Browsing by Department "Journalism"
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(1993)World War II hit the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Texas like a tidal wave: It rushed in, had a tremendous effect, and left. The major changes a wave brings are erosion and deposition. In the case of Texas A.& M., ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)This study is designed to look into how agricultural biotechnology is covered by Indian newspapers. A through study of the literature showed that agricultural biotechnology is a much debated topic and there is a vast ...
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Alternative medicine and media: a comparison of online newsgroup discussion and newspaper coverage (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study examined a specific and controversial issue in health communication: the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Recent studies have shown that both online newsgroups and traditional newspapers have involved ...
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(1997)Always the Aunt Jemima. Always the submissive servant and comforting mammy. At least these are the portrayals of African-American women that the media often glorify. As society's primary informant, the media, especially ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Before his death in 1937, Ernest Rutherford discovered the rate of radioactive decay of atoms. In 1911 he proposed the nuclear structure of the atom, and in 1919 he successfully split the nucleus of an atom. Rutherford ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This study proposes biosocial reciprocity framework in environmental communication, which suggests the interdependent relationships between mass media, people's attitudes, and the physical environment. Biosocial reciprocity ...
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(1983)Although it is not possible to discover the exact variables that resulted in Charles Grandison Finney and his revival movement setting the nation ablaze with social and religious reform in the 19th century, Finney introduced ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)The rise of the World Wide Web attracted concerns among social science scholars, especially those in the communication school who studied it by various methods like content analysis. However, the dynamic environment of the ...
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(1997)With the rising use of the Internet and the other technological advances that go with it, the continued enforcement of Copyright Law is jeopardized. Many are asking the question of whether or not we will reach a point when ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study assesses one Web site, Veggie-mon.org. This Web site aims to effectively communciate health information to children, resulting in user learning and an intent to change health behavior. Fourth- through eighth-grade ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)In the literature researchers don't agree whether news content in China in an era of media commercialization still functions to promote the dominant ideology of the ruling Communist Party. The thesis is a theoretical ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Colleges and schools in today??s competitive marketplace must not only be cognizant of student and faculty recruitment, but also of their positioning in rankings. This thesis seeks to determine how the use of strategic ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Breast cancer has touched the lives of countless people, yet many women have misconceptions about the disease. One of the most common sources for breast cancer information used by American women is popular magazines. The ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Ideologies, intellectually and religiously driven, color both politics and economics. The relationship between government and the governed, human rights and the rule of law all are affected by such ideologies. However, ...
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(1977)This study was conducted under the assumption that knowing more about readers and their reading habits will enable an editor to produce a newspaper that will be better read by more people. Many suggestions are drawn from ...
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(1998)More and more people are spending more and more dollars on leisure travel as baby boomers with disposable income have reached the stage in life where they want to "see the world." The world awaits them. Worldwide, the ...
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(1987)This study describes four attitudes that can be take toward science news. These four are evidenced by the way science news is treated in the three media forms sampled. Two network news broadcasts, two national newsmagazines ...
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(1987)The disenchantment of youth with the political and social order of the '60s and early '70s pitted against a reactionary and frightened establishment provided a perfect breeding ground· for confidentiality cases. But because ...
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(1996)Negligence with regard to the privacy and protection of student records led to the passage of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. By granting relatively liberal access of the record to the student or ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This study examined the U.S. newspaper coverage of immigration in 2004. Previous studies have focused on the ideological implication of news coverage, showing that the news frames conveyed elites?? racism toward immigrants. ...