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News Is Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas: A Critical History of the Holiday Shopping Season and ABC Network's Nightly News

Hunter, Allison M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417782736

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2014, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Journalism (Communication).
This content analysis of ABC Network Nightly News stories from 1968 through 2012 of the Christmas holiday shopping season documents specific social, cultural, and economic indicators. A critical studies approach to this research allows the examination of the social ecology where journalistic norms, news sources, business imperatives and cultural phenomena converge. Overall, the results show a 300 percent increase in the number of Christmas-related stories that aired during the first year and the final year of the study. This work contributes to the critical taxonomy of television journalism’s relationship with America’s commercial culture.
Michael Sweeney, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Aimee Edmondson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Kevin Grieves, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jatin Srivastava, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
85 p.
Journalism
journalism; broadcast news; network news; Christmas; commercialism; professionalism; critical cultural studies; content analysis; textual analysis; ABC Network

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  • Hunter, A. M. (2014). News Is Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas: A Critical History of the Holiday Shopping Season and ABC Network's Nightly News [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417782736

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hunter, Allison. News Is Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas: A Critical History of the Holiday Shopping Season and ABC Network's Nightly News. 2014. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417782736.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hunter, Allison. "News Is Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas: A Critical History of the Holiday Shopping Season and ABC Network's Nightly News." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417782736

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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