dc.contributor.author	Ortez, Stephania, Isabel
dc.coverage.spatial	United States	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-02T19:18:03Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-02T19:18:03Z
dc.date.issued	2023-05-16
dc.identifier.other	75b53fe7-8afa-4380-8b02-3547ca3ee24b	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6808
dc.description.abstract	This work examined how people prioritize existing information seeking strategies to reduce uncertainty about election matters. To properly analyze the preference of existing information-seeking strategies, each strategy was identified as Interactive, Active, Extractive, or Passive. Additionally, this study examined if there were differences among different racial groups’ information-seeking preferences.	en_US
dc.format.extent	1 electronic record. PDF/A document, 30 pages, 1224301 bytes bytes.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en_US
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Communication	en_US
dc.subject	Political science	en_US
dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	Elections	en_US
dc.subject	Information behavior	en_US
dc.subject	Elections--Social aspects	en_US
dc.subject	Hispanic Americans	en_US
dc.subject	Uncertainty (Information theory)--Social aspects	en_US
dc.title	Information-Seeking Behavior and Uncertainty Reduction for Elections	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Communication Arts of the College of the Arts	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Ho, Chialing
dc.description.committee	Sowa, Brian
dc.description.committee	Eaves, Michael
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	Communication Arts	en_US