گردآورنده :
محمد قاسمي
تاريخ انتشار :
28 / 07 / 1386
ناشر : دفتر مطالعات و توسعه رسانه ها
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فهرست مقالات مرتبط با ارتباطات
1-The Desirability Paradox in the Effects of Media Literacy
Training
Erica Weintraub Austin
Washington State University
Bruce E. Pinkleton
Washington State University
Ruth Patterson Funabiki
University of Idaho
Communication Research
October 2007, Volume 34, No. 5 -
http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/5/483
Abstract:
This study examines a paradox in findings regarding the effects of media literacy training on adolescents' decision making about tobacco use. Recent experiments have found that media literacy training successfully reduced participants' beliefs associated with risky behavior, whereas at the same time, their positive affect toward individuals portrayed in advertising increased. Study results confirm the hypothesis that media literacy training changes the way individuals think about the desirability of portrayals in the media. Although desirability usually represents individuals' affect toward portrayals, reports gathered after media literacy training also appear to reflect participants' increased awareness of the efforts made by advertisers to produce attractive portrayals designed to sell products and services. This awareness reduces or eliminates the impact that positive affect otherwise would have on decision making. Because this analysis suggests that individuals may respond to survey questions differently depending on their level of skill or involvement, the results raise important issues regarding issues of reliability and validity that may extend well beyond tests of this theoretical model or particular evaluation.
Key Words:
health communication • information processing • affect • prevention • media effects • adolescents • tobacco • media literacy
فهرست مقالات مرتبط با رسانه هاي جمعي
1-Talking Books
The Encounter of Literature and Technology in the Audio Book
Deborah Philips
Brunel University, UK, deborah.philips@brunel.ac.uk
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
AUG 2007 Vol. 13, No. 3
http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/293
Abstract:
The talking book offers a case study in the transition of cultural forms into new media. As the technology for recording books has developed from sound recording into the downloading of books from the internet, the encounter between new technologies and literary texts has implications for cultural and literary theory. This article offers an analysis of the talking book, with a particular emphasis on the novel. Although books on tape did arouse some media interest around the 75th anniversary of the production of the first recorded novel, Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, there has to date been no academic research on the growing phenomenon of books on tape. This article begins by charting a history of the talking book, from the first tape recordings for the Royal National Institute of the Blind to the impact of the MP3 player and the iPod. It makes use of Raymond Williams' work on television and of Stuart Hall and Paul De Gay's case study of the Sony Walkman as offering methodologies for the analysis of new technologies as sites of cultural contest, and develops this work into a study of the recorded book. The article also employs a textual analysis of the catalogues and websites used to promote the talking book as a commodity. The study demonstrates that the talking book, as with other forms of cultural encounters with new technologies, builds on already existing categories of literary and cultural capital.
Key Words:
audio book • iPod • spoken word
2-The Mobile Phone and the Public Sphere
Mobile Phone Usage in Three Critical Situations
Janey Gordon
University of Bedfordshire, UK, Janey.gordon@beds.ac.uk
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
AUG 2007 Vol. 13, No. 3
http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/307
Abstract:
This article seeks to explore the influence of the mobile phone on the public sphere, in particular with regard to its effect on news agendas, gatekeepers and primary definers. Using the examples of the Chinese SARS outbreak (2003), the south-east Asian tsunami (December 2004) and the London bombings (July 2005), the author questions the extent to which the mobile phone is challenging conventional and official sources of information. At times of national and personal calamity, the mobile phone is used to document and report events from eyewitnesses and those closely involved. Using multimedia messages (MMS) or text messages (SMS) to communities of friends and families, as well as audio phone calls, mobile phone users may precede and scoop official sources and thwart censorship and news blackouts. They can also provide valuable evidence of what actually occurred. Users are able to take pictures and short films and transmit these rapidly to others along with reports of what is happening where they are; they are also able to access other media broadcasts and the internet. They are what have become known as `citizen journalists'. The evidence suggests that mobile phone usage is contributing to the public sphere and in some instances is circumventing official repression or inadequate information. There is also an indication that the `mobcam' is capturing images that would otherwise be lost. However, the mainstream media has been quick to take advantage of this citizen journalism and mediate it within its own parameters.
Key Words:
cell phone • citizen journalism • public sphere
3-Studying the Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy in International Crises: The United States and the Bosnian Crisis, 1992—1995
Yaeli Bloch-Elkon
Department of Political Science, Public Communication Program, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel, ybe1@columbia.edu ; blochy@mail.biu.ac.il
The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
October 2007, Volume 12, No. 4
http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/20
Abstract:
This study presents an integrative model of the press, public opinion, and foreign policy relations during times of international crises. It combines theories of mass communications and international relations, with emphasis on the various stages of the crisis, the roles and functions of the media, and the different positions adopted by the press and the public vis-à-vis government foreign policy. The model is then applied to the United States during the Bosnian crisis (1992—1995), by examining commentary and editorials from The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, news headlines from USA Today and Washington Times, and public opinion data.The findings and conclusions regarding strong and significant correlations among media content, public opinion, and policy clarify the different roles of the press during various stages of an international crisis. They shed new light on scholars' and practitioners' understanding of the complex nature of theses relationships, during both times of crisis and more generally.
Key Words:
elite/popular press • media • public opinion surveys • foreign policy • international crisis • Bosnia and the United States • content analysis
4-Discursive Contention: Palestinian Media Discourse and the Inception of the "First" Intifada
Eitan Alimi
Department of Political Science, the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 90915, Israel, alimien@012.net.il
The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
October 2007, Volume 12, No. 4
http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/71
Abstract:
The framing process of political opportunity to act contentiously is examined as a unique type of interaction between news media and social movements, where media institutions act as a forum for reflecting and constructing oppositional views to unfolding political processes. The case of Palestinian contention during the run-up to the "first" Intifada is employed to illustrate the role of "mobilized print media" in framing of opportunity to act contentiously. Findings from content analysis data suggest that (a) during 1987, there is a significant, gradual increase in calls for action and (b) a converging process between various newspapers, representing various political factions within the Palestinian movement, develops regarding a shared framing of ripe political conditions to increase mobilization.
Key Words:
political opportunity • mobilization • framing process • Intifada • contentious politics • media discourse • critical events • social movements
5-A Sack in the Sand
Photography in the Age of Information
Martin Lister
University of the West of England, UK, Martin.Lister@uwe.ac.uk
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
AUG 2007 Vol. 13, No. 3
http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/251
Abstract:
Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography centred upon a rejection of a strong form of technological determinism. It is now clear that far from being displaced to the margins of culture, there is now more photography than ever. There have also been dramatic developments: mobile phone manufacturers have put more cameras into people's hands then ever before; the photograph as social document and historical witness persists but in changing ways; photographs circulate globally on an unprecedented scale via electronic image banks. It is clear that such changes and developments do involve new technologies. However, rather than being due to the kind of technological determinism debated earlier, this is because photography has come to exist within a new technological environment. In many recent accounts, `information' and information technology are repeatedly cited as constituting a new and shaping context for photographic practices.
This article offers a conceptual framework for thinking about these changes by relating tendencies in contemporary discussions of photography to another discourse and another set of practices: informatics.
Key Words:
digital imaging • informatics • information • inscription • material • photography • signification • technological determinism • virtual
6-The half-life of internet references cited in communication
journals
Daniela V. Dimitrova
Iowa State University, USA, Danielad@iastate.edu
Michael Bugeja
Iowa State University, USA, Bugeja@iastate.edu
New Media & Society
October 2007, Volume 9, No. 5
http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/5/811
ABSTRUCT:
This exploratory study examines the use of online citations, focusing on five leading journals in journalism and communication. It analyzes 1126 URL reference addresses in citations of articles published between 2000 and 2003. The results show that only 61 percent of the online citations remain accessible in 2004 and 39 percent do not. The content analysis also shows that .org and .gov are the most stable domains. Error messages for `dead' URL addresses are explored. The instability of online citations raises concerns for researchers, editors and associations.
Key Words:
internet research • online citations • replicability • source attribution
7-Democracy, deliberation and design: the case of online discussion forums
Scott Wright
De Montfort University, UK, swright01@dmu.ac.uk
John Street
University of East Anglia, UK, j.street@uea.ac.uk
New Media & Society
October 2007, Volume 9, No. 5
http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/5/849
ABSTRUCT:
Within democratic theory, the deliberative variant has assumed pre-eminence. It represents for many the ideal of democracy, and in pursuit of this ideal, online discussion forums have been proposed as solutions to the practical limits to mass deliberation. Critics have pointed to evidence which suggests that online discussion has tended to undermine deliberation. This article argues that this claim, which generates a stand-off between the two camps, misses a key issue: the role played by design in facilitating or thwarting deliberation. It argues that political choices are made both about the format and operation of the online discussion, and that this affects the possibility of deliberation. Evidence for the impact of design (and the choices behind it) is drawn from analysis of European Union and UK discussion forums. This evidence suggests that we should view deliberation as dependent on design and choice, rather than a predetermined product of the technology.
Key Words:
deliberative democracy • e-democracy • online discussion • theories of technology • website design
8-Online privacy as legal safeguard: the relationship among consumer, online portal, and privacy policies
Jan Fernback
Temple UniverSity, USA, fernback@temple.edu
Zizi Papacharissi
Temple UniverSity, USA
New Media & Society
October 2007, Volume 9, No. 5
http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/5/715
ABSTRUCT:
Several surveys attest to growing public concerns regarding privacy, aggravated by the diffusion of information technologies. A policy of self-regulation that allows individual companies to implement self-designed privacy statements is prevalent in the United States. These statements rarely provide specific privacy guarantees that personal information will be kept confidential. This study provides a discourse analysis of such privacy statements to determine their overall efficacy as a policy measure. The in-depth analysis of privacy statements revealed that they offer little protection to the consumer, instead serving to authorize business practices which allow companies to profit from consumer data. Using public good theory as a foundation, policy implications are discussed.
Key Words: internet • privacy • regulation
فهرست مقالات مرتبط با مطبوعات و روزنامه نگاري
1-Vertical Integration as an Explanation for the Creation of Special Journal Issues
Richard T. Mowday
University of Oregon
Journal of Management Inquiry
Vol. 16, No. 3 ,2007
http://jmi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/3/250
Abstract:
Continuing the dialogue about the use of special issues by journals in the field of management, this commentary focuses on McKinley's belief that the creation of special issues was motivated by the desire of journal editors to influence the flow of submissions to their journal and is thus a form of vertical integration. The author largely agrees with McKinley's belief but thinks that the analogy to vertical integration may be a bit of a stretch. If journal editors want to get serious about vertical integration, though, the author has several suggestions that might help them.
Key Words:
scholarly journals • special issues • journal submissions
2-Professional Editing Strategies Used by Six Editors
Jocelyne Bisaillon
Université Laval, Canada
Written Communication
October 2007, Volume 24, No. 4
http://wcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/24/4/295
Abstract:
Identifying the approach used by those revision experts par excellence—that is, professional editors—should enable researchers to better grasp the revision process. To further explore this hypothesis, the author conducted research among professional editors, six of whom she filmed as they engaged in their practice. An analysis of their work approach strategies showed their detection strategies to consist in anticipating errors and in comparing the author's text with the editor's knowledge, which appears in a range of states: certitude, uncertainty, and ignorance. Furthermore, the participating editors used problem-solving strategies to automatically solve more than half of the problems encountered in the text. Otherwise, they used immediate or postponed strategies. This description of professional editors in action opens a number of avenues for the further research and development of in-class instruction of self-revision and professional editing.
Key Words:
revision process • detection strategies • problem-solving strategies in writing • authentic writing task • linear process
3-More Than Just Error Correction
Students' Perspectives on Their Revision Processes During Writing
Debra Myhill
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Susan Jones
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Written Communication
October 2007, Volume 24, No. 4
http://wcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/24/4/323
Abstract:
Drawing on the second phase of a 2-year study of students' linguistic and compositional processes, this article describes students' reflections on their online revision processes, those revisions made during the process of translating thoughts into written text. The data collected were from classroom observation and post hoc interviews with 34 students, who were observed during a writing task in the English classrooms and interviewed subsequently to elicit their reflections and understandings of their own revising processes. The analysis indicates that students tend to conceptualize revision as a macro-strategy and as a task that is predominantly undertaken as a posttextual production reviewing activity. It also indicates that students engage in multiple revising activities during writing, including many revisions that are not concerned with simple matters of surface accuracy, and many students are able to talk about these perceptively and with insight.
Key Words:
editing • composing processes • metacognition • metalinguistic awareness • revision activities • online revision
4-Presidents and Front-page News: How America's Newspapers Cover the Bush Administration
Jeffrey S. Peake
Department of Political Science, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, jpeake@bgsu.edu
The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
October 2007, Volume 12, No. 4
http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/52
Abstract:
Presidency and political communication scholars have given scant attention to how local news media cover the presidency. The author offers a comparative study of coverage of the Bush presidency on the front pages of 100 American newspapers during a five-month period in 2006. Sociological and economic theories predict slanted coverage of national politics by America's newspapers, despite journalistic professional norms to the contrary.The analyses suggest there is a slant to the coverage of President Bush that is partly explained by the political leanings of the newspaper and its audience. Newspapers that endorsed Bush's reelection in 2004 tended to write more favorable headlines, and newspapers in states where Democrats are strong politically tended to write less favorable headlines.
Key Words:
George W. Bush • newspapers • local media • media bias • presidency—press relations
5-Working Memory in an Editing Task
John R. Hayes
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
N. Ann Chenoweth
University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg
Written Communication
October 2007, Volume 24, No. 4
http://wcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/24/4/283
Abstract:
A number of studies have found that writers produce text in bursts of language. That is, when creating a text, writers produce a few words, pause, produce a few more words, pause, and so on. Chenoweth and Hayes (2003) hypothesized that language bursts occur when writers translate ideas in to new language. This study tested this hypothesis against the following two alternative hypotheses: (a) Language bursts are caused by proposing new ideas rather than by translating ideas in to written language and (b) language bursts depend on the form of the input to the writing process rather than on the translation process. The study employed an editing task in which participants were required to translate a written language input. The alternative hypotheses led to contradictory predictions about writers' performance in this task. The study also explored the impact of working memory restrictions on task performance.
Key Words:
language bursts • writing theory • cognitive processes •
6-The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept
PEER C. FISS
University of Southern California - Management and Organization Department
PAUL M. HIRSCH
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
American Sociological Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 29-52
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1003299
Abstract:
While the literature on framing has importantly expanded our understanding of frame creation and contests from an interpretive point of view, previous studies have largely neglected the structural contexts in which framing activities occur. In this study, we propose extending the framing approach by incorporating insights from the literature on sensemaking to examine how and when opportunities for meaning creation open up and how this affects subsequent discursive processes. Connecting framing and sensemaking better enables us to examine how structural factors prompt and bound discursive processes, affecting when and where frame contests emerge. We demonstrate the utility of this approach by examining changes in the discourse of globalization. Using qualitative and quantitative analyses of newspaper articles and corporate press releases, we trace the emergence of globalization discourse, its diffusion, and the increasing contention that surrounds it. Our findings show how and where globalization discourse emerged in response to greater U.S. involvement with the international economy, and how later frame contests over the meaning of globalization have depended on the interests of the actors involved.
Keywords:
Globalization, Discourse analysis, Global economy, Journalism, Press releases, Sociology
Accepted Paper Series
7-Journalistic moral engagement
Narrative strategies in American muckraking
James L. Aucoin
University of South Alabama, USA, jaucoin@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Journalism
October 2007, Volume 8, No. 5
http://jou.sagepub.com/current.dtl
Abstract:
The narrative strategies of mid-20th-century investigative journalists who published in leftist American magazines expanded the kinds of truths that could be told. Using specific cases of institutional failure, the journalists maneuvered the message through a variety of narrative techniques, including direct advocacy of alternatives, to the larger question of capitalism's morality. Their style offers an alternative model for American investigative journalists.
Key Words:
K E Y W O R D S • investigative journalism • muckraking • narrative theory
8-Telling stories of Latino population growth in the United States
Narratives of inter-ethnic conflict in the mainstream, Latino and African-American press
Ilia Rodríguez
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, ilia@unm.edu
Journalism
October 2007, Volume 8, No. 5
http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/5/573
Abstract:
This article offers a critique of press coverage of recent demographic trends in the United States. It focuses on the reporting of statistics on race and ethnicity released by the US Census Bureau in 2003, when the public was first informed of a historical `benchmark': `Hispanics' had become `the nation's largest minority'. Based on a frame analysis of stories published in 20 mainstream, nine Latino and 10 African-American publications, the article traces dominant patterns in news discourses that privileged conflict and competition as the preferred frame for the interpretation of population trends and their implications for inter-ethnic relations between Blacks and Latinos. It also shows how nuances in the discursive strategies of these media reveal a symbolic contest that included minority reproduction and contestation of mainstream and official government reports.
Key Words:
K E Y W O R D S • African-American newspapers • census reporting • critical race theory • ethnic relations • Latino newspapers • race and news
9-Newspapers' production of common sense
The `greenie madness' or why should we read editorials?
Verica Rupar
University of Tasmania, Australia, verica.rupar@utas.eds.au
Journalism
October 2007, Volume 8, No. 5
http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/5/591
Abstract:
This article examines editorial discourse and newspapers' production of `common sense' in relation to issues of public concern. Using a case study of editorials published on genetic engineering in New Zealand, the article discusses how discursive characteristics of one journalistic practice (reporting facts in the `news') influence another journalistic practice (expressing opinion in the `editorial'). Focusing on the newspaper genre that communicates `views', the article investigates the manner in which editorials achieve their persuasive goals, and examines how particular components of journalistic discourse, such as headlines, topics and the editorial structure, contribute to public discussion about important issues in society.
Key Words:
K E Y W O R D S • common sense • editorial • journalism practice • news • objectivity twist
فهرست مقالات مرتبط با راديو و تلويزيون
1-Little Players, Big Shows
Format, Narration, and Style on Television's New Smaller Screens
Max Dawson
Northwestern University, USA, max@northwestern.edu
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
AUG 2007 Vol. 13, No. 3
http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/231
Abstract:
This article highlights the role that aesthetics play in television's current convergence with mobile telephones and portable media players like the iPod. I contend that contemporary television style does not just constitute a response to the demands of technological convergence — it is rather an integral component of that which allows television to merge with new devices in the first place. When we engage with style as a precursor to these developments, important continuities emerge between the aesthetics of the small screen and those of the new smaller screens. These continuities underscore that convergence is at once a technical and aesthetic process that entails the hybridization of hardware and cultural forms.
Key Words:
aesthetics • convergence • iPod • mobility • television
2-The Impact of Convergence on European Television Policy
Pressure for Change — Forces of Stability
Tanja Storsul
University of Oslo, Norway, tanja.storsul@media.uio.no
Trine Syvertsen
University of Oslo, Norway, trine.syvertsen@media.uio.no
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
AUG 2007 Vol. 13, No. 3
http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/3/275
Abstract:
Over the last decade, questions regarding the implications of digitalization and convergence have dominated European media debates. One aspect of the debate has concerned regulation: to what degree would existing regulations have to be modified in order to accommodate digital production and distribution technologies? In this article we examine the arguments for regulatory change from the mid- and late 1990s and show that the actual changes have not been as far-reaching as predicted. We will argue that this reflects a general pattern in media development whereby the forces of stability and continuity are often underestimated and too much emphasis is placed on factors pointing towards change. The article draws on empirical evidence from the European Union, Britain and the Scandinavian countries Norway and Sweden.
Key Words:
convergence • digitalization • regulation • technology • television policy
3-Anchors Away: Media Framing of Broadcast Television Network Evening News Anchors
Paul R. Brewer
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, 117 Johnston Hall, Milwaukee, WI 53201, prbrewer@uwm.edu
Timothy Macafee
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, 117 Johnston Hall, Milwaukee, WI 53201, tmacafee@uwm.edu
The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
October 2007, Volume 12, No. 4
http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/3?etoc
Abstract:
Between 2002 and 2006, six newcomers took the anchor chairs at the evening news programs of ABC, CBS, and NBC. Collectively, they received extensive news coverage. This study uses content analysis to examine how three national newspapers framed the new anchors. A frame casting the anchors as competitors in a ratings game was especially common. At the same time, the newspapers regularly framed the anchors in terms of their reporting experience and reporting style, as well as in terms of personal characteristics such as personality, appearance, age, and sex. The newspapers were more likely to frame female anchors in terms of their sex; apart from this, no consistent differences across sex emerged. All three newspapers followed broadly similar patterns in covering the anchors, though some differences across sources emerged. Patterns in news media framing of anchors may carry implications for public opinion about anchors and the news media.
Key Words:
framing • anchors • television news • ratings
4-It's the Debates, Stupid! How the Introduction of Televised Debates Changed the Portrayal of Chancellor Candidates in the German Press, 1949—2005
Carsten Reinemann
Institut für Publizistik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2, D-55099 Mainz, www.ifp.uni-mainz.de/reinemann
Jürgen Wilke
Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Mainz
The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
October 2007, Volume 12, No. 4
http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/4/92
Abstract:
Media election campaign coverage is said to have changed fundamentally in recent decades. Among the trends identified are personalization, negativism, more interpretive coverage, deauthentication, and horse-race coverage. Usually, U.S. studies are cited as empirical evidence for these developments. Recent studies of European campaigns have shown, however, that the picture seems to be different there in various respects.This article argues that one of the reasons for the differences might be the lack of some central campaign events in European elections. Taking Germany as an example, it investigates how the introduction of American-style televised debates in 2002 and 2005 changed media coverage of the major candidates. On the basis of a long-term content analysis between 1949 and 2005, several dramatic effects of this new campaign event are shown.
Key Words:
televised debates • campaign coverage • Germany
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