Terror and the Internet.(Terror on the Internet: The New Arena,
The New Challenges)(Book review)
Weimann, G. (2006). Terror on the Internet. The new arena, the new
challenges. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press. 256
pages.
To reach maximal disruption with minimal . . .
Politics and media in cyberspace: two explorations of the
Internet's growing influence.(Internet Politics: States, Citizens,
and
Chadwick, A. (2006). Internet politics: States, citizens, and new
communication technologies. New York: Oxford University Press. 384
pages.
Cooper, S. D. (2006). Watching the watchdog: Bloggers . . .
The effect of perpetrator motive and dispositional attributes on
enjoyment of television violence and attitudes toward
victims.(
A sizable body of research has emerged over the past 30 years
examining the role that justification for aggression may play in the
enjoyment of drama. For the most part, this research has suggested . . .
The big three's prime-time decline: a technological and
social context.(top 3 television networks ABC, CBS, and
NBC)(Report)
In the past 25 years, the Big Three broadcast television networks,
ABC, CBS, and NBC, have experienced a significant decline in the share
of the prime-time viewing audience. In 1980, more than 90% . . .
A content analysis of social groups in prime-time
Spanish-language television.(Report)
Historically, content analytic research has pointed to disparities
in the representation of Latinos in U.S. media offerings in terms of
both the sheer number of Latino characters (Greenberg, . . .
Selective attention to online political
information.(Report)
Selective attention is an important concept in communication, both
because of its role in the limited effects paradigm and its intuitive
power in describing how the media are used. It is what . . .
Choosing and reading online news: how available choice affects
cognitive processing.(Report)
Giving people the ability to choose from a wide variety of content
when they want to see it is a hallmark of today's interactive media
landscape. News/information portals, blogs, video-on-demand, . . .
Homogenous agendas, disparate frames: CNN and CNN International
coverage online.(Cable News Network)(Report)
"International agenda-setting remains one of the least studied
and least understood processes of international politics"
(Livingston, 1992, p. 313). Certainly, this is partly a function of . . .
Engaging the female audience: an evolutionary psychology
perspective on gendered responses to news valence
frames.(Report)
Since the early 1960s television news has been the primary source
of public affairs information for Americans (Roper, 1979). Yet, it has
been increasingly criticized for its emphasis on negative . . .
Television sports and athlete sex: looking at the differences in
watching male and female athletes.(Report)
Women's sports are slowly becoming more popular among
audiences in the United States. Successful coverage of women's
sports during such events as the Summer and Winter Olympics, as
indicated by . . .
Opportunity deferred: a 1952 case study of a woman in network
television news.(Report)(Case study)
By 1952, the American television networks had established
themselves as the major source of news in television homes (Advertest,
1952). NBC's Camel News Caravan was the highest-rated news . . .
Crosley and WLW: a broadcasting legacy in review.(Crosley: Two
Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation)(Book
McClure, R., with Stern, D., & Banks, M. A. (2006). Crosley:
The story of two brothers and a business empire that transformed the
nation. Cincinnati, OH: Clerisy Press. 502 pages.
The Crosley . . .
The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S.
Nationalism.(Book review)
Parry-Giles, T., & Parry-Giles, S. J. (2006). The prime-time
presidency: The West Wing and U.S. nationalism. Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press. 231 pages.
In The Prime-Time . . .
Stages of a crisis and media frames and functions: U.S.
television coverage of the 9/11 incident during the first 24
hours.(Repo
Much research is devoted to determining how news media frame
information so that it affects audiences' understanding and
interpretation of issues. A number of studies also look at media
functions . . .
Air mail: NPR sees "community" in letters from
listeners.(National Public Radio)(Report)
Nearly every week, listeners of National Public Radio's news
programs hear a musical segue and then the announcement, "Today we
read from your letters ... " What follows is NPR's version . . .
A socio-cognitive model of video game usage.(Report)
The video game has become one of the most popular and pervasive
forms of entertainment. On a regular basis, more than half of all
Americans age 6 and older play some form of electronic . . .
A social cognitive theory approach to the effects of mediated
intergroup contact on intergroup attitudes.(Report)
Intergroup contact is an effective approach for the reduction of
prejudice, negative stereotyping, and discrimination. In order to
produce positive outcomes, Allport (1954) argued that certain . . .
Sexual and violent imagery in movie previews: effects on
viewers' perceptions and anticipated enjoyment.(Report)
Television programs, movies, video games, and the Internet all
provide consumers with a multitude of entertaining diversions, with
competition for viewers' attention arguably at an all-time high. . . .
Juggling justifications: modifications to the National Television
Station Ownership rule.(Report)
When Viacom and CBS merged in 1999 and News Corporation acquired
Chris Craft's 10 television stations in 2000, both combinations
violated the National Television Station Ownership rule (NTSO), a . . .
Convergence concerns in local television: conflicting views from
the newsroom.(Survey)
Just 10 years ago, the primary duties of reporters and producers at
local television news affiliates were to fill the newscasts with live
shots, packages, good writing, and plenty of video. But in . . .
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