Communication Research articles from October 1998

Communication Research archives from October 1998

Values as sociotropic judgments influencing communication patterns.
October 1, 1998... The effects of media and interpersonal discussion on individuals' opinions and behavior have been supported by a growing body of evidence. Explanations of why people use various types of content or talk about particular issues are more limited,...

The persuasive press inference; effects of mass media on perceived public opinion.
October 1, 1998... In forming and expressing their own opinions, people often consider the opinions of others. An uncertain voter, for example, may decide to go along with his impression of the majority view. A passenger on a plane may not voice her own opinion...

Inequality; its all the way you look at it. (influence of race, education and information seeking)
October 1, 1998... Donald Kinder and Lynn Sanders (1996) suggest that opinions about race are unlike other aspects of public opinion. Opinions about race seem to be "more coherent, more tenaciously held, and more difficult to alter" (p. 14). But this is not why...

All countries not created equal to be news; world system and international communication.
October 1, 1998... Since the 1950s, international communication research has attracted increasing attention in the field, and by the early 1980s, the literature in this area of inquiry had reached "almost landslide proportions" (Hur, 1982, p. 531). The past 15...