Gender differences in selective media use for mood management and
mood adjustment.
Media consumers' moods play an important role in selections of
media messages, as ample empirical evidence has shown. Based on mood
management theory (Zillmann, 1988), many investigators have . . .
Radio reverb: the impact of "local" news reimported to
its own community.
"I've never been to Omaha, but we do your local
news," a member of a large radio conglomerate matter-of-factly told
a college professor with Nebraska roots. Omaha, with a population of
almost . . .
Murrow and McCarthy: re-revisited.(Edward R. Murrow and Joseph
McCarthy)(See It Now Confronts McCarthyism: Television Document
Rosteck, T. (1994, reissued in paperback, 2005). See It Now
confronts McCarthyism: Television documentary and the politics of
representation. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 247 pages.
. . .
Spectrum efficiency and the public interest.
The recent debates over the Federal Communications
Commission's (FCC's) media ownership rules brought renewed
attention to the fundamental broadcast regulatory principle of localism.
Then-FCC . . .
Laughing to keep from crying: humor and aggression in television
commercial content.
The study of the presence of aggression in television programs is
very common, but considerably less frequent are analyses of aggression
appearing in television commercial content (commercials for . . .
Development broadcasting in India and beyond: redefining an old
mandate in an age of media globalization.
The advent of commercial satellite television has changed the media
landscape in many Asian countries that primarily had state-run
broadcasting systems. As a result, long-established broadcasters . . .
Media ownership regulations and local news programming on
broadcast television: an empirical analysis.
In the vast and complex U.S. media landscape, local television news
occupies an important place. The starring role of local news plays out
in several interrelated ways. First, local television news . . .
Understanding electronic media audiences: the pioneering research
of Alan M. Rubin.
A true hallmark of salient scholarship is how it is used by other
researchers. For more than 3 decades, Alan M. Rubin has dedicated his
research to addressing the interactions between audiences, . . .
Perceived source credibility of local television news: the impact
of television form and presence.
The perceptions audience members form regarding television news
content has long been of interest to communication researchers.
Perceptions of credibility have been found to be influenced by . . .
Groups and goblins: the social and civic impact of an online
game.
Video games have joined the media mainstream and are now played
regularly by a majority of Americans (Entertainment Software Association
[ESA], 2005). As an industry, they gross almost as much as . . .
The privatization of the Internet's backbone
network.
Histories of the Internet abound (Abbate, 1999; Hauben &
Hauben, 1997; Kahn & Cerf, 1999; Mowery & Simcoe, 2002; Mueller,
2002; Naughton, 2000; Salus, 1995; Schiller, 1999), yet a . . .
Primacy effects of The Daily Show and national tv news viewing:
young viewers, political gratifications, and internal political
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has become a fixture on the U.S.
political landscape (Mutz, 2004). There is much discussion within the
popular press as to the legitimacy of emerging satirical . . .
Radio Morality and Culture, 1919-1945.(Radio Morality and
Culture: Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1919-1945)(Book
revie
Fortner, R. S. (2005). Radio morality and culture: Britain, Canada,
and the United States, 1919-1945. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press. 246 pages.
Robert Fortner's impressive . . .
The role of a scene in framing a story: an analysis of a
scene's position, length, and proportion.
In studying newspaper articles, researchers adopt a paragraph, a
sentence, an assertion, or a word as the unit of analysis, because a
single newspaper article contains several frames, subtopics, . . .
Sexual intercourse on television: do safe sex messages
matter?
The establishment of sexual relationships and a sexual identity is
a central developmental task for late adolescents and emerging adults
(Arnett, 2000). In fact, research indicates that sexually . . .
Reporting live from the scene: enough to attract the 18-24
audience?(Survey)
Being able to probive live coverage of breaking news events is one
of the unparalleled strengths of television. The purpose of this study
is to assess the opinions of 18-24 year olds about live . . .
Vernon A. Stone: newsman and educator.(Obituary)
Our paths crossed a number of times at various professional or
educational gatherings. We shared some similar experiences in newsrooms
and classrooms, and often we found ourselves of common mind: a . . .
Developmental changes in adolescents' television viewing
habits: longitudinal trajectories in a three-wave panel study.
Recent studies on children and adolescents' use of the media
have revealed that television viewing maintained its dominant position
in today's youth leisure time. Although the introduction . . .
Reassessing the potential contribution of communications research
to communications policy: the case of media ownership.
For years, scholars both within and outside of the communications
field have observed that communications research has failed to play a
significant role in communications policymaking. Mueller . . .
In search of the older audience: adult age differences in
television viewing.
The purpose of this article is to examine whether a particular
audience--older viewers exists as a meaningful entity. Numerous claims
have been made about older adults as viewers, yet many of those . . .
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