| This volume offers unique and timely insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. It provides an overview of online newspapers, including current trends and legal issues and covering issues of credibility and perceptions by online news users.
The heart of the book is formed by empirical studies-mostly social surveys-coming out of the media effects and uses traditions. The chapters are grounded in theoretical frameworks and bring much-needed theory to the study of online news. The frameworks guiding these studies include media credibility, the third-person effect, media displacement, and uses and gratifications. The book ends with a section devoted to research on online news postings.
This book is appropriate for scholars, researchers, and students in journalism, mass communication, new media, and related areas, and will be of interest to anyone examining how people use the web as a source for news.
This book examines issues related to the public and online news. The heart of the book involves empirical studies—mostly social surveys—grounded in the media effects and uses traditions. Most of these chapters are grounded in theoretical frameworks and bring much-needed theory to the study of online news. Some of the frameworks guiding these studies include media credibility, the third-person effect, media displacement, and uses and gratifications. The majority of these studies were conducted by the editors. Prior to these empirical studies, Part I of the book includes extended essays examining online newspapers, original online news, and legal issues related to online news. The book ends with Part III, devoted to research on online chat rooms.
About the Authors
Michael B. Salwen is a professor in the School of Communication at the University of Miami. His research interests include the social effects of mass communication, the media and public opinion, and international communication. He is associate editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, former book review editor of Journalism Studies, and former book review editor of World Communication. Salwen is the former head of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's International Communication division. He serves or has served on the advisory board of many journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication, Journal of Communication, World Communication, and Communication Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996, with Don Stacks) and Evelyn Waugh in Ethiopia: The Story Behind Scoop (Edward Mellen Press, 2001). Salwen has published in many leading journals, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Communication, Media Psychology, the Howard Journal of Communications, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Broadcasting 6- Electronic Media, and Communication Research.
Bruce Garrison is a professor in the School of Communication at the University of Miami. Garrison is author of several books, including Computer-Assisted Reporting (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2nd edition, 1998) and Successful Strategies for Computer-Assisted Reporting (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996). He is also author of Professional Feature Writing (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 4th edition, 2004). |
