classification of different approaches to immigration, as formulated by major paradigms of international relations (liberal communitarianism, realism, idealism) and as developed within modern economic and cultural studies. Social construction of immigration and its implications for the nation-states serves as the organizing principle for the emerging classification, as social constructivism is adopted as the ontological standpoint of the thesis. The thesis then analyzes over 180 articles that deal with immigration and are published in the major Swedish daily newspapers, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet in the years 1993 and 2002. The aim is to discover common patterns of the debate and link them to the concepts constituting the theoretical framework. The analysis shows that almost all concepts described in the theoretical section can be identified in the mass media discourse, which allows to conclude that the developed classification has proved appropriate for the analysis of the empirical material. The research concludes that, while concepts pointing towards self-interests as determining factors for formulating immigration policies are present in the studied mass media discourse, which is especially clear in 1993, the debate in general is strongly influenced by adherence to international solidarity and humanistic values as the basis for Swedish traditional foreign policy. Additionally, the study highlights the essential changes occured within the debate over the last decade, among which a shift from connecting immigration exclusively to refugee policies towards a more braod understanding of immigration as a consequence of globalization and as a realization of individual right to free movement can be considered the most central.</p>
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Rothenberg, Nina. "Women and the mass media in Italy." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429215.
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Zhang, Guodong. "Heat and mass transfer in porous media." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392321.
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Kedrowski, Karen M. "Media entrepreneurs and the media enterprise in the United States Congress : influencing policy in the Washington community /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1992.
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DeFazio, Jeanne. "Christ's message and the media." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Taleb, Hala Abdul Haleem Abu. "Gender, media, culture and the Middle East." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/h_abutaleb_042309.pdf.
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Chernov, Gennadiy. "Convergence of agenda setting and attitude change approaches : media effects and the interaction between the characteristics of media messages, the nature of reality underlying media issues and mechanisms of information processing /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1588418311&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-144). Also available online in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Dubé, Richard. "Focus of attention : a behavioral perspective on media credibility /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6210.
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Mohammed, Mahmoud Gamal. "Mass media and development in the Yemen Arab Republic /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487329662144788.
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Zhou, Yuanzhi. "Capitalizing China's media industry : the installation of capitalist production in the Chinese TV and film sectors /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3290456.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4535. Adviser: Daniel Schiller. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-259) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Vasudevan, Vasudha. "Media coverage of mutual funds." [Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Libraries, 2006. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/7864/vasudevanv33450.pdf.
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Mukhopadhyay, Gautam. "The print media's perception of Sino-Vietnamese relations (1979-91)." Thesis, [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13644427.
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Wong, Kwok-ngan. "A comparative study of the news media in Hong Kong and Singapore." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21301189.
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Sercombe, Howard. "Naming youth: the construction of the youth category." Thesis, Sercombe, Howard (1996) Naming youth: the construction of the youth category. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1996. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/298/.
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The youth category, in its modern form, has emerged under particular social and economic conditions, under the influence of particular social institutions, shaped by particular discourses. This thesis is an inquiry into the constitution of youth as a social category through an examination of these factors.
Through a review of the historical and sociological literature, the thesis establishes the conditions for the emergence of the modem concept of youth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The evidence suggests that the youth category came into being as a result of changes in the industrial family, the industrial reforms which progressively excluded children and young people fkom the workforce, and the establishment of compulsory schooling - especially secondary schooling. Parallel with these developments, a variety of discourses about youth (or adolescence) were generated, establishing the emergent category in scientific terms. G. Stanley Hall's theories of adolescence, developed around the turn of the century, were perhaps the most influential of these, casting adolescence as a universal stage in life characterised by social and psychological turmoil. In sociology, this theoretical frame has been the subject of longstanding debate. The thesis explores this debate, and attempts to establish a sociological view of the youth , category in the light of the historical and sociological evidence. In these explorations, youth is established as a product of historical processes, a product of political economy and of scientific discourse.
The analysis is brought into the present through a study of how youth are represented in a high circulation daily newspaper, The West Australian. Using standard media analysis techniques, the study examines the construction of language around youth, and the kinds of stories in which they appear in the newspaper, and finds a detailed discursive apparatus through which young people are classified as good or bad, passive (victim, child) or active (perpetrator, adult). These constructions vary with the institutional location of the news source, and with such factors as the gender and ethnicity of the subject, while continuing to be underwritten by orthodox discourses of adolescence. For its part, the newspaper overwhelmingly casts youth in a law and order frame, driven by the appetites of audiences and the economies of news production.
The study explores the differences as well as the continuities in the concept of youth employed in the patchwork of discourse that constitutes newspaper text. In these explorations, youth is established in the present as a contested category, the subject of competing discourses. Competing institutions and professions, in their interventions in the newspaper, try to secure a reading of the youth phenomenon which is consistent with their professional and political objectives.
The thesis is about the constitution of youth. Through the analysis of historical and contemporary discourse about youth, the thesis reveals how the subjection of this section of the adult population is achieved and maintained, how they are established as a pliable, coercible and economically dispensable population, and how the instruments of their governance are legitimated.
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Sercombe, Howard. "Naming youth : the construction of the youth category." Murdoch University, 1996. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070831.115336.
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The youth category, in its modern form, has emerged under particular social and economic
conditions, under the influence of particular social institutions, shaped by particular discourses.
This thesis is an inquiry into the constitution of youth as a social category through an examination
of these factors.
Through a review of the historical and sociological literature, the thesis establishes the conditions
for the emergence of the modem concept of youth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The evidence suggests that the youth category came into being as a result of changes in the
industrial family, the industrial reforms which progressively excluded children and young people
fkom the workforce, and the establishment of compulsory schooling - especially secondary
schooling. Parallel with these developments, a variety of discourses about youth (or
"adolescence") were generated, establishing the emergent category in scientific terms. G. Stanley
Hall's theories of adolescence, developed around the turn of the century, were perhaps the most
influential of these, casting adolescence as a universal stage in life characterised by social and
psychological turmoil. In sociology, this theoretical frame has been the subject of longstanding
debate. The thesis explores this debate, and attempts to establish a sociological view of the youth
, category in the light of the historical and sociological evidence. In these explorations, "youth" is
established as a product of historical processes, a product of political economy and of scientific
discourse.
The analysis is brought into the present through a study of how youth are represented in a highcirculation
daily newspaper, The West Australian. Using standard media analysis techniques, the
study examines the construction of language around youth, and the kinds of stories in which they
appear in the newspaper, and finds a detailed discursive apparatus through which young people are
classified as good or bad, passive (victim, child) or active (perpetrator, adult). These
constructions vary with the institutional location of the news source, and with such factors as the
gender and ethnicity of the subject, while continuing to be underwritten by orthodox discourses of
adolescence. For its part, the newspaper overwhelmingly casts youth in a law and order frame,
driven by the appetites of audiences and the economies of news production.
The study explores the differences as well as the continuities in the concept of youth employed in
the patchwork of discourse that constitutes newspaper text. In these explorations, "youth" is
established in the present as a contested category, the subject of competing discourses. Competing
institutions and professions, in their interventions in the newspaper, try to secure a reading of the
youth phenomenon which is consistent with their professional and political objectives.
The thesis is about the constitution of youth. Through the analysis of historical and contemporary
discourse about youth, the thesis reveals how the subjection of this section of the adult population
is achieved and maintained, how they are established as a pliable, coercible and economically
dispensable population, and how the instruments of their governance are legitimated.
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Cheong, Po-man, and 張寶文. "Media professionals' perspective of psychosis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206554.
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Mental diseases are perceived as one of the highest stigmatised conditions in our society. Public knowledge of mental illness does not come from professional journals or medical authorities, but largely from mass media as it is a major and most convenient source of information. Media tends to portray mental illness with negative attitude, focusing on bizarre and unexplainable behaviours of patients with mental illness, and exaggerating the linkage between mental illness and aggressive behaviours. However, few studies have been conducted in Hong Kong focusing on media perspective on this. This study focuses on the research of media’s role on psychosis from the perspective and experience of media professionals, and to identify media’s functional role of whether it is fostering public awareness and reducing stereotypes towards psychosis or on the contrary intensifying stigma conditions in the community of Hong Kong.
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This is a qualitative study that purposive sampling method was used to recruit 22 media professionals from various media background including news media, entertainment and creative media, as well as public service broadcasting. All participants had up to one hour’s face-to-face in-depth interview based on pre-set theme of area of discussion.
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Majority of subjects is able to recognise psychosis symptoms such as hallucination and (mainly persecutory) delusions, but unknown factors and myths about psychosis are still existed among the subjects. Confusion between psychosis, multiple personality disorders and even psychopath is commonly observed. Suggesting that media portrayal on psychosis and other mental illnesses is instilled with negative and stigmatised attitude is not prevalent. Most subjects believe that local news media can still perform with a neutral attitude when reporting the issues related to psychosis and mental illness. However, insufficient exposure of discussion about the topic across media platforms may affect public accessibility on the knowledge of psychosis and mental illness. Anti-stigma programs can contribute mostly positive messages and images about psychosis, but quality and quantity of those programs and promotions have to be designed and planned in delicate and persistent manners so as to maximise the effectiveness.
Conclusion:
Media plays a constructive role in educating the public about mental illness, and can also perpetuate stereotype and undermine the efforts of public campaigns. Suggesting that media practitioners are recommended to learn more about the well-round knowledge of psychosis and mental illness issue. Indeed, increased communication between media and mental health agencies can benefit the mutual understanding and lead to cooperative approach to tackle social stigma against psychosis. Though media professionals agree that media has its own limitation in terms of highly competitive broadcasting time and editorial space, most suggested that envisioned educational plan is an essential and influential method in removing public stigma and stereotype about psychosis.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Psychological Medicine<br>Master<br>Master of Psychological Medicine
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Santolla, Joelle. "Confusing the faithful Catholicism's struggle with mass media /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2006. http://hd.handle.net/1961/3638.
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Ng, Che-keung Tony. "Relationship between the mass media and public order." Thesis, Hong Kong : School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B36195182.
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Morrow, Frank Spurgeon. "The U.S. power structure and the mass media." San Francisco, CA. : Internet Archive, 2007. http://www.archive.org/details/TheU.s.PowerStructureAndTheMassMedia.
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Novy, Leonard. "National identity, mass media and the public sphere." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612177.
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Papadaki, Eirini. "The mediation of art through the mass media." Thesis, University of Kent, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246640.
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Latham, Oliver Martin. "The political economy of mass media and intelligence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648202.
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Djourelova, Milena. "Essays on the political economy of mass media." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672578.
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This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first
chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment
created by a ban on the politically charged term “illegal immigrant” by the Associated Press
newswire. The second chapter studies the strategic timing of controversial policies with respect
to the media cycle, looking at the case US presidential executive orders. The third chapter
investigates the impact of online competition on the operation of traditional media and the
downstream political implications of these transformations.
Resum<br>Aquesta tesi estudia tres qüestions sobre l'economia política dels mitjans de comunicació. El
primer capítol estudia els efectes del biaix dels mitjans de comunicació sobre les opinions de
les polítiques públiques, aprofitant un experiment creat per la prohibició del terme políticament
carregat d'immigrant il.legal per la revista Associated Press. El segon capítol estudia el moment
estratègic de polèmiques controvertides pel que fa al cicle mediàtic, examinant el cas de
les ordres de l'executiu presidencial dels EUA. El tercer capítol investiga l'impacte de la competència dels mitjans de comunicació en línia sobre el funcionament dels mitjans tradicionals i
les implicacions polítiques posteriors d'aquestes transformacions.
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Snyder, Kevin P. "Multiphase flow and mass transport through porous media." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40658.
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Robertson, Christopher Ian. "Characterising adsorption and mass transfer in porous media." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275285.
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The work presented in this thesis has focused on the development and implementation of two-dimensional (2D) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) correlation techniques to unambiguously discriminate and characterise competitive adsorption and mass transfer processes in porous materials. This has primarily involved investigations on porous oxides; in particular silicas and aluminas commonly used as catalyst supports. The techniques used are demonstrated to be capable of acquiring information relevant to the performance of heterogeneous catalysts and adsorbents across the hierarchy of length scales relevant to industrial processes. The methodologies associated with the acquisition and processing of 2D NMR correlation data were first established through the development of analytical models capable of simulating 2D signal attenuation data for T1-T2, D-T2 and T2-T2 experiments. Common artefacts were also discussed by means of experimental and simulated examples and, where appropriate, methods have been introduced for their prevention. The NMR relaxation behaviour of water saturating the pore space of silica was observed to correlate strongly with independent measurements of the activation energy of dehydroxylation, thus establishing NMR relaxometry as a tool for directly probing the surface energetics of silica surfaces. This interpretation of T1/T2 ratios differs from that in conventional applications of the technique which typically present the ratio as an indicator of surface-adsorbate interaction strength. Here, the T1/T2 ratios of three liquid probe molecules: ethanol, diethyl ether and cyclohexane, are used to investigate the influence of pore size and density of adsorption sites on relaxation behaviour. Competitive adsorption behaviour has been directly investigated through the acquisition of T1-T2 correlation data of binary liquid mixtures imbibed in various silica supports. These measurements, in combination with a newly developed model for the relaxation of multi-component mixtures, have provided a comprehensive assessment of the ability of this technique to quantify intra-pellet compositions and address competitive adsorption behaviour in porous media. With the aid of a random walk Monte-Carlo model to simulate transverse relaxation in packed bed reactors, T2-T2 relaxation exchange measurements have been used to investigate mass transfer across the fluid-solid boundary in a packed bed reactor filled with γ-alumina and liquid cyclohexane. These data were used to quantify the rate of exchange between intra- and inter-pellet environments at a number of flow rates. Exchange rates were then converted into the more convenient terms of mass transfer coefficients and compared against literature data using two separate dimensionless mass transfer analyses.
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Sa, Sergio Araujo de. "A Reinvenção do Escritor: Literatura e Mass Media." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-798HLN.
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A partir da articulação entre literatura e comunicação, esta tese procura o lugar e a função do escritor no mundo urbano latino-americano contemporâneo. Para isso, recorre a narrativas de autores brasileiros e argentinos em que o escritor aparece como narrador e ou/ personagem. O trabalho examina também a figura de escritor e a obra ficcional construídas na mídia por meio da entrevista jornalística. Memória, imagem e deslocamento constituem núcleos temáticos que aproximam a literatura em prosa dos meios de comunicação de massa. Lixo, paranóia e sarcasmo configuram noções que tentam explicar o olhar lançado pela ficção da pós-ditadura na América Latina à cultura midiática, estendida como eixo central da sociedade do final do século XX, início do XXI. A posição do perdedor no mercado do valor cultural demonstra como o escritor - pessoa e personagem - está à margem do espetáculo massmediático, o que lhe possibilita ponto de vista único para encarar vida e texto literários em tempos de informação, publicidade e entretenimento
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Xu, Feishi. "Bubble hydrodynamics and mass transfer in complex media." Thesis, Toulouse, INSA, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ISAT0003.
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La connaissance du comportement hydrodynamique et du transfert de matière de la bulle est importante car elle fournira des indications pour la sélection des conditions de fonctionnement et la conception du réacteur dans de tels processus. Cette thèse a réalisé une étude expérimentale pour les bulles d’air isolées en ascension dans diverses solutions de polymères (Breox, Polyacrylamide (PAAm) and Xanthan gum) qui peuvent simuler les propriétés des eaux usées. Les travaux sont divisés en trois parties: Tout d’abord, en dressant l’état de l'art sur les techniques de visualisation pour le transfert de matière, trois techniques ont été testées pour les bulles d’air (diamètre équivalent ≈ 1 mm) en ascension dans l'eau, notamment la fluorescence induite par plan laser (PLIF, fluorophore: résorufine fluorescente), la PLIF avec inhibition (fluorophore: complexe de ruthénium) et techniques colorimétriques (colorant: résorufine rose), respectivement. Par la suite, sur la base des images capturées par une caméra haute vitesse, le comportement hydrodynamique des bulles d'air (diamètres équivalents: 0,7 à 7 mm) s'élevant dans les solutions de polymères (PAAm et Xanthan) a été étudiée, notamment la vitesse, la trajectoire et la forme de la bulle. Enfin, appliquant la technique PLIF-I, les phénomènes de transfert de matière et de diffusion dans le sillage de bulles d'air (diamètre équivalent 1 ≈ mm) dans différentes solutions aqueuses de polymères (PAAm et Breox) ont été étudiés<br>The knowledge on the hydrodynamic property and mass transfer of bubbles is important since it will give guidelines for selecting the operation condition and for reactor design in such processes. For this purpose, this PhD manuscript has implemented an experimental investigation of single air bubbles rising in various polymer solutions (Breox, Polyacrylamide (PAAm) and Xanthan gum) which can simulate the property of the sewage. The works can divided into three parts: Firstly, with a review of the current visualization techniques for mass transfer, three techniques have been tested for air bubble (equivalent diameter ≈ 1 mm) rising in water including traditional Planar Laser Induced Fluorescent (PLIF, dye: fluorescent resorufin), Fluorescent quenching technique (PLIF with Inhibition, dye: ruthenium complex) and colorimetric techniques (dye: pink resorufin), respectively. Secondly, based on images captured by a high speed camera, the hydrodynamics of the bubble single air bubbles (equivalent diameters: 0.7-7 mm) rising in the polymer solutions (PAAm and Xanthan) have been investigated including the bubble velocity, trajectory and bubble shape. Finally, based on PLIF-I technique, the mass transfer and diffusion phenomena in the wake of single air bubbles (equivalent diameter ≈ 1 mm) rising in various aqueous polymer solutions (PAAm and Breox) are investigated
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Lopez, Antonio R. "Greening the Media Literacy Ecosystem| Situating Media Literacy for Green Cultural Citizenship." Thesis, Prescott College, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3587572.
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<p> Media literacy is touted as a necessary life skill for cultural citizenship, yet as it is generally practiced there is little engagement with sustainability issues. In order to gain insights into why this is the case, this research investigated how media literacy practitioners use metaphors to frame both the role of media education in the world and how it affects green cultural citizenship. This involved analyzing web site documents and teacher resources of seven North American media literacy organizations as well as interviewing nine key practitioners within a bounded system called the <i>media literacy ecosystem</i>. Drawing on an ecocritical framework, I analyzed the discourses of the media literacy ecosystem by using multi-site situational analysis, qualitative media analysis and critical discourse analysis. This research explored how media literacy practitioners participate in meaning-making systems that reproduce pre-existing environmental ideologies. The findings show that media literacy education is grounded in a <i>mechanistic</i> worldview, thereby perpetuating unsustainable cultural practices in education. By problematizing the mechanistic discourses of media literacy education, the aim of this research was to raise awareness and to offer potential solutions for changing the nature of those same discourses. As such, I theorized a model of media literacy that incorporates green cultural citizenship, called ecomedia literacy, and outlined a path forward so that sustainability becomes a priority for media literacy educators.</p>
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Salzman, Catherine C. Albarran Alan B. "Central American media a comparative study of media industries in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9039.
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Taylor, Elizabeth Lee. "A cross-media study of audience choice : the influence of traits, needs, and attitudes on individual selection of "media repertoires" /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Cao, Peixin. "Media incidents : power negotiation on mass media in time of China's social transition /." Konstanz : UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2010. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3404796&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Cao, Peixin. "Media incidents power negotiation on mass media in time of China's social transition." Konstanz UVK-Verl.-Ges, 2008. http://d-nb.info/999157140/04.
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Kite, James David. "Using Mass Media And Social Media For The Prevention Of Non-Communicable Diseases." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20387.
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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancers, and cardiovascular disease, share modifiable risk factors, with overweight and obesity, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition being among the most important of these. One public health strategy that has been widely employed to address these risk factors and reduce the burden of NCDs is mass media campaigns (MMCs). These campaigns use multiple channels – including television, radio, billboards, online, and increasingly social media – to communicate messages about the promotion of health and the prevention of the disease. The aim is to reach as many people in the target population as possible, with the expectation that doing so will maximise the campaign’s impact on the population's health. However, gaps in the scientific literature are such that knowledge about what works in NCD-related MMCs is limited. First, those campaigns that have been evaluated have consistently shown positive impacts on awareness, knowledge, and other intermediate outcomes, but it is rare for a campaign to demonstrate behaviour change. Second, the existing evidence is ageing quickly due to the rapid change in media consumption habits over the last decade, including the rapid uptake of Facebook and other social media. Finally, while there are theories, such as the Hierarchy of Effects model, that purport to explain how campaigns influence behaviour change, these have rarely been tested, meaning that their accuracy and usefulness is unknown. Collectively, these gaps make it difficult to identify effective components of MMCs, which is problematic given that governments use these types of campaigns often and that they are usually expensive to design and implement. In this thesis, I present research that addresses these gaps. My research provides insight into the impact of MMCs on health-related outcomes and furthers our understanding of best practice in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of mass media and social media campaigns. Specifically, my research aims to identify and critique current practice within overweight and obesity prevention campaigns, identify the strengths and limitations of current practices on Facebook as a component of campaigns, and determine the impact of the recent New South Wales (NSW) Government’s Make Healthy Normal (MHN) overweight and obesity prevention campaign. To address these aims, I conducted seven studies, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. These studies provide new and valuable insights into improving campaigns and creating engaging content on Facebook. Collectively, the findings indicate that, while campaigns can be effective in increasing knowledge about a health issue, increasing knowledge is insufficient and may not even be necessary to have a meaningful impact on health. This raises questions around the role of MMCs in responding to health issues like obesity. The research also suggests that while there is real potential to use Facebook as an effective component of campaigns, more consideration should be given to exactly what role Facebook (or other social media) should play within a broader campaign. Finally, it is important that the theories that underpin campaigns be tested and refined. Doing so will mean that effective features of communications campaigns can be identified and increase the likelihood that future campaigns will contribute to solving complex prevention problems.
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Elder, Dennis Samuel. "Media Influence in Urban Government." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625399.
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