Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from December 2002

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from December 2002

New Media and the Commercial Sphere: two intersecting trends, five categories of concern.(article outlines special issue)
December 1, 2002... This special issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media on "New Media and the Commercial Sphere" aims to encourage scholarly research on the intersection of two trends: the spread of digital interactive media, and the expansion of...

Competition and commons: the public interest in and after the AOL-Time Warner merger.
December 1, 2002... The positions forwarded by public interest advocates and academics before the FCC during consideration of the AOL-Time Warner merger articulate a public interest in maintaining and nurturing a transparent, easily accessible, affordable, and...

Online journalism as market-driven journalism.
December 1, 2002... Beginning in the mid 1990s, the news media latched onto the ability of the World Wide Web (WWW) to illustrate news stories once left to magazines, newspapers, and television news programs. News organizations and television networks built...

Is online buying out of control? Electronic commerce and consumer self-regulation.
December 1, 2002... Impulsive (Rook & Fisher, 1995), compulsive (Faber & O'Guinn, 1992), and addictive (Krych, 1989) buying are forms of unregulated consumer behavior that have attracted attention in real-world shopping environments. Individually, unregulated...

The safe-harbor agreement between the United States and Europe: a missed opportunity to balance the interests of e-commerce and privacy online?
December 1, 2002... During the first half of 2000, two high-profile incidents heightened public concerns about the privacy of personal data on the Internet. These incidents involved the e-commerce toy retailer Toysmart.com and DoubleClick, the largest online...

Panopticon.com: online surveillance and the commodification of privacy.
December 1, 2002... "DART offers an unlimited array of targeting criteria to ensure you get the right message to the right person at the right time."--DoubleClick Web site, 2001 (1) In 1791, Jeremy Bentham introduced a new and technologically advanced prison...

New media and the circuit of cyber-culture: conceptualizing Napster.
December 1, 2002... Introduction: Napster and the Circuit of Culture In a recent article, Jones (2000) calls for a more engaged response by media scholars to changes in popular music created by the Internet. These scholars, he argues, should "approach the...

Ferment in global media studies.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Miller, T., Govil, M., McMurria, J., & Maxwell, R. (2001). Global Hollywood. London: British Film Institute. 240 pages Mosco, V., & Schiller, D. (Eds.) (2001). Continental order? Integrating North America for cybercapitalism. Lanham, MD:...

Branding and internet marketing in the age of digital media.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Steinbock, D. (2000). The birth of Internet marketing communications. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 328 pages Todreas, T. M. (1999). Value creation and branding in television's digital age. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. 232 pages Much has...

Defining privacy: freedom in a democratic constitutional state.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Gutwirth, Serge (2002). Privacy and the information age. (R. Casert, Trans.) Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 144 pages Many consider privacy to be a fundamental or innate need (Altman, 1975), necessary for personal growth...