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Mass Communication (mass + communication)

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Mood Adjustment via Mass Communication

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, Issue 2 2003
Silvia Knobloch
The author has proposed and experimentally tested the mood adjustment approach, complementing mood management theory. Participants were placed in an initial mood and led to anticipate different activities after the waiting period. The upcoming activities were either dynamic or lengthy (arousal) and associated with either pleasure or performance (valence), resulting in a 2 × 2 design. During an ostensible waiting period, participants listened to choices of popular music at their will in a computer-aided procedure. This music taken from the Top 30 charts had been evaluated in a pretest for energy and joyfulness as musical qualities in order to create sets of musical selections that were either low or high in these qualities. In the experiment proper, selective exposure to energetic-joyful music as dependent measure was unobtrusively recorded via software. Results regarding self-exposure across time show that patterns of music listening differ with initial mood and anticipation, lending support to mood adjustment hypotheses. Mood management processes occurred in the beginning of the waiting period, whereas mood adjustment purposes set in toward the anticipated activity. [source]

Third-person perception of television-viewing behavior

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, Issue 1 2000
W Peiser
Both conceptually and empirically, the third-person effect has been confined to the effects of mass communication (people tend to believe others are more susceptible to media influences than they are themselves, and people tend to act accordingly). This study investigated whether this phenomenon extends to the perception of other people's media use, and whether it can be explained by a general tendency to underrate the education of others. We interviewed a sample of 200 adults in south-western Germany, focusing on television-viewing behavior. As hypothesized, people tend to perceive others as more inclined toward undesirable viewing behaviors. We also hypothesized and found that third-person perception tends to be stronger if the others are perceived to be less well educated. [source]

"Silent Orality": Toward a Conceptualization of the Digital Oral Features in CMC and SMS Texts

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 4 2010
Oren Soffer
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) and short messages service (SMS) play an increasing role in contemporary interpersonal communication. Studies on the linguistic style of these means often refer to its hybrid discursive nature, which combines the formal written register and the informal oral features. This article conceptualizes the oral features of digital CMC and SMS text against the background of two previous eras of orality: the residual-manuscript orality of the Middle Ages and the "secondary orality" of electronic mass communication. It argues that digital orality is unique in the silence of its manifestations, as texts are not converted into the audial sphere. This new type of orality is also unique in that it is celebrated: Its users intentionally toy with the language. « L'oralité silencieuse » : pour une conceptualisation des caractéristiques orales numériques de la CMC et des messages SMS La communication médiée par ordinateur (CMC) et les services d'envoi de messages courts (SMS) jouent un rôle croissant dans la communication interpersonnelle contemporaine. Les études menées sur le style linguistique de ces moyens de communication font souvent référence à sa nature discursive hybride, qui combine le registre formel de l'écrit et les caractéristiques informelles de l'oral. Cet article conceptualise les caractéristiques orales de la CMC et du SMS avec en toile de fond deux ères de l'oralité précédentes : l'oralité résiduelle-manuscrite du Moyen Âge et l'« oralité secondaire » de la communication électronique de masse. Il soumet que l'oralité numérique est unique dans le silence de ses manifestations, puisque les textes ne sont pas convertis dans la sphère auditive. Ce nouveau type d'oralité est aussi unique en ce qu'il est célébré : ses utilisateurs jouent intentionnellement avec la langue. ,,Stumme Oralität": Zu einem Konzept digitaler oraler Eigenschaften in computervermittelten Texten und SMS-Nachrichten Computervermittelte Kommunikation und SMS-Nachrichten spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle in der heutigen interpersonalen Kommunikation. Studien zum linguistischen Stil dieser Mittel weisen oft auf deren hybride diskursive Natur hin, die das offiziell geschriebene Register und informelle mündliche Eigenschaften kombiniert. Dieser Artikel konzeptualisiert die mündlichen Eigenschaften von digitaler computervermittelter Kommunikation und SMS-Texten vor dem Hintergrund zweier vorangegangener Epochen von Mündlichkeit: die residuelle Oralität des Mittelalters und die ,sekundäre Oralität, der elektronischen Massenkommunikation. Es wird argumentiert, dass die digitale Oralität hinsichtlich ihrer Manifestationen einzigartig ist, da Texte nicht in die audiale Sphäre überführt werden. Dieser neue Typ von Oralität ist auch dahingehend einzigartig, da er gefeiert wird: Als des Nutzers absichtliches Spiel mit der Sprache. La "Oralidad Silenciosa": Hacia una Conceptualización de las Características Orales Digitales de los Textos de la CMC y los SMS Resumen La comunicación mediada por la computadora (CMC) y el servicio de mensajes cortos (SMS) juegan un rol creciente en la comunicación interpersonal contemporánea. Los estudios sobre el estilo lingüístico de estos medios se refieren a menudo a su naturaleza discursiva híbrida, que combina el registro escrito formal y las características informales de lo oral. Este artículo conceptualiza las características orales de los textos digitales de la CMC and los SMS contra los antecedentes de 2 eras previas de la oralidad: el manuscrito residual de la oralidad de la Edad Media y la ,segunda oralidad' de los medios electrónicos de comunicación masiva. Discuto que la oralidad digital es única en el silencio de sus manifestaciones, dado que los textos no son convertidos a la esfera auditiva. Este tipo nuevo de oralidad es único también porque es celebrado: sus usuarios juegan intencionalmente con el lenguaje. [source]

Rethinking Nationality in the Context of Globalization

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 1 2004
Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
Globalization poses a significant challenge to the nation as a social form and consequently to theories that rely on nationality as a conceptual category. This article reviews a range of approaches to the conceptualization of nationality within mass communication, media theory, and cultural studies: mainstream nation-based theories, critical nation-based theories, relational theories, globalization theories, and contextualist theories. An analytical strategy is then proposed within which nationality is conceptualized as one particular logic among others that organize economic, political, technological, and cultural territories and flows. [source]