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Digital Natives, or Why Your Professors Are So Stressed!
Twenty-somethings are constantly on their smart phones, doing 5 things at once! Seniors didn’t grow up with computers, so they probably aren’t very good at multitasking! Young people have short attention spans and are easily distracted! When it comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Media, Faculty News, Mass Communication, Miscellaneous
Tagged faculty, multitasking, research
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Has Missing White Woman Syndrome (MWWS) struck at UMSL?
MWWS refers to the tendency of the media to focus heavily on missing or abducted people when they are attractive, young, well-off, white females (e.g., Natalee Holloway, Laci Peterson), and to not provide much, if any, coverage of others who … Continue reading
Posted in Mass Communication
Tagged agenda setting, media, MWWS, news, UMSL
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