Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from June 2009

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from June 2009

"Naturally" less exciting? Visual production of men's and women's track and field coverage during the 2004 Olympics.(Report)
June 1, 2009... When Canadian writer Binks (2004) suggested on the CBC Web that the media should increase airtime for women's hockey, the comment prompted swift reader reaction. One wrote, bluntly, "Women's sport will always have difficulty succeeding in the...

Publicized intimacies on reality television: an analysis of voyeuristic content and its contribution to the appeal of reality programming.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Accounts of the rising popularity of reality television cite voyeurism as an important reason for its success among viewers. Several studies suggest that television viewers themselves perceive reality programs to be both exhibitionistic and...

Controlling nature: weathercasts on local television news.(Report)
June 1, 2009... I get the news I need on the weather report. Oh, I can gather all the news I need on the weather report. Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile. --Paul Simon, Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1969 Weather has become more than small...

"Split screens" and "spin rooms": debate modality, post-debate coverage, and the new videomalaise.(Report)
June 1, 2009... The sizable body of research on presidential debates has confirmed that debate viewing "largely reinforces existing predispositions rather than substantially changing previously held images of candidates, issue orientations, or voting...

The rivalry of nonverbal cues on the perception of politicians by television viewers.(Report)
June 1, 2009... The growing popularity of television has changed the way electoral campaigns and candidates are fundamentally portrayed. Personalization, negativism, deauthentification, and more interpretative coverage are all consequences that emerged with...

Media exposure and viewers' attitudes toward homosexuality: evidence for mainstreaming or resonance?(Report)
June 1, 2009... Attitudes towards homosexuality have been shown to vary along different demographic dimensions such as gender or political orientation (e.g., Herek, 2002; Strand, 1998), but little is known about how these attitudes form. As with other sexual...

Effects of priming social goals on personal interest in television news.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Because the number of media choices has markedly increased since the days of the big three television networks, consumers are less restricted by news source availability in choosing news that most interests them. Perhaps because of the increase...

Social interaction and co-viewing with youtube: blending mass communication reception and social connection.(Report)
June 1, 2009... YouTube is one of the new forms of social network-oriented online communication that have emerged in the past few years. It exemplifies a social environment in which everyone has the potential to be both a consumer and purveyor of content...

The cultural turn in International Communication.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2009... Mapping an Epistemic Contexts/Frames International communication--a field at the interstices of a wider set of debates within/across its antecedent disciplines including sociology, international politics, anthropology, and comparative...