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Woodward, Wayne – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1996
Suggests that a systematic triadic theory could prove relevant to contemporary understandings of communication. Reviews historical foundations of triadic theory, identifying semiotic, sociological, and interactionist conceptions of the triad. Outlines a transactional-participatory understanding of the triad, based on a mutual-personal model of…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Cultural Context, Models

Allor, Martin – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1988
Replies to responses (same issue) to the author's "Relocating the Site of the Audience." (MS)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audiences, Communication Research, Interdisciplinary Approach

Zelizer, Barbie – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1993
Proposes viewing journalists as members of an interpretive community (not a profession) united by its shared discourse and collective interpretations of key public events. Applies the frame of the interpretive community to journalistic discourse about two events central for American journalists--Watergate and McCarthyism. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Journalism

Hanczor, Robert S. – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1997
Suggests a new academic perspective for investigating the nature of mass-mediated public controversies based on Stuart Hall's theory of articulation. This theory is appropriated to help identify the empowering associations made between the individuals and groups participating in the 1993 controversy over the embattled television program "NYPD…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Higher Education, Ideology, Models

Allor, Martin – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1988
Analyzes the status of the audience as a theoretical construct. Argues against the usefulness of a unified conception of audience effects. Develops an epistemological framework for reconstructive theorizations of the concrete structures and practices studied as audience issues. (MS)
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audiences, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis

Steiner, Linda – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1986
Suggests how Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" has import for the understanding of both the theory and practice of communication. (PD)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Models

Schiff, Frederick – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1994
Enumerates and juxtaposes some of the enduring empirical regularities that opinion polls have found. Details the limits of the key construct of "attitude structure." Critiques the intrapsychic model, and outlines the features of an alternative model of belief systems based on alternative methodologies. (RS)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Literature Reviews

Saferstein, Barry – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1994
Suggests that public opinion exists the form of interactionally developed, socially distributed folk models of the world. Suggests that actual public opinion is much more complex in its development and operation than the individualistic model of opinion formation suggests. Argues that opinion researchers need to address moment-to-moment…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Literature Reviews

Gonzalez, Hernando – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1989
Uses Third World development campaigns to examine how current interpretations of the interactive model in communication have confounded two dimensions of communications--information processing and social relationship. Suggests an analytic framework for feedback using a revised interpretation of the interactive model. (MM)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Developing Nations, Feedback

Bachen, Christine M.; Illouz, Eva – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1996
Shows that long before it translates into actual behavior, the content and forms that romance assumes in the postmodern nexus of media and the market shape children's romantic imagination. Explores how children's imagined vision of romance moved from one molded by media to one characterized by a tension between what media promised and their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Communication Research, Cultural Influences