Computer-Mediated False Consensus: Radical Online Groups,Social Networks and News Media

This study draws on survey data obtained from members in neo-Nazi discussion forums and builds on evidence that participation in these forums exacerbates false consensus, that is, overestimating public support for own views. This study goes further to test whether contacts with dissimilar offline social networks as well as exposure to ideologically dissimilar news media attenuate false consensus and its association with online participation. Contrary to predictions, politically dissimilar networks do not reduce false consensus among the analyzed sample. Exposure to ideologically dissimilar news media, on the other hand, results in more accurate estimates (main effect), but it exacerbates false consensus as resulting from participation in neo-Nazi online groups (interactive effect). Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.     

Second Generation Net News: Interactivity and Information Accessibility in the Online Environment

This study assesses the ways in which local television news operations and major metropolitan newspapers in the top 40 U.S. media markets are making information accessible and structuring interactive experiences online as the industry transitions into a third generation of Internet news. As Net news approaches its first decade of existence, online news sites are assumed to be evolving from a noninteractive, passive model of information delivery into an environment of increased immediacy, content richness, and user control. To investigate this question, a content analysis was performed in 2 waves, once during fall 1998 and again during fall 2000. For comparative purposes, differences across years are examined. In addition, the efforts of local television news sites are contrasted with the online activities of dominant newspaper sites, which have assumed a commanding lead in building a local online audience. The analysis argues for valuing Net news sites less from a profit-loss standpoint and more for the nonmonetary contributions they make in relation to the broader news mission, namely, enhanced coverage, brand loyalty, and news credibility.     

Homogenous Agendas,Disparate Frames: CNN and CNN International Coverage Online

Although CNN and CNN International represent just a fraction of global news coverage, the networks are widely viewed, crucial agenda-setting agents the world over. This study found that the online versions of these 2 networks were remarkably consistent in telling audiences in America and abroad what to think about. However, American and non-American online audiences received disparate amounts of coverage and were cued how to think about issues in unique ways. These findings and the high level of news homogenization in this content analysis are evidence of the influence that American news values have in global media culture.     

国际合作编目动态掠影

本文概述了国际合作编目计划这一大型国际组织的基本概况、分支机构、存在的问题以及合作创新编目未来的发展。     

Internal,External, and Government Political Efficacy: Effects on News Use,Discussion, and Political Participation

News use and political discussion are often studied as important factors in understanding the effects of political efficacy on participation. However, measurements of external efficacy often blur distinctions between personal ability and government responsiveness. This study establishes a measure for perceptions of competence in the institutions of democratic government—government efficacy (GE). Drawing on panel survey data from the United States, confirmatory factor analysis introduces GE as a unique construct. Political efficacy dimensions are tested for their impact on news consumption, discussion, and political participation. Results add to the extant literature revolving the role of political efficacy on news use, discussion, and participation.     

线上互融:疫情背景下的融媒新闻生产——基于《白衣侠》制作过程的个案研究

本文基于对交汇点新闻客户端融媒体新闻产品《白衣侠》制作过程的个案研究,探讨主流媒体融媒新闻生产的路径创新。这一路径背后蕴含全新的思考路向,反映出媒介融合从业态层面到社会层面再回到业态层面的过程,有助于我们理解和把握新传播技术变革下的传播实践。     

国际传播的实践渊源、概念生成和本土化知识构建

现代国际传播概念诞生于两次世界大战期间的美国,并随着该社会的发展与全球化的不断深入几经嬗变。然而国际传播概念在全球范围的知识旅行,其实质是美国发展模式和价值观念的国际化。伴随着中国社会主义现代化发展的进程,基于"共同富裕"现代化发展的底层价值逻辑,中国国际传播产生了不同于美国国际传播的问题意识。因此中国国际传播在具体的概念实践和知识建构中,需要保持自身本土化问题意识的自觉以及遵从社会主义理想的现实。中国国际传播是以人类命运共同体理念为基础理念和长远理想,在明晰中国主体性基础上,寻求稳定性中国话语中国叙事,进而综合运用媒体传播、教育文化交流、人员交流等手段,让世界了解中国、理解中国、认同中国,塑造传播维护可信可爱可敬的中国形象,在全球开展人类信息交流和交往的实践活动。     

Quiz Show Radio News Formats: A Test of Retention,Involvement, Attention,and Perception of Credibility

Entertainment news formats, such as radio talk shows and late-night comedy shows, continue to gain audience interest, while traditional news formats are slowly losing audience members. This study examines audience effects from entertainment news formats by comparing retention, involvement, attention and perceived credibility of information presented in a traditional radio broadcast news format and a nontraditional news quiz show format. Findings showed audiences recalled information from quiz questions significantly better than from the traditional news form. Levels of attention and involvement did not differ, and there were no differences for perceived credibility, suggesting audiences may be increasingly accepting of new formats.     

Emotionally Charged: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online News Information Seeking and Processing

This study examines how news stories framed in terms of discrete emotions (anger, fear, hope) influence online news message processing and information seeking. Results revealed that participants who read the approach emotion stories (anger and especially hope) spent more time on the story page than those who read the avoidant emotion (fear) story. These two emotional frames also differentially affected the information that people selected post-exposure in emotion-consistent ways. Overall, the findings deepen our understanding of the role that the emotional framing of news stories plays in determining how consumers respond to and selectively engage with online news content.     

The Symbiosis of News Coverage and Aggregate Online Search Behavior: Obama,Rumors, and Presidential Politics

Using a relatively new approach, this study examines the agenda-setting effects of television and newspaper coverage of a prominent rumor from the 2008 presidential election: the rumor that Barack Obama was secretly Muslim. In doing so, we look at the relationship between online information-seeking behavior and mass media news coverage, expecting online behavior, such as search, to be a function of exposure to conventional news coverage rather than vice versa. Using Google search trends as a novel search behavior measure, we demonstrate that volume of news coverage positively predicts spikes in aggregate search.     

所见、所感与所知：用户的注意力、主观感受和在线健康信息质量评价关系探究

健康网站是用户获取健康信息的重要来源,在线健康信息的质量关系到患者、医生、网站运营商等所有相关者的利益。网站页面元素是在线健康信息的载体,用户对信息质量的评价依赖于对页面元素的感知。本研究基于在线健康信息质量评价原则划分页面元素,采集和分析相关页面元素上的注意力分配;利用调查问卷收集质量评价数据,分析质量评价与页面元素注意力分配的相关性;通过凝视提示回顾式发声思考和半结构化访谈获取用户的主观感受,以解释质量评价与页面元素注意力分配之间的关系。研究结果发现,相比于其他页面元素,用户在医生认证资质和广告上的注意力分配较多;用户对健康信息权威性、保密性、公开性和广告政策的评价分别与相应页面元素的注视次数和注视时间正相关,对补充性和归因性的评价分别与相应页面元素的注视次数和注视时间负相关,而对合理性和透明性的评价与相应页面元素的注视次数和注视时间不相关;最后,从用户主观感受的角度揭示了注意力分配和质量评价产生关系的内在原因。本研究丰富了在线健康信息质量评价理论基础和研究方法,研究结论为改善在线健康信息内容质量和健康网站界面设计提供了参考。     

Mediating Roles of News Curation and News Elaboration in the Relationship between Social Media Use for News and Political Knowledge

Social media have opened up new possibilities for news engagement, and one of the important possibilities is news curation, which is defined as the reconstructing, reformulating, repurposing, reframing and sharing of news through social media. Focusing on this news curation concept, this study extends the Cognitive Mediation Model and the Communication Mediation Model (O-S-R-O-R) to the social media context. Drawing on a national survey of 1,135 South Korean adults, the present study finds that news elaboration and news curation are positively related to political knowledge and mediate the association between social media use for news and political knowledge.     

Partisans and Controversial News Online: Comparing Perceptions of Bias and Credibility in News Content From Blogs and Mainstream Media

Based on the hostile media effect (HME), this 2 (partisan opinion) × 2 (news source) × 2 (content valence) factorial experiment investigated how partisans (N = 132), in terms of perceived bias and credibility, assess same-sex marriage coverage by either an online mainstream news source or a citizen blog. Partisans who disagreed with the content's valence evaluated both mainstream online news and the blog posting as more biased and less credible than did partisans who agreed with the content's valence. The perceived reach of blog postings appears to generate a relative HME similar to that triggered by mainstream news. In particular, this study suggests that user-generated content—specifically blog postings—might generate a stronger relative HME than that observed with mainstream news.     

The Seeds of Audience Fragmentation: Specialization in the Use of Online News Sites

Contemporary normative concerns that the Internet might fragment national audiences and polities are based on suggestions that the medium is particularly conducive to specialized use. However, relatively little quantitative research has explicitly examined this contention. This study evaluates outlet specialization within the context of online news reading. Analyses of news viewing by a nationally representative panel of Internet users reveal that the user demographic profiles of news sites are individually distinct. More important, the topics that readers view vary by the sites they access. In sum, the provision of news over the Internet exhibits ample signs of outlet specialization.     

Closing the loop: Students,academic libraries,and textbook affordability

This paper will summarize over 400 responses to a student questionnaire used to assess a textbook affordability program at Rutgers University. Students' responses showed that they were concerned about textbook costs, liked their open and affordable course content, and unanimously supported continuing the program. Because the Open and Affordable Textbooks program is administered through the Libraries, the survey also offers a glimpse at how textbook affordability interfaces with key library services, including collection development, teaching and learning, reserves and the visibility, use and discoverability of library resources. This article is intended to bring the conversation full circle and take steps toward defining an ecosystem of library services and activities that support textbook affordability and OER. The goal is to bring more visibility to OER programs and make sure they are integrated in foundational library operations, so that students recognize the libraries' investment in their academic success.     

虚拟学术社区的知识共享过程及其参与主体间关系研究

以虚拟学术社区这一新型网络学术交流平台为研究对象,基于对社区知识共享过程的思考和构建,将引导者、回应者、学习者和评价者4类社区成员类型划分为知识提供者、知识接受者和知识评价者,分析3种主体进行知识共享过程的特点,指出对于知识共享系统来说,知识共享过程中的社区主体间关系是一个非线性的复杂系统。在此基础上,提出虚拟学术社区知识共享过程的参与主体间关系模型。     

在线健康信息求助行为实证研究的系统综述:知识体系、影响因素与前沿分析

[目的/意义]用户在线健康信息求助行为实证研究是用户在线健康信息行为研究的重要组成部分,对其展开深入分析可推动在线健康信息服务的应用创新和模式创新。[方法/过程]以中国知网和Web of Science为数据源获取代表性研究文献,并通过系统综述的研究方法来梳理国内外用户在线健康信息求助行为实证研究。[结果/结论]已有研究已初步形成知识体系框架,但仍存在一些研究空白领域。影响因素主要包括内部因素（求助事项、求助者因素）、外部因素（信息环境、社会环境、施助者因素）、中介因素（求助需求、认知性因素）和调节因素（人口统计因素）4个部分。重视研究基础、挖掘影响因素、关注结果变量、推动数据驱动等将是未来的研究热点和重点。     

当前新闻出版业人事制度改革需要关注的问题

出版单位转制是当前新闻出版行业一个热点,出版单位的同志们极为关注.尤其是在国务院批准中国出版集团转制为中国出版集团公司以后,图书出版社的同志已经感到转制在即,因为中国出版集团转制为中国出版集团公司是试点.     

Comparing Theories of Media Learning: Cognitive Mediation,Information Utility,and Knowledge Acquisition from Cancer News

Determining what factors predict media learning is an important avenue of research for the field of mass communication. The present study provides a comparative investigation of two models of media learning: the cognitive mediation model and the information utility model. Participants (N = 1,076) read a news article related to scientific discoveries relevant to cancer prevention and responded to all constructs of the two models. Recognition and comprehension were used to measure knowledge acquisition. Results generally support previous predictions of each model, though predicted variance remains small. In addition to testing the existing models, a modified cognitive mediation model using a key construct related to information utility—perceived relevance—was tested. The refined cognitive mediation model offered a more nuanced understanding of certain causal mechanisms but did not result in a meaningful change in predictive power of the model. Implications of the theoretical comparison and integration are discussed.