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McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
This document presents the proceedings of the 25th Annual Research Forum held June 30, 2021, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following eighteen action research papers: (1) Using Modern Events to Teach United States History (Charles Ahern); (2) "We Are All ESL Teachers": Culturally and…
Descriptors: Action Research, United States History, History Instruction, Current Events
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Stratman, James F. – Written Communication, 2000
Investigates readers' perceptions of bias in a Colorado ballot booklet intended to explain a tax cut proposal. Finds that readers were more likely to perceive the ballot booklet to be biased in favor of the proposed tax measure than against it. (SC)
Descriptors: Bias, Higher Education, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
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Arpan, Laura M.; Raney, Arthur A. – Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 2003
Examines the interaction among different news sources, individual levels of partisanship, and the hostile media effect in sports news. Explains that university students read a balanced story about their home-town college football team in one of three newspapers: the home-town, the cross-state rival university's town, or a neutral town paper.…
Descriptors: Athletics, Bias, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects
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D'Alessio, Dave – Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 2003
Explores perceptions of media bias by manipulating expectations of bias and news topic. Explains that university students read dummy newspaper articles and then responded to a survey. Concludes that readers were more likely to designate material opposing their own views as biased. (PM)
Descriptors: Bias, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects, Media Research
Lain, Laurence B. – 1986
A study investigated whether newspaper mug shots are perceived by readers as being positive or negative in tone and whether the mug shots that are selected match the roles of their subjects in accompanying stories. Twenty-three news and feature stories with associated mug shots were clipped from seven daily newspapers. Pictures and stories were…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bias, Editing, Higher Education