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Robo-Ump: A Study of the Prospective Impact of Automated Strike Zone Use in Major League Baseball Games from the Perspective of Broadcasters and Media , Bob Greene

Florida’s Public Records Law: Its Role in a Tragedy During Hurricane Irma , Patrick Sheehan

The Globalization of Journalism Ethics: Exploring Feasibility and Value in a Globalized World , Sherine Mansour

Taking a stand by kneeling: An analysis of national anthem protest coverage , Vincent Pena

This Machine Kills Fascists: Music, Speech and War , Robert J. Crisler

HOW FEMALE ONLINE BUSINESSES AND BRANDS ARE USING INSTAGRAM STORIES , Hannah N. VanDerslice

Life Beyond the Like: Uses & Gratifications of Sharing Business Facebook Page Content , Sara M. Nash

Crisis Communication in an International Organization: An Investigation of the BBC’s Reputation in the Aftermath of the Savile Scandal , Stephanie P. Shipp

THE IMPACT OF FOOD MANUFACTURERS’ RECALL NOTIFICATIONS ON THE TONE OF NEWSPAPER COVERAGE , Monique L. Farmer

The Diminishing Role of the Ombudsman in American Journalism , Wade B. Hilligoss

Tough Talk, Tear Gas, Tragedy: The Fight to Frame One Day's Events in Ecuador , Ralph Kurtenbach

Explaining the Trend toward English-Language Programming in Hispanic-American Television: Why Now? , Elizabeth L. Levine

News Goes Native: An Examination of Online Media's Disclosure Practices for Sponsored Content , Joseph Dean Moore

A Qualitative Study of the Effectiveness of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Journalism Program for Preparing Students for the Workplace , Sarah Anne Carter Rosenbaum

An Examination of University Speech Codes’ Constitutionality and Their Impact on High-Level Discourse , Benjamin Welch

FROM THE INSIDE: A Professional Project Comparing How the Insurance Industry and Mass Media Portray the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , Erin Andersen

Behaviorism's Impact on Advertising: Then and Now , Abigail Bartholomew

A Professional Project Surveying Student-Run Advertising and Public Relations Agencies at Institutions with ACEJMC Accredited Programs , Allison M. Busch

Is There a Future Audience for Small Market Broadcast Television News? , David W. Madsen

Yolanda Barco's Impact on the Cable Television Industry , Piper L. Peteet-Kilgore

Meet Them Where They Gather: An Analysis of NASA’s Communications Approach for the 21st Century , Amanda D. Stein

See You Later, Aggregator: How Hot News Misappropriation Deters Aggregators Without Overprotecting Facts , Wern Ai Tan

The Collection of Media by U.S. Senators: A Preliminary Study , Richard L. Willis

From Red Fears to Red Power: The Story of the Newspaper Coverage of Wounded Knee 1890 and Wounded Knee 1973 , Kevin Abourezk

CONSUMER PACKAGED GOODS TRADE ADVERTISING DURING THE DECEMBER 2007–JUNE 2009 RECESSION , Bridgid Agosta

Faith As News: A Christian Clergy Perspective on News Media Coverage of Religion , John Baker

MUSICIAN BLOGGERS: THE IMPACT OF NICHE BLOGGERS ON BUSINESS , Charles Craine

The Impact of Reporter Gender on Print News Coverage of the 2008 Dole-Hagan U.S. Senate Race in North Carolina , Courtney Hunt Munther

College Football Twitter Communities: The Husker Twitter Community During the 2012 Capital One Bowl , Kelly D. Mosier

BLIND TRUSTS AS A MODEL FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM , Perry Andrew Pirsch

GREETED LIKE LIBERATORS: MEDIA, METAPHOR, AND MYTH IN THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM , Charles Franklin Bisbee

Why Anonymous Sources Are Used: Inside the Different Situations Calling for Reporter-Source Confidentiality , Erich Eisenach

A Matter of Seconds: An Interpretive Study on Media Reporting of Life-threatened Children , James M. Kavanaugh

Does Trust Really Matter? A Quantitative Study of College Students' Trust and Use of News Media , Soo Hui Lee

THE PUBLIC SERVICE ROLE OF THE LOCAL PENSACOLA MASS MEDIA DURING HURRICANE IVAN , Chad D. Morehead

Floyd Gibbons: A Journalistic Force of Nature in Early 20th Century America , Andrew J. Nelson

"The Gifted Pen": The Journalism Career of Susette La Flesche Tibbles (1854-1903) , Erin E. Pedigo

PRINT vs. ONLINE JOURNALISM: ARE BELIEVABILITY AND ACCURACY AFFECTED BY WHERE READERS FIND INFORMATION? , Burton Speakman

Identifying Barriers and Incentives Related to Attending the Performing Arts: An Examination of First Year College Students , Laura J. Sweet

MARINERS ALL ACCESS : AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE ROLE OF A PRODUCER AT ROOT SPORTS TM , Carrie S. Tachiyama

An iPhone in a Haystack: The Uses and Gratifications Behind Farmers Using Twitter , Sarah Van Dalsem

The University of Nebraska at Omaha's Criss Library Mobile Resources: A Study of User's Preferences , Teonne A. Wright

Commenting on Cannabis: Testing News Fragmentation Using Reader Comments on California's Proposition 19 , John D. Beecham

News Consumption Habits of Students at the University of Nebraska , Ford G. Clark

Student Perceptions of Digital Textbooks in a College Nursing Program , Alan D. Eno

An Ardent Flame: Witness to Distant Suffering, Human Rights and Unworthy Victims in the Coverage by The New York Times and Two Journals of the Religious Left of the 1980s Civil Wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua , Charles A. Flowerday

Female Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of the Portrayal of Women in Advertising , Virginia M. Johnson

The Wired World: A Primer on Electronic Research, Wikipedia, Social Networking Sites, and Web Journalism , Ryan F. Love

Edward R. Murrow: His Life, Legacy and Ethical Influence , Howard Lester Rose

Study of Convergence in Nebraska Newspapers , Kathryn L. Schindler

USER MOTIVATION: LIKABILITY AND USABILITY OF AN AGRICULTURAL WEB SITE , Vishal Singh

COMMUNICATING ETHNICITY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTED IDENTITY , Laura L. Pierson

The Ignored Disease: The AIDS Epidemic 1981-1987 , Heather L. Graff and Heather Graff Bloom

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UC Media and Communication, & Journalism theses

Below is a list of Masters and PhD theses in Media and Communication (formerly Mass Communication) and Journalism (1994 - present) sorted in descending year order. Theses that are available online can be accessed by following the links below.

To browse online theses by discipline, go into the Research Repository / Arts Theses and Dissertations / scroll down left column to Thesis Discipline / and navigate to  Journalism / Media and Communication or Mass Communication .

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• #BringBackOurGirls : solidarity or self-interest? online feminist movements & third world women. / Emma Grace Murphy (2017).
• Locating Ourselves: An analysis and theoretical account of strategic practices of identity and connection in Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Pacific news media / Tara Ross (2017). PhD
• The shareable, the conversation, and the news : an analysis of content posted on Twitter by New Zealand news journalists and news organisations / Victoria Haggland (2017).
• Citizen satire in Malaysia and Singapore: why and how socio-political humour communicates dissent on Facebook / Khin Wee Chen (2016). more... less... Dr Donald Matheson, Supervisor.
• Shaken, not stirred : networked sensemaking of disaster in context of the Canterbury earthquakes / Martina Wengenmeir (2016)
• Trustworthy and participatory community-based disaster communication : a case study of Jalin Merapi in the 2010 Merapi eruption in Indonesia / Dwie Irmawaty Gultom (2016). more... less... PhD
• Newspaper coverage of health issues in Nigeria : the frequency of reporting malaria, HIV/AIDS and polio and the effect of seeking health information on the health behaviours of newspaper readers / Semiu Bello (2015). more... less... Supervisor: Dr Linda Jean Kenix
• How Rough Sleeping Youth Use Their Cell Phones/ Sophie Nussbaumer (2015). more... less... Dr Donald Matheson, Supervisor.
• Identity and diaspora online : a study of a Chinese network in New Zealand, by Jingnan Xu.(2015).
• Spinning media : understanding how snowboarding video producers incorporate advertising into subcultural media / Nick Maitland (2015)
• Evolving newspapers & the shaping of an extradition : Jamaica on the cusp of change / by Ghislaine Leslyn Lewis (2014)
• Finding voice through social media? : a critical analysis of women's participation in the online public sphere in India / by Sumaiya Nasir (2014)
• 'It's beyond me' : trauma, combat and the paradox of mediation / Mason Francis Head (2014)
• Quake aftermath : Christchurch journalists' collective trauma experience and the implications for their reporting / by Sean Scanlon (2014)
• “You want to capture something that will make people change” : rhetorical persuasion in The Cove, Whale Wars, and Sharkwater / by Jessica Stewart (2014)
• Restraints on reporting conflict in West Papua / Paul Bensemann (2013)
• Warning fatigue : insights from the Australian bushfire context / by Brenda Mackie (2013)
• Communication at 'just the right temperature' with social media : developing a framework for the use of social media by the New Zealand Fire Service in the promotion of fire safety to young New Zealand adults / Kimberley Ross (2012)
• Embracing LOLitics : popular culture, online political humor, and play / Geniesa Tay (2012)
• Evaluating the significance of framing in public diplomacy : a case study of American, Chinese and Vietnamese news frames / by Whitney E. Cox (2012)
• New media and old politics : the role of blogging in the 2008 Malaysian general election / by Foong Lian Hah (2012)
• Reaching the community through community radio : readjusting to the new realities : a case study investigating the changing nature of community access and participation in three community radio stations in three countries, New Zealan (2012)
• Sustainability and neoliberalisation in the political blogosphere / by Zhou Zhou (2012)
• Tiki to Mickey : the Anglo-American influence on New Zealand commercial music radio 1931-2008 / by Brendon Reilly (2011)
• The Chinese approach to Web journalism : a comparative analysis / by Jing Xin (2010)
• Going live in a convergent broadcasting newsroom : a case study of Al Jazeera English / by Shao Wei (2010)
• Hacktivism and Habermas : online protest as neo-Habermasian counterpublicity / by Tessa Jade Houghton (2010)
• New tools for training news reporters : an interactive scoring e-textbook based on online assessment / by Yevgenia Munro (2010)
• The America's Cup 2007 : the nexus of media, sport and big business / Jared Peter Grellet (2009)
• Improving news media communication of sustainability and the environment : an exploration of approaches / by Komathi Kolandai-Matchett (2009)
• Māori media : a study of the Māori "media sphere" in Aotearoa / New Zealand / by Eliana Taira (2009)
• The Mumbai terrorist attacks : how influential are citizens in crisis news reporting? / by Serene Tng (2009)
• Political communication in a multicultural New Zealand : ethnic minority media and the 2008 election / Kirsten Elizabeth Chambers (2009)
• Representations of the environment on New Zealand television / by Rowan Howard-Williams (2009)
• The soliloquy of whiteness : colonial discourse and New Zealand's settler press 1839-1873 / by Gina Maree Colvin (2009)
• Innocence lost? : the early sexualisation of tween girls in and by the media : an examination of fashion / Lorie Jane Clark (2008)
• Constructing a traitor : how New Zealand newspapers framed Russell Coutts' role in the America's Cup 2003 / by Slavko Gajevic (2007)
• Covering conflicts : the coverage of Iraq War II by The New Zealand Herald, The Dominion Post and The Press / by Ali Rafeeq (2007)
• Sex in women's magazine advertising : an analysis of the degree of sexuality in women's magazine advertising across age demographics and women's responses / Ilona P. Pawlowski (2007)
• The representation of environmental news : a comparative study of the Malaysian and New Zealand press / by Nik Norma Nik Hasan (2007)
• Brand new Zealanders : the commodification of Polynesian youth identity in bro'Town / Emma Earl (2006)
• Michael King, journalist : a study of the influence of journalism on King's later writing / by Annabel Schuler (2006)
• Not that innocent : the discursive construction of girls' sexuality in Dolly magazine / by A.M. Pyke (2006)
• The poverty of news discourse : the news coverage of poverty in New Zealand / by John Summers (2006)
• Public spaces or private places? : outdoor advertising and the commercialisation of public space in Christchurch, New Zealand / by Jennifer Rose Molina (2006)
• With pad and pencil : old stereotypes in a new form? : a comparison of the image of the journalist in the movies from 1930-1949 and 1990-2004 / by Wibke Ehlers (2006)
• "The desert is now being flooded" : a study of the emergence of Chinese-language media in New Zealand / by Lin Yang (2005)
• Beyond consensus? : New Zealand journalists and the appeal of 'professionalism' as a model for occupational reform / by Nadia Elsaka (2004)
• Does ownership matter? : concentration of ownership and its editorial implications in the New Zealand daily newspaper market / by Anna Starke (2004)
• Everybody's a comedian (or a journalist?) : investigating claims for personal publishing on the internet as 'journalism' and as a new form of public sphere / by Benjamin Joseph Allan (2004)
• The misunderstanding between the church and the news media with special focus on how the church in Canterbury has been portrayed in the daily newspapers / by Kay M. Knowles (2004)
• Privacy : the parameters for broadcasters and their implications for journalistic practice in New Zealand / by Chiew Kung Wong (2004)
• Women in the workplace : a look at public radio journalists of New Zealand and the Philippines / by Marie Angelie C. Villapando (2004)
• Foreign news in New Zealand's metropolitan press / by Eliana G. Taira (2003)
• Interactive journalism : a study of interactivity of online newspapers in the United States, New Zealand and the Maldives / by Ali Rafeeq (2003)
• Verification and balance in science news : how the New Zealand mass media report scientific claims / by Laura A. Sessions (2003)
• Cross-systems : journalists' training in two settings of free press / by Ricky G. Abaleña (2002)
• The politics of voluntary restraint : the evolution of print media codes of ethics in Britain and New Zealand / by Nadia Elsaka (2001)
• The depiction of women : a study of lead stories in three New Zealand women's magazines / by Victoria A. Rhiannon (1999)
• An analysis of some news reports about mental health and mental illness / by J.M. Taylor (1998)
• Radio New Zealand, past, present and future : the evolution of the public broadcaster since 1989 : a case study / by Toni M. Snook (1998)
• The role of the press in maintaining social ideology / by Tim C. Aitken (1998)
• The role of community newspapers in information dissemination : a study of two Christchurch community newspapers / by Ahmed Zaki Nafiz (1996)
• Broadcasting standards in New Zealand : the Broadcasting Standards Authority : policy, action, and repercussions / by Sara L. Clemens (1995)
• The media and New Zealand's developing relationship with Asia / by Peter R. Burdon (1995)
• Public relations in central government in New Zealand / by Suzanne G. Walker (1994)
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