http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2936 http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/retrieve/17451 http://hdl.handle.net/1813/2936 Search the Channel search http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/1813/11089 Title: Are You Lying Now? A Linguistic Examination of Deceptive Utterances in Online Conversation <br/> <br/>Authors: Amos, Barrett <br/> <br/>Abstract: Extensive research has been done to identify linguistic cues to deception, especially in the rapidly growing field of computer-mediated communication. However, most past research contains an important methodological flaw: the failure to break down deceptive and truthful topics into individual utterances. When assigning research participants to a deceptive role (say, asking them to lie to an unknowing receiver) previous studies have generally given the deceivers a topic to lie about and then asked them to go ahead and communicate with their partner. The deceivers were assumed to be lying whenever they were talking about the topic on which they were supposed to deceive their partners. However, in practice not all of the utterances within a deceptive conversation topic are lies. Some are truths used to support the overall lie. Past research has failed to make this distinction, drawing into question previous findings on linguistic cues. This study sought to validate four of the more well-known linguistic cues to deception by examining them at the utterance level. The results reveal that while there often is a distinction between the linguistic cues at the overall topical level (deceptive topics vs. truthful topics), those markers do not always hold true at the utterance level. Even more interestingly, there is often a large difference between truths told in support of an overall deceptive topic and truths told in support of an overall truthful topic. These findings open up new areas of research into the linguistic cues to deception. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/11088 Title: It?s a Jungle Out There: A Real-World Analysis of Lying in Instant Messaging <br/> <br/>Authors: Perlin, Joshua <br/> <br/>Abstract: Analysis of instant messaging deception has never been conducted using real-world data. This study tracked and analyzed deceptions in participants? real-life instant messaging conversations, analyzing them on a message-by-message basis instead of merely a conversation-by-conversation basis. The results show that people frequently deceive in instant messaging, and that the magnitude of these deceptions is positively correlated with instant messaging use. Deceptions are told in clusters, suggesting strategic usage of deception in instant messaging, and although people underestimate how frequently they deceive, they have a very good sense of how much they are straying from their normal deception rates. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/11087 Title: Children and the Media: Self-Other Perceptions of Occupational Portrayals in the Media <br/> <br/>Authors: Otori, Hauwa <br/> <br/>Abstract: A majority of our youth, more specifically minorities, are not interested in pursuing careers in science which may be explained by the negative depiction of scientists in the media. An experiment examined whether middle school students believed others would be influenced by a negative portrayal of a scientist character in a movie character. This is known as the third person perception phenomenon (TPP), when messages influence others more than the self. This experiment tried to determine whether race, gender, and valence would influence the inferences people make about public opinion in regards to careers. Results showed a third person effect. But contrary to predictions, public opinion perception did not have an influence on participants? thoughts about a career in science while participants? perception of the realism of the characters did. This experiment enhances our understanding of TPP and persuasive press inference in the context of entertainment. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/11082 Title: Female Millenial Interest in and Consumption of Sports Media and Imperatives and Pressures in the Sports Media Market <br/> <br/>Authors: Nolting, Erika <br/> <br/>Abstract: This research is an exploratory study comparing the interview responses of sports and sports media professionals to the questionnaire responses of female Millenials from a sample population of undergraduates at three universities in different regions of the U.S. The data reveals the structural barriers in sports media that deter female sports media consumption and which result from the hegemonic impositions of pre-Title IX sports cultural constructs on the production of sports media. Moreover, the data shows the fluidity of the boundaries of the term ?sports fan? and the conflict between how interview participants personally define ?sports fan? versus how they deploy the term within the walls of the sports media industry. Although sports media professionals want to reach a broad fan base that includes more women, what shows up in sports media is always the product of complex negotiations impacted by constraining factors such as socio-cultural expectations, advertiser pressures, and the limitations of research findings. However, sports media organizations should not be dismissed from taking responsibility for the societal implications of the content they produce; future topics from research and what sports media can do to appeal more to females are discussed.