{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"Gary P. Radford","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"35 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":"127029079","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":"Cultural studies and media ecology: Meyrowitz's medium theory and Carey's cultural studies","authors":"Donna P. Flayhan","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367396","url":null,"abstract":"The recent proliferation of scholarship outlining the intellectual roots of media ecology represents a welcome break from past scholarship that dismissed studies of forms of communication as mere technological determinism. In this essay, the work of two prominent communication and media studies scholars, Joshua Meyrowitz and James Carey, is examined in order to demonstrate how their studies represent media ecology with rigorous and insightful analyses of the dynamic interaction between communication, consciousness, and culture. Perhaps more importantly, this essay highlights how the works of these two media ecologists fit into and embody a North American cultural studies approach to media studies. The intent of this essay is to push the understanding of the intellectual roots of media ecology toward a broader analysis of how media ecology is embedded in, and advocates for, the larger move in communication studies away from narrow, quantitative effects research and towards qualitative and interdisciplinary scholarship that is North American cultural studies.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"349 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":"123541215","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 wreck of the morning dew: The United States coast guard and crisis communication","authors":"Bruce C. McKinney","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367398","url":null,"abstract":"On a stormy December 1997 night in Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina, four lives were lost when the sailing vessel Morning Dew crashed into a jetty near the entrance to the city's harbor. At first, authorities were at a loss to explain what happened to the Morning Dew. However, it was soon revealed that the vessel had radioed the Coast Guard station in Charleston, yet received no assistance. The Coast Guard soon found itself defending its actions ofthat night, and was accused of covering up evidence of the Morning Dew's mayday call. By not communicating with the media and public, the Coast Guard's actions brought into question its Search and Rescue (SAR) capabilities. Coast Guard errors in dealing with this crisis are examined, and observations about crisis communication, in general, are discussed.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"7 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":"124219134","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 flag burning controversy and the Sui Generis argument","authors":"Donald Fishman","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367397","url":null,"abstract":"This article contends that the flag burning controversy in American politics during the past two decades is anchored in a discussion of symbolic speech, the article examines the degree of protection that symbolic speech provides to flag burning and the emergence of a sui generis position that would remove flag burning from traditional First Amendment safeguards. The article is divided into three sections. The first section examines the evolution of the construct of “symbolic speech.” The second section discusses the governmental speech thesis that the flag represents a sui generis exception from traditional First Amendment concerns. The third section analyzes the flaws with the government speech thesis. The conclusion explores why discussions about flag burning issues are treated differently by the public than by the courts.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"19 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":"127663966","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":"Constructing the self through modification of convention in computer‐mediated environments","authors":"R. D. Karetnick","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367400","url":null,"abstract":"There exists a belief that the modern world, in which computers are so prevalent, “radically alters the nature of day‐to‐day social life and affects the most personal aspects of our experience” (Giddens, 1991, p. 1). Such a belief has been reflected in recent literature, suggesting that the on‐line world is one characterized by creative and innovative behavior. This research addresses the issue of how participants construct identity given technological advances that allow for participatory behavior no longer subject to the same physical or moral constraints found face‐to‐face. Findings suggest that the individual choice inherent in strategic use of programmed convention is not in fact welcome behavior. Virtual spaces emerge as being about far more than what individuals can do there based on technology. Such worlds are also apparently embedded in a larger set of cultural practices carried over from traditional face‐to‐face contexts.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"41 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":"122076221","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":"Investigative reporting: Reconsidering the public view","authors":"Susan K. Opt, Tim Delaney","doi":"10.1080/15456870109367399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870109367399","url":null,"abstract":"U.S. media researchers and pollsters have examined public approval of investigative reporting and its techniques. They have attempted to identify variables that influence those perceptions and looked at recall of specific investigative series. What has not received much attention, however, is whether the public being surveyed is responding to the concept of investigative reporting as defined by researchers and media professionals and whether the public believes it takes action as a result of these reports. This becomes the focus of this preliminary study. This study finds that the U.S. public seems to name any story involving an investigation as investigative reporting, and investigative reports appear to have minimal influence. This raises questions about what investigative journalism researchers have been measuring and why the public continues to show support when it is unable to recall investigative stories.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"35 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":"117267283","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":"“Quality” education: Exploring the value of bringing the quality approach to the communication classroom","authors":"Jennifer K. Lehr","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367385","url":null,"abstract":"Quality programs, from their early grounding in total quality management to today's modern forms, have become a mainstay in much of American business. Multiple sources suggest that more than half of American businesses have some type of quality program in place. By the late 1980s and early 1990s the quality philosophy had begun permeating the walls of higher education institutions. The primary venue for bringing the quality approach to higher education thus far has been through administrative channels and little has been done to explore its applicability in the classroom. This paper opens with a discussion of the core concepts embedded in the quality approach, considers the potential value of bringing this approach to higher education and specifically to the communication classroom, and concludes by offering suggestions for applications in introductory and upper level communication courses.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123426537","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":"Constructing men on “television for women:” A content analysis of male characters on the lifetime network","authors":"L. Holderman","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367388","url":null,"abstract":"Through the use of content analysis, this study attempts to uncover patterns in the portrayal of male characters on the narrative programming of the Lifetime Network, and in so doing, to show the type of males television deems appropriate for American females. Results indicate that the portrayals of men on Lifetime Network are very similar to those on mainstream broadcast networks. The primary type of male constructed for Lifetime's female audience is a heterosexual, Caucasian, adult, who is valued for his job, experiences occupational, financial, and class stability, and is not defined by domestic roles. These and other findings are interpreted by cultivation theory such that the patterned portrayals on Lifetime maintain the social order by creating appropriate expectations about men for its female viewers.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129664040","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":"Life‐world: Computer logic and values as a self‐generating system","authors":"J. Pilotta, Algis Mickūnas","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367384","url":null,"abstract":"Scientific practice, both in the broad sense and in the specific case of computer science, cannot demonstrate how the constituted logic of a given consistent system translates into an empirically constructed system without the assumption of other conditions which may also be logically constituted through modes of praxis that are already technically available. Computer science is premised on a technically laden life‐world and, indeed, on an interpretation of the entire environment as accessible to technical management. In this sense, there is a pre‐understanding that allows a given population to regard both science and computer science as “value free.” Yet, it is precisely the technologically interpreted environment that is imbedded in valuations. In this essay, we shall explicate: (a) the principles that establish scientific objectivity on the basis of the objectivity of logics; (b) how those logics are connected to the resources of the environment; (c) how the environment itself is technical and valuative; and (4) how a particular modern value context pervades the technical, logical, and scientific enterprises.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132900452","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":"Narratives and values: The rhetoric of the physician assisted suicide debate","authors":"Deborah Dysart","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367386","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the objections of those who argue that medicine is a scientific enterprise that does not allow the use of rhetoric, medical practice requires deliberation, persuasion, consent and the determination of correct action in the absence of complete information. Rhetoric is thus an integral part of medicine. This essay argues that the function of medicine as an art and as a social institution is impeded when the rhetorical nature of its practice is ignored. This claim is supported by a case study of two texts widely cited as landmarks in the physician‐assisted suicide debate of the 1990s: the anonymously authored “It's over, Debbie,” which appeared in the January, 1988 Journal of the American Medical Association and Quill's “Death and dignity: A case of individualized decision making,” published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1991.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128649032","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}