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 ...
THE EFFECT OF THE INTERNET ON HOMOGENEITY OF THE MEDIA AGENDA: A TEST OF THE FRAGMENTATION THESIS
Dec 01, 2007; ... This study tests competing hypotheses about whether diversification of news channels results in fragmentation of public opinion and decline in media power to provide the public with common subjects to think and talk about. Employing a content analysis of blog posts and mainstream media news ...
U.S. ELITE AND NON-ELITE NEWSPAPERS' PORTRAYAL OF THE IRAQ WAR: A COMPARISON OF FRAMES AND SOURCE USE
Dec 01, 2007; ... Stories front two elite and four non-elite newspapers were content analyzed for the use of sources and frames over a three-year period during and after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The study used frames previously applied in studies conducted on elite publications. Results indicate ...
NEWSPAPERS' FRAMING OF ELDER ABUSE: IT'S NOT A FAMILY AFFAIR
Dec 01, 2007; ... This article describes media coverage of elder abuse from 2003 to 2005. Guided by media typification and framing literatures, eight newspapers' elder abuse coverage was content analyzed. The newspapers' coverage usually typified and framed elder abuse in a criminal justice context. The stories ...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE ADVERTISING TO CHILDREN ON U.S. TELEVISION: DID NATIONAL FOOD ADVERTISERS RESPOND?
Dec 01, 2007; ... In 2005, after criticism of the U.S. food industry for advertising's role in childhood obesity, national advertisers announced new policies to reduce children's exposure to ads for unhealthy foods. However, limits on these policies suggested that the food advertisements viewed by children would ...
THE EFFICIENCY OF CONSTRUCTED WEEK SAMPLING FOR CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ONLINE NEWS
Dec 01, 2007; ... This article compares different sampling methods and sample sizes for content analyzing news on an online news aggregator. Consistent with previous research focusing on traditional media, constructed week sampling is more efficient than simple random sampling or consecutive day sampling ....
FROM PRODUCT TO SERVICE: THE DIFFUSION OF DYNAMIC CONTENT IN ONLINE NEWSPAPERS
Dec 01, 2007; ... This study documents a steady increase in dynamic journalism on the Web sites of twenty-four U.S. newspapers, including a sharp rise in 2006 of multimedia elements, particularly video. This trend was particularly apparent for newspapers in our sample with print circulation between 100,000 and ...
Advertising's War on Terrorism: The Story of the U.S. State Department's Shared Values Initiative
Dec 01, 2007; ... Advertising's War on Terrorism: The Story of the U.S. State Department's Shared Values Initiative. Jami Fullerton and Alice Kendrick. Spokane, WA: Marquette Books, 2006. 254 pp. $54.95 hbk. $34.95 pbk. Five months before a watershed month in U.S. history-September 2001-U.S. Secretary of ...
The American Journalist in the 21st Century: U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium
Dec 01, 2007; ... The American Journalist in the 21st Century: U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium. David H. Weaver, Randal A. Beam, Bonnie J. Brownlee, Paul S. Voakes, and G. Cleveland Wilhoit. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006. 344 pp. $79.95 hbk. $32.50 pbk. Since the advent of the ...
Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power
Dec 01, 2007; ... Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power. Sandra Braman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. 569 pp. $37.50 hbk. Sandra Braman, a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has given the academic community the rarest of gifts: a timely ...
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America
Dec 01, 2007; ... The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. Allan M. Brandt. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2007. 600 pp. $36 hbk. In The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, Allan M. Brandt ...
Covering Violence: A Guide to Ethical Reporting About Victims and Trauma
Dec 01, 2007; ... Covering Violence: A Guide to Ethical Reporting About Victims and Trauma. Roger Simpson and William Cote. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 295 pp. $26 pbk. Violence, as a component of life, takes up a large part of news coverage in newspapers, on television and radio, and on ...
Editorial and Opinion: The Dwindling Marketplace of Ideas in Today's News
Dec 01, 2007; ... Editorial and Opinion: The Dwindling Marketplace of Ideas in Today's News. Steven M. Hallock. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.195 pp. $49.95 hbk. The most controversial part of Steven M. Hallock's book, Editorial and Opinion: The Dwindling Marketplace of Ideas in Today's News, comes near the ...
Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper
Dec 01, 2007; ... Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper. Jacqueline Bacon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. 375 pp. $80 hbk. $29.95 pbk. "We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us." Thus declared Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, editors of Freedom's ...
Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World
Dec 01, 2007; ... Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington, eds. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2007. 432 pp. $75 hbk. $25 pbk. About five years ago, I attended a special event in Santa Monica, California, commemorating the ...
Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema: An Anthology
Dec 01, 2007; ... Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema: An Anthology. Julie F. Codell, ed. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 474 pp. $89.95 hbk. $44.95 pbk. All textbooks that introduce students to the study of a particular art form are faced with the same dilemma: Does one organize material by ...