گردآورنده : گرد آورنده: محمد قاسمي

تاريخ انتشار : 13 / 12 / 1386

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فهرست مقالات مرتبط با ارتباطات

1-An Evaluation of the Press and Communication Reforms of the Prodi Commission of 1999—2004
With Particular Reference to UK Europhile and Eurosceptic Journalists' Perceptions of their Impact
Peter J. Anderson
Department of Journalism, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK, pjanderson1@uclan.ac.uk
John Price
Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, SR6 0DD, UK, johnprice@sunderland.ac.uk
European Journal of Communication
March 2008, Volume 23, No. 1
http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/29

A B S T R A C T The Commission's press and communication service plays a central role in the EU's dealings with news organizations. However, following the fall of the Santer Commission, even the service's own press officials admitted the organization was failing and constantly on the defensive against an increasingly hostile media. It was in this context that Santer's successor, former Commission president Romano Prodi, pledged radical reform, making the goal of a `modern and professional' press service a priority. The Prodi Commission concluded that it needed a much more positive and proactive way of working. At a time when the Barroso Commission is proposing its own programme of change in communication policy, this article assesses the inheritance that the Prodi reforms left behind, with particular reference to their impact as seen by journalists from one of the member states in which traditionally it has been most difficult to communicate a positive image of the EU.
Key Words: communication • European Commission • press • Prodi • reform

2-Turkey and the European Union
An Analysis of How the Press in Four Countries Covered Turkey's Bid for Accession in 2004
Ralph Negrine
Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, 18-22 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 3NJ, UK, r.negrine@sheffield.ac.uk
Beybin Kejanlioglu
Faculty of Communication, Ankara University, Cebeci 06590, Ankara, Turkey, kejanli@media.ankara.edu.tr
Rabah Aissaoui
School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK, rabah.aissaoui@le.ac.uk
Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University, 5 Stadiou Street, GR 10562, Athens, Greece, spapath@media.uoa.gr
European Journal of Communication
March 2008, Volume 23, No. 1
http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/47
A B S T R A C T This article examines how the press in four countries — three EU members (France, Britain, Greece) and Turkey — covered the run-up to the discussions surrounding Turkey's bid to become a member of the European Union in October and December 2004. Given contemporary debates about the nature of Europe and European identity, the prospect of Turkey — a large, poor, Muslim country — joining the EU was likely to generate much discussion. The data show important differences in the coverage from one country to the next, with some countries reflecting significant concerns about differences between Europe and Turkey and others much less so. Overall, many of the differences in coverage that were found in the analysis could be attributed to the ways in which the press in different countries reflected domestic political, cultural and historical considerations. Such differences, it is argued, may not be surprising given the complexity of the subject matter and need not necessarily be seen as antithetical to the construction of a European public sphere or a European identity.
Key Words: British coverage of EU • French press and Turkey • Greek coverage of Turkey • Turkey and EU • Turkish coverage of EU bid

فهرست مقالات مرتبط با مطبوعات وروزنامه نگاري

1-Reporting Dissent in Wartime
British Press, the Anti-War Movement and the 2003 Iraq War
Craig Murray
School of Arts at Brunel University, London, craig@murray.nu
Katy Parry
School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT, UK, katy.parry@liv.ac.uk
Piers Robinson
Department of Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Dover Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, piers.robinson@manchester.ac.uk
Peter Goddard
School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT, UK, p.goddard@liverpool.ac.uk
European Journal of Communication
March 2008, Volume 23, No. 1
http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/7
A B S T R A C T The 2003 Iraq War was highly controversial in the UK, generating domestic opposition and a widely supported anti-war movement, the Stop the War Coalition. This article assesses the extent to which anti-war protesters were successful at securing positive coverage in the British press immediately before and during the invasion of Iraq. The study shows that, although anti-war protesters received more favourable than unfavourable coverage prior to the war, once the war got under way, a `support our boys' consensus led to the narrowing of what Daniel Hallin has termed the `sphere of legitimate controversy' with the anti-war movement relegated to a `sphere of deviance'. The article also demonstrates that elite-led protest was more successful at influencing newspaper debate than grassroots protest. Overall, the results highlight the problems protest movements have in securing positive media representation during war.
Key Words: 2003 Iraq War • media • press • protest • war

2-The Abu Ghraib torture photographs
News frames, visual culture, and the power of images
Kari Andén-Papadopoulos
Stockholm University, Sweden, anden@jmk.su.se
Journalism
February 2008, Volume 9, No. 1
http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/1/5

Drawing on a close analysis of how the Abu Ghraib photographs originally were perceived and framed in the American news media, public debate, and in various cultural contexts, this article addresses the question of how iconic news media images exercise power in the shaping of news, politics, and public opinion. It specifically takes issue with the tendency among prominent communication scholars to assume that visuals mainly function to support dominant news frames and elite political discourse with little or no potential for independent influence on audiences. The key conclusion of the article is that the Abu Ghraib photographs were not in any simple way `spoken for' or tamed by the dominant news frames, but quite the opposite. The photographs have themselves come to function as a critical prism through which elite and popular views on US foreign policy are refracted, in the sense that the heretofore banned sight of American troops in the role of sadistic torturers has become an integral part of our understanding of the Bush administration's `war on terror'. The impact of these photographs is not least suggested by their proliferation in the wider culture, where they, through various creative and counter-framing practices, often have been transformed into sites of protest and opposition to the very deeds they represent.
Key Words: Iraq war • news frames • photojournalism • war photography • public memory
3-Fighting for the story's life
Non-closure in journalistic narrative
Keren Tenenboim Weinblatt
University of Pennsylvania, USA, ktenenboim@asc.upenn.edu
Journalism
February 2008, Volume 9, No. 1
http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/1/31

This article develops the concept of non-closure in sustained news stories, based on the case study of Ron Arad, an Israeli soldier who was taken captive in 1986 and whose story still continues to produce headlines in the Israeli press. Coverage of the Arad case was examined in the three major Israeli daily newspapers for a period of 17 years, and the textual mechanisms through which the story has been kept alive were identified. The article offers an analysis of three central non-closure strategies: maintaining suspense, thickening the plot, and keeping the protagonist alive. It is suggested that these strategies enhance readers' involvement with the journalistic texts and function as a bridge between the ritual and information transmission functions of news. Non-closure is thus conceptualized as a force that operates alongside the well-studied forces of closure and renders individual news pieces as episodes in a serial narrative rather than self-contained narrative units.
Key Words: Israeli press • myth • narrative • news • non-closure • ritual • Ron Arad
4-The contribution of online news consumption to critical-reflective journalism professionals
Likelihood patterns among Greek journalism students
Paschalia-Lia Spyridou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, spyridou@jour. auth.gr
Andreas Veglis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, veglis@jour.auth.gr
Journalism
February 2008, Volume 9, No. 1
http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/1/52

Evidence suggests that the internet is the medium with the most success in attracting young people to news, while traditional media have been facing increasing trouble since the 1980s. The emergence of cynical and sceptical attitudes about politics and the media has resulted in most young people becoming `news grazers' instead of regular news consumers. Journalism students, however, should be exposed to political information not only as part of their civic obligation, but also in order to be fully equipped to make essential contributions as future analysts and brokers of news. By proposing a conceptual approach on how online news consumption contributes to critical reflective journalism, and drawing upon informed citizenry theory, the knowledge gap hypothesis, the diffusion of innovations model and the uses and gratification perspective, this article attempts to investigate the determinants and consumption patterns of online news by journalists-to-be in Greece. It is argued that conventional predictors such as possession of substantial cultural capital and longer surfing hours have supremacy over the perceived utility of self-education, job experience and simulation.
Key Words: cultural capital • journalism education • media consumption • political culture • predictors of news usage
5-Attending the news
A grounded theory about a daily regimen
Vivian B. Martin
Central Connecticut State University, USA, martinv@ccsu.edu
Journalism
February 2008, Volume 9, No. 1
http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/1/76

This article proposes a theory about how people negotiate news as a daily regimen. The theory of purposive attending proposes a feedback loop in which awareness increases relevance, which can increase attending, which can then reset awareness. This article focuses on two aspects of the broader theory: the ambivalence surrounding everyday news-attending and the role cultural identities such as gender and race might play in heightening that ambivalence. The work, influenced by Carey's call to treat news-attending in a ritual context, demonstrates how news-as-ritual and news-as-information-acquisition exist in daily tension. The work was developed using classic grounded theory methodology, which outlines protocols for building theory from data, which included interviews, participant observation with a book discussion group, and qualitative document analysis of news discussions in selected internet communities, letters to the editor, news articles, and industry reports.
Key Words: gender and news media • news reception • qualitative audience studies • race and media • ritual view of communication • symbolic boundaries
6-The Limits of Presidential Agenda Setting: Predicting Newspaper Coverage of the Weekly Radio Address
Beverly Horvit
University, TCU Box 298060, Fort Worth, TX 76129, b.horvit@tcu.edu
Adam J. Schiffer
Department of Political Science at Texas Christian University, a.schiffer@tcu.edu
Mark Wright
Schieffer School of Journalism at Texas Christian University, MARK.WRIGHT@tcu.edu
The International Journal of Press/Politics
January 2008, Volume 13, No. 1
http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/8

Beginning with Ronald Reagan in 1982, U.S. presidents have typically given a radio address every Saturday morning designed primarily to make news in the Sunday newspapers and on the Sunday news programs. A content analysis of the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1982 to 2005 shows that coverage of the presidents' addresses has diminished over time both in terms of the percentage of radio addresses covered and the number of paragraphs directly citing the president. Positive predictors of coverage include presidential approval ratings and a foreign-policy topic. Negative influences on coverage include the number of addresses given by all presidents since Reagan, indicating a decreasing lack of novelty, and whether the speech occurred in an election year.
Key Words: president • agenda setting • radio address • foreign policy • content analysis • newspaper
7-News Frames Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis of Frames Employed in Terrorism Coverage in U.S. and U.K. Newspapers
Zizi Papacharissi
334 Annenberg Hall,Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, zpapacha@temple.edu
Maria de Fatima Oliveira
334 Annenberg Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
The International Journal of Press/Politics
January 2008, Volume 13, No. 1
http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/52

Scholars have been increasingly concerned with portrayals of terrorism in mainstream and alternative media outlets following the September 11 and subsequent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom and Spain. Communication researchers have examined public response and reaction to terrorist attacks, definitions of terrorism, policy questions, media portrayals of terrorism, and framing across different media and nations. This study undertakes a comparative framing analysis of media coverage of terrorism, as reported by prominent U.S. and U.K. newspapers, combining quantitative and qualitative methods. Findings revealed that the U.S. papers engaged in more episodic coverage and the U.K. papers in more thematic coverage of terrorism and terrorism-related events. The U.S. papers were consumed with presenting news associated with the military approach, whereas the U.K. papers were oriented toward diplomatic evaluations of terrorist events.
Key Words: terrorism • news • framing • U.S. newspapers • U.K. newspapers
8-Newspaper design as cultural change
James de Vries
de Luxe & Associates, 7 Ivy Lane, Darlington NSW 2008, Australia
Visual Communication
February 2008, Volume 7, No. 1
http://vcj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/5

This article describes the (re-)design of newspapers and magazines as a process of cultural change which goes beyond designing a publication's layout, typography and use of colour, and includes designing the processes and structures of its production.
Key Words: culture change • news design • typographic design

فهرست مقالات مرتبط با راديو و تلويزيون

1-Television's Power Relations in the Transition to Digital: The Case of the United Kingdom
Brett Christophers
Television & New Media
January 23, 2008

http://tvn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1527476407313822v1?&location1=jnltitle&location2=all&row_operator2=and&term1a=discourse+%26+communication&term_operator1=and&term_operator2=and&ct

This article examines the contemporary configuration of power relations in the U.K. television sector, probing, in the process, the enduring accuracy of longstanding economic arguments concerning distributor dominance in the "cultural industries" more broadly. Such arguments are important because we cannot understand the power of the media unless we understand the circulation of power within the media. The article shows that while recent developments in respect to both producer–distributor and producer–advertiser relationships have begun to enhance the leverage enjoyed by the production community, the steady inflation of the mass-market premium enjoyed by the leading distributors (the terrestrial broadcasters) in the advertising market has largely sustained their power, in relation to smaller (multichannel) distributors, to producer suppliers, and—of course— to the consuming public.

2-Televisions' New Engines

Michael Keane* and Albert Moran

Television & New Media
January 16, 2008

http://tvn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1527476407313815v1?&location1=jnltitle&location2=all&row_operator2=and&term1a=discourse+%26+communication&term_operator1=and&term_operator2=and&ct

Internationalization is a key to the success of television formats. To understand format trade it is necessary to draw out distinctions between formats and genre. Engines— innovations in programming engineered by format devisors—allow formats to regenerate and hybridize across genres. The core principle of formats, however, is the practice of franchising. Causal relations can be established between formats, engines, and the tradability of television culture. The article shows how formats have impacted platforms, markets, labor, audiences, and distribution of TV content.

3-Making the Most out of 15 Minutes: Reality TV's Dispensible Celebrity
Sue Collins

Television & New Media
January 16, 2008

http://tvn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1527476407313814v1?&location1=jnltitle&location2=all&row_operator2=and&term1a=discourse+%26+communication&term_operator1=and&term_operator2=and&ct
Reality TV invites new considerations for theorizing celebrity as a cultural commodity whose economic value is based on potential exchange. In this article, I argue that reality TV’s construction of a new stratum of celebrity value—ordinary people performing "the real"—supports claims that the industry is moving toward a "flexible" model of economic organization. The production of reality TV expands the labor stock to include nonunionized, nonpaid or low-paid contestants playing themselves, while also displacing unionized actors from production opportunities. Moreover, reality TV’s D-level celebrity generates novelty out of audience self-reflexivity with minimal risk and temporal flexibility. Celebrity value, as a mechanism to gather audiences, undergoes a new form of dispensable synergy that shelters the larger system of celebrity valorization from the dual problems of scarcity and clutter.


4-Publishing Flow
DVD Box Sets and the Reconception of Television
Derek Kompare
Southern Methodist University
Television & New Media
November 1 2006, Volume 7, No. 4

http://tvn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/4/335

Commercial television has functioned as a flow medium for more than fifty years, premised on the sale of time (and ostensible viewers) to advertisers. By contrast, the film industry has operated as a publisher, selling or renting its individual media products to theaters. During the home video era, while the film industry shifted its focus to the VCR, television remained reliant on advertising and has held only a marginal presence in the video software market. However, increasing corporate synergy and the swift rise of DVD technology have prompted the practice of publication as an alternative means of television distribution and reception. This article explores why television did not succeed on VHS but has been transformed by DVD. The DVD box set in particular, as introduced with Fox’s first set of The X-Files in 2000, has reconceived television series as collectible objects, fostering a new commodity relationship between television and its viewers.
Key Words: television • video • media • DVD • VCR • film
5-Media ritual in catastrophic time
The populist turn in television coverage of Hurricane Katrina
Frank Durham
University of Iowa, USA, frank-durham@uiowa.edu
Journalism
February 2008, Volume 9, No. 1

http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/1/95

Television news coverage of Hurricane Katrina's impact on Mississippi and New Orleans presented viewers with broadcast journalists who were on the scene but were largely left without access to traditional government sources. Through a textual analysis of transcripts of cable and network news reports, this study compares the media's performance during the six days following 29 August, 2005 to news coverage following 11 September, 2001. In this way, it interprets how and why the 11 September attacks produced a `sphere of consensus' unifying the media and the state, while Katrina produced the opposite dynamic. Central to this analysis is the normative concept of `media ritual', especially where the media's ritual consensus with government was `de-centered' by the federal government's de facto absence from the storm scene for that crucial week.
Key Words: de-centered power • populism • production routines • professional norms/professionalism • ritual space • sphere of consensus • tabloidism
6--Where in the World Is Africa?
Predicting Coverage of Africa by US Television Networks
Guy J. Golan
PO Box 800018, Aventura, FL 33280, USA, golanresearch@ yahoo.com
International Communication Gazette
February 2008, Volume 70, No. 1
http://gaz.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/70/1/41
The current study investigates coverage of African nations by four US television news-casts. It focuses on the news period between 2002 and 2004 and reveals that despite presence of wide-scale famine, civil conflict, disputed elections and an AIDS epidemic, the African continent received limited coverage. Based on research on the determinants of international news coverage, the study investigates how deviance, relevance, cultural affinity and location in the world system may be used to predict coverage. Results identify trade with the US and gross domestic product as the two key predictors of coverage of African nations. In the discussion, the study's results are incorporated into the larger theoretical application of world system theory into research on the determinants of international news coverage.
Key Words: Africa • coverage • determinants • international • news • news flow • television
7-Television News in India
Mediating Democracy and Difference
Simon Cottle
Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB, Wales, UK, cottles@cardiff.ac.uk
Mugdha Rai
Media and Communications Program, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia, m.rai@unimelb.edu.au
International Communication Gazette
February 2008, Volume 70, No. 1
http://gaz.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/70/1/76

The `communicative architecture' routinely organizing and delivering television news in India, as with television news internationally, exhibits far more complexity than conventional discourse and framing approaches to news study have thus far acknowledged or explored. The article argues that these communicative structures have direct bearing on debates about `democracy' in India's diverse and fractious polity. Drawing on wider positions of contemporary social and political theory, it is demonstrated how the `communicative frames' deployed by Indian broadcasters are consequential for the public deliberation and display of conflicts and cultures and we systematically compare these with the communicative frames deployed by television news in five other countries. The article identifies, maps and pursues into the production domain the repertoire of `communicative frames' characterizing Indian television news today and reveals important differences between the public broadcaster Doordarshan and the private network NDTV 24 x 7 as well as between Indian television news and television news internationally. On this basis, the study considers how the structures of television news communicatively and differentially embed `democracy'.
Key Words: communicative architecture • deliberative democracy • display • India • television news

فهرست مقالات مرتبط با مطالعات اجتماعي

1-Is copyright blind to the visual?
Fiona Macmillan
School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, f.macmillan@bbk.ac.uk
Visual Communication
February 2008, Volume 7, No. 1
http://vcj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/97
This article argues that, with respect to the copyright protection of works of visual art, the general uneasiness that has always pervaded the relationship between copyright law and concepts of creativity produces three anomalous results. One of these is that copyright lacks much in the way of a central concept of `visual art' and, to the extent that it embraces any concept of the `visual', it is rooted in the rhetorical discourse of the Renaissance. This means that copyright is poorly equipped to deal with modern developments in the visual arts. Secondly, the pervasive effect of rhetorical discourse appears to have made it particularly difficult for copyright law to strike a meaningful balance between protecting creativity and permitting its use in further creative works. Thirdly, just when rhetorical discourse might have been useful in identifying the significance and materiality of the unique one-off work of visual art, copyright law chooses to ignore its implications.
Key Words: copyright • creativity • film • law • rhetorical discourse • semiotic discourse • visual arts
2-Emerging Participatory Culture Practices
Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games

Christy Dena
University of Sydney, Australia, cdena@cross-mediaentertainment.com
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
February 2008, Volume 14, No. 1
http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/41

This article introduces an emerging form of participatory culture, one that is not a modification or elaboration of a primary producer's content. Instead, this article details how the artifacts created to `play' a primary producer's content have become the primary work for massive global audiences. This phenomenon is observed in the genre of alternate reality games (ARGs) and is illustrated through a theory of `tiering'. Tiers provide separate content to different audiences. ARG designers tier their projects, targeting different players with different content. ARG player-production then creates another tier for non-playing audiences. To explicate this point, the features that provoke player-production — producer-tiering, ARG aesthetics and transmedia fragmentation — are interrogated, alongside the character of the subsequent player-production. Finally, I explore the aspects of the player-created tiers that attract massive audiences, and then posit what these observations may indicate about contemporary art forms and society in general.
Key Words: aesthetics • alternate reality games • audience • complexity • culture • game design • media • narrative • personalization • player types • transmedia

فهرست مقالات مرتبط با رسانه هاي جمعي

1- Spinning Debates: The Impact of the News Media's Coverage of the Final 2004 Presidential Debate
Kim L. Fridkin
Department of Political Science at Arizona State University
Patrick J. Kenney
Department of Political Science at Arizona State University
Sarah Allen Gershon
Department of Political Science at Arizona State University
Gina Serignese Woodall
Department of Political Science at Arizona State University
The International Journal of Press/Politics
January 2008, Volume 13, No. 1
http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/29
We demonstrate that the news media's "spin" or analysis following the last presidential debate in 2004 influenced citizens' evaluations of the candidates. The media's "instant analyses" in the twenty-four hours following the debate was decidedly one-sided, favoring President Bush more than Senator Kerry. We show that the news media's spin persuaded potential voters to alter their attitudes regarding the competing candidates. We rely on a multimethodological approach, including an experiment with a quasi-experimental component, a public opinion survey, and a content analysis. To examine the media's spin, we conducted a content analysis of news coverage on television, on the Internet, and in newspapers for the twenty-four hours following the final 2004 presidential debate. Second, to examine how citizens reacted to the media's coverage, we relied on a representative public opinion survey conducted immediately following the debate. In addition, we conducted an experiment where certain individuals were exposed to the debate, while others were not, and we tracked these subjects over the course of a week to determine the stability of their attitudes in the midst of intense media coverage.
Key Words: presidential debate • media spin • media effects
2-The Impact of Young People's Internet Use on Class Boundaries and Life Trajectories
Lisa Lee
University of Edinburgh, lisa.lee@ed.ac.uk
Sociology
February 2008, Volume 42, No. 1
http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/42/1/137

The article seeks to explore the significance of class membership among young people in the so-called internet age. Internet access and use in Britain has remained by and large concentrated in wealthier households, underlining, at an aggregate level, a clear link between individuals' socio-economic background and their use of the internet.A somewhat contradictory statement emerges, however, from recent claims made by techno-enthusiasts, and apparently young people themselves, about the existence of a digital generation.This generational label suggests that young people today are, irrespective of their background, growing up with a sense of digital expertise, where class boundaries have become obscured. The article discusses this apparent contradiction, based on a study of young internet users.The findings suggest that, while class boundaries can be affected by internet use, the impact of this use remains nonetheless short lived and unlikely to significantly impinge on young people's social mobility in the future.
Key Words: class • internet • youth
3-Search Engines as Substitutes for Traditional Information Sources? An Investigation of Media Choice
Natalie Kink a; Thomas Hess a
The Information Society
January 2008 Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 18 - 29
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a789600747~db=all~order=page

Abstract
We develop a two-phased survey design - based on the uses and gratifications approach and the theory of planned behavior - to analyze competitive relations between search engines and traditional information sources. We apply the survey design in a large-scale empirical study with 14-to 66-year-old Internet users (mean age 32) to find out whether complementary or substitutional dependencies predominate between search engines and three traditional information sources - paper-based encyclopedias and yellow pages and telephone-based directory assistance. We find that search engines, compared to the traditional alternatives, are gratifying a wider spread of users' needs. Although yellow pages and directory assistance are potentially substitutable, encyclopedias serve those needs that search engines cannot (yet) fulfill. The traditional media companies face increased competition, but do not necessarily have to be in an inferior competitive position.
Keywords: complementarity; Internet; media choice; search engines; substitution; theory of planned behavior; traditional media; uses and gratifications approach
4-Indigenous, ethnic and cultural articulations of new media
Ramesh Srinivasan
University of California at Los Angeles, USA
International Journal of Cultural Studies
December 1 2006, Volume 9, No. 4
http://ics.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/4/497

This article extends a lineage of research that reveals possibilities by which indigenous and ethnic communities have appropriated media technologies to serve their own cultural, political and social visions. This article focuses on networked and database-driven ‘new’ media and information systems, and the possibilities and potentialities these hold within cultural scenarios. A case is presented that has focused on Native communities within the United States. Through this case study, I present a methodology, process and analysis of the means by which information systems can enable culturally and community-focused goals.
Key Words: archive • community • database • diaspora • indigenous media • Native American • network • ontologies

5-Media Uses in Immigrant Families
Torn between 'Inward' and 'Outward' Paths of Integration
Nelly Elias
Department of Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel, enelly@bgu.ac.il
Dafna Lemish
Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel, lemish@post.tau.ac.il
International Communication Gazette
February 2008, Volume 70, No. 1
http://gaz.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/70/1/21

This study examines the roles of the different media — those in the host language, those in the mother tongue and those of the global media — in the lives of immigrant children and adolescents from the former Soviet Union in Israel, at a time when they are coping with complex and unique personal and social challenges as a result of the immigration process and the need to solidify a new identity. In addition, the study looks at the parents' role in their children's media choices and the roles fulfilled by the media in immigrant family conflicts and in bridging intergenerational gaps.
Key Words: family conflicts • former Soviet Union • identity • immigrant children and adolescents • immigrants' integration • Israel • media uses • Russians
6-International Agenda-Building and Agenda-Setting
Exploring the Influence of Public Relations Counsel on US News Media and Public Perceptions of Foreign Nations
Spiro Kiousis
2087 Weimer Hall, Department of Public Relations, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, PO Box 118400, Gainesville, FL 32611-8400, USA, skiousis@jou.ufl.edu
Xu Wu
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, PO Box 871305, Tempe, AZ 85287-1305, USA, xu.wu@asu.edu
International Communication Gazette
February 2008, Volume 70, No. 1
http://gaz.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/70/1/58

To explore the influence of international public relations on US news media and public perceptions of foreign nations, this study used a triangulation of methods by comparing public relations counsel for foreign nations, media content and public opinion data in 1998 and 2002. The results indicate that while the relationship between public relations counsel and media coverage was minimal at the level of object and substantive attribute salience, noteworthy linkages were observed with affective attribute salience. In general, public relations counsel was associated with a decrease in the amount of negative news coverage. At the level of individual news stories, it was connected to increased positive valence in media content. For the dimensions of news coverage associated with public relations, media salience was related to public salience and attitudes regarding foreign nations. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
Key Words: agenda-building • agenda-setting • attributes • framing • international public relations

7-Being Real in the Mobile Reel
A Case Study on Convergent Mobile Media as Domesticated New Media in Seoul, South Korea
Larissa Hjorth
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
February 2008, Volume 14, No. 1

http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/91

Convergence has become part of burgeoning mobile media. Whether we like it or not the mobile phone has become a vehicle for multimedia par excellence. Epitomising contemporary convergence by way of its smorgasbord of applications and multimedia possibilities, it seems almost impossible to get such a device just for voice calling without all the `extras'. But is mobile media a new emerging art form? Is it new media? Or is it a domestic technology? And in an age of convergent media can we distinguish the different media histories? As a symbol of convergent global media, mobile phone practices are also marked by divergence. This divergence is particularly the case in terms of the increasingly tenacious role of the local in informing and adapting the global. The history of the mobile phone as a communication device inflects the localized practices of mobile multimedia, fusing communication with new media discourses. This article will discuss the rise of mobile communication studies and the role of locality, then turn to one of the centres for mobile innovation, Seoul, to discuss the role of mobile media as a domestic new media.
Key Words: domestic technologies • locality • mobile media • new media • remediation • South Korea
8-Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media
A Case Study in `Transmedia Storytelling'
Neil Perryman
University of Sunderland, UK, neil.perryman@sunderland.ac.uk
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
February 2008, Volume 14, No. 1
http://con.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/21

The British science fiction series Doctor Who embraces convergence culture on an unprecedented scale, with the BBC currently using the series to trial a plethora of new technologies, including: mini-episodes on mobile phones, podcast commentaries, interactive red-button adventures, video blogs, companion programming, and `fake' metatextual websites. In 2006 the BBC launched two spin-off series, Torchwood (aimed at an exclusively adult audience) and The Sarah Jane Smith Adventures (for 11—15-year-olds), and what was once regarded as an embarrassment to the Corporation now spans the media landscape as a multi-format colossus. This article critically explores many of the transmedia strategies the BBC has employed in relaunching this property. Has it resulted in a richer and more entertaining experience, or is it merely an economic exercise in merchandising and branding? Can these media really work together to create a coherent and satisfying whole?
Key Words: convergence culture • cultural memes • interactive television • mobile media • participatory culture • transmedia storytelling

9-Running in Cyberspace
O. J. Simpson Web Sites and the (De)Construction of Crime Knowledge
Thomas Grochowski
Seton Hall University
Television & New Media
November 1 2006, Volume 7, No. 4
http://tvn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/4/361

This article considers numerous web sites devoted to the O. J. Simpson case. Reviewing the literature on crime news production, the author argues that there is a dynamic that exists among law enforcement, journalists, and the public. The technology of the internet provided a cyberspace in which individual authors could review and analyze evidence and media discourse to support various claims about the case. While acknowledging that the internet is not a utopian democratic landscape, the author does claim that some decentering of the forces of knowledge production is possible, as evidenced from the web pages that present counterinformation.
Key Words: O. J. Simpson case • internet • crime • newsmaking criminology • cybertrials


10-Digital photography: communication, identity, memory
José van Dijck
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, J.F.T.M.vanDijck@uva.nl
Visual Communication
February 2008, Volume 7, No. 1
http://vcj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/57

Taking photographs seems no longer primarily an act of memory intended to safeguard a family's pictorial heritage, but is increasingly becoming a tool for an individual's identity formation and communication. Digital cameras, cameraphones, photoblogs and other multipurpose devices are used to promote the use of images as the preferred idiom of a new generation of users. The aim of this article is to explore how technical changes (digitization) combined with growing insights in cognitive science and socio-cultural transformations have affected personal photography. The increased manipulation of photographic images may suit the individual's need for continuous self-remodelling and instant communication and bonding. However, that same manipulability may also lessen our grip on our images' future repurposing and reframing. Memory is not eradicated from digital multipurpose tools. Instead, the function of memory reappears in the networked, distributed nature of digital photographs, as most images are sent over the internet and stored in virtual space.
Key Words: Abu Ghraib pictures • digital technology • identity formation • memory • photography • visual culture