Mass Communication Research and the Invisible College Revisited: The Changing Landscape and Emerging Fronts in Journalism-Related Studies

The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to chart the changing landscape of mass communication research in journalism-related studies over the past two decades and, second, to determine the contemporary form and content of the invisible college in the field through its intellectual configuration and structural interaction. A simple citation count is inadequate; the analysis of co-citation networks should be a better indication of the field's effort to build on its theoretical foundation. The findings suggest that there is some sort of theoretical and methodological convergence in contemporary journalism-related studies.

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MEMAHAMI KOMUNIKASI MELALUI PENELITIAN

LISAN AL-HAL: Jurnal Pengembangan Pemikiran dan Kebudayaan ◽

10.35316/lisanalhal.v12i2.155 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 285-306

Author(s):

Wisri Wisri ◽

Abd. Mughni

Keyword(s):

Interpersonal Communication ◽

Mass Communication ◽

Group Communication ◽

Human Life ◽

Cultural Communication ◽

Communication Research ◽

Human Relations ◽

The Past ◽

Historical Methods ◽

New Tradition

Communication is central in human life. All activities in human life require communication. The scientific study of the symptoms or reality of communication covers a very broad field, covering all forms of human relations and using symbols. more concretely this includes fields such as Interpersonal Communication, Group Communication, Organizational/Intellectual Communication, Mass Communication and Cultural Communication as seen in various forms of symbolic expression. Noting the seven traditions of communication research as such, communication research seems to be facing an important issue for its development in the present and future, which is pleased with how to try to take steps to get out of the confines of tradition and / or bring together existing traditions. This effort might be in the form of combining one tradition with another existing tradition (trying to synthesize existing traditions) while pioneering an entirely new tradition, for example with a more extensive implementation of historical methods to discover how communication patterns exists in a society in the past and attempts to understand what is now by looking at the past.

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Mediation Analysis and Warranted Inferences in Media and Communication Research: Examining Research Design in Communication Journals From 1996 to 2017

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1077699020961519 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 107769902096151

Author(s):

Michael Chan ◽

Panfeng Hu ◽

Macau K. F. Mak

Keyword(s):

Research Design ◽

Mediation Analysis ◽

Mass Communication ◽

Communication Research ◽

Human Communication ◽

Causal Inferences ◽

The Past ◽

Human Communication Research ◽

Media And Communication

The number of studies employing mediation analysis has increased exponentially in the past two decades. Focusing on research design, this study examines 387 articles in the Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, and Media Psychology between 1996 and 2017. Findings show that while most studies report statistically significant indirect effects, they are inadequate to make causal inferences. Authors also often infer that they uncovered the “true” mediator(s) while alternative models and mediators are rarely acknowledged. Future studies should pay more attention to the role of research design and its implications for making causal inferences.

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A Content Analysis of Women's Published Mass Communication Research, 1965–1989

Journalism Quarterly ◽

10.1177/107769909307000407 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 815-823 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Michel Dupagne ◽

W. James Potter ◽

Roger Cooper

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Mass Communication ◽

Mass Communications ◽

Communication Research ◽

Research Topics ◽

The Past ◽

Research Questions ◽

Media Research ◽

Published Research

The purpose of this study is to investigate women's scholarship in mass communications from 1965 to 1989. A content analysis was conducted to examine the percentage of mass media research published by female scholars in eight leading communication journals. Additional research questions involve sex differences in research topics and methods in the published literature. The examination of 1, 391 articles reveals that the amount of published research attributable to females has grown dramatically over the past two decades. The findings also suggest few major differences between female and male scholars in research methods of published articles.

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Review of New models for mass communication research.

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/0013359 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 431-432

Author(s):

ANTHONY G. GREENWALD

Keyword(s):

Mass Communication ◽

Communication Research ◽

New Models

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South African Journalism and Mass Communication Research on Youth and News Media: A Reflection

Ecquid Novi African Journalism Studies ◽

10.3368/ajs.29.1.64 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 64-78

Author(s):

M. Ndlovu

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

News Media ◽

Mass Communication ◽

Communication Research ◽

African Journalism

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Evoking Issues of Race and Ethnicity in Research on Physiology and Interpersonal Communication

The Oxford Handbook of the Physiology of Interpersonal Communication ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190679446.013.15 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 260-287

Author(s):

Shardé M. Davis

Keyword(s):

Interpersonal Communication ◽

Race And Ethnicity ◽

Communication Research ◽

Interpersonal Interactions ◽

The Past ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Diverse Groups ◽

Future Work ◽

Area Of Study

Investigating the role of physiology in communication research is a burgeoning area of study that has gained considerable attention by relational scholars in the past decade. Unfortunately, very few published studies on this topic have evoked important questions about the role of race and ethnicity. Exploring issues of ethnicity and race provides a more holistic and inclusive view of interpersonal communication across diverse groups and communities. This chapter addresses the gap in literature by considering the ways in which race and ethnicity matter in work on physiology and interpersonal interactions. More specifically, this chapter will first discuss the conceptual underpinnings of race, ethnicity, and other relevant concepts and then review extant research within and beyond the field of communication on race, ethnicity, interpersonal interactions, and physiology. These discussions set the foundation for this chapter to propose new lines of research that pointedly connect these four concepts and advance key principles that scholars should consider in future work.

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Global publication trends and hotspots of molecular biomarkers in DILI from 1991 to 2020: A 30-year bibliometric analysis

Science Progress ◽

10.1177/00368504211000535 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 104 (1) ◽

pp. 003685042110005

Author(s):

Mingnan Cao ◽

Li Wang ◽

Lin Zhang ◽

Jingli Duan

Keyword(s):

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Citation Networks ◽

Publication Trends ◽

Drug Induced ◽

Topic Area ◽

The Past ◽

Black Box Warnings ◽

The Usa ◽

Post Marketing

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the common adverse drug reactions and the leading cause of drug development attritions, black box warnings, and post-marketing withdrawals. Current biomarkers are suboptimal in detecting DILI and predicting its outcome. This study aimed to quantitatively and qualitatively investigate the research trends on DILI biomarkers using bibliometric analysis. All relevant publications were extracted from the Web of Science database. An online analysis platform of literature metrology, bibliographic item co-occurrence matrix builder, and CiteSpace software were used to analyze the publication trends. CitNetExplorer was used to construct direct citation networks and VOSviewer was used to analyze the keywords and research hotspots. We found a total of 485 publications related to DILI biomarkers published from 1991 to 2020. Toxicological Sciences had been the most popular journal in this field over the past 30 years. The USA maintained a top position worldwide and provided a pivotal influence, followed by China. Among all the institutions, the University of Liverpool was regarded as a leader for research collaboration. Moreover, Professors Paul B. Watkins and Tsuyoshi Yokoi made great achievements in topic area. We analyzed the citation networks and keywords, therefore identified five and six research hotspot clusters, respectively. We considered the publication information regarding different countries/regions, organizations, authors, journals, et al. by summarizing the literature on DILI biomarkers over the past 30 years. Notably, the subject of DILI biomarkers is an active area of research. In addition, the investigation and discovery of novel promising biomarkers such as microRNAs, keratin18, and bile acids will be future developing hotspots.

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An Exploratory Social Network Analysis of the “Invisible College” of Experimental Criminology and Criminal Justice Scholarship in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2011–2020

Journal of Criminal Justice Education ◽

10.1080/10511253.2021.1901949 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Danielle M. Fenimore ◽

Wesley Jennings ◽

Clay Taylor

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Social Network Analysis ◽

Criminal Justice ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Invisible College ◽

Experimental Criminology ◽

Criminology And Criminal Justice ◽

The Invisible

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The visit of Comenius to London in 1641-1642 and its bearing on the origins of the Royal Society

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1940.0022 ◽

1940 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 159-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Royal Society ◽

Scientific Method ◽

Scientific Research ◽

Great Society ◽

Invisible College ◽

Oxford University ◽

Important Stage ◽

Universal Language ◽

John Wilkins ◽

The Invisible

Miss Dorothy Stimson, Dean of Groucher College, U.S.A., in an article in Isis for 1 September 1935, tried to traverse the view stated in the Introduction to my Comenius in England (Oxford University Press (1932)), pp. 6-7, that the visit of Comenius (Komensky) to London in 1641-1642 marked an important stage in the development in England of the idea of a great society for scientific research which resulted in the organization of the informal ‘Invisible College’ by Theodore Haak and others in 1645, and prepared the way for the foundation of the Royal Society in 1662. She was however unable to explain away the fact that Theodore Haak, who was one of the most active supporters of Komensky’s plan for a Scientific College in 1641, was in 1645 the virtual founder of the informal ‘Invisible College,’ the precursor of the Royal Society. Miss Stimson stresses the contrast between the universal speculative plan of Comenius as outlined in his Via Lucis (1642), and the empirical and specialized activities of the Invisible College. Miss Stimson however has completely overlooked the fact that John Wilkins (1614-1672), Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, whom she rightly regards as one of the most active members of the Invisible College, held views very similar to those of Comenius on scientific method and on the desirability of a universal language.

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