Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from March 2004

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from March 2004

Late-night comedy in election 2000: its influence on candidate trait ratings and the moderating effects of political knowledge and partisanship.
March 1, 2004... Throughout the 2000 Presidential election, journalists, politicians, and comedians debated the nature of the relationship between late-night comedy and public opinion. Marshall Sella, author of a New York Times article entitled, "The Stiff Guy...

The impact of state-level social capital on the emergence of virtual communities.
March 1, 2004... A rich literature describes the Internet's ability to foster new types of social relationships and groups (Baym, 2001; Flanagin & Metzger, 2001; Howard, Rainie, & Jones, 2002; Jones, 1998; Katz & Rice, 2002; Kazmer & Haythornthwaite, 2001;...

Complementarity in consumption of news types across traditional and new media.
March 1, 2004... The increasing popularity of the World Wide Web has led to a growing academic interest in the effects of the Web on the consumption of traditional media (Kayany & Yelsma, 2000). While 57% of Americans visited the Internet at least once in 2001,...

Processing substance abuse messages: production pacing, arousing content, and age.
March 1, 2004... Decades of media research have investigated how different types of media content (news, sports, violence, advertising, etc.) influence people's perceptions, knowledge, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors. In the past few decades, a subset of...

Recall of television versus print news: retesting the semantic overlap hypothesis.
March 1, 2004... Over the last few decades, public opinion surveys have shown a steady increase in the number of people that rely on television as their main source of news information instead of newspapers or other news media (Roper Reports, 1995). Apart from...

Effects of image motion on a small screen on emotion, attention, and memory: moving-face versus static-face newscaster.
March 1, 2004... This study was designed to extend the research evidence concerning the modulating influence of image motion on emotional and attentional responses to stimulus content. More specifically, this experiment examined the influence of a small moving...

Program choices of multichannel broadcasters and diversity of program supply in the Netherlands.
March 1, 2004... Since the liberalization of the television market in The Netherlands in the late 1980s, the number of general-interest channels in this market has increased from two to nine channels. Previously, we have shown that this increase in channel...

Communication Researchers and Policy-Making.
March 1, 2004... Braman, S. (Ed.) (2003). Communication Researchers and Policy-Making. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Sourcebooks. 576 pages. This volume, skillfully compiled by Sandra Braman, explores the confluence of communication research and policy making....