Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from March 1999

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from March 1999

Media Use and Public Confidence in Democratic Institutions.
March 22, 1999... The erosion of confidence in democratic institutions is a serious issue in public opinion (e.g., Craig, 1993; Lipset & Schneider, 1987). One factor identified as driving confidence levels down is the "antipolitics bias" of the media (Patterson,...

Television News and Contentiousness: An Exploratory Study of Visual and Verbal Content in News about the President.
March 22, 1999... Television, among other factors, has changed the war-like speechmaking of yesterday to the conciliatory and conversational forms of today's political communication (Jamieson, 1988; McGinniss, 1969; McLuhan, 1964). According to Jamieson (1988),...

How and Why Parents Take on the Tube.
March 22, 1999... From Plato to the 1996 United States Congress, society has taken it upon itself to control and censor information available to children. Whether via stories, regulations or V-chips, adults have tried to protect children from messages that might...

The Micro- and Macrodrama of Politics on Television: Effects of Media Format on Candidate Evaluations.
March 22, 1999... Despite impeachment, Bill Clinton may be regarded as the most telegenic president of the era, owing in part to his uncommon ability to connect with viewers through the camera lens and to his skillful use of different media formats (Bennet,...

Viewing of Crime Drama and Authoritarian Aggression: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Crime Viewing, Fear, and Aggression.
March 22, 1999... This study contrasts three theories about the reasons for, and effects of, viewing of crime drama. While the three theories differ about the motivation for watching crime drama, they all suggest the same end effect of heavy crime viewing -- a...

Gender Equity in Televised Sports: A Comparative Analysis of Men's and Women's NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Broadcasts, 1991-1995.
March 22, 1999... Women's college basketball is enjoying unprecedented popularity in the United States. ESPN and other sports networks report results of both men's and women's games on their "tickers" and news programs (Tuggle, 1997) and NCAA Division I women's...

Mass Media and the Death Penalty: Social Construction of Three Nebraska Executions.
March 22, 1999... On Friday, September 2, 1994, Harold Lamont "Walkin' Willie" Otey died in Nebraska's electric chair. Otey was one of 31 death row inmates nationwide to be executed in 1994. At 12:40 a.m. the Associated Press sent this bulletin to its Nebraska...

Doors to Diversity: First Amendment Implications of Telephone Company Video Options under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
March 22, 1999... The Telecommunications Act of 1996 eliminated most of the previous legal and regulatory barriers to telephone delivery of video programming. The Act afforded telephone companies multiple strategies for entering the video programming market....

Competition Among Broadcast-Related Web Sites.
March 22, 1999... A principal tenet of many normative communication theories is that competition among journalists is frequently in the public interest. In this view, competition for readers and viewers is thought to push journalists to work harder to meet the...

Hypermediated Telepresence: Sensemaking Aesthetics of the Newest Communication Art.
March 22, 1999... Coming to terms with a new medium of expression typically raises questions for communication scholars about how the experiential environments it creates are at once distinct from and similar to other forms of mediated communication. Discussions...