Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from September 2003

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from September 2003

Media, terrorism, and emotionality: emotional differences in media content and public reactions to the September 11th terrorist attacks.
September 1, 2003... In recent decades, scholars have examined differences in effects between exposure to television and exposure to print media. Two key premises underlie this research endeavor. One can be labeled "Medium Theory," which assumes that differences in...

Internet power and social context: a globalization approach to Web privacy concerns.
September 1, 2003... Many observers in the United States relate the adoption of the Internet to a sense of erosion in domestic privacy and parental authority. Numerous books, academic articles, public opinion polls, and press reports (as well as solutions and...

Public opinion and policy initiatives for online privacy protection.
September 1, 2003... The rapid development of the Internet and its ability to record, monitor, and report almost every detail of users' behavior has fueled public concern about personal privacy in the online environment (Lievrouw, 2000). As a consequence, consumer...

The making of television: young viewers' developing perceptions.
September 1, 2003... Many children around the world are born today into a media-rich environment. Multi-television homes, multiple channels, video recorders, video cameras, interactive video, and computers--all are part of their everyday life. Debates over the...

Parental mediation of preschool children's television viewing.
September 1, 2003... In the long history of research on children's television viewing, scholars have frequently focused on preschool children. The growth of studies in children's cognitive development has refocused attention on young children's interaction with the...

The implications of vantage point in parental mediation of television and child's attitudes toward drinking alcohol.
September 1, 2003... Many scholars have reported substantial disagreement and variance in interpretation when parents and a child report family interactions, including family communication styles (Austin, 1992, 1993b; Ritchie & Fitzpatrick, 1990; Tein, Roosa, &...

Adolescent evaluation of gender role and sexual imagery in television advertisements.
September 1, 2003... American television advertising uses sophisticated means to present technically and artistically polished presentations that offer a charmed lifestyle for viewers and consumers of advertised products. In the case of beer commercials, these...

Is protection from subpoenas slipping? An analysis of three recent cases involving broadcast news outtakes.
September 1, 2003... Television journalists frequently shoot more videotape than they use in aired news stories. The portions of the unedited video that are not aired are called outtakes. For the most part, decisions about what to exclude by reporters, producers,...

The accessibility divide: the visually-impaired and access to online news.
September 1, 2003... Equal access to public resources is a central tenet of American democracy. As the United States moves toward an information-based economy, the concept of "public resource" has expanded to include information resources such as the Internet. ...

Educating students about global media regulation.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... O Siochru, S., Girard, B., & Mahan, A. (2002). Global media governance: A beginner's guide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 202 pages. If there were any gain achieved during the dramatic showdown over Iraq at the United Nations (UN)...

Assessing an interdisciplinary approach to freedom of speech.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Bunker, M. D. (2001). Critiquing free speech: First Amendment theory and the challenge of interdisciplinarity. Mahawah, NJ: Erlbaum. 184 pages. In recent years, freedom of speech and the press has become an interdisciplinary subject. A...

The technology history of television.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Abramson, A. (2003). The history of television 1942 to 2000. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 309 pages. This work represents one of the most significant contributions to broadcast history written in the last decade. It is a concluding sequel to...