The newsroom is a powerful influence in a journalist's identity formation. Research has yet to verify the socializing impact of academia. This research utilized the quantitative survey method applying it to undergraduate journalism students (n = 798) to assess how academic status relates to students' degree motivations, life values, and technology…

This project assessed how an international service-learning course affected mass communication students' knowledge of professionalism. Using written reflections and focus group transcripts from four courses that took place in Central America, we observed that placing students in immersive environments, where they are able to work on authentic…

This project explored the experiences of a small sample (N = 6) of Australian academics with the use of digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool in higher education contexts. This article describes two case studies of academic uses of digital storytelling, along with interpretive analysis of six semi-structured interviews of academics working…

Despite clear European and Dutch policies about media education, there is currently no media education curriculum in Dutch schools. A survey among preadolescents (n = 257) in six primary schools in the Netherlands included questions regarding media access, fears, risks, parental mediation of television and the internet, and the need for media…

In this article, I draw on Judith Butler's notion of performativity to investigate the role of digital technologies in processes of gendered subjectification (or "girling") in elite girls' education. Elite girls' schooling is a site where the potential of digital technologies in mediating student-led constructions and explorations of…

Surveys 300 journalism professors responsible for their department's computer writing labs to determine who runs the labs, for what aims and purposes, and at what cost. Discusses the implications of the results for faculty in visual communication. (MG)

Replicates and updates the only other research that examined the adoption of computer-assisted reporting instruction in journalism schools quantitatively. Compares the different computerized sources being used in newsrooms and classrooms, and elicits the reasons that these sources are being used in each environment. Concludes many programs are…

The rapid adoption of computers for story writing by the mass media revolutionized some aspects of the journalistic art. A survey of journalism programs assessed the spread of computer technology from the newsrooms to its college and university journalism classrooms. Of the 271 institutions responding to the survey, 220 had adopted computers and…

To determine the scope and nature of the magazine curriculum, a study examined journalism schools with magazine programs, the faculty who teach magazine courses, the subjects of the courses, and the impact of computer technology. Questionnaires were sent to 210 AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) magazine…