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

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 815-823 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals MEMAHAMI KOMUNIKASI MELALUI PENELITIAN

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.

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

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.

Media and Violence. Closing one Door: Opening Another

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Field
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Door Opening ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
Theoretical Developments

SummaryThis article sets the debate about the effects of media violence in the context of broader media research. A direct and simple ‘cause and effect’ model between media violence and violence in society does not stand up to scrutiny. It relies on an obsolete model of media influence which stands outside current, theoretical developments in mass communication research. It has diverted attention away from more relevant accounts which see the media as having ‘a primary function’ of ‘legitimation and maintenance of authority’. These suggest a no less powerful but infinitely more subtle model of media influence which finds wide support in other areas of mass communication research. Ironically, since popular debate about media violence has been – and still is – based almost exclusively upon experimental research, it too seems to serve this same legitimation process.

scholarly journals Oral History of Charles R. Wright (1927-2017)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
History Of ◽  
School Faculty ◽  
Annenberg School

A distinguished sociologist of mass communication, Charles (Charlie) Wright was noted for his functionalist analysis of media as codified in the 1959 book Mass Communication. Wright joined the Annenberg School faculty in 1969. Over the span of 45 years, and well after his formal retirement in 1996, Wright taught generations of Annenberg students--notably his signature graduate course, Sociology of Mass Communications. That course--and indeed Wright’s career-long project to instill a sociological sensibility into communication research--had its roots in his mid–1950s teaching as a Columbia University graduate student and instructor.

Bridging Media Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Weber ◽  
Allison Eden ◽  
Richard Huskey ◽  
J. Michael Mangus ◽  
Emily Falk
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Intergroup Processes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Environmental Determinism ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract. Media neuroscience has emerged as a new area of study at the intersection of media psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In previous work, we have addressed this trend from a methodological perspective. In this paper, we outline the progression of scholarship in systematic investigations of mass communication phenomena over the past century, from behaviorism and environmental determinism to biological and evolutionary paradigms. These new paradigms are grounded in an emergentist perspective on the nature of psychological processes. We discuss what it means to ask valid research questions in media neuroscience studies and provide recent examples in the areas of interpersonal and intergroup processes, morality, and narratives as well as in persuasion and health communication. We conclude with a selection of innovative methodological avenues that have the potential to accelerate the integration of cognitive neuroscience into media psychology research.

scholarly journals Have the Most Relevant and Answerable Research Questions Facing Librarians Changed Between 2001 and 2006?

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Lewis ◽  
Lisa Cotter
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Professional Issues ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Information Practice ◽  
Published Research

Objectives - To examine the similarities and differences between research questions asked by librarians in 2001 to those posed in 2006, and to explore to what extent the published research supports the questions being asked. Methods - Questions collected in 2001 by members of the Evidence-Based Librarianship Implementation Committee (EBLIC) of the MLA Research Section were compared with questions collected in 2006 at a cross-sectoral seminar introducing evidence based library and information practice to Australian librarians. Questions from each list were categorized using the domains of librarianship proposed by Crumley and Koufogiannakis in 2001, and examined with reference to a content analysis of the library and information studies (LIS) research published in 2001 by Koufogiannakis, Slater, and Crumley in 2004. Results - In 2001 and 2006 the most commonly asked questions were in the domain of management (29%, 33%), followed by education (24%, 18.5%). In 2001 questions in the marketing/promotion category ranked lowest (1%), however representation was much greater in 2006 (18.5%) ranking an equal second with education. Questions in the lowest ranked domain in 2006 (collections, 6%) had been more common in 2001 where collections ranked third, representing 19% of the questions. Koufogiannakis, Slater, and Crumley’s content analysis of LIS research published in 2001 revealed that the most popular domain for research was information access and retrieval (38%) followed by collections (24%). Only 1% of published LIS research (seven articles) was in the domain of marketing/promotion. In contrast, 36 articles originally assigned to one of the six established domains could more appropriately have been included in a proposed new domain of professional issues. Conclusion - The disparity between questions being asked by practitioners and the evidence being generated by researchers suggests that the research-practice gap is still an issue. A content analysis of more recently published LIS research would be a useful comparison to Koufogiannakis, Slater, and Crumley’s analysis of research published in 2001.

scholarly journals Exploring the language of death with dignity: a comparative and critical content analysis of Canadian news editorials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rya Kobewka
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Death With Dignity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Content ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Pro Life

My major research paper (MRP) focuses on the language and arguments used in the debate surrounding medically assisted dying. This paper was interested specifically in how arguments are framed, and if arguments have changed regarding medically assisted dying in the past twenty years. My central research questions are: what are the arguments on both sides of the debate used in news editorials? And if the arguments changed – how did they change? To answer these questions I compared two case studies: (1) Sue Rodriguez and (2) Gloria Taylor. To compare the two cases I analyzed the editorial pages and online comments of major Canadian newspapers. I used key words in context (KWIC) to identify frames and arguments used. Six frames emerged: medically assisted dying legal (ML), medically assisted dying medical (MM), medically assisted dying moral (MMM), pro-life legal (PLL), pro-life medical (PLM), and pro-life moral (PLM). The frames in support of medically assisted dying were used more than double the amount that pro-life frames were used; they were also used more frequently in 2012 than they had been in 1994. Further, there fewer overall KWICs used in 2012, but they were used correctly more often than in 1994. These findings suggest that the act of medically assisted dying is better understood and defined, and that it seems to have more support now than it did twenty years ago.

Identifying research topics in marketing science along the past decade: a content analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Barahona ◽  
Daría Micaela Hernández ◽  
Héctor Hugo Pérez-Villarreal ◽  
María del Pilar Martínez-Ruíz
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
The Past

A state of flux: Histories of social media research

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stine Lomborg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Moving Target ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Media And Communication

This article sets out to map the broad contours of social media research, teasing out in particular the ways in which the scholarly literature in the fields of media and communication research has addressed social media as a phenomenon since the emergence of the term ‘social media’ in the early 2000s. As a communicative phenomenon and research object, social media would appear to be in flux. Changes to existing services, the emergence of new services, and the disappearance of previously popular services testify to the sense of social media as a moving target. Researchers of social media seem to accept change, rather than continuity, as a condition for the study of social media. This is evident in our choice of research topics and data sources, but also in our discourses on social media. By examining the sense of flux of social media research in a historical perspective, this article aims to provide useful directions for future media and communication research on social media. Specifically, it suggests ways to stabilise social media as an object of study and to install a greater historical awareness in social media research.

A Content Analysis of Content Analyses: Twenty-Five Years of Journalism Quarterly

1997 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Riffe ◽  
Alan Freitag
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Intercoder Reliability ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Media Data

Examination of the increasing number of articles employing quantitative content analysis in 1971–95 Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly showed primary focus on news/editorial content in U.S. media. Nearly half examined newspapers, and half were coauthored. Most used convenience or purposive samples. Few involved a second research method or extra-media data, explicit theoretical grounding, or research questions or hypotheses. Half reported intercoder reliability, and two-fifths used only descriptive statistics. Analysis of trends shows growth in coauthorship and reporting of reliability, and increasing emphasis on more sophisticated statistical analysis. No parallel trend exists, however, in use of explicit hypotheses/research questions or theoretical grounding.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document