Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from September 22 1997

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from September 22 1997

Vertical integration and consumer welfare in the cable industry.
September 22, 1997... The increase in concentration within the cable industry has been paralleled by growth in vertical integration. A recent study reports that vertical integration between MSOs and cable program suppliers is extensive and the extent has markedly...

Does interpersonal attraction to thin media personalities promote eating disorders?
September 22, 1997... To argue that media images of the thin body ideal influence young people's eating behaviors and attitudes toward their bodies is similar to arguing that violent media influence young people's aggression-related attitudes and behaviors. Both...

Political talk radio: actions speak louder than words.
September 22, 1997... Tom Shales, the Washington Post's television critic, labeled the 1992 presidential election "the talk show campaign" because of the influence of radio and televised talk shows (Jost, 1994). During the past ten years the number of all-talk...

Parasocial relations and romantic attraction: gender and dating status differences.
September 22, 1997... While watching TV, viewers experience feelings and use heuristics developed from their real life experiences (Rubin & Rubin, 1985; Reeves & Nass, 1996). Therefore, their responses to TV content vary as does people's behavior in real social...

An anatomy of appreciation and of viewing amongst a group of fans of the serial "EastEnders."
September 22, 1997... EastEnders is one of the most widely viewed soap operas on British television. It attracts as many as twenty million viewers (depending on season and on publicity for plot lines, out of a total population of some 56 million) for each screened...

Today's news - tomorrow's context: a dynamic model of news processing.
September 22, 1997... The numerous studies on the reception or the effects of news programs can be placed on an imaginary continuum according to the degree of how actively they define the role of the recipient. On the one hand, there is a research tradition on the...

American Communication Research: The Remembered History.
September 22, 1997... Dennis, E. E., & Wartella, E. (Eds.). (1996). Mulwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Since the early 1990s there has been a marked increase in the number of books and articles on the history of the field of communication and the development of its VI",...

A Different Road Taken: Profiles in Critical Communication.
September 22, 1997... Lent, J. A. (Ed.). (1995). Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Since the early 1990s there has been a marked increase in the number of books and articles on the history of the field of communication and the development of its VI", intellectual...

Theorizing Communication: A History.
September 22, 1997... Schiller, D. (1996). New York: Oxford. Since the early 1990s there has been a marked increase in the number of books and articles on the history of the field of communication and the development of its VI", intellectual mission. Christopher...

Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook.
September 22, 1997... Signorielli, N. (Ed.). (1996). Westport, CT: Greenwood. Since the early 1990s there has been a marked increase in the number of books and articles on the history of the field of communication and the development of its VI", intellectual...

Public Access to the Internet.
September 22, 1997... Kahin, B., & Keller, J. (Eds.). (1995). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. The Harvard Information Infrastructure Project (IIP; http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/) is a collaborative activity of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the...

Coordinating the Internet.
September 22, 1997... Kahin, B., & Keller, J. H. (Eds.). (In press). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. The Harvard Information Infrastructure Project (IIP; http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/) is a collaborative activity of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and...

Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment.
September 22, 1997... Before you read further, you must take out a pencil and paper and define "public interest." Once you have done that, you might send your definition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the United States Congress. According to...

Visual Persuasion: The Role of Images in Advertising.
September 22, 1997... In this thought-provoking new book, Paul Messaris sets out to develop a general theory of the role of visual images in persuasive communication. As he points out, the work of many generations of rhetoricians and other students of persuasion...