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{"title":"Does Media Coverage of a Celebrity Suicide Trigger Copycat Suicides?: Evidence from Korean Cases","authors":"Y. Choi, H. Oh","doi":"10.1080/08997764.2016.1170020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2016.1170020","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the link between media coverage of celebrity suicides and the nation’s suicide rate. The instrumental variable regression is applied to suicide data from Statistics Korea and the media coverage data on celebrity suicides from Mediagaon of the Korea Press Foundation during the period from 1997 to 2009. The estimation results demonstrate that Korean celebrity suicides have significantly increased suicide rates, whereas non-Korean celebrity suicides have not. Moreover, greater media coverage of Korean celebrity suicides is associated with an increase in suicide rates. These findings shed light on the importance of media policy in the prevention of copycat suicides.","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"29 1","pages":"105 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08997764.2016.1170020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59572989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advertising Content and Television Advertising Avoidance","authors":"Kenneth C. Wilbur","doi":"10.1080/08997764.2016.1170022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2016.1170022","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article proposes a new measure of television advertising avoidance, the Passive/Active Zap (PAZ), as an occurrence of a set-top box switching channels during a commercial break after at least 5 min of inactivity prior to the break. Twenty-seven percent of eligible commercial breaks are interrupted by a PAZ. A proportional hazards model is applied to a unique dataset to estimate the impact of advertising content and commercial break characteristics on PAZ behavior. The results show that advertising avoidance is negatively associated with movie ads and positively associated with advertising for websites, auto insurance and women’s clothing. Ad avoidance also tends to rise with repeated exposures to the same ad creative, advertising aired on general-interest television networks, later hours of the evening, and rainfall.","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advertising Content and Avoidance, New Media or Old Media, and Media Coverage of Celebrity Suicides","authors":"H. Martin, Adam D. Rennhoff","doi":"10.1080/08997764.2016.1188637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2016.1188637","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Journal of Media Economics includes three articles covering a wide range of mediarelated topics. All three articles have important implications for media firms, from advertisers to traditional media content providers. These articles also raise important points in a larger publicpolicy sense, as well. The first article is “Advertising Content and Television Advertising Avoidance,” by Kenneth C. Wilbur. This article, which relies on actual television viewing behavior collected (anonymously) using set-top cable boxes, examines the factors that influences viewers’ decisions to switch the channel when a commercial appears. As the author notes, television-watching is largely a passive activity, whereas the decision to change channels during a commercial break requires action. The author’s data allows him to observe (i) whether a viewer changes channels during a particular commercial and, if so, (ii) how many seconds into the commercial this switch occurs. The author specifies a proportional hazards model that uses information regarding the identity and the content of an advertisement to explain consumer channel-switching behavior. The resulting coefficient estimates indicate the factors that make consumers more or less likely to stop viewing a given advertisement. Among the empirical findings, the author finds evidence that viewers of live sports programming and animated television programming are less likely to change channels in order to avoid commercials. Television viewers appear to be more hesitant to avoid movie advertisements, but advertisements for websites, auto insurance, and women’s clothing are frequently avoided. There also appears to be diminishing returns on television advertising as viewers are more likely to avoid advertisements that are frequently shown or repeated. The second article is “Do New Media Substitute for Old Media?: A Panel Analysis of Daily Media Use,” by Shinjae Jang and Minsoo Park. This article seeks to measure the degrees of substitutability and complementarity among a variety of different media. The author uses daily media diaries completed by several thousand Korean households between the years of 2010 and 2012. The structure of the diaries allows the author to construct individual-specific panel data regarding the daily consumption of various media. The panel nature of the data allows the author to employ panel econometric techniques that allow individual time-invariant characteristics to be controlled for. The ability to control for these individual characteristics may be quite important in answering the author’s primary research question. For example, does subscribing to a print newspaper and reading news online imply that both are complements? Perhaps but it may also be the case that both actions correspond to someone that is a “news junkie.” Panel econometric techniques allow the author to control for such factors in a way that cross-sectional data would not allow. The author finds strong substitu","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"29 1","pages":"49 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08997764.2016.1188637","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59573151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Value of the Internet as Entertainment in Five European Countries","authors":"Smaranda Pantea, B. Martens","doi":"10.1080/08997764.2015.1131701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2015.1131701","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We estimate the value of leisure online by applying Goolsbee and Klenow (2006) method to Nielsen Clickstream dataset, which covers the clickstream of more than 12,000 internet users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom, in 2011. We find that the equivalent variation of welfare from leisure online for the average internet user was between 524 and 785 euros per year. At country level, it amounted to between 18 and 44 billion euros.","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"29 1","pages":"16 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08997764.2015.1131701","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59572532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring the Welfare Effects of Public Television","authors":"J. Poort, B. Baarsma","doi":"10.1080/08997764.2015.1131702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2015.1131702","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Based on an explorative case study in the Netherlands, the authors developed a methodology to assess the welfare effects of public service broadcasting. This methodology consists of a combination of revealed and stated preferences, using readily available data for all programs broadcast in the evening in 2011. The results cover both individual programs and an aggregate level. Because the data used encompass both public and commercial programs, the analysis allows for comparisons between these.","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"29 1","pages":"31 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08997764.2015.1131702","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59573355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Economics of Sensationalism: The Lack of Effect of Scandal-Reporting on Business Outcomes","authors":"B. Meiseberg, Jochen Lengers, T. Ehrmann","doi":"10.1080/08997764.2015.1131700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2015.1131700","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It goes nearly unchallenged that ambition for increased demand and therefore commercial forces induce newspapers to engage in sensationalism. However, who actually benefits, and to what extent, by reporting on alleged scandals remains largely unclear. Accordingly, this study evaluates the business outcomes of the most spectacular German scandal in recent decades. The results provide an explanation for an intentional lack of high-quality journalism; whereas news corporations, as well as advertisers, come away empty-handed, sensationalism seems to be incited by self-seeking journalists.","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"29 1","pages":"15 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08997764.2015.1131700","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59572948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scandal Reporting and Business Outcomes, Welfare Effects from Internet Access, and Welfare Effects from Public Broadcasting","authors":"H. Martin, Adam D. Rennhoff","doi":"10.1080/08997764.2016.1143297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2016.1143297","url":null,"abstract":"The first article in this issue finds no support for the widespread belief that sensational news coverage can increase a news organization’s profits. The second article estimates the average user in five European countries receives consumer surplus from free access to internet leisure activities of 525 to 785 Euros per year. The third article estimates the annual welfare from public service broadcasting programs in the Netherlands to be at least 131 million Euros more than the annual subsidy. Each study has implications that cross international boundaries. “The Economics of Sensationalism: The Lack of Effect of Scandal-Reporting on Business Outcomes,” by Brinja Meiseberg, Jochen Lengers, and Thomas Ehrmann, re-examines assumptions that sensational news stories increase circulation and advertising sales, thereby increasing newspaper profits. Journalists may instead produce sensational stories for ideological reasons or because sensational stories can boost their professional image and career. Newspaper advertising rates are usually fixed in the short-run, so advertisers might receive more benefits from circulation increases than newspapers do. The study examines these possibilities by researching effects from reporting by the German tabloid BILD on a scandal that forced the German federal president to resign. BILD’s reporting was criticized as sensational. First, do publishers profit from sensational news stories? The researchers use an event-study to determine if the scandal coverage resulted in abnormal returns to the stock price of BILD’s owner, the Axel Springer Corp.. This method is also used to look for abnormal increases in circulation at BILD, and abnormal increases in BILD’s online audience. Results “do not find support for any linkages”(p. 9) between coverage of the scandal and abnormal returns to Axel Springer’s stock price. There were “no effects on sales of single editions or in the aggregate” circulation figures (p. 9). Results were mixed for online audiences. However, the initial scandal reporting appeared to increase online audiences at BILD’s upscale competitors, perhaps because competing news outlets had “more brand name capital in regard to public affairs and issues having an impact on society-at-large” (p. 12). Second, do journalists benefit from producing sensational news? The study did not have adequate quantitative data to determine how the scandal affected the employment and earnings of journalists who covered the stories. However, some journalists did receive a prestigious prize for investigative reporting. Journalists also wrote a book and sold film rights to a German production company. The researchers conclude sensational stories can enhance a journalist’s career prospects. Media outlets “may be able to hire investigative journalists at lower wages in exchange for a certain degree of freedom of choice concerning which stories they want to cover” (p. 12). Third, do advertisers benefit from sensational coverage because th","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"29 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08997764.2016.1143297","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59573430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inactivation of PI3-K/Akt and reduction of SP1 and p65 expression increase the effect of solamargine on suppressing EP4 expression in human lung cancer cells.","authors":"YuQing Chen, Qing Tang, JingJing Wu, Fang Zheng, LiJun Yang, Swei Sunny Hann","doi":"10.1186/s13046-015-0272-0","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13046-015-0272-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Natural phytochemicals from traditional medicinal plants such as solamargine have been shown to have anticancer properties. The prostaglandin E2 receptor EP4 is highly expressed in human cancer, however, the functional role of EP4 in the occurrence and progression of non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remained to be elucidated.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cell viability was measured by MTT assays. Western blot was performed to measure the phosphorylation and protein expression of PI3-K downstream effector Akt, transcription factors SP1, p65, and EP4. Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) was used to examine the mRNA levels of EP4 gene. Exogenous expression of SP1, p65, and EP4 genes was carried out by transient transfection assays. EP4 promoter activity was measured by Dual Luciferase Reporter Kit.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We showed that solamargine inhibited the growth of lung cancer cells. Mechanistically, we found that solamargine decreased the phosphorylation of Akt, the protein, mRNA expression, and promoter activity of EP4. Moreover, solamargine inhibited protein expression of SP1 and NF-κB subunit p65, all of which were abrogated in cells transfected with exogenous expressed Akt. Intriguingly, exogenous expressed SP1 overcame the effect of solamargine on inhibition of p65 protein expression, and EP4 protein expression and promoter activity. Finally, exogenous expressed EP4 feedback reversed the effect of solamargine on phosphorylation of Akt and cell growth inhibition.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results show that solamargine inhibits the growth of human lung cancer cells through inactivation of Akt signaling, followed by reduction of SP1 and p65 protein expression. This results in the inhibition of EP4 gene expression. The cross-talk between SP1 and p65, and the positive feedback regulatory loop of PI3-K/Akt signaling by EP4 contribute to the overall responses of solamargine in this process. This study unveils a novel mechanism by which solamargine inhibits growth of human lung cancer cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"21 1","pages":"154"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s13046-015-0272-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81587298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advertising Content and Television Advertising Avoidance","authors":"Kenneth C. Wilbur","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2638065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2638065","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article proposes a new measure of television advertising avoidance, the Passive/Active Zap (PAZ), as an occurrence of a set-top box switching channels during a commercial break after at least 5 min of inactivity prior to the break. Twenty-seven percent of eligible commercial breaks are interrupted by a PAZ. A proportional hazards model is applied to a unique dataset to estimate the impact of advertising content and commercial break characteristics on PAZ behavior. The results show that advertising avoidance is negatively associated with movie ads and positively associated with advertising for websites, auto insurance and women’s clothing. Ad avoidance also tends to rise with repeated exposures to the same ad creative, advertising aired on general-interest television networks, later hours of the evening, and rainfall.","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"490 1","pages":"51 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2139/ssrn.2638065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68236046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EOV Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/08997764.2015.1104111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2015.1104111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29945,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS","volume":"28 1","pages":"268 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/08997764.2015.1104111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59572557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}