Browsing by Author "Ramasubramanian, Srividya"
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Oliver, Mary Beth (Media Psychology, 2007)This research examines the role of media literacy training and counter-stereotypical news stories in prejudice reduction. Research participants read either stereotypical or counter-stereotypical news stories after exposure ...
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Freytag, Jennifer; Ramasubramanian, Srividya (Health Communication, 2019)This study explores death narratives in the popular international medical dramas Grey's Anatomy (USA), Casualty (UK), All Saints (Australia), and E.R. (USA). Using narrative analysis, we characterize death portrayals in ...
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Yadlin-Segal, Aya (Routledge, 2018)In this essay, we bring together academics and activists from around the world in a “conversation café” to share their perspectives on the past, present, and future of children and media with specific emphasis on building ...
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Yadlin-Segal, Aya (Journal of Children and Media, 2016)In this essay, we bring together academics and activists from around the world in a “conversation café” to share their perspectives on the past, present, and future of children and media with specific emphasis on building ...
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Martinez, Amanda (2012-02-14)Racism persists individually and institutionally in the U.S. and race-based comedy prevails in media, accepted by diverse audiences as jokes. Media priming and Social Identity Theory theoretically ground this two-part ...
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Schuur Sousa, Alexandra Natalia Nicole (2016-08-01)The central aim of this thesis is to explore the types of messages that high school educators construct and whether or not they are appropriate for minority student groups. Appropriate in this instance is assessed by whether ...
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Olorunnisola, Anthony; Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Russill, Chris; Dumas, Josephine (The Journal of General Education, 2003)This paper examines the effectiveness of the case study method in a team-teaching environment designed to augment a large capstone communications course that satisfies general education requirements. Results from a survey ...
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Sousa, Alexandra; Ramasubramanian, Srividya (Nordicom Press, 2017)Media play an important role in perpetuating racial and gender stereotypes that harm the self-esteem and self-concept of marginalized youth, especially for Latino/a youth in the US context. However, this article illustrates ...
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya (2021-06-17)Meditation is a mind-body practice that involves turning one’s attention inwards to anchor one’s attention to still the mind and relax the body. Rooted in Indian yoga and Buddhist contemplative traditions, meditation has ...
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Darzabi, Ramin (Routledge, 2020)Connecting media literacy to the ethical, social, and emancipatory aspects of information societies within media-saturated convergence culture is an essential task in conceptualizing active digital citizenship. In this ...
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Kornfield, Sarah (2010-07-14)American entertainment often presents heroines who still conform to the confining stereotypes of passivity, docility, sexual objectification, and ultimate dependence on the hero, offering patriarchal narratives in popular ...
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Sousa, Alexandra (2021-07-11)Communication lies at the center of scholar-activism, community initiatives, and social movements. With the re-emergence of authoritarianism, threats to academic freedom, and widening socio-economic inequalities in a global ...
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya (Howard Journal of Communication, 2005)A content analysis of randomly selected films (N = 24) about India produced from 1930–2000 in the US or UK was undertaken to examine the social construction of “Indian-ness.” There were significant inter-group differences ...
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya (2020-06-27)Quarantined Across Borders is our first entirely virtual multimedia online initiative. 80+ authors participated in this initiative from 30+ countries. Our goal with QAB was to create a wide platform for a broad range of ...
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Jackson, Tyra Lashaun (2023-07-17)Literature suggests more Black journalists in newsrooms may not simply be “the cure” for inaccurate news depictions of Black communities. This study asks how the professional and personal identities of African American ...
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Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Banjo, Omotayo (Journal of Communication, 2020-06)In this essay, we advance the Critical Media Effects (CME) framework as a way of bridging two major subfields of communication that seldom speak to one another: media effects scholarship and critical cultural communication. ...
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Yang, Hyeseung; Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Oliver, Mary Beth (2008)A hypothetical path model investigated how viewing U.S. television would be associated with feelings of relative deprivation among Asians. The South Korean survey data (N D 352) revealed that viewing U.S. television ...
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Eddowes, Rachel (2019-03-12)How does media shape our leadership identities? How are leaders portrayed in television and film, and how does this influence our self-development? There is research on media effects and how we are shaped by the media we ...
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Manago, Bianca (2013-07-30)This project is the first step in a long line of research that will examine the impact of status on information exchange in small groups of medical professionals. Specifically, we employ the expectation states theory and ...
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Hibbeler, Britney L. (2010-01-14)The purpose of this research project was to examine representations of male characters and masculinity in Disney animated feature films. Social learning theory, gender and hegemonic masculinity were used to theoretically ...