Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from March 2008

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from March 2008

Opportunity deferred: a 1952 case study of a woman in network television news.(Report)(Case study)
March 1, 2008... By 1952, the American television networks had established themselves as the major source of news in television homes (Advertest, 1952). NBC's Camel News Caravan was the highest-rated news program (cited by McAndrew, 1952). In New York City,...

Television sports and athlete sex: looking at the differences in watching male and female athletes.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Women's sports are slowly becoming more popular among audiences in the United States. Successful coverage of women's sports during such events as the Summer and Winter Olympics, as indicated by higher ratings, has been the impetus for...

Engaging the female audience: an evolutionary psychology perspective on gendered responses to news valence frames.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Since the early 1960s television news has been the primary source of public affairs information for Americans (Roper, 1979). Yet, it has been increasingly criticized for its emphasis on negative events such as accidents, disasters, corruption,...

Homogenous agendas, disparate frames: CNN and CNN International coverage online.(Cable News Network)(Report)
March 1, 2008... "International agenda-setting remains one of the least studied and least understood processes of international politics" (Livingston, 1992, p. 313). Certainly, this is partly a function of the difficulty in ascertaining the international media...

Choosing and reading online news: how available choice affects cognitive processing.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Giving people the ability to choose from a wide variety of content when they want to see it is a hallmark of today's interactive media landscape. News/information portals, blogs, video-on-demand, and file-sharing galleries all give computer...

Selective attention to online political information.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Selective attention is an important concept in communication, both because of its role in the limited effects paradigm and its intuitive power in describing how the media are used. It is what Chaffee and Miyo call an "enduring generalization"...

A content analysis of social groups in prime-time Spanish-language television.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Historically, content analytic research has pointed to disparities in the representation of Latinos in U.S. media offerings in terms of both the sheer number of Latino characters (Greenberg, Mastro, & Brand, 2002) as well as the...

The big three's prime-time decline: a technological and social context.(top 3 television networks ABC, CBS, and NBC)(Report)
March 1, 2008... In the past 25 years, the Big Three broadcast television networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, have experienced a significant decline in the share of the prime-time viewing audience. In 1980, more than 90% of television viewers were tuned in to one of...

The effect of perpetrator motive and dispositional attributes on enjoyment of television violence and attitudes toward victims.(Report)
March 1, 2008... A sizable body of research has emerged over the past 30 years examining the role that justification for aggression may play in the enjoyment of drama. For the most part, this research has suggested that audiences enjoy seeing good characters...

Politics and media in cyberspace: two explorations of the Internet's growing influence.(Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies)(Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Chadwick, A. (2006). Internet politics: States, citizens, and new communication technologies. New York: Oxford University Press. 384 pages. Cooper, S. D. (2006). Watching the watchdog: Bloggers as the Fifth Estate. Spokane, WA: Marquette...

Terror and the Internet.(Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, The New Challenges)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Weimann, G. (2006). Terror on the Internet. The new arena, the new challenges. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press. 256 pages. To reach maximal disruption with minimal means--this has always been the objective of...