Download or read book Exemplification in Communication written by Dolf Zillmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new conceptual framework for exemplification, a coherent theoretical approach based on contemporary psychological models of information processing, and an exhaustive integration of the pertinent research demonstrations. Focus is on the news media, but the influence of fiction and quasi-fiction is also considered. The informational competition between concrete, verbal, or pictorial exemplification and abstract, mostly quantitative exposition is analyzed. Implications for issue perception, including delayed consequences are also examined. Exemplification is subjected to conceptual scrutiny and a new theoretical framework is offered. Contemporary psychological paradigms are applied to predict effects of various forms of exemplification. Perhaps most important, novel experimental research is presented to document the specific consequences of exemplifications featured in the news, even of those featured in fiction. Finally, recommendations for information providers and recipients are derived from the research demonstration in order to advance media literacy specific to exemplification. This unique volume: * provides a comprehensive account of the power of case-report selection in the manipulation of perceptions of social issues, * addresses exemplification in communication, i.e., the influence of case reports in the news media, primarily, on the perception of pertinent social issues, * offers an empirical assessment of the practice of issue exemplifying by the media, * gives an exhaustive account of representative research on exemplification effects on issue perception--primarily by the news media, but also by the entertainment media, and * includes a compilation of guidelines for information providers and recipients in efforts at creating media literacy with regard to exemplification.

Download or read book Exemplification and Categorization written by Alessandra Barotto and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to examine the relationship between exemplification and categorization, using linguistic data from Japanese to better understand how people create and communicate conceptual categories in real-life situations (cf. the notion of ad hoc categories). In the book, exemplification is defined in functional terms as a process through which a speaker signals that a given entity should be construed as representative of a larger category of similar entities. The status of example can thus be encoded by means of dedicated analytical markers that overtly signal the exemplifying relation (e.g. for example), but also by making explicit reference to the larger category from which the examples have been selected. Through a case-study on four Japanese exemplifying markers (ya, nado, tari, toka), this book aims to understand (i) how examples are used and encoded by speakers to make reference to conceptual categories, (ii) what types of categories speakers can create and communicate by means of exemplification, (iii) how the relationship between exemplification and categorization can be used by speakers to achieve specific discourse effects, such as vagueness and politeness.

Download or read book McQuail s Mass Communication Theory written by Denis McQuail and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Denis McQuail′s Mass Communication Theory is not just a seminal text in the study of media and society - it is a benchmark for understanding and appreciating the long and winding road people and their media have taken to get us here." - Mark Deuze, Indiana University and Leiden University "This is a unique work tested by time and generations of students around the world - North, South, East and West." - Kaarle Nordenstreng, University of Tampere "McQuail′s Mass Communication Theory continues to be the clearest and best introduction to this sprawling field." - Anders Hansen, University of Leicester With over 125,000 copies sold, McQuail′s Mass Communication Theory has been the benchmark for studying media and communication for more than 25 years. It remains the most authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the field and offers unmatched coverage of the research literature. It covers everything a student needs to know of the diverse forms of mass communication today, including television, radio, newspapers, film, music, the internet and other forms of new media. Denis McQuail shows that more than ever, theories of mass communication matter for the broader understanding of society and culture. Unmatched in coverage and used across the globe, this book includes: Explorations of new media, globalization, work, economy, governance, policy, media audiences and effects New boxed case studies on key research publications, to familiarize students with the critical research texts in the field Definitions, examples, and illustrations throughout to bring abstract concepts to life. McQuail′s Mass Communication Theory is the indispensable resource no student of media and communication studies can afford to be without.

Download or read book Handbook of Political Communication Research written by Lynda Lee Kaid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-19 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Political Communication Research is a benchmark volume, defining the most important and significant thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. Editor Lynda Lee Kaid brings together exemplary scholars to explore the current state of political communication research in each of its various facets. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of political communication scholarship, contributions represent research coming from communication, political science, journalism, and marketing disciplines, among others. The Handbook demonstrates the broad scope of the political communication discipline and emphasizes theoretical overviews and research synthesis, with each chapter providing discussion of the major lines of research, theory, and findings for the area of concern. Chapters are organized into sections covering: *The theoretical background, history, structure, and diversity of political communication; *Messages predominant in the study of political communication, ranging from classical rhetorical modes to political advertising and debates; *News media coverage of politics, political issues, and political institutions; *Public opinion and the audiences of political communication; *European and Asian perspectives on political communication; and *Trends in political communication study, including the Internet, and its role in changing the face of political communication. As a comprehensive and thorough examination of the political communication discipline--the first in over two decades--this Handbook is a "must-have" resource for scholars and researchers in political communication, mass communication, and political science. It will also serve readers in public opinion, political psychology, and related areas.

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Risk Communication written by Hyunyi Cho and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of risk communication, the field’s leading experts summarize theory, current research, and practice in a range of disciplines and describe effective communication approaches for risk situations in diverse contexts, such as health, environment, science, technology, and crisis. Offering practical insights, the contributors consider risk communication in all contexts and applications—interpersonal, organizational, and societal—offering a wider view of risk communication than other volumes. Importantly, the handbook emphasizes the communication side of risk communication, providing integrative knowledge about the models, audiences, messages, and the media and channels necessary for effective risk communication that enables informed judgments and actions regarding risk. Editors Hyunyi Cho, Torsten Reimer, and Katherine McComas have significantly contributed to the field of risk communication with this important reference work—a must-have for students, scholars, and risk and crisis communication professionals.

Download or read book Arguing for a General Framework for Mass Media Scholarship written by W. James Potter and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arguing for a General Framework for Mass Media Scholarship challenges scholars and students to consider and reconsider what we know about media and how we think about media. As such, the book provides an important framework for thinking about knowledge—regardless of the discipline... The text provides all of the necessary tools to move the field forward in a way that will increase the rigor of the work being done and augment the overall profile of the discipline." –Dana Mastro, University of Arizona In this groundbreaking book, W. James Potter presents an innovative perspective to media scholars and students who are frustrated with the fragmentation of research findings across so many journals, books, and fields. Arguing for a General Framework for Mass Media Scholarship presents a clear plan for a more efficient way to build knowledge about the mass media so that it can be better organized and made more useful. Key Features Conducts an in-depth analysis of mass media scholarship′s four major facets of effects, content, audiences, and organizations Presents a significant shift in conceptualizing media effects and ways research can be conducted to generate more useful knowledge about media influence Develops "narrative line" as a tool to guide analyses about how content decisions are made by producers Synthesizes a system of explanation about why audiences attend to certain messages and how individuals construct meaning from those messages Incorporates an analysis of mass media organizations to provide greater context of understanding messages and their effects on individuals and macro units in society "The book will play an important role in providing structure to a broad, fragmented discipline. I believe it will, at the very least, create important dialogues about what we now know/understand about areas of mass media, and where we should move as a discipline... This book is clearly a ′call to arms′ for mass media scholars to ratchet up the quality of research (and what we know), to see the interconnections within and among strands of scholarship, and to move forward in a more efficient, organized manner. Professor Potter should be commended for this." —Roger Cooper, Ohio University "This book is...that call to action that comes forward every few years, to wake us up and challenge our ways of doing things, not by being radical, but via synthesis... I′ve been waiting for several years for a book like this." —Sahara Byrne, Cornell University

Download or read book Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research in Communication and Media ICORCOM 2021 written by Oktaviana Purnamasari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. The 1st International Conference On Research in Communication and Media (ICORCOM)is an international conference organized by Institute of Research and Community Services (LPPM), University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta, to discuss the most recent scientific studies in the field of communication and media in Indonesia and around the world. The theme raised in ICORCOM is Today's Global Transformation in Communication and Media Studies. It is known that the science of communication and media is very dynamic and always develops according to the times and existing technology. So it is hoped that through this ICORCOM it can contribute to updating information and studies related to communication and media studies. With the theme Today's Global Transformation in Communication and Media Studies, we encourage scholars to answer key questions related to developments taking place in communication fields such as public relations, advertising, broadcasting, and many others. ICORCOM will be a forum that actively engages students in conference as well as other scientific competitions. The findings and recommendations made at this international forum will have a significant impact on the advancement of science and practice in related industries. As a result, the beneficiaries of this forum are not only important for academics and students, but also for other stakeholders such as government, practitioners, policymakers, and others.

Download or read book Media Effects written by Jennings Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition updates and expands the scholarship of the 1st edition, examining media effects in

Download or read book The Indirect Effects of Exemplification in Two sided Messages of Risk written by Graham Nichols Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the role of negative affect as a mediator of exemplification effects within the context of two-sided messages. To address this research, the dissertation integrates theories from information processing (e.g., affect primacy), information seeking (e.g., Risk Information Seeking and Processing model; RISP), and risk perception (e.g., affect heuristic) with the mass communication theory of exemplification. Focusing on the effects of information processing and risk perception, Chapter 3 reports on an experimental study that empirically tests the degree to which exemplars, by way of negative affect, influence readers' two-sided message recall and risk perception surrounding two controversial risk issues: vaccination and raw milk. Most important, the study bridges research on affect and risk perception with exemplification theory, while also providing practical guidelines for improved risk communication within the fields of public health and journalism. Chapter 4 documents a study that empirically tests the degree to which exemplars, by way of negative affect, influence readers' information seeking intentions and behavior, notably online comment reading. Most important, the study expands the RISP model by (1) bridging risk information seeking with exemplification theory (2) situating RISP within a novel methodological setting (i.e., a randomized experiment), and (3) measuring a specific information seeking behavior not yet studied in RISP (i.e., online comment reading). Overall, findings from the dissertation can (1) help expand our understanding of exemplification theory as it relates to visual exemplars and balanced reporting; (2) more precisely identify sources of risk amplification, uneven recall, and risk information seeking; (3) provide policy tools for improved risk communication in the field of journalism and public health.

Download or read book Media Effects written by W. James Potter and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Media Effects offers students an in-depth examination of the media's constant influence on individuals and society. W. James Potter frames media's effects in two templates: influence on individuals and influence on larger social structures and institutions. By positioning the different types of effects in the forefront, Potter helps students understand the full range of media effects, how they manifest themselves, and the factors that that are likely to bring these effects into being. Throughout the book, Potter encourages students to analyze their own experiences by searching for evidence of these effects in their own lives, making the content meaningful on a personal level." -- Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Communicating Strategically in English as a Lingua Franca written by Janin Jafari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been noticeable demographic changes recently in the use of English around the world. English as a medium of communication is now the contact language of native speakers from many diverse speech communities who interact with each other in multilingual contexts. The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and its implications has become a hot topic in applied linguistics and English studies. Communicating Strategically in English as a Lingua Franca reflects the growing interest in achieving communicative effectiveness in ELF situations and provides a comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of ELF. It analyzes and interprets the author's own large corpus of naturally occurring spoken interactions and focuses on identifying innovative employments in the communicative strategies and pragmatics of speakers involved in ELF interactions. In doing so, this book makes a considerable contribution to the growing field of empirical studies in ELF. It explores the usage of pragmatic strategies and highlights their significant role in communicative effectiveness in ELF interactions. In showing the processes of classifying communication strategies involved in the identification of newly observed communication strategies, this book will be of great interest to English linguists, applied linguists, graduate and undergraduate students of English, English Language Teaching material developers and teachers of English.

Download or read book Integrative Framing Analysis written by Viorela Dan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then demonstrated through a study investigating the way words and visuals are used to frame people living with HIV/AIDS in various communication contexts: the news, public service announcements and special interest publications. This application of integrative framing analysis reveals differences between verbal frames and visual frames in the same messages, underscoring the importance of looking at these frames together.

Download or read book Exemplification of Health Messages in the Media written by Tracy Renee Worrell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication written by Teresa L. Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication brings together the current body of scholarly work in health communication. With its expansive scope, it offers an introduction for those new to this area, summarizes work for those already learned in the area, and suggests avenues for future research on the relationships between communicative processes and health/health care delivery. This second edition of the Handbook has been organized to reflect the goals of health communication: understanding to make informed decisions and to promote formal and informal systems of care linked to health and well-being. It emphasizes work in such areas as barriers to disclosure in family conversations and medical interactions, access to popular media and advertising, and individual searches online for information and support to guide decisions and behaviors with health consequences. This edition also adds an overview of methods used in health communication and the unique challenges facing health communication researchers applying traditional methods to efforts to gain reliable and valid evidence about the role of communication for health. It introduces the promise of translational research being conducted by health communication researchers from multiple disciplines to form transdisciplinary theories and teams to increase the well-being of not only humans but the systems of care within their nations. Arguably the most comprehensive scholarly resource available for study in this area, the Routledge Handbook of Health Communication serves an invaluable role and reference for students, researchers, and scholars doing work in health communication.

Download or read book Research Anthology on Managing Crisis and Risk Communications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of crisis, it is crucial that information is disseminated quickly and accurately to the appropriate channels. In today’s technological world, there is a plethora of misinformation that can negatively sway individuals and provide them with false reports. To ensure information is distributed appropriately, organizations must implement a plan to ensure their communication is effective. Further study on the best practices and challenges of managing crisis and risk communications is required to ensure organizations are prepared. The Research Anthology on Managing Crisis and Risk Communications discusses strategies and tactics to effectively manage communication in times of crisis and considers the difficulties associated with maintaining a clear line of information. The book also provides an overview of the potential future directions for this field to improve communications moving forward. Covering key topics such as misinformation, technology, leadership, and human health, this major reference work is ideal for managers, business owners, organization leaders, industry professionals, government officials, policymakers, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Download or read book Effective Crisis Communication written by Robert R. Ulmer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated fourth edition includes the latest theories and innovative approaches for handling crisis and, unlike other crisis communication texts, explores how effective crisis communication can result in organizational opportunity, renewal and growth.