Recently added articles from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly:
AN EDITORIAL COMMENT
Jul 01, 2007; Riffe, Daniel ... The cover Of every issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly since summer 1992 carries the phrase "Devoted to Research and Commentary in Journalism and Mass Communication." Typically, more than forty research studies are published in each year's volume, addressing a variety of areas ...
CHANNELING DIVERSITY IN THE PUBLIC SPECTRUM: WHO QUALIFIES TO BID FOR WHICH FCC LICENSES?
Jul 01, 2007; Howard, Philip N; Smith, Stephanie ... Over the last decade, the FCC has licensed the use of the public spectrum with an online auction system. Has this auction system, which requires potential licensees to first apply to qualify as bidders, increased the diversity of ownership, and, if not, why? Analyzing data on 28,354 applicants ...
MEDIA-BASED STRATEGIES TO REDUCE RACIAL STEREOTYPES ACTIVATED BY NEWS STORIES
Jul 01, 2007; Ramasubramanian, Srividya ... This study focuses on the role of media in facilitating and inhibiting the accessibility of stereotypes primed by race-related news stories. Specifically, it examines experimentally the effects of two strategies for reducing stereotype accessibility: an audience-centered approach that explicitly ...
RACIAL PROFILING IN THE NEWSROOM
Jul 01, 2007; Pritchard, David; Stonbely, Sarah ... This article examines patterns of story assignments at a metropolitan daily newspaper. The study's content analysis documents a form of racial profiling in which African American reporters write stories mostly about minority issues, while white reporters write stories mostly about government and ...
NEWS STORY DESCRIPTIONS AND THE PUBLIC'S OPINIONS OF POLITICAL CANDIDATES
Jul 01, 2007; Kim, Kihan; McCombs, Maxwell ... Combining a telephone survey of a probability sample of residents in the Austin, Texas, metropolitan area and a content analysis of the local daily newspaper, this study replicates and extends prior research on attribute agenda setting with an emphasis on the attribute priming consequences of ...
OUTRAGE FACTORS AND EXPLANATIONS IN NEWS COVERAGE OF THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS
Jul 01, 2007; Swain, Kristen Alley ... This content analysis examined risk communication factors in news coverage of the 2001 anthrax attacks appearing in 833 stories from 272 newspapers, AP, NPR, and four national television networks (CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC). An exploratory framework posits that when outrage factors characterize crisis ...
MEDIA REACH, MEDIA INFLUENCE? THE EFFECTS OF LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNET NEWS ON PUBLIC OPINION INFERENCES
Jul 01, 2007; Christen, Cindy T; Huberty, Kelli E ... These two experiments compare perceptions of local, national, and Internet news articles on two U.S. environmental policy issues: oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and ratification of the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Of interest were the potential effects of perceived ...
THE REAL AND THE RIGHT: JOURNALISTIC AUTHORITY AND THE COVERAGE OF JUDITH MILLER
Jul 01, 2007; Marken, Lise ... Though journalists openly embrace the "information ideal" and derive authority from the strategies associated with objectivity, they simultaneously employ the "story ideal" and derive authority from the moral force that underlies narrative. This paper uses moments of legal incoherence in the ...
WHEN NEWS REPORTERS DECEIVE: THE PRODUCTION OF STEREOTYPES
Jul 01, 2007; Lasorsa, Dominic; Dai, Jia ... News stories and news columns revealed as deceptive were more likely than presumably authentic ones to treat members of social groups as identical, especially when referring to nationalities (e.g., Iraqis) and regions larger than a nation (e.g., Europeans). Deceptive articles also were more ...
MEDIA USE, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND BELIEF IN 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Jul 01, 2007; Stempel, Carl; Hargrove, Thomas; Stempel, Guido H III ... A survey of 1,010 randomly selected adults asked about media use and belief in three conspiracy theories about the attacks of September 11, 2001. "Paranoid style" and "cultural sociology" theories are outlined, and empirical support is found for both. Patterns vary somewhat by conspiracy theory, ...
SURVIVAL IN PARADISE: HOW "LOCAL IDENTITY" HELPED SAVE THE HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN
Jul 01, 2007; Auman, Ann ... This study of the afternoon Honolulu Star-Bulletin after an announcement to shut it down in 1999 hypothesizes that the strong cultural connections between the paper and its Hawai`i community helped prevent its closure. A cultural approach to the study of this organization reveals the shared ...
Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
Jul 01, 2007; Jensen, Robert ... Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. John Durham Peters. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 309 pp. $29 hbk. The introductory chapter of John Durham Peters' Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition is exciting as he sketches out his ...
Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio
Jul 01, 2007; Huntsberger, Michael ... Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio. Jack W. Mitchell. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. 232 pp. $39.95 hbk. In the introduction to Listener Supported, Jack Mitchell modestly claims "by happenstance of birth" he "landed in the right place at the right time to play a ...
Communication, Media, and Identity: A Christian Theory of Communication
Jul 01, 2007; Frasca, Ralph ... Communication, Media, and Identity: A Christian Theory of Communication. Robert S. Fortner. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 281 pp. $31.95 hbk. The "Christian theory" of Robert Fortner's ambiguous title is not a discrete theory at all, but rather, as he admits, "a meta-theory ...
Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox
Jul 01, 2007; Ekstrand, Victoria Smith ... Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox. Patrick Burkart and Tom McCourt. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 163 pp. $27.95 pbk. To borrow Bob Woodward's term, there's a certain "state of denial" that today's music recording industry shares in common ...
Critical Thinking About Sex, Love and Romance in the Mass Media: Media Literacy Applications
Jul 01, 2007; Fleming, Jennifer J ... Critical Thinking About Sex, Love and Romance in the Mass Media: Media Literacy Applications. MaryLou Galician and Debra L. Merskin, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Eribaum Associates, 2007. 408 pp. $34.95 pbk. Hollywood loves a happy ending. But what happens when Prince Charming rides off ...
Targeting International Audiences: Current and Future Approaches to International Broadcasting Research
Jul 01, 2007; Luther, Catherine A ... Targeting International Audiences: Current and Future Approaches to International Broadcasting Research. Oliver Zollner, ed. Bonn, Germany: CIBAR, 2005. This is the third volume of the Conference of International Broadcasters' Audience Research Services (CIBAR) proceedings. CIBAR is held ...
Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s
Jul 01, 2007; Lamme, Margot Opdycke ... Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s. Inger L. Stole. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 312 pp. $50 hbk. $25 pbk. Inger Stole's contribution to "The History of Communication" series, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C ....
Women and the Press: The Struggle for Equality
Jul 01, 2007; Folkerts, Jean ... Women and the Press: The Struggle for Equality. Patricia Bradley. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. 355 pp. $22.95 pbk. This synthesis of material collected and shaped by Patricia Bradley marks a milestone in the history of women in journalism. Until this volume ...
Courting the Media: Public Relations for the Accused and the Accuser
Jul 01, 2007; Gower, Karla K ... Courting the Media: Public Relations for the Accused and the Accuser Margaret A. Mackenzie. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. 204 pp. $39.95 hbk. In an era of high-profile lawsuits involving celebrities such as Martha Stewart and Michael Jackson and cable shows such as Court TV, litigation ...