Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from March 1998

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from March 1998

News as nonfiction theater: how dispositions toward the public cast of characters affect reactions.
March 22, 1998... Bad news dominates the news at large. Numerous content analyses have shown that the incidence of bad news exceeds that of good news, and that it does so to an impressive degree (e.g., R. L. Carroll, 1985; Haskins, 1984; Stone & Grusin, 1984;...

Media ethnography in virtual space: strategies, limits, and possibilities.
March 22, 1998... The interpretive turn in audience studies has grown in two decades from an exploratory foray into many vibrant areas of theory and empirical research. While such issues as the locus of sense-making and how media practices lead to the...

The audience. (media studies)
March 22, 1998... For over a century, media audiences have been a concern of entrepreneurs and social critics alike. Audiences are the raison d'etre for mass media organizations. In fact, it is hard to imagine any form of media studies that is not, on some...

Determinants of U.S. television fiction imports in western Europe.
March 22, 1998... The long-standing preeminence of the United States in the international syndication arena has sparked considerable debate among communication scholars since the 1970s. Empirical research investigating patterns of international programming flow...

Working it out together: radio policy from Hoover to the Radio Act of 1927. (President Herber Hoover)
March 22, 1998... "Inadequate" and "chaotic" are words used to characterize broadcast regulation in the 1920s under the Radio Act of 1912. While these terms do describe the ultimate situation radio faced in late 1926 when radio regulation through the Department...

The relationship between formal filmic means and the segmentation behavior of film viewers.
March 22, 1998... Formally, a film can be conceived of as an arrangement of a number of film strips--shots--each consisting of a continuous picture sequence and separated by more or less abrupt transitions, mostly in the form of cuts (Bordwell & Thompson, 1993;...

The contribution of family communication patterns to children's interpretations of television violence.
March 22, 1998... Three decades of research have lead to the conclusion that watching television violence is related to increases in aggression among viewers (Hamilton, in press). However, a growing body of research emphasizes that it is the type of violence...

TV news images that induce anger, fear, and disgust: effects on approach-avoidance and memory.
March 22, 1998... Graphic images of death and human suffering routinely populate television newscasts. Natural disasters, transportation mishaps, wars, and famines all take place with sufficient regularity to supply television news with a seemingly endless...