Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from January 1999

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from January 1999

Making a Difference in Prime Time: Women On Screen and Behind the Scenes in the 1995-96 Television Season.
January 1, 1999... Every evening, prime-time television provides its audience with constructed realities. These realities are products of multiple formative forces, including advertisers' moral and economic sensibilities, network politics, and the creative...

The Portrayal of Women in U.S. Prime Time Television.
January 1, 1999... Television depicts men and women in many roles and contexts. Many argue that television characters and their interactions affect the knowledge and behaviors of younger viewers during their impressionable years (e.g. Pingree, 1978; Ruble,...

Whose Stories Are They? Fans' Engagement with Soap Opera Narratives in Three Sites of Fan Activity.
January 1, 1999... Television programs are both commodities and cultural products. Their production takes place within a context of conflict over creative and financial considerations among a variety of different organizations, groups, and individuals (Cantor &...

Developing A Scale to Assess Three Styles of Television Mediation: "Instructive Mediation," "Restrictive Mediation," and "Social Coviewing".
January 1, 1999... The past two decades have witnessed a considerable increase of research on adult mediation of children's television viewing. The studies can generally be divided into three categories. The first category consists of research assesslng the...

The Oprahization of America: Sympathetic Crime Talk and Leniency.
January 1, 1999... A common contention holds that Americans have gone soft on crime (Austin, 1995; Leo, 1994). Jurors seem increasingly unable to render guilty verdicts even in cases where the evidence for the commission of the offense by the accused appears...

The Effect of Flashback on Children's Understanding of Television Crime Content.
January 1, 1999... Television uses a variety of camera and editing techniques to present information. Visual techniques such as zooms, cuts, and flashback, and auditory techniques such as music and sound effects, are used to guide the viewer's attention, to...

The Relationship of Network Affiliation Change to Prime Time Program Ratings.
January 1, 1999... In May 1994, New World Communications Group, Inc. announced that it would switch the affiliation of its twelve television stations from one of the three traditional networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) to Fox. The move sent shock waves through the industry...

Reading the Video: A Qualitative Study of Religious Images in Music Videos.
January 1, 1999... Student: "If you watched it and had to write down the three things you remember from that video, what are they going to be? The dead kids, guns, and the weird gold people. That's what you are going to remember." Responding...

Age Identification, Social Identity Gratifications, and Television Viewing.
January 1, 1999... Little research has examined the relationship between individuals' identifications with large social groups and their media consumption. Factors motivating television viewing choices have been examined largely at an individual level, even...