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Appealing to Goodwill or YOLO-Promoting Conservation Volunteering to Millenials (open access)

Appealing to Goodwill or YOLO-Promoting Conservation Volunteering to Millenials

This article discusses effective communication of conservation volunteering travel opportunities to young people.
Date: December 26, 2016
Creator: Nisbett, Gwendelyn S. & Strzelecka, Marianna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parasocial Interactions Online: Candidate Intimacy in Webpages and Facebook (open access)

Parasocial Interactions Online: Candidate Intimacy in Webpages and Facebook

This article presents research assessing cognitive processing and behavioral outcome differences that occur when the public interacts with political candidates' webpages as opposed to viewing their Facebook pages.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Schartel Dunn, Stephanie G. & Nisbett, Gwendelyn S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Down Syndrome and Self-esteem: the Media's Portrayal of Self-esteem in Characters Who Have Down Syndrome (open access)

Down Syndrome and Self-esteem: the Media's Portrayal of Self-esteem in Characters Who Have Down Syndrome

Representations of people with a developmental disability are virtually not covered in the media. Although there is little coverage of people with developmental disabilities in the media, there are a few entertainment television characters who have Down syndrome and are represented in the media. This study will take a look at the history of how people with disabilities were represented in the media and examine how two television characters with Down syndrome were portrayed on the shows by examining their self-esteem. This study seeks to focus on portrayal of people with Down Syndrome because the physical features that people with Down Syndrome possess are easy to identify. Specifically, the study examines the portrayal of self-esteem in two television characters, Corky Thatcher (Life Goes On) and Becky Faye Jackson (Glee). The researcher will also examine how the portrayal of self-esteem in the two characters is similar or different in people who have Down Syndrome. In the study the researcher found that the representation of the character Corky was different from the character Becky. But both characters tackled issues that affected the Down Syndrome community and it affected their self-esteem. Corky and Becky were different from the interviewees in the way they …
Date: December 2012
Creator: Gee, Courtney
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library