Recently added articles from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly:
AN EDITORIAL COMMENT
Dec 01, 2008; Riffe, Daniel ... This issue features three articles that explore important theoretical issues in public relations, and one that scans the theoretical landscape in advertising research. The first of these, "Provocations in Public Relations," brings together the "power relations" perspective examined for the last ...
PROVOCATIONS IN PUBLIC RELATIONS: A STUDY OF GENDERED IDEOLOGIES OF POWER-INFLUENCE IN PRACTICE
Dec 01, 2008; Aldoory, Linda; Reber, Bryan H; Berger, Bruce K; Toth, Elizabeth L ... Responses from 869 public relations practitioners were examined to see how female and male practitioners perceive and enact power-influence in public relations, including perceptions of power-influence, resources, preferred influence tactics, constraints on power, persuasive appeals, and what it ...
BREAKING DOWN THE STAKEHOLDER ENVIRONMENT: EXPLICATING APPROACHES TO THE SEGMENTATION OF PUBLICS FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS RESEARCH
Dec 01, 2008; Kim, Jeong-Nam; Ni, Lan; Sha, Bey-Ling ... This article reviews approaches to the segmentation of organizational stakeholders, recommending specifically that in the early (stakeholder) stage of strategic management, publics should be segmented using cross-situational approaches grounded in the notions of "consequences" and "resources." ...
ACTIVIST GROUP ATTRIBUTES AND THEIR INFLUENCES ON NEWS PORTRAYAL
Dec 01, 2008; McCluskey, Michael R ... Scholars have identified numerous influences on news coverage but paid little attention to the influence of attributes of news seekers on the tone of news coverage. This study combined surveys from thirty-seven environmental groups with 716 newspaper articles mentioning groups. Analysis showed ...
SEARCHING FOR OUR "OWN THEORY" IN ADVERTISING: AN UPDATE OF RESEARCH NETWORKS
Dec 01, 2008; Pasadeos, Yorgo; Phelps, Joseph; Edison, Aimee ... Extending previous research, this work examines the advertising literature published in 2002-05, identifies research streams among most-cited works, and presents a co-citation network. Beyond what the citation analysis suggests about advertising research today, comparing the findings to earlier ...
EXPLORING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF COMMUNITY PLURALISM AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE LEVEL OF TRANSPARENCY IN COMMUNITY DECISION MAKING
Dec 01, 2008; Armstrong, Cory L ... This study examines how a broader look at the concept of community pluralism might provide a more comprehensive perspective. A model employing dimensions of community power and leadership diversity was used to examine how decision making affects the level of transparency within communities ....
LETTERS AS INDICATORS OF COMMUNITY VALUES: TWO CASE STUDIES OF ALTERNATIVE MAGAZINES
Dec 01, 2008; Reader, Bill; Moist, Kevin ... This study examines how letters to the editor in alternative magazines can serve both as indicia of virtual community (a collective phenomenon) and as artifacts of how community members interact with those communities (an individual-level phenomenon). Analysis of letters published in two very ...
UNLIKELY WARRIORS: HOW FOUR U.S. NEWS SOURCES EXPLAINED FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS
Dec 01, 2008; Friedman, Barbara ... With their post-9/11 emphasis on international conflict, the U.S. news media have noted women's involvement with terrorism and tried to explain the motives of female suicide bombers. This qualitative study examined the motive explanations in broadcast and print news from 2002, when a woman ...
THE CONTINGENCY OF INTERMEDIA AGENDA SETTING: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY IN BELGIUM
Dec 01, 2008; Vliegenthart, Rens; Walgrave, Stefaan ... This large-scale study investigates how intermedia agenda-setting effects are moderated by five factors: (1) lag length; (2) medium type; (3) language/institutional barriers; (4) issue type; and (5) election or non-election context. Longitudinal analyses of daily attention to twenty-five issues ...
SCIENCE FOR EVERYBODY? HOW THE COVERAGE OF RESEARCH ISSUES IN GERMAN NEWSPAPERS HAS INCREASED DRAMATICALLY
Dec 01, 2008; Elmer, Christina; Badenschier, Franziska; Wormer, Holger ... Whereas in other countries experts diagnose a "crisis" of science reporting, Germany has seen an unprecedented boom in science journalism. But is this boom limited to science sections themselves, or does it spread also into other sections? And how does this increase in coverage influence the ...
VALUING NEW MEDIA SPACES: ARE CABLE NETWORK NEWS CRAWLS CROSS-PROMOTIONAL AGENTS?
Dec 01, 2008; Coffey, Amy Jo; Cleary, Johanna ... A comparative content analysis of CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC examined the extent to which the cable news networks utilize their news crawls or "tickers" for promotional purposes. Situated in economic, branding, and promotional theory, the study revealed that two out of three cable networks ...
BOOKNOTES
Dec 01, 2008; Pease, Edward C ... We conclude an eventful 2008 with an impressive complement of new and useful books that run the usual gamut of breadth and depth in surveying the landscape of our robust and fast-changing field. This issue cements a new annual feature - an omnibus essay reviewing the finalists of each ...
The 2008 Tankard Awards
Dec 01, 2008; Curtin, Patricia A ... We lead this issue of JMCQ Books with the winner and other two finalists for the 2008 James W. Tankard Book Award, reviewed by Patricia Curtin, former JMCQ book review editor, whose membership on the 2008 Tankard selection committee provides additional insight. Daric Days in the ...
Asper Nation: Canada's Most Dangerous Media Company
Dec 01, 2008; Bell, Katherine ... * Asper Nation: Canada's Most Dangerous Media Company. Mark Edge. Vancouver, BC: New Star Books, 2007. 326 pp. $21 pbk. Marc Edge has written a comprehensive synthesis of the rise of the Asper family as a dominant player in Canada's highly concentrated media market. Working from news ...
Campaign Advertising and American Democracy
Dec 01, 2008; Farwell, Tricia M ... * Campaign Advertising and American Democracy. Michael M. Franz, Paul B. Freedman, Kenneth M. Goldstein, and Travis N. Ridout. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. 197 pp. $25.95 pbk. For many people, the mention of political advertising brings to mind attack ads such as the ...
The Circle of Guilt
Dec 01, 2008; Jackson, Sarah Janel ... * The Circle of Guilt. Fredric Wertham. Introduction by William Bush. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. 203 pp. $25 pbk. "Many delinquents are not 'bad'; they are poisoned. If we follow all the clues the circle of guilt enlarges in every case." So states famed ...
Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs
Dec 01, 2008; Edwards, Dale ... * Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs. John B. Romeiser, ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 248 pp. $26.95 hbk. Even serious students of the World War II press may be unfamiliar with the work of Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead, although ...
A Complicated, Antagonistic, Symbiotic Affair: Journalism, Public Relations and Their Struggle for Public Attention
Dec 01, 2008; Smith, Brian G ... * A Complicated, Antagonistic, Symbiotic Affair: Journalism, Public Relations and Their Struggle for Public Attention. Bernd Merkel, Stephan Russ-Mohl, and Giananni Zavaritt, eds. Lugano, Switzerland: Università della Svizzera Italiana, 2007. 210 pp. euro22. The relationship between ...
Culture Conglomerates: Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries
Dec 01, 2008; Sterling, Christopher H ... * Culture Conglomerates: Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries. William M. Kunz. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield "Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture" Series, 2007. 262 pp. $75 hbk. $26.95 pbk. This book offers a new analysis of the ...
The Evolution of Media
Dec 01, 2008; Moore, Jennifer E ... The Evolution of Media. A. Michael Noll. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. 203 pp. $87 hbk. $30.95 pbk. The Evolution of Media concerns the development of communication media technologies and offers a way to forecast the success of future media. Written by ...
