{"title":"Turning away from the television tape loop: Characterizing some local rock, pop, and country music radio stations’ responses to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks","authors":"Michael C. Zalot","doi":"10.1080/15456870209367414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870209367414","url":null,"abstract":"This article identifies three types of response strategies used by local popular music radio stations and their listeners in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Qualitative surveys and telephone interviews with key informants were used to build on existing functionalist research. The study suggests that radio stations served as virtual community space for their listeners, providing a mode of interaction that television did not offer. Audiences and DJs actively constructed responses to the attacks and found opportunities for expression and emotional release through negotiation with popular music. Radio stations negotiated the problem of a lack of material that directly addressed the attacks by the creation of mix songs, which served as institutional interpretations of existing material and a reclamation of virtual space. Two additional categories of media function during crisis are suggested.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115060146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The television framing methods of the national basketball association: An agenda‐setting application","authors":"J. Fortunato","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367407","url":null,"abstract":"An identification and analysis of the framing methods used in broadcast television complements existing agenda‐setting research which claims that the way a topic is framed can influence public salience about that topic. Studying framing methods offers insights into the content decision‐making strategy of mass media professionals. Following the agenda‐setting theoretical model, a case study of the National Basketball Association (NBA) separates framing methods as related to either the exposure or portrayal of a topic. Key informant interviews provide insight into the exposure framing method and reveal two portrayal instruments: cameras and announcers; and three framing strategies: depicting the NBA as a team game, personalizing players, and developing storylines. The NBA is studied because most people experience the topic through television and the topic is unique as it is placed on the media agenda through the signing of a broadcast rights contract.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114468143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The portrayal of gender in the children's television program sesame street and its effect on the intended audience","authors":"D. Ditsworth","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367410","url":null,"abstract":"This literature review addresses sexism and gender misrepresentation on Sesame Street, the world's most popular children's television program. The results of meta‐analytic studies reveal an imbalance in the proportion of males and females in the broadcast. It is clear that audience members respect and identify with certain characters more than others because of their roles in the program. However, gender, which greatly affects decisions about how a certain character will speak and act, often limits his/her behavior. Drawing on numerous studies about Sesame Street in relation to cultivation theory, socialization theory, and social learning theory, this paper discusses the show's content and the correlation between increased exposure to Sesame Street and viewers’ changes in attitude and behavior. Conclusions from the reports reviewed suggest the presence of gender inequality and stereotyping on Sesame Street and the need to conduct more research to test the immediate and long‐term effects of this type of material on children.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128261246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"Gary P. Radford","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115996348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Restructuring” justifications in annual reports: Legitimizing job loss and sweeping change","authors":"Bruce K. Berger","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367405","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines corporate public rhetoric used to describe and justify business restructuring activities in the past decade, during which more than 40 million American jobs were eliminated. The study is grounded in content analysis of 340 Shareholder Letters found within the annual reports of 53 corporations which restructured operations during the period 1989‐1997. The findings suggest that American CEOs use isomorphic restructuring idioms and three common justification themes in public statements. These common idioms, along with the prevalence of restructuring actions by well‐known corporate actors, and incorporation of restructuring responsibilities into the job requirements of employee teams, may contribute to the legitimation of ongoing business restructuring practices and corresponding job losses.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122049868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections of cultural values in advertising: A cross‐cultural perspective","authors":"N. Ahmed","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367409","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to contribute to the debate on standardized versus specialized approaches to international advertising. This cross‐cultural content analysis compares print advertising from the United States and India and examines how cultural values are manifest in advertising. The results found significant differences in the way these two countries produced advertising messages and that different cultural values were reflected in their advertising expressions. The findings also revealed that the U.S. advertisements used direct rhetorical styles and individualistic visual stances more often than their Indian counterparts. The Indian ads used indirect rhetorical styles and collective visual stances more frequently than the U.S. ads. The evidence of cross‐cultural differences further supports the assumption that truly standardized advertising is rarely feasible.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129186196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Servant or CEO? A metaphor analysis of leadership in a nonprofit context","authors":"G. L. Forward","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367406","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates conceptualizations of the pastoral leadership role. The research utilized interviews with twenty‐nine pastors in eighteen different Protestant denominations in a large, southwestern city. Respondents were asked to provide a metaphor that represents their view of the pastor as congregational leader. An archetypal metaphor analysis revealed that most pastors described a hierarchical, one‐way communication relationship that either placed them in a dominant (e.g., CEO, Captain) or submissive (e.g., shepherd, servant) position. In addition, most pastors described some type of interpersonal or group conflict as the greatest threat to their leadership. Lastly, two typologies were developed. The first, focusing on information, revealed that pastors relied most on “church growth” marketing literature and least on their formal education in developing their model of leadership. The second typology revealed spiritual renewal and organizational change as the primary bases for optimism among these pastors. Conversely, resistance to change and the rapid rate of change were the most often mentioned sources of pessimism concerning the future of the church and their role in it.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127020273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas J. Johnson, Mahmoud A.M. Braima, Jayanthi Sothirajah
{"title":"The press and the not‐so‐mean streets: The relative influence of the news media on public knowledge of crime rates","authors":"Thomas J. Johnson, Mahmoud A.M. Braima, Jayanthi Sothirajah","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367408","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the extent to which news media use predicts the public's ability to correctly estimate crime rates. The research found that the public seriously overestimates the extent of the crime problem, and the news media do little to help the public understand the extent of the problem. Few of the relationships were significant, suggesting that in general news coverage neither improved nor hindered people's abilities to make correct crime estimates. However, four of the five significant betas were negative, indicating that increased exposure to the media was more likely to hamper the public's ability to accurately estimate crime rates than to help it.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130991986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a post‐Habermasian discourse ethics: The acknowledgment of the other","authors":"Jeffrey W. Murray","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367395","url":null,"abstract":"A significant attempt to recover ethics within the post‐Nietzschean and post‐Holocaust era has been Habermas's articulation of a “post‐conventional discourse ethics.” Habermas's work is of particular interest to the field of communication studies because it attempts to ground ethics in “the universal and necessary presuppositions of argumentation.” Yet there have been numerous challenges to Habermas ‘s discourse ethics, including the charge of ethnocentrism. This essay implements Levinas's philosophy of ethics in order to articulate three specific objections to Habermas's discourse ethics and to amend Habermas ‘s project of identifying the necessary preconditions of ethical communication. Specifically, Levinas's conception of ethical obligation as originating in the call of the Other identifies the acknowledgment of the Other as the one necessary precondition of discourse, and provides a phenomenological account of the nature of that precondition as ethical. Consequently, Levinas revitalizes the on‐going conversation concerning Habermas ‘s discourse ethics as a viable and practical solution to the postmodern crisis of ethics.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128228117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uses and gratifications: A classic methodology revisited","authors":"C. Bracken, M. Lombard","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367401","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the results of a uses and gratifications survey, based on the methodology of Katz, Gurevitch, and Haas (1973), that examined the extent to which different media fulfill a variety of human needs. The authors suggest that the Katz et al. (1973) method should be revisited when investigating uses and gratifications across several media. The paper outlines the uses and gratifications approach, describes the adapted survey and presents the results of data collected over four years from 241 respondents at a large urban American university.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127879574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}