Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from December 2004

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from December 2004

Sex on American television: an analysis across program genres and network types.
December 1, 2004... Among the sociocultural factors posited to influence young people's sexuality, the media have received significant attention--especially television, as it continues to be the medium used most by youth (Roberts, Foehr, Rideout, & Brodie, 1999)....

Offensive language in prime-time television: four years after television age and content ratings.
December 1, 2004... This study examines offensive language spoken in prime time on 7 broadcast networks in 2001. Profanity increased between 1997 and 2001 to a rate of 1 word every 8 minutes. FOX network programs contained more crudities than all other networks;...

The role of bleeps and warnings in viewers' perceptions of on-air cursing.
December 1, 2004... This study used a 2 x 2 x 2 design to examine the effects of warning labels, bleeping, and gender on viewers' perceptions and enjoyment of a docu-drama. We also examined the individual difference variable of verbal aggressiveness to test for...

Brandishing guns in American media: two studies examining how often and in what context firearms appear on television and in popular video games.
December 1, 2004... The purpose of this article is to determine the amount and context of gun violence across 2 electronic media. Study 1 focuses on the landscape of gun violence on television, including the number of high risk portrayals. Study 2 provides data on...

Free riders, givers, and heavy users: predicting listener support for public radio.
December 1, 2004... The economy of public radio in the United States has been changing from dependence upon government tax dollars to self-sufficiency based on audience service. In the largest recontact study ever conducted for public radio, 30,834 public radio...

Cross-media use in electronic media: the role of cable television Web sites in cable television network branding and viewership.
December 1, 2004... Television Web sites have become an indispensable companion to television networks and stations. Almost all U.S. television networks have established their own Web sites. More than 78% of Web users have visited a television Web site within the...

Picture this: effects of graphics on the processing of television news.
December 1, 2004... Two experiments, one with college students and one with older participants, examine how the addition of text and animated graphics influence the processing of television news stories. Recall data suggest graphics help younger and older viewers...

Media dependency and perceived reality of fiction and news.
December 1, 2004... Two studies examined whether familiar and unfamiliar contexts influenced the relationship between the typicality of a news or entertainment story and the perceived realism of that story. For shopping mall patrons in the United States,...

Aural history: an Encyclopedia of Radio covers a century of sound.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Sterling, C. (Ed.) (2004). The Museum of Broadcast Communications encyclopedia of radio. New York: Dearborn/Routledge. 1,650 pages. A great editor used to tell me that every good story is, at some level, about the meaning of life. This...

Frames and the man: rethinking the president's power to shape news coverage in the post-Cold War era.(Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and US Foreign Policy)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Entman, R. E. (2003). Projections of power: Framing news, public opinion, and U.S. foreign policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 229 pages. As scholars of mass communication pondered over the last 40 years why American news...

Forgotten no longer: the DuMont network and American television.(The Forgotten Network: Dumont and the Birth of American Television)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Weinstein, D. (2004). The forgotten network: DuMont and the birth of American television. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 220 pages. There is some irony in the fact that the very first scholarly history devoted to a single national...

Editor's report.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... This report is my last as editor of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. The editor-select, Donald G. Godfrey--who will officially become the journal's editor next month--has been reviewing all of the new submissions since January...