Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from December 2003

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from December 2003

A note from the editor-select.(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... In January 2004, we start the transition of editorship for the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. I feel greatly honored with the 2005-2008 appointment and the bestowal of trust involved with editing the leading journal of our...

The portrayal of race and crime on television network news.
December 1, 2003... ********** Critics and scholars have suggested that local news programming misrepresents crime as rampant and people of color as criminals (Dixon & Linz, 2000a, 2000b; Entman, 1992, 1994; Entman & Rojecki, 2000; Gilliam, Iyengar, Simon, &...

Race and ethnicity in local television news: framing, story assignments, and source selections.
December 1, 2003... ********** Although the news media landscape at the end of the 20th century had been filled with an array of news sources, more Americans turned to local television for news than any other medium. According to the Pew Research Center for...

Americans online: differences in surfing and evaluating race-targeted Web sites by Black and White users.
December 1, 2003... ********** There is some debate on whether Black and White audiences can be reached equally well with the same racially-targeted media. Research on Blacks' and Whites' response to race-specific messages suggests that whites respond no...

The importance of indirect effects in media effects research: testing for mediation in structural equation modeling.
December 1, 2003... Empirical media effects research is a diverse field that continues to expand its theoretical, methodological, and analytical boundaries. As McLeod, Kosicki, and Pan (1996) have stated, "more complex models of media effects and more...

Controlling prime-time: organizational concentration and network television programming strategies.
December 1, 2003... ********** In a pioneering study of the production of popular culture, Peterson and Berger (1975, 1996) examined whether industrial concentration among producers of popular music leads to homogeneity in the recordings produced by that...

Internet business models for broadcasters: how television stations perceive and integrate the Internet.
December 1, 2003... ********** The exponential growth of the Internet has changed the rules of competition in many industry sectors. The "reach" and "speed" of the development, coupled with the unique characteristics of interactivity and personalization,...

On-air promotion effectiveness for programs of different genres, familiarity, and audience demographics.
December 1, 2003... ********** As the number of competitors in the television industry swells, the battle for audience attention becomes increasingly aggressive, making it more important to test assumptions about audience behavior that dictate industry...

Representations of race in television commercials: a content analysis of prime-time advertising.
December 1, 2003... ********** Research from the U.S. Department of Commerce demonstrates that, collectively, the annual purchasing power of racial/ethnic minorities constitutes over 20% of the nation's total consumer spending and is rising at a rate faster...

A note on submissions from the Review and Criticism editor-select.
December 1, 2003... The JOBEM Review and Criticism section is primarily devoted to integrative reviews of scholarly books and critical essays. From time to time, the editors will also attempt to offer an overview of particular topical issues or consideration of...

Where the mind meets the message: reflections on ten years of measuring psychological responses to media.
December 1, 2003... In the last decade, most communication researchers coming from an effects tradition acknowledged that the answer to Lasswell's (1948) famous question--"Who says what, in which channel, to whom, with what effects?"--would not be answerable...

Canadian television: the exhaustion of a domestic paradigm?
December 1, 2003... The 2003 deregulatory efforts by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have focused American media critics' and scholars' attention on the issue of media consolidation. Yet, at the same time, consolidation and audience fragmentation...