Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from June 2004

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from June 2004

Liberating American communications: foreign ownership regulations from the Radio Act of 1912 to the Radio Act of 1927.
June 1, 2004... Although foreign ownership regulations, embodied in Section 12 of the Radio Act of 1927, are most commonly associated with propaganda and broadcasting, this study shows that they targeted wireless telegraphy as a weapon of war. Archival...

How America adopted radio: demographic differences in set ownership reported in the 1930-1950 U.S. censuses.
June 1, 2004... Radio set ownership data reported in the U.S. Censuses of 1930, 1940, and 1950 suggest that several factors affected the rate of radio adoption during these decades. Although a majority of U.S. households were radio-equipped by 1931,...

The effects of the media on body image: a meta-analysis.
June 1, 2004... The media have been criticized for depicting the thin woman as ideal. Some argue these images create unrealistic expectations for young women and cause body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. This study cumulates findings of empirical...

Expressions of identity online: prominent features and gender differences in adolescents' World Wide Web home pages.
June 1, 2004... Despite the popularity of World Wide Web home pages among adolescents, we know little about their distinguishing features or utility. Accordingly, this article describes a content analysis of adolescents' pages, noting gender differences when...

Television viewing, perceived similarity, and adolescents' expectations of a romantic partner.
June 1, 2004... This study aimed to explore the relationships between overall and romantically themed television viewing and adolescents' expectations of a romantic partner. A sample of 428 15- and 16-year-olds from Belgium rated the importance of physical...

Little in common: racial and gender differences in adolescents' television diets.
June 1, 2004... The assumption that adolescents exist in a common youth culture that cuts across race and gender lines is examined. A sample of 2,942 middle schoolers completed questionnaires. Of the 140 television shows listed, only 4 were watched regularly...

Aging on television: messages relating to gender, race, and occupation in prime time.
June 1, 2004... Prime-time network programs broadcast between 1993 and 2002 under-represent elderly characters. More women between the ages of 50 and 64 were classified as elderly rather than middle-aged. The age distribution of minority men resembles that of...

Selling political integrity: telenovelas, intertextuality, and local elections in rural Brazil.
June 1, 2004... Telenovelas, prime-time serial melodramas that dominate Brazilian television, are active players in the national political and social discourse. This article analyzes an example in which the text and the national political discourse merged,...

CNN's tailwind tale.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Lembcke, J. (2003) CNN's tailwind tale: Inside Vietnam's last great myth. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 217 pages. Half a dozen years ago, when I was a correspondent for CNN in Washington, our newsroom's gallows humor included the...

Contextualizing international communication.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Anokwa, K., Lin, C. A., & Salwen, M. B. (Eds.) (2003). International communication: Concepts and cases. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 297 pages. International Communication: Concepts and Cases interweaves societal realities with media...