Recently added articles from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly:
AN EDITORIAL COMMENT
Dec 01, 2007; ... The quality of a peer-reviewed journal depends on the publication of rigorous and rich scholarly work, both original research and commentary. Publication follows submission of work that is itself of high quality and import, of course, but it is also a direct result of the outstanding scholars ...
THIRD-PERSON PERCEPTIONS ABOUT IDEALIZED BODY IMAGE AND WEIGHT-LOSS BEHAVIOR
Dec 01, 2007; ... This study investigates the third-person effect in relation to body-image factors in Singapore. College women in Singapore reported that thinness ideals, as portrayed in magazine ads, had greater media effects on friends than on themselves. Their perception of media effects on themselves was ...
MEDIA EFFECTS ON PUBLIC SAFETY FOLLOWING A NATURAL DISASTER: TESTING LAGGED DEPENDENT VARIABLE MODELS
Dec 01, 2007; ... This study assesses news and media campaign effects during the recovery phase of a catastrophe. With data from a panel telephone survey in New Orleans in 2006, this study tests lagged dependent variable models for safety beliefs and safety behavior in the context of Hurricane Katrina. News ...
RESISTANCE TO ETHICALLY SUSPICIOUS PARODY VIDEO ON YOUTUBE: A TEST OF INOCULATION THEORY
Dec 01, 2007; ... Having observed the proliferation of corporate stealth campaigns employing parody videos on YouTube, we attempted to examine the effectiveness of refutational preemption in providing viewers with ability to detect unduly manipulative intent and in conferring viewer resistance to the influence of ...
AGENDA-SETTING EFFECTS AMONG THE MEDIA, THE PUBLIC, AND CONGRESS, 1946-2004
Dec 01, 2007; ... This paper examines the longitudinal evolution of correspondences among the issue agendas of the mass media, Congress, and the public from 1946 to 2004. The time unit is one year. Data are derived from the New York Times coverage, Gallup's Most Important Problem series, and Congressional ...