The mass media and young people

The study reported below analyzes differences in mass media attention behavior in Des Moines school children in 1950 and 1958. It is interesting to compare its findings with those of Edwin Parker, starting on page 39 of this issue of the Journal.     

Stigma activation through dis-identification: cognitive bias triggered by mass media photos of people with obesity

ABSTRACT

This study investigated how the prevalent visual depiction of obesity in the media promotes stigmatization of obese individuals. Particularly, this study proposed and tested the two sequential mechanisms which were not explicated in the previous models but indispensable in stigma research: (1) the disease avoidance response (i.e. discomfort for physical contact) and (2) dehumanizing perception. Results of two experiments overall supported the extended model: the headless photos of obese individuals triggered the disease avoidance responses, which sequentially increased the dehumanizing perception of and negative attitudes toward obese individuals. The identity trait (e.g. gender) match increased readers' level of social identification with obese people and alleviated the disease avoidance response when they saw the photo of the obese model as a whole being. By contrast, the opposite effects (i.e. disidentification and heightened discomfort) were found when the participants saw the headless photo of the obese model of the same gender.     

大众传媒在政治社会化中的作用

大众媒体获得在政治社会化中的重要地位，不是日新月异的传播技术决定的，而是媒体的“喉舌”本质属性决定的。媒介作为思想控制的工具，促使社会成员形成现行政治体系所希望的政治意识，在政治社会化过程实现了意识形态的统治。     

Young adults and everyday-life information: The role of news media

There is a paucity of research examining the everyday-life information seeking of young people, especially investigating the role that the news media has in providing information to young people for use in their everyday lives. A qualitative, interpretivist approach is adopted, involving 34 students, ages 18 to 25, from an Australian university. First, 20 students were interviewed about their news seeking (including topics and sources). Then 14 students participated in verbal protocol analysis, which involved a series of tasks concerning online and print newspapers. Lastly, students were interviewed about how they sought everyday-life information and whether they thought that they had incidentally acquired or encountered information on everyday-life topics in online or print newspapers in the recent past. Findings indicated that, contrary to expectations, traditional print media still played a role for young people, and social media were perceived as important for communication with friends, rather than for news gathering. Purposeful information seeking was more likely to occur online, but both print and online newspapers retained an incidental role in providing information to students for their everyday lives. Participants used a range of media to suit their particular needs and purposes. Thus, access to a wide variety of sources is important for everyday-life information seeking (ELIS) by young people.     

Use of the mass media for education in Ethiopia

Mass media, radio and television, have been playing a very important role in the formal education of Ethiopian children for a quarter of a century. The chronological development and future plans of their use for educational purposes are described in this paper. Ethiopia is unique among most Third World countries in the sense that the mass media in Ethiopia function under the Ministry of Education, not under the Ministry of Information, and cover almost ninety percent of the population of the country. This might be an example for other Third World countries.     

大众媒介的社会建设功能

文章从媒介可以赋予受众的知情权、话语权、监督权、免责权等方面，论述了大众传媒在促进建设和谐社会中所能够发挥的积极作用。     

Doing relevant, funded mass media research

Motivations for conducting relevant communication research are discussed and examples provided of advantages and pitfalls of seeking funding from government and media institutions.     

Doing relevant,funded mass media research

Motivations for conducting relevant communication research are discussed and examples provided of advantages and pitfalls of seeking funding from government and media institutions.     

大众传播媒介的生命性独立性依存性

本文认为“媒介有机体”和“媒介系统”构成了传播生态理论的两大概念基础。这一理论对大众传播媒介的持续生存能力和依存关系作出了独特的解释，并指出大众传播媒介具有三大特性：生命陛、独立性和依存性。     

Space modulators and the gat people: Ambiguity reduction and mass communications

There are many different ways of looking at mass communications’ basic role. Professor William L. Burke, who teaches broadcasting and film courses at Kansas State University, offers as his thesis that the basic task of communications in general is in reducing ambiguity, and that a labeled space modulator is far better than an unlabeled one in doing this!     

墨西哥政治经济改革对传媒业影响探微

20世纪 8 0年代中后期是战后墨西哥政治经济发展的分水岭 ,从这一时期始 ,墨西哥经济上全面推行以私有化和贸易自由化为主的新自由主义经济改革 ,政治上为多元化、民主化拓宽道路。经济改革加深了墨西哥传媒业“身不由己”依附美国的态势 ,将传媒业的私有化、垄断化程度推向一个新的高度 ;政治改革改写了“政府引而不发 ,报纸明哲保身”的定势 ,传媒界该出手时就出手     

应充分利用大众媒体宣传科技期刊

中国科协自2007年1月在国内率先启动了“科技期刊与大众媒体见面会”制度,作者根据《中华医学杂志》参加见面会的体会,分析这2类媒体结合的潜在市场、未能充分结合的原因及发展前景,提出了应采取的措施,呼吁更多的科技期刊认识到与大众媒体联姻的重要性并积极投入到这项工作中,打造出具有综合影响力的中国科技期刊,使科技成果更好地为提高全民的科学素质服务。     

The impact of the mass media on source commitment

The purpose of this study was to explore the role of the mass media in creating source commitment. The results showed that the type of source commitment studied in the experiment was not significantly affected by the preparation and transmission of mass media messages.     

The mass media of Latin America: Selected information sources

For the past three or jour years, the Department of Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky has been constructing an undergraduate curriculum unlike most others in the country. A key concept in that development has been a seemingly simple definition of terms—what it is the department should be concerned with—and from that, how best to approach the teaching function. That the starting point of defining terms is not so simple is shown here by Dr. James E. Fletcher, assistant professor of telecommunications at Kentucky. Fletcher earned his Ph.D. at the University of Utah in 1910, taught there for a year, and then joined the faculty at Kentucky where he has since been active in the process he discusses.     

我国青年编辑职业认同研究

从职业价值观、角色价值观、职业归属感、积极团结度和职业行为倾向5个维度对我国青年编辑职业认同度进行探究,分析其原因,并找出提升职业认同度的途径和方法。     

我国青年编辑组织承诺研究

组织承诺是组织行为的一个重要领域。青年编辑的组织承诺就是青年编辑愿意为单位付出心力,并希望留在单位服务的意念。我国青年编辑组织承诺结构模型的维度主要包括：感情承诺、规范承诺、经济承诺、机会承诺和理想承诺5个维度。青年编辑应当通过做好职业规划、发挥个人优势、提高职业素养与研究能力等来提高组织承诺。     

社交媒体在我国医疗实践中的应用

总结了国内各类医疗类社交媒体的发展现状,分析了其在医疗实践中的优势和发展趋势,指出了医疗类社交媒体可能面临的挑战和对策。     

我国青年的媒介使用与主观幸福感——基于CGSS2015的经验证据

本文通过CGSS2015的调查数据,将人口统计因素、经济控制因素及媒介使用因素作为测量青年主观幸福感的三个维度,建立有序回归模型后得出结论:青年的教育程度、社会保障、婚姻与工作状况、年龄、社会阶层自我评价及健康状况等人口统计因素差异会影响主观幸福感;经济控制因素中的人均文体支出对主观幸福感具有显著的正相关作用,人均医疗卫生支出会减少其主观幸福感;衡量主观幸福感的媒介使用因素中,手机定制消息的使用对青年主观幸福感的提升与促进作用最为显著且稳健,其它媒体使用与主观幸福感的关系受到经济与人口因素的影响。     

青少年阅读习惯研究

阅读对青少年的学习起着很重要的作用。研究青少年阅读习惯,有助于提高他们阅读的积极性和阅读效率,促使青少年形成良好的阅读习惯。本文主要是从课内阅读习惯和课外阅读习惯两个方面来进行阐述。