Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from June 2007

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from June 2007

No joke: a comparison of substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and broadcast network television coverage of the 2004 presidential election campaign.(Report)
June 1, 2007... The 2004 elections saw the highest turnout among voters under 30 in more than a decade ("Election Turnout," 2005). As this age group becomes more important in the political process it has also shifted trends in media usage. In particular, young...

When Oprah intervenes: political correlates of daytime talk show viewing.(Oprah Winfrey)(Report)
June 1, 2007... A recent issue of Time Magazine named Oprah Winfrey as 1 of the 100 "People Who Shape Our World," categorizing the daytime talk show host in the same group as other "Leaders and Revolutionaries" such as George W. Bush, Pope Benedict XVI, Hugo...

Show the truth and let the audience decide: a Web-based survey showing support among viewers of Al-Jazeera for use of graphic imagery.(Report)
June 1, 2007... How the audience saw the Iraq War and the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in the Middle East depends in part on which window you were looking through. An Arab viewer explains, "I watch CNN--nobody gets killed. I watch Al-Jazeera--it's like...

Intra-Asian cultural flow: cultural homologies in Hong Kong and Japanese television soap operas.(Report)
June 1, 2007... Why not Regionalization? Is globalization a myth? Perhaps recent studies have to some extent deconstructed this idea (Ferguson, 1992; Hirst & Thompson, 1996). Globalization, in its simplest and most common connotation, suggests that...

Effects of personality types on the use of television genre.(Report)
June 1, 2007... According to research investigating the relationship between personality and media use, various personality traits have been found to predict media use motives, media content preference, and postmedia exposure behaviors (Hall, 2005; Krcmar &...

Antecedents of adolescents' motives for television use.(Report)
June 1, 2007... Uses and gratifications research hypothesizes that the media fulfill a number of functions for the persons using them. Individuals are seen as experiencing various needs and are motivated to satisfy them by means of various kinds of media use...

Sexual socialization messages on television programs most popular among teens.(Report)
June 1, 2007... One of the critical challenges facing young people today is developing a healthy understanding of their sexuality. The U. S. Surgeon General (2001) has underscored the importance of this task as one of the nation's leading public health...

Producers, directors, and horizontal communication in television news production.(Report)
June 1, 2007... In his study of communication networks, Everett Rogers (Rogers & Kincaid, 1981) determined that the way in which members of a system obtain and process information affects the performance of the system as a whole. Broadcast newsrooms spend...

An exploratory study of reality appeal: uses and gratifications of reality TV shows.(Report)
June 1, 2007... For the past several years reality television has dominated mainstream television programming, providing relatively inexpensive entertainment (Gardyn, 2001). The premise of reality TV requires that individuals place themselves on public...

Determining dimensions of reality: a concept mapping of the reality TV landscape.
June 1, 2007... The increased presence of reality-based programming across the television landscape has generated not only millions of dedicated viewers but also waves of scholarly interest in recent years. Such interest comes from a range of perspectives,...

Global communication and Television across Europe.(Global communication: Theories, Stake-holders, and Trends, 2d ed.)(Television Across Europe: Regulation, Policy, and Independence)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... McPhail, T.L. (2006). Global communication: Theories, stake-holders, and trends (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell. 357 pages. Dragomir, M., Reljic, D., Thompson, M., & Grunwald, A. (2005). Television across Europe: Regulation, policy, and...

Redesigning Women: Television after the Network Era.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Lotz, A. (2006). Redesigning Women: Television after the Network Era. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 224 pages. Even to the casual channel surfer, it seems there are not only more women than ever on TV, but there are also...

Investigated reporting: Muckrakers, regulators, and the struggle over television documentary.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Raphael, C. (2005). Investigated reporting: Muckrakers, regulators, and the struggle over television documentary. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 304 pages. Investigated Reporting is an ambitious project designed to go beyond the...

Kathleen Hall Jamieson: "Finding Out" what matters in the world of national politics.(Electing the President 2004: The Insiders' View)(Capturing Campaign Dynamics 2000 and 2004: The National Annenberg Election Survey)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... Romer, D., Kenski, K., Winneg, K., Adasiewicz, C., & Jamieson, K. H. (2006). Capturing campaign dynamics 2000 and 2004: The National Annenberg Election Survey. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. 287 pages. Jamieson, K.H. (Ed.)....