{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"Gary P. Radford","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"140 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":"123341561","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":"An effect of the medium in news stories: “The pictures in our heads”","authors":"S. D. Cooper","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367387","url":null,"abstract":"This study used an experimental design to test for a channel effect in news stories. Four television news stories were recorded off‐air, then the narrations were transcribed to form a print news story containing the same words; the broadcast video and the print story were the two treatment levels. Subjects received the stories in one of the treatment levels, and were asked to judge the blameworthiness or praiseworthiness of the actors named in the story. Logistic regressions could predict with substantial accuracy the medium in which subjects had received the story from these judgments, indicating a channel effect on their making of meaning. There is some evidence that viewers of television news are inclined to judge actors in the stories as members of categories or groups, while readers of print news tend to be more specific.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"17 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":"115346563","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":"Tony soprano as postmodern gangster: Controlling identities and managing self‐disclosure","authors":"Anne G. Barretta","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367389","url":null,"abstract":"Mafia lore and the personalities of organized crime figures, both real and fictional, have long fascinated American popular culture. Through an examination of the suburban world of mass‐media gangster Tony Soprano of the HBO series The Sopranos, this paper applies Erving Goffman's theories of self‐presentation and impression management to examine the contradictions of human behavior.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"81 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":"125207698","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":"Communication webagogy 2.0: More click, less drag","authors":"M. Radford, Kurt W. Wagner","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367391","url":null,"abstract":"The authors first published \"Communication Webagogy: Using the World Wide Web for Research and Teaching,\" in the fall of 1997 (Radford & Wagner, 1997). Now, as the new millennium is beginning, it is time for communication researchers and faculty to freshen their approaches to the web, to become more sophisticated, to refine skills, and to ensure that time spent in searching the web has a high quality result. What major changes have taken place in the web during the past three years? Obviously, the number and size of web sites and resources has grown enormously. Commercial sites have exploded in number along with annoying push technology that brings them unannounced to everyone's desktop. Web pages now number in the billions with development continuing at an ever quickening pace. Portals and Vortals have made their appearance. These sites (e.g., Excite, Yahoo!) are commercial in nature, making profit from prominent advertisements and fees charged to featured sites. They provide search engines plus additional features such as customized news, weather reports, stock reports, shopping, etc. Vortals offer even more extensive services, and have been humorously described as \"portals on steriods.\" The good news is that the proliferation of web resources has included the development of high quality, authoritative sites in the communication discipline. The bad news is that it is increasingly difficult to find the best sites because there are so many that are of poor quality, such as the commercial sites which are low in content, but high in advertising. Despite this reality, many people continue to believe that they can search the entirety of the WWW and quickly come up with a handful of sites that will address their need or answer particular questions. The","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"43 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":"127035648","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}
K. Quintanilla, Robert T. Schatz, Bilaye R. Benibo
{"title":"Exploring the effects of organizational change on an organizational subculture: A qualitative analysis","authors":"K. Quintanilla, Robert T. Schatz, Bilaye R. Benibo","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367390","url":null,"abstract":"This investigation utilized the grounded theory perspective to analyze the effects of a friendly merger on an organization's culture, specifically focusing on the way communication effected and was effected by the similarities and difference between the pre and post merger cultures. Data obtained via focus group interviews revealed that the merger resulted in cultural changes. The most significant change was the development of a subculture consisting of new employees. Due to insufficient communication opportunities and poor planning, new organization members did not receive information necessary for assimilation (i.e., history of, their roles in, or the goals of the organization. As a result, employees developed different meanings for organizational messages, as well as different values, beliefs and assumptions based on their subcultural membership. The researchers concluded that in order to preserve an organizational culture formal steps must be taken to educate new members about the organization's culture. In addition, employees who carry cultural knowledge must have time and opportunities to interact with new employees.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"69 2 Suppl 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":"128452643","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":"Communication media, memory, and social‐political change in Eric Havelock","authors":"Bruce E. Gronbeck","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367377","url":null,"abstract":"The classicist Eric Havelock is often viewed as one of the strongest proponents of the so‐called orality‐literacy theses. His work is foundational to the idea of media ecology. His most noteworthy contribution to the theory of media ecology, it is argued, is the manner in which he makes moral codes and communication codes inseparable through a theory of memory (echoing). That inseparability allows the linking of the psychological and social lifeworlds, i.e., the creation of social identity, and explains Plato's need to destroy traditional rhetoric and poetic.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937626","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":"Jacques Ellul on technique, media, and the spirit","authors":"Raymond D. Gozzi","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367380","url":null,"abstract":"The French sociologist and theologian Jacques Ellul was a critic of la technique—the rationalized, efficient method underlying contemporary technology. Ellul felt that la technique had produced an all‐embracing technological environment, which was self‐augmenting and threatened to become totalitarian. Against the world of la technique, Ellul dialectically posed a realm of truth, available through the spoken word. Ellul found the roots of the realm of truth in the spirit, which he felt promoted freedom.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121731414","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":"Special issue: The intellectual roots of media ecology","authors":"Gary P. Radford","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367374","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129057854","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":"Symbols, thought, and reality: The contributions of Benjamin Lee Whorf and Susanne K. Langer to media ecology","authors":"Christine L. Nystrom","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367376","url":null,"abstract":"Media ecology may be defined as the study of the roles played by symbol systems and technologies in our construction of reality and social institutions, cultural practices, and values. This idea arose initially out of early 20th century physics and, in particular, of key questions asked by Einstein and Heisenberg. The idea achieved its central role in studies of culture and communication primarily through the ground‐breaking work of linguistic anthropologists, such as Whorf, and symbolic philosophers, such as Langer. This essay explicates the key ideas that Whorf and Langer set forth in their work and which lie at the very foundations of media ecology.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126344294","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":"Understanding literacy: Theoretical foundations for research in media ecology","authors":"Lori Ramos","doi":"10.1080/15456870009367378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870009367378","url":null,"abstract":"The major scholars foundational to media ecology have all shared an interest and focus in literacy. From their study of literacy and its consequences, a set of theories and approaches developed which has provided media ecologists with frameworks with which to study all other media. This essay reviews the major scholarship of Harold Innis, Eric Havelock, Marshall McLuhan, Jack Goody, Walter Ong, and Elizabeth Eisenstein, as they focused on the development of writing systems, and later, printing. The theoretical frameworks to have emerged from their inquiries are central to understanding media ecology.","PeriodicalId":113832,"journal":{"name":"New Jersey Journal of Communication","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116041020","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}