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Description:: A proliferation of new media platforms have upended the traditional roles that journalists have played in society, placing their work into content streams that are populated by creators who mimic the surface features of their work but not their methods. As a result, journalists’ practices and news media that they...
Keyword:: News Literacy, Pedagogy, Journalism Education, Boundary Setting, and Constructivism
Subject:: Journalism, Educational philosophy, and Education
Creator:: Spikes, Michael Antonio
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1009657 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16690

Description:: The production and spread of digital news involves a wide range of actors: journalists and the organizations that employ them, social media platforms, audiences, and myriad commentators, citizen journalists, bloggers, and other actors who contribute to the news ecosystem without inhabiting an official role. These actors interact in flexible, often...
Keyword:: computational social science, algorithms, digital journalism, simulation, network analysis, and complexity
Subject:: Journalism, Computer science, and Communication
Creator:: Hagar, Nicholas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_984386 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16531

Description:: Pablo Escobar is not only part of Colombia’s cruel past but also of its very difficult present. Escobar was one of the first major modern drug traffickers, and the founder and head of the Medellín Cartel. He was responsible for more than four thousand deaths. He had an incalculable fortune...
Keyword:: Pablo Escobar, Colombian Newspapers, Persona, Humor, Metaphor, and The War on Drugs
Subject:: Journalism, Rhetoric, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Uribe Rincón, Catalina
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_761642 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15225

Description:: Citizen media literacy is essential in a democratic society, particularly in the online environment where valid media sources have proliferated alongside purveyors of fake news. This dissertation explores technologies that automatically detect aspects of bias in news articles, with the ultimate aim of leveraging them to augment media literacy. It...
Keyword:: Media literacy, Artificial intelligence, Media bias, Natural language processing, Computational journalism, and Framing
Subject:: Journalism, Computer science, and Communication
Creator:: Boon, Miriam
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_686483 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14845

Description:: Drawing from the data I collected through nine months (between 2014 to 2017) of participant observations, 120 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, and archival work, the project explores the tactics that Chechen and Dagestani journalists utilize to resist state pressure and circumvent state-imposed censorship. Specifically, I explicate how these regional journalists in...
Keyword:: mass media, Chechnya, state censorship, Russian journalism, journalistic resistance, and Dagestan
Subject:: Journalism, Slavic studies, and Communication
Creator:: Rodina, Elena
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14761 and etdadmin_upload_678673

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