Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly back issues from July 2006:
AN EDITORIAL COMMENT
Jul 01, 2006; ... Senior scholars and journal editors are often invited to share their "secrets of success" or insights for research and publication. The audience might be one's own students, students and junior faculty at other research-oriented universities, AEJMC convention attendees, or readers of a scholarly ...
BUILDING BLOGS: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF FRAMES ON THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WEB SITES
Jul 01, 2006; ... This study investigates frames used by candidate Web sites in the 2004 presidential election. The analysis focuses on official blog content posted by the George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry Web sites. Content analysis was used to record time, space, tone, and topic attributes used in the blog ...
AN INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION: ENTRY AND EXIT IN DAILY NEWSPAPER MARKETS, 1987-2003
Jul 01, 2006; ... Contrary to the general impression of the daily newspaper industry as a dying industry, data from 1987 to 2003 showed an industry in transition. Although 305 newspapers ceased daily publication during this period, 64% of these newspapers continued to serve their markets as weeklies, merged ...
NETWORK TV NEWS' AFFECTIVE FRAMING OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: EVIDENCE FOR A SECOND-LEVEL AGENDA-SETTING EFFECT THROUGH VISUAL FRAMING
Jul 01, 2006; ... This study expands the theory of second-level agenda setting to include affective framing of candidates conveyed through visual information during the 2000 presidential campaign. Network TV news coverage included nonverbal behavior for Al Gore that was more positive than George Bush's, and those ...
THE ROLES OF PERCEIVED "SHARED" INVOLVEMENT AND INFORMATION OVERLOAD IN UNDERSTANDING HOW AUDIENCES MAKE MEANING OF NEWS ABOUT BIOTERRORISM
Jul 01, 2006; ... This study integrated the situational theory of publics with theories in risk communication to explore reactions to simulated media coverage of food terrorism. Focus group participants, given news scenarios about a terrorist threat on a U.S. food product, discussed problem recognition, level of ...
A CROSS-LAGGED ANALYSIS OF AGENDA SETTING AMONG ONLINE NEWS MEDIA
Jul 01, 2006; ... This study examined the causal relationships among the issue agendas of three online news media in South Korea during two time periods. The issue agendas of the two online newspapers at Time 1 influenced the issue agendas of the online wire service at Time 2. The online wire service did not ...
FUNCTIONAL THEORY AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE: TELEVISED DEBATES IN ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES
Jul 01, 2006; ... This study applied functional theory, developed for political campaigns in the United States, to six televised debates in Israel and compared debates in both countries. In both countries, acclaims were the most common function, followed by attacks and then defenses. Policy was addressed more ...
ASSESSING NEWSPAPER PREPAREDNESS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES
Jul 01, 2006; ... This study examines newspapers' preparedness for public health emergencies and seeks to explain why some newspapers are better prepared than others. Findings from a regional survey of newspaper managers showed that few newspapers have crisis plans, and few have sufficiently trained or ...
Ads, Fads, & Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character & Society/The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life
Jul 01, 2006; ... Ads, Fads, & Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character & Society, 2d ed. Arthur Asa Berger. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. 196 pp. $65.00 hbk. $19.95 pbk. The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life. Michael Dawson ....
VALIDATION OF DATABASE SEARCH TERMS FOR CONTENT ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF CANCER NEWS COVERAGE
Jul 01, 2006; ... While databases are increasingly used for content analyses in mass communication and journalism research, concerns about sampling error have been largely ignored. We introduce a method to measure the quality of a search phrase according to two criteria: recall (its ability to accurately call up ...
Framing Abuse: Media Influence and Public Understanding of Sexual Violence Against Children/Violence in the Media: A Reference Handbook
Jul 01, 2006; ... Framing Abuse: Media Influence and Public Understanding of Sexual Violence Against Children. Jenny Kitzinger. London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2004. 236 pp. $70.00 hbk. $22.95 pbk. Violence in the Media: A Reference Handbook. Nancy Signorielli. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005 ....
Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960/Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions
Jul 01, 2006; ... Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960. Nicholas Sammond. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 488 pp. $89.95 hbk. $24.95 pbk. Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions. Mike Budd and Max H. Kirsch, eds. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan ...
IT'S GAMETIME: THE MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY MEASURES BURNOUT OF SPORTS JOURNALISTS
Jul 01, 2006; ... A survey (N = 236) of newspaper sports journalists utilized the Maslach Burnout Inventory to examine burnout of sports editors, sports writers, and desk personnel (copy editors and page designers). Overall, sports journalists suffer moderate rates of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization ...
Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media/Sneaking into the Flying Circus: How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows
Jul 01, 2006; ... Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media. Craig Crawford. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 182 pp. $22.95. Sneaking into the Flying Circus: How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows. Alexandra Pelosi. New York: Free Press, 2005. 304 ...
First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age
Jul 01, 2006; ... First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age. Maureen H. Beasley. Evanston, 111.: Northwestern University Press, 2005. 335 pp. $22.95 pbk. Calling first ladies the single most visible symbols of American womanhood, Maureen Beasley makes a compelling case for ...
Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin
Jul 01, 2006; ... Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin. Thomas C. Wolfe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 240 pp. $39.95 hbk. It is surprising how quickly the word "Soviet" has disappeared. Soviet Union? Gone only fifteen years but already largely ...
Freeing the Presses: The First Amendment in Action
Jul 01, 2006; ... Freeing the Presses: The First Amendment in Action. Timothy E. Cook, ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. 208 pp. $39.95 cloth. $18.95 pbk. "Thought provoking" is a book review cliché often used when, in fact, no thoughts are being provoked. Timothy E. Cook's ...
Peace Journalism/Media and the Path to Peace
Jul 01, 2006; ... Peace Journalism. Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick. Gloustershire, UK: Hawthorn Press, 2005. 265 pp. $43.65 hbk. Media and the Path to Peace. Gadi Wolfsfeld. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 284 pp. $75.00 hbk. $27.99 pbk. War and conflict have been so ...
The First Texas News Barons
Jul 01, 2006; ... The First Texas News Barons. Patrick Cox. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 288 pp. $50 hbk. $19.95 pbk. Like most Southern newspaper publishers at the end of the nineteenth century, the Texas barons were Democrats who embraced the New South philosophy and became cheerleaders for ...
Framing American Politics/New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen
Jul 01, 2006; ... Framing American Politics. Karen Callaghan and Frauke Schnell, eds. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 248 pp. $27.95. New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen. Philip N. Howard. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 265 pp. $65.00 hbk. $23.99 ...
Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877
Jul 01, 2006; ... Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877. Linda Frost. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 241 pp. $19.95 pbk. When thousands of Chinese workers arrived in California after the Civil War, some white Americans reacted with alarm. In ...
Media and Society: Critical Perspectives
Jul 01, 2006; ... Media and Society: Critical Perspectives. Graeme Burton. Berkshire, UK: Open University Press, 2005. 372 pp. $38.95. American media scholars wanting to introduce their undergraduate students to the critical study of media and society relationships have traditionally found themselves in a ...
New Media Cultures
Jul 01, 2006; ... New Media Cultures. P. David Marshall. London: Hodder Arnold, 2004.128 pp. $27.50 pbk. The popular term "new media," typically used to encompass myriad communication technologies linked in some capacity to digital computing innovations, implies strongly that these media bring to the ...
The Making of Arab News
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Making of Arab News. Noha Mellor. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 161 pp. $69.00 hbk. $23.95 pbk. Noha Mellor really has two books that fit loosely under her title. Part I has chapters on Arab regional history, the development of Arab news media, and news values as seen ...
Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States, 1990-2001
Jul 01, 2006; ... Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States, 1990-2001. Vibert C. Cambridge. Athens: The Ohio University Press, 2005. 309 pp. $28.00 pbk. The topic of immigration is timely, especially in light of recent regulatory endeavors by various states to facilitate, or exclude, ...
News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and its Threat to Democracy
Jul 01, 2006; ... News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and its Threat to Democracy. Elliot D. Cohen, ed. Amherst and New York: Prometheus Books, 2005. 319 pp. $26.00 hbk. Framed from a position that ties among mainstream media, government, and business have compromised American democracy, the ...
Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines
Jul 01, 2006; ... * Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines. Carolyn Kitch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 256 pp. $49.95 hbk. $18.95 pbk. In The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media, Carolyn Kitch argues ...
Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime
Jul 01, 2006; ... * Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime. Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer, eds. London: Routledge, 2004. 448 pp. $105.00 hbk. $29.95 pbk. Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime examines the forms and practices of war reporting in conflicts since 1990, including the current war in Iraq. The ...
News Piracy and the Hot News Doctrine: Origins in Law and Implications for the Digital Age
Jul 01, 2006; ... * News Piracy and the Hot News Doctrine: Origins in Law and Implications for the Digital Age. Victoria Smith Ekstrand. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2005. 213 pp. $62.00 hbk. In the popular film Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly, while traveling through time, purchases ...
The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed
Jul 01, 2006; ... * The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder, eds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. 370 pp. $86.50 hbk. $27.95 pbk. The study of situation comedies in mass communication scholarship continues to expand its theoretical and ...
STEPPING BACK FROM THE GATE: ONLINE NEWSPAPER EDITORS AND THE CO-PRODUCTION OF CONTENT IN CAMPAIGN 2004
Jul 01, 2006; ... In their coverage of the 2004 political campaign, editors of Web sites affiliated with major U.S. newspapers continued to emphasize their role as providers of credible information. But they moved toward seeing that information less as an end product than as a basis for user engagement, ...
THE GENDERED BLOGOSPHERE: EXAMINING INEQUALITY USING NETWORK AND FEMINIST THEORY
Jul 01, 2006; ... This study examined gender inequity among the most-read political blogs on the Web. Sampling over one year from blog rankings, we found that 10% of the top bloggers were women. Discourse analysis of bloggers' explanations for gender disparity revealed three dominant beliefs: women do not blog ...