Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media articles from September 2006

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media archives from September 2006

Editor's note: broadcast research in the Americas.
September 1, 2006... Broadcasting and the electronic media of the Americas is the primary theme of this special issue of the Journal. U.S. scholars have studied systems all over the globe, yet little is known about our closest neighbors, especially Canada and...

Broadcast research in the Americas: revisiting the past and looking to the future.
September 1, 2006... Canada, Latin America, and the United States have assumed great international significance in the past few decades as borders wither, goods and people move more freely around the globe, and finance takes on a more integrated and powerful role...

New discourses and traditional genres: the adaptation of a feminist novel into an Ecuadorian telenovela.(Yo Vendo unos Ojos Negros)
September 1, 2006... This study explores the adaptation of the feminist Ecuadorian novel Yo Vendo unos Ojos Negros into a telenovela, a Latin American form of serialized television drama that always comes to a narrative conclusion, which aired in Ecuador in 2004....

Transnation: globalization and the reorganization of Chilean television in the early 1990s.
September 1, 2006... In 1988 a broad coalition of centrist and center-left political parties--the Concertacion de Partidos por la Democracia (Coalition of Parties for Democracy)--defeated Chilean General Augusto Pinochet in a national plebiscite, paving the way for...

Canadian hardware, foreign software: the political economy of pay-per-view.
September 1, 2006... On February 1, 1983, the introduction of First Choice, currently known as The Movie Network, marked a significant step in the evolution of Canada's video industry. For a nominal fee, cable subscribers were able to watch uninterrupted and...

Macho media: unapologetic hypermasculinity in Vancouver's "talk radio for guys".(MOJO Radio--Talk Radio for Guys)
September 1, 2006... On August 6, 2002, "MOJO Radio--Talk Radio for Guys" was launched in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The station's format was designed with the explicit aim of "delivering the male" audience to advertisers (Sparks, 1992), a strategy...

Public policies and research on cultural diversity and television in Mexico.
September 1, 2006... The issue of how to preserve and promote cultural diversity through the mass media has been central in policy debates and regulations both in Europe and in North America. In the beginning of the 21st century, with the huge importance and...

Cultural policy in a free-trade environment: Mexican television in transition.
September 1, 2006... Questions concerning what constitutes Mexican national culture, how it should be manifest, and the state's role in its protection and promotion changed considerably from the conclusion of the Mexican Revolution in 1920 through the 7-decade rule...

When good friends say goodbye: a parasocial breakup study.
September 1, 2006... Final episodes of long-running and greatly loved television series achieve famously high ratings (Battaglio, 2001). It was hardly surprising, then, that an estimated 51 million viewers tuned in to view the final episode of Friends, which aired...

Channel repertoires: using peoplemeter data in Beijing.(From the Other Side of the Globe)
September 1, 2006... Every year, television viewers around the world have more channels from which to choose. In the United States, for example, the average household receives more than 100 channels of programming--a threefold increase since 1990 (Nielsen Media...

Critical analysis of racist post-9/11 web animations.
September 1, 2006... Within a day of the September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda attacks in the United States, amateur animations, depicting the humiliation, torture, and death of Osama bin Laden, Taliban, and other Arab and Muslim characters began appearing on U.S.-based Web...

Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Kumar, S. (2006). Gandhi meets primetime: Globalization and nationalism in Indian television. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 240 pages. Kumar is not sure how satellite television is changing India but he is quite sure it is...

Sydney W. Head (1913-1991): Remembering the Founder of Modern Broadcasting Studies.(Biography)
September 1, 2006... More than any other single individual, Sydney W. Head created the modern academic field of electronic media teaching and research. Although many others wrote earlier textbooks or undertook important research, Head's (1956) Broadcasting in...

Rethinking Marshall McLuhan: reflections on a media theorist.(Biography)
September 1, 2006... One of the striking features of mass communication theory in the millennial decade has been the reemergence of Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). McLuhan's prominence is not what it was during the peak of his influence during the mid-1960s, but...