1. The New News: How the Decline of Public Trust in Traditional News Media Affects the Rise of the Internet as a Mainstream Source for News Open Access Author: Armington, Jill C Title: The New News: How the Decline of Public Trust in Traditional News Media Affects the Rise of the Internet as a Mainstream Source for News Area of Honors: Sociology Keywords: traditional news medialevels of trustInternetnews consumption File: Download Jill_Armington_040813_Thesis_Submission.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Roger Kent Finke, Thesis SupervisorDr. Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. Investigating the Effect of Empathy and News Readership on Affective Polarization Open Access Author: Zhang, Steven Title: Investigating the Effect of Empathy and News Readership on Affective Polarization Area of Honors: Political Science Keywords: affective polarizationempathynews readershipnewsnews consumptionpolarizationpoliticspsychologybehaviorpolitical psychologypolitical divideparty polarizationpartisanpartisanship File: Download Zhang_Thesis_Final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Peter K Hatemi, Thesis SupervisorMatthew Richard Golder, Thesis Honors Advisor
