Who wants DTV?
The United States will have an all-digital terrestrial television
broadcast system at some point in the first half of the 21st century.
The key question is not whether this transition will take . . .
Making news memorable: applying theory to the production of local
television news.
An increasing number of studies have documented that media
consumers don't learn much from news, particularly broadcast news
(Wilson, 1994; Neuman, 1976; Katz, Adoni, & Parness, 1977). . . .
Prime-time violence 1993-2001: has the picture really
changed?(Industry Overview)
Concerns about television violence have sparked intense debate
since television's earliest days. There is general agreement that
violence exists on television, but because of differences in the . . .
An analysis of qualitative research in the Journal of
Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 1978-1998. (Theory into
Practice).
As a top-tier publication, the Journal of Broadcasting &
Electronic Media rejects many more manuscripts than it is able to
accept. JOBEM publishes studies on a vast array of broadcasting . . .
Latino USA: constructing a news and public affairs radio
program.
In 1991 the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS), a part of
the University of Texas at Austin, received a grant from the Ford
Foundation to begin producing a news and public affairs radio . . .
Environmental concern, patterns of television viewing, and
pro-environmental behaviors: integrating models of media consumption
The study of media and the environment is long standing within the
field of mass communication, with researchers examining media treatment
of the environment from a wide range of epistemological . . .
High-definition television as policy failure.
Early in 1981 about a dozen Federal Communications Commission
officials, including several commissioners and their assistants, filed
into a darkened room in a building near Commission headquarters . . .
Memory misattributions for characters in a television news
story.
How well do viewers of television newscasts remember the
who-did-what-to-whom narratives of the television news stories that they
see? That is, how well can viewers retain in memory the identities . . .
Exhibiting global television: on the business and cultural
functions of global television fairs.(Industry Overview)
Global television programming fairs, officially known as
"sales markets" in the business, lie at the heart of
international syndication. Such programming trade shows as MIP-TV
(Marche International . . .
Integrating race and gender issues into the basic media writing
course. (Theory into Practice).
Much-needed discussions of race and gender are often ghettoized at
journalism schools, segregated in stand-alone courses while basic skills
classes are separate, privileged, "pure." A media . . .
Does audience skepticism of the media matter in agenda
setting?
In recent years, audience trust in the mainstream news media has
been declining (Kiousis, 2000; Liebeskind, 1997). For example, Gallup
polls found that the percentage of the public saying with a . . .
Whither digital television?
I was in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1995 watching with
great interest as what was to become known as the Telecommunication Act
of 1996 was being pieced together by Congress. Like many . . .
Viewer aggression and homophily, identification, and parasocial
relationships with television characters.
Since the early days of television, people have been concerned
about the possible negative effects of television on violent or
aggressive behavior. One research direction to studying these . . .
The evolution of the cables-satellite distribution
system.(Industry Overview)
The television industry began a dramatic transformation in the mid
1970s following the creation of the cable-satellite programming
distribution system. This paper details the evolution of . . .
Gender-differentiated production features in toy
commercials.
Television viewers are not normally conscious of the formal
features of television commercials such as camerawork, editing, and
sound-tracks (see, for instance, Messaris, 1994, p. 158). . . .
The public interest obligations initiative: lost in the digital
television shuffle.
Amidst all the discussion of digital television issues, such as
transition deadlines, mandatory tuners, and must-carry provisions, one
very important issue has fallen off of policymakers' radar . . .
Attention-getting and comprehension-raising attributes in visuals
in Dutch and American, public and private television news abou
Using visual aids is a hallmark of television news in the United
States and the Netherlands. In the words of Henny Stoel (1996), a
well-known news reader and editor of the Dutch NOS (Dutch . . .
Popular video games: quantifying the presentation of violence and
its context.(Industry Overview)
Video games are one of the most recent forms of mass media to come
under attack. Critics have charged that video games such as Mortal
Kombat, Duke Nukem, and Doom are not only inundated with . . .
By the numbers: the use of ratings data in academic research.
(Theory into Practice).
In the preface to the first edition of their useful book Ratings
Analysis: Theory and Practice, James G. Webster and Lawrence W. Lichty
issued a call to mass communication scholars to use audience . . .
The symbolic agenda of a British satellite broadcaster's
1997 general election coverage.
The communication of politics to the public has been a subject of
concern to scholars both in Europe and the United States during the
1990s (Sabato, 1991; Patterson, 1993; Franklin, 1994; Blumler . . .
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