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Media Agenda-Building Effect: Analysis of American Public Apartheid Activities, Congressional and Presidential Policies on South Africa, 1976-1988 (open access)

Media Agenda-Building Effect: Analysis of American Public Apartheid Activities, Congressional and Presidential Policies on South Africa, 1976-1988

The mass media's role in informing the American public is critical to public support for government policies. The media are said to set the national agenda. This view is based on the assumption of selective coverage they give to news items. Media coverage also influences the salience the public attaches to issues. However, media agenda effect has been challenged by Lang and Lang (1983). These scholars, in their media agenda-building theory, argued that the success of media effect on national agenda is dependent on group support. In order to test this theory, time-related data on South Africa crises, media coverage"of South Africa, American public reactions, congressional, and presidential apartheid-related activities, between 1976 and 1988, were analyzed. Congressional anti-apartheid policies were the dependent and others, the independent variables. The theory made analysis of the data amenable to the additive adopted to test for the significance of the interactive variables, indicated that these variables were negatively related to congressional anti-apartheid policies. The additive model was subsequently analyzed. The time series multiple regression analysis was used in analyzing the relationships. Given autocorrelation and multicollinearity problems associated with time series analysis, the Arima (p, d, q) model was used to model the relationships. This …
Date: December 1989
Creator: Agboaye, Ehikioya
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment (open access)

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment

This comprehensive atlas provides data, satellite imagery, and analysis of the environmental conditions and issues relevant to each African country, and several surrounding island nations. The atlas also covers trans-border international issues in Africa.
Date: 2008
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Story Behind the Cover (open access)

The Story Behind the Cover

Article explaining the front cover of issue 3 of volume 99 of The Hexagon, which features a painting of mice around a Bunsen burner. James Marshall discusses the picture and how it relates to the history of chemistry.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas International Law Journal, Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2011 (open access)

Texas International Law Journal, Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2011

Journal containing "academic articles, essays, and student notes in the areas of public and private international law, international legal theory, the law of international organizations, comparative and foreign law, and domestic laws with significant international implications" (p. ii). This issue covers Texas-Mexico Border Wall, status in modern China, Israel/Palestine separation barrier, South Africa culture of barbed wire, affirmative action in higher education, Nubian sandstone aquifer system, and choice of law and Islamic finance.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: University of Texas at Austin. School of Law.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Will Rogers in South Africa, 1902-03 (open access)

Will Rogers in South Africa, 1902-03

Article depicts the period of time Will Rogers, "Oklahoma's Favorite Son", spent performing in a Wild West Show in South Africa and how his experiences there impacted his future career.
Date: Winter 2017
Creator: Carter, Joseph H., Sr. & Lefebvre-Carter, Michelle
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wisdom as it Exists in a Professional’s Life (open access)

Wisdom as it Exists in a Professional’s Life

Recent years have seen the development of quite a few measures of wisdom (e.g. Ardelt (2003); Glück (2017); Staudinger and Pasupathi (2003); Sternberg (1998); Webster (2003)). With a focus on information professionals working in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector, this study is unique in the way it translated the quantitative measures used in previous study into a qualitative instrument that can allow wisdom aspects to be explored through interviews. Thus the purpose of this research was to investigate the key characteristics of wisdom for professionals working in the GLAM sector.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Qayyum, M. Asim; Khan, Arif & Redshaw, Sarah
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library