Andreas Schmidt, Ana Ivanova, Mike S. Schäfer
Oliver Boyd‐Barrett
Joseph R. Dominick, Gail E. Rauch
That women are still stereotyped despite the continuing activism of the women's liberation movement is clearly demonstrated in the following study of a sample of early 1971 network TV ads. Focusing on the advertising viewed in millions of homes during prime‐time, the authors conclude that women are ...
Steen Steensen, Oscar Westlund
What is Digital Journalism Studies? delves into the technologies, platforms, and audience relations that constitute digital journalism studies’ central objects of study, outlining its principal theories, the research methods being developed, its normative underpinnings, and possible futures for the ...
Simone Rödder, Mike S. Schäfer
The article employs the mediatization concept to analyze the relationship of science and the mass media. It draws on theoretical considerations from the sociology of science to distinguish and empirically investigate two dimensions of mediatization: changes in media coverage of science on the one ha...
Thomas J. Johnson, Mahmoud A. M. Braima, Jayanthi Sothirajah
This study examined the extent to which heavy users of the Internet and other nontraditional media differ from heavy users of traditional media in their knowledge of the issue stances of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole as well as their images of the two candidates. Nontraditional media had little influenc...
Paula Chakravartty, Srirupa Roy
Abstract A new form of "entertaining news," accessed by most through television, has become a privileged domain of politics for the first time in countries "beyond the West" in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. What are the political consequences of this development: What is the relationship betwee...
Henry Mainsah
One of the key features of current social movements and activist journalism has been the use of digital technologies. During the current protests calling for an end to police brutality and other fo...
Yusuf Kalyango, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, Terje Skjerdal et al.
Development journalism remains an important concept in the journalism studies literature, but it has, at the same time, suffered from a lack of empirical research. Drawing on a survey of 2598 journalists from eight South Asian, Southeast Asian, and sub-Saharan African countries, which was conducted ...
Sherwin Chua, Oscar Westlund
Digital journalism studies have done little in terms of studying longitudinally the interrelationships between emerging technology and convergent news practices. This study addresses that void by using a sensemaking approach to examine how emerging technology was appropriated and enacted in the conv...
Paul Baines, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Kevin Moloney, Barry Richards et al.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss exploratory research into the perceptions of British Muslims towards Islamist ideological messaging to contribute to the general debate on “radicalisation”. Design/methodology/approach Four focus groups were undertaken with a mixture of Bangladeshi and...
David Pritchard, Sarah Stonbely
This article examines patterns of story assignments at a metropolitan daily newspaper. The study's content analysis documents a form of racial profiling in which African American reporters write stories mostly about minority issues, while white reporters write stories mostly about government and bus...
Ana Ivanova, Mike S. Schäfer, Inga Schlichting, Andreas Schmidt
The relation between science and the media has recently been termed a medialization of science. The respective literature argues that interaction of scientists with the media and journalists as well as scientists’ adaptation to media criteria has increased. This article analyzes whether German clima...
Mike S. Schäfer, Monika Taddicken
The study analyzes which forms opinion leadership takes in contemporary media environments where communication channels have increased and started to permeate interpersonal interaction. Some scholars assume that opinion leadership becomes more important under these conditions, as more media are avai...
Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, Tine Ustad Figenschou, Scott A. Eldridge, Lena Frischlich et al.
In this introduction to the special issue Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding Alternative News Media and its Contribution to Diversity, we discuss how and to what extent alternative news media contribute to news diversity. We elaborate on the concept of diversity, the democratic role of media a...