Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from December 2008

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from December 2008

Parent versus child reports of parental advertising mediation: exploring the meaning of agreement.(Report)
December 1, 2008... The past 2 decades have witnessed an impressive rise in research investigating parental mediation of media content (for a review, see Austin, 2001). These studies have shown that parents and caregivers can reduce undesirable media effects,...

The behaviorist in the boardroom: the research of Frank Stanton, Ph.D.(Bibliography)
December 1, 2008... The young researcher immediately recognized the opportunity. Relaxing in his living room on a Sunday evening in October 1938, Frank Stanton tuned into CBS radio to catch Orson Welles's adaptation of War of the Worlds. As the powerfully...

Reconceptualizing and reexamining suspense as a predictor of mediated sports enjoyment.
December 1, 2008... From dramatic television to fear-inducing films to mystery novels, suspense is at the heart of media entertainment. Accordingly, researchers (cf. Vorderer & Knobloch, 2000; Vorderer, Wulff, & Friedrichsen, 1996) have for decades attempted to...

Partisan balance and bias in network coverage of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.
December 1, 2008... The movie Network released in 1976 had a fed up news anchor urge alienated viewers to scream out their windows that "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore" (Lumet, 1976). Those fictional viewers responded by going to their...

Parental mediation of children's Internet use.
December 1, 2008... Media surround children and young people in the modern household. At times, parents seem engaged in a constant battle with their children as they seek to balance the educational and social advantages of media use and the negative effects that...

Where is my issue? The influence of news coverage and personal issue importance on subsequent information selection on the Web.
December 1, 2008... In the past few decades, the Web has grown exponentially and become an important source of political information. Recent statistics show that in 1 month alone (March 2007), approximately 210 million people in the United States used the Internet...

One "nation," under Stephen? The effects of The Colbert Report on American youth.
December 1, 2008... While humorists have always been quick to turn their ire at the world of politics, the current popularity of political humor in America seems to be unprecedented. Moreover, it seems as if the political comics and satirists of today are (perhaps...

Radio: a complete guide to the industry.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Richter, W. A. (2006). Radio: A complete guide to the industry. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. 296 pages. For those searching for a concise text to introduce students to the profession of radio broadcasting, William Richter has...

Genre studies in mass media: a handbook.(Book review)
December 1, 2008... Silverblatt, A. (2007). Genre studies in mass media: A handbook. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc. 258 pages. In the introduction, Art Silverblatt says, "a genre acts as a portal through which the audience typically receives media messages....