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News Framing
David Tewksbury
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
News Framing Introduction How political issues are presented in news stories makes a difference. That rather simple statement is the core of framing ...
Online Campaigning
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Ian Sheinheit
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Online Campaigning Introduction The research about online campaigning focuses primarily on the question of how, and whether, using informati...
Perceived Realism
Alice Hall
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Perceived Realism Introduction Perceived realism has been conceptualized in a variety of ways within the mass communication literature. In gene...
Persuasion and Social Influence
Jakob Jensen, Nicholas Carcioppolo
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Persuasion and Social Influence Introduction Researchers have long been interested in identifying factors that might explain the success or failure...
Political Advertising
Lynda Lee Kaid, Annabel Cherry, Maridith Miles
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Political Advertising Introduction The study of political advertising encompasses research on how political candidates, parties, and interest group...
Political Economy
Vincent Mosco
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Political Economy Introduction The communication scholar interested in the political economy approach starts by studying different ways to ...
Political Knowledge
Lindsay Hoffman
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Political Knowledge Introduction Political knowledge is one of the primary variables in political communication research. In the United States...
Priming
Francesca Dillman-Carpentier
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Priming Introduction Using the analogy of priming a water pump to get the water ready for use, priming in social science research refers to the “ac...
Propaganda
Aaron Delwiche
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Propaganda Introduction Propaganda researchers study systematic attempts to influence audience perceptions and behaviors. This area of scholarship is...
Public Opinion
Patricia Moy
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Public Opinion Introduction The communication scholar’s approach to the study of public opinion emphasizes the role that mass media and int...
Public Relations
María Len-Ríos
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Public Relations Introduction The practice of public relations (PR) has been around for a long time, although the modern practice of public...
Public Sphere
Hartmut Wessler
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Public Sphere Introduction The “public sphere” is generally conceived as the social space in which different opinions are expressed, problems of gener...
Radio Studies
Stephen Lax
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Radio Studies Introduction The field of radio studies has undergone something of a resurgence in recent years. More radio is taught at univers...
Reality Television
Laurie Ouellette
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Reality Television Introduction Reality television, which can be broadly defined as unscripted entertainment programming, has existed since the...
Reasoned Action Frameworks
Marco Yzer, Brian Southwell
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Reasoned Action Frameworks Introduction Reasoned action frameworks, which include the Theory of Reasoned Action and its extensions, the widely used Th...
Religion and the Media
Judith M. Buddenbaum
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Religion and Media Introduction Churches and other religious organizations have always conducted or commissioned media research addressing the...
Science Communication
Sharon Dunwoody
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Science Communication Introduction Science-communication scholarship focuses on the hows, whys, and impacts of science messages aimed at nons...
Scripps, E. W.
Gerald J. Baldasty, Robert C. Richards
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
E. W. Scripps Introduction Edward Willis Scripps (b. 1854–d. 1926) was one of the leading newspaper publishers of the late 19th and early 20th...
Selective Exposure
Hans-Bernd Brosius, Christina Peter
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Selective Exposure Introduction The basic assumption in the study of selective exposure is that people expose themselves to external stimuli in a se...
Semiotics
Marcel Danesi
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Semiotics Introduction Semiotics is the discipline studying the meanings imprinted in signs and sign systems—a “sign” being defined as anythin...
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