Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from September 2004

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from September 2004

Violent virtual video games and hostile thoughts.
September 1, 2004... The enormous controversy surrounding violent video games has been fueled by conflicting claims about the nature of their content and the relationship between game use and hostility. Spurred by tragedies like those at Columbine High School,...

A social cognitive theory of Internet uses and gratifications: toward a new model of media attendance.
September 1, 2004... The addition of the Internet to the electronic media environment has renewed interest in the question of media attendance: the factors that explain and predict individual exposure to the media. Much of the research has been carried out by...

Measuring television addiction.
September 1, 2004... People can be described as dependent on television to varying degrees. The study of dependence on television is important for two reasons. First, research has yet to define clearly normal versus problem viewing, if such constructs exist. To...

Student instant message use in a ubiquitous computing environment: effects of deficient self-regulation.
September 1, 2004... People who spend increasing amounts of time in digital communication may be neglecting face-to-face relationships or other responsibilities. Some also may be developing unhealthy behavior patterns related to Internet use (Kandell, 1998; Kraut...

To broadband or not to broadband: the relationship between high-speed Internet and knowledge and participation.
September 1, 2004... Rapid diffusion of the World Wide Web in past decades has prompted a number of scholars and pundits to inquire about the impact this new technology has on society (Norris, 2001). Researchers have tried to uncover various political and civic...

Webcasting adoption: technology fluidity, user innovativeness, and media substitution.
September 1, 2004... Webcasting, hailed by some as the last frontier of the Internet era, has thus far been trekking sluggishly along its diffusion curve at 7% (Morrissey, 2003). This lackluster adoption rate is largely due to the technical constraints of Internet...

Exploring the factors influencing the adoption of interactive cable television services in Taiwan.
September 1, 2004... Television digitalization is an important part of national information infrastructures, and several developed countries such as the United States, United Kingdom. and Japan have already started the process of television digitalization. Taiwan's...

Evening the score in prime time: the relationship between behind-the-scenes women and on-screen portrayals in the 2002-2003 season.
September 1, 2004... According to director Martha Coolidge, "gender, being a woman, affects everything" (Gregory, 2002, p. 132). Her perspective, as well as those of others, have been colorfully archived in a spate of recent trade books focusing on women's...

Toward ethical cyberspace audience research: strategies for using the Internet for television audience studies.
September 1, 2004... The increasing dissemination of Internet technologies may provide the greatest revolution in the study of media audiences since critical media scholars began turning their attention to audiences in the early 1980s. As is often the case with new...

Television via the Internet: new directions.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Noam, E., Groebel, J., & Gerbarg, D. (Eds.). (2004). Internet television. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 250 pages. The process of integrating the Internet with television is already well underway. Networks, stations and television shows all have...

Paradigm loss: frameworks for global media analysis.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Elasmar, M. (Ed.). (2003). The impact of international television: A paradigm shift. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 213 pages Stald, G., & Tufte, T. (Eds.). (2002). Global encounters: Media and cultural transformation. Bedfordshire, UK: University of...

New millennium, new cinema?(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Lewis, J. (Ed.). (2001). The end of cinema as we know it: American film in the Nineties. New York: New York University Press. 288 pages. The title of Jon Lewis' anthology, The End of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties, is...