A lack of good information about what youth are doing with new media stimulates fears and hopes about the relationship between young people and digital technologies. This article focuses on new modes of inquiry into youth new media use, highlighting the challenges, complexities, and opportunities inherent in studying young people's digital…

This paper argues for a clearer conceptualization of media stimuli in experimental research and identifies 3 issues impeding our understanding of message processing: (a) assumptions bolstered by manipulation checks about homogeneity of response to media stimuli, (b) conflation of 2 different classes of variables--media attributes and psychological…

Criticizes the haphazard accumulation of journalism research knowledge and proposes more attention be given to quality systematic research, suggesting that the payoff will come in the classroom. (TO)

Analyzes the amount of space six American and four European newspapers give to local, national, and international news. Concludes that all of the newspapers have a localized point of view, but that each displays significant differences in the components and scale of localization. (FL)

Background/Context: Media comparison studies aim to compare the relative effectiveness of different media at promoting educational outcomes. While these types of studies remain popular, they have been under attack for more than two decades. Critics of media comparison studies claim that continued studies are unhelpful because a great number of…

A SURVEY OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA RESEARCH IN 19 LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES WAS CONDUCTED AND ASSESSED. ITS PURPOSE WAS TO IDENTIFY, REPORT, AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ON THOSE AGENCIES AND PERSONNEL ENGAGED IN SUCH RESEARCH. A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS DETERMINED WHICH AGENCIES WERE CONDUCTING OR HAD ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL MEDIA RESEARCH. A QUESTIONNAIRE…

Finds 12 to 15 reader interest clusters across newspaper markets. (FL)

Compares interpretive media research with traditional media research. Suggests that interpretivism's distinctiveness from earlier work is not always entirely clear and that, through an analysis of the challenges that interpretivism poses to preceding traditions, these challenges may be illusory. (MG)

Attempts to demonstrate the value of conjunctural interpretive analysis (which is multilevel, multimodal, and explicitly theoretical and political) through an interpretation of the culture of homelessness in the United States. Addresses differences between positivist epistemologies. (SR)

The introduction to the theme of the issue of AVCR gives the rationale for concentrating on aptitude-treatment interaction research and summarizes and comments on the contribution of each author. (Author)

The highlights of articles evaluating the results of media research over the past 25 years are briefly reviewed, and the constructionists' and the reductionists' approaches to media research are described. It is pointed out that for the researcher in media, the implications of a constructionist approach are quite clear, at least from a…

A COURSE WAS DEVELOPED TO PREPARE CLASSROOM TEACHERS TO PERFORM ADEQUATE MEDIA RESEARCH. UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, STUDENTS WOULD BE ABLE TO INITIATE, PERFORM, ANALYZE, AND REPORT RESEARCH THAT SHOULD PASS THE INSPECTION OF SPECIALISTS IN SUCH AREAS AS STATISTICS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND EDUCATIONAL MEDIA. THE COURSE WAS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE,…

Responds to Jeffery Bineham's article, "A Historical Account of the Hypodermic Model in Mass Communication" (same issue). Argues that the history of the hypodermic model (viewing media's all-powerful and direct influence on society) is distinct from the history and literature of empirical research on mass media effects. (MM)

Author suggests research techniques that would augment the breadth, scope, analytical and evaluative qualities of legal citation. (HB)