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This paper will address two separate but linked contradictory phenomena within the greater discursive universe of hiphop culture, non-normative masculinity and black technological identity, or the ‘thug-nerd’. First, I aim to explore a particular instance of a self-avowed, overdetermined performance of the black geek in the work of the artist Fatlip. Second, I examine the links between music technology and black identity through an analysis of the black producer whose relationship to complex musical technologies is often masked, elided or reconfigured under broader assumptions of either black technophobia or an anti-intellectual hypermasculinity. Here the thug-nerd indicates the degree to which black technological identity is structured not through references to normative white or Asian constructions of the techno-geek, but rather re-presents a long alternative history of black engagements with technology. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces a discussion session titled "Top Papers in Sports Communication" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "Top Faculty Papers in Ethnicity and Race in Communication (ERIC)" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "Top Four Papers in Interpersonal Communication" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "ICA Affiliate Journals: Communicationand Society" and "Studies in Communication/Media"-Presentation and Top Papers" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "Top Student Papers in ERIC" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "Top Papers in Organizational Communication" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "Top Papers in Health Communication" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article offers information on the discussion titled "Top Papers in Intercultural Communication," to be held during the International Communication Association's 2016 annual conference, featuring topics such as community storytelling in a Californian Ethnoburbia, and intercultural research.

The article announces a discussion session titled "ICA Plenary Interactive Paper/Poster Session 1" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "Competitive Papers in Global Media and Culture" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "Top Faculty Papers in Public Relations" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

The article announces a discussion session titled "Media-Related Health Communication Research" to be held during the conference of the International Communication Association in 2016.

Online news has become one of the major news sources in the 21st century and more people read news on the Web. The aim of this paper is to examine the news seeking behavior of the online news audience. The paper attempts to put the study into the context of digital society and link the online audience with the online medium format and Net user characteristics. Since online news audience adopts a “purposive news seeking mode” to locate news they want to read, this paper tries to identify the key elements in their online news consumption. Findings indicate that the online news seeking mode is characterized by convenient search, timely search, pick and choose (selective search), target search, non-linear reading and comparative reading. Online audiences’ news seeking behavior is affected by the Net users’ characteristics and the “open” format of the online news media. Three types of online news readers are identified, namely “demanding readers,” “pragmatic readers” and “casual readers.” ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Returning to Davison’s original formulation of the third-person effect, this paper argues that TPE is a theoretical framework accounting for a particular process of media effects: that of behaviors in relation to the media conditioned by the biased perceptions about media effects. Behavioral consequences of the third-person perceptions must be explicated more carefully in terms of those targeted at or about the media messages in question. Analyzing data from a web-based survey, this paper shows that self-other perceptual gaps vary across messages with desirable or undesirable presumed influences; such gaps predict inclinations to engage in restrictive or corrective behaviors with regard to the messages of undesirable influences and promotional behaviors with regard to the messages of desirable influences. In addition, behavioral consequences are related to different elements of the lay theories about media effects called “media effect schemas.” This study also shows that perceived effects on self vs. on other have different behavioral consequences. Implications for future TPE studies are discussed. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines e-democracy in the era of ‘read-write’ media by comparing the goals and structures of e-government with community-based media initiatives. I draw directly on Steven Coleman’s (2003) finding that political apathy can be attributed to the culture of institutional politics, a culture that alienates large parts of the population within Western democracies. Adequate representation requires that politicians understand the views and concerns of the people they claim to represent. Is this aspect of democracy diminishing? If so, how can politicians access ‘what it feels like’ to be a citizen? How do we know that our concerns are being taken into account? What is the role of the media in this equation? Participatory, community-based media would seem to hold at least a partial solution to this problem as it allows citizens to bring their concerns into the public sphere. Where e-government has chiefly concentrated on the provision of services and community empowerment through policy deliberation, this paper looks at how broader community communication, including personal narrative and stories, may contribute to the project of e-democracy. Participation and representation have become defining issues in a globalising world. As such, the history of community-based media provides some valuable lessons for e-democracy. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper follows a 'therapeutic discourse' realized in the Israeli media around what the paper conceptualizes as one 'traumatic photograph' (Wigoder, 2001: 18-19), a visual genre based on Barthes’ description of the 'shock photos' (1993: 32-34; 1997: 71-73). The photographic narrative begins with a complication, in which one of the most memorable images of the second Intifada, the bloodstained hands of young Paelestinian, were photographed at police headquarters in Ramallah immediately following the lynching. The narrative's resolution occurred eight months later with this image’s antithetical repetition, in which a photograph of the same person, chained in a detention cell of the Israeli General Security Services with his hands bound, was distributed to all major Israeli newspapers. By examining the visual narrative constructed through various media formats, I propose an analytical framework for an encounter between a viewer who identifies with the victim, an Israeli-Jew in this case, and the images of which the narrative consists. My intention in using this type of analysis is to provide an account of several processes involved in the production and consumption of traumatic and healing photographs in contemporary violent conflict, and specifically for the ways in which visual archives work within national conflicts. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since its inception, agenda setting research has been grounded in psychological theories which posit the role of salience in the formation of opinions. Media effects are explained through the media’s ability to report certain issues rather than others, thereby enabling or disabling individuals from recalling particular aspects of a public controversy. This paper argues that such a psychological model can not explain observed media effects for issues that are already of high salience, i.e. the ability of the media to move public opinion on issues that are already broadly discussed and highly relevant. Instead, this paper will offer an alternative theory for media framing grounded in the psychological and rhetorical theories of Kenneth Burke. Specifically, it will be argued that Burke’s pentad and his description of how pentadic ratios can affect perceptions offers an alternative methodology for investigating media effects. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking it to the Streets: Mainstream Media Coverage of Anti-Global Capital Protests Abstract Submitted to the International Communication Association 2003 Conference This paper examines mainstream media coverage of events staged by global capitalists at the turn of the twenty-first century and the protests consistently mounted against them. It begins with the "Battle of Seattle" in the winter of 1999, when 70,000 people shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Over the next two years, scores of protests against global capitalism were mounted at similar gatherings in the United States and around the world, including Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Porto Alegre, Madrid, Barcelona, Goteburg, Davos, Salzburg, London, Paris, and Genoa. The Big Media could not ignore these protests, but they did strive to symbolically contain them. As one participant-observer told In These Times, "Most of what has been written is so inaccurate that I can?t decide if the reporters in question should be charged with conspiracy or simply incompetence." This paper combines textual analysis with political economy to examine the specific strategies employed by the media to symbolically contain the protests. These strategies include the depiction of anti-globalization activists as a fractious and disparate lot with too many different causes and internal conflicts to sustain a unified movement, and a focus on the police as a highly trained and disciplined force whose difficult job it was to protect people and private property by outwitting protesters. I believe the topic is particularly relevant to the theme of the 2003 ICA conference, "Border Crossings," both because it combines political economy with textual analysis and because it examines media coverage of the people?s attempts to "crash the gates" of parties of the wealthy and powerful throughout the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based primarily on communication science literature available and taught in the German-speaking world. Firstly, it should be noted that this contribution to the theme of the conference is not finalized but is an ongoing work in progress. By the actual conference date, theoretical deduction will have been complemented by first empirical results on the themes presented here. By then the respective borders referenced in this paper will also have been examined and positioned within the context of their theoretical basis. Editorial departments of newspapers in Switzerland, Germany and the USA will have been analyzed empirically, allowing for comparison. The link to the conference theme of "Communication in Borderlands" is established by presenting two borders. On the one hand, "personal borderlands" are identified as different wishes and requirements of newspaper management and newspaper staff within existing organizations. On the other hand, this paper assesses "disciplinary borderlands"; how these can be made accessible and usable for communication science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a paper highlighting the challenges of mobile access to online reviews and price comparison in Japan. The paper was presented at the 61st International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference, held at Boston, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2011. It explores the objective of the Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) project, which was launched in 2006, with a leading principle that customers must have freedom, and not be slaves to vendors.

The self-help industry is rife with books offering advice in relational communication. Interpersonal communication experts should be concerned with the credibility of these self-help authors and what advice is dispensed. Study one of this paper involved an examination of the qualifications of 31 popular self-help authors in relational communication. The results revealed that although many authors had earned Ph.D.s, none had degrees in communication and most had not published any empirical research. Study two analyzed fourteen books for their content and the type of evidence used. Five common themes were revealed including using a banking analogy, dividing couples into types, elaborating on a series of steps for the strategies offered, referring to childhood as a cause for current relational problems, and offering exercises to implement the strategies offered. Most authors relied solely on anecdotal evidence for their claims. Implications for future research in the area of interpersonal communication are discussed. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempted to explore the concept of a global community investigating if and how matters of difference and diversity are incorporated in its theorizing. Media appears as a central actor in the global circulation of meanings and images of contemporaries. While the literature is divided between visions of homogeneity and heterogeneity, and complicated by how individuals, nations, civilizations, or humanity are conceptualized in a global culture, this essay suggested that a world community must commence from embracing heterogeneity as its chief project – and as its most obvious solution. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reports the results of two experiments on the role of situation models and linkages between models on movie comprehension. In both experiments, participants watch the last 45 minutes of Alfred HitchockÂ’s Rear Window . Half of the participants watched the movie in English and half watched in French with English subtitles. We expected participants to form fewer linkages between situation models in the subtitle condition due to the cognitive of reading subtitles which should interfere with the elaborations necessary to form linkages between the situation models. The first experiment examined the pattern of inferences generated during movie watching. The results showed that participants in the English condition made more backward inferences than participants in the subtitled condition which suggest that participants develop more associative links between situation models. In Experiment 2, after watching the last 45 minutes of the film, participants were asked to sort the 78 events into piles based on their similarity. The associated network that resulted from the similiarity data supported the results of Experiment 1 by showing that the representation of the movie involved more elaborative linkages when watched in English than in French with subtitles. The implication of these results from models of movie comprehension are discussed. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse the complex and diverse ways in which audiences engage with media in the context of domestic social change and globalisation. Theoretically it is to develop a diversified rather than polarised or reductionist conception of the active audience, thereby showing a possibility for a convergence of a variety of active audience studies, in terms of the concept of ‘audience engagement’. Empirically, it looks at the various ways in which Japanese audiences engage with the media and ICT in the global rich media environment. It makes use of previously identified dimensions of audience activities from several traditions of audience research and adds to these new dimensions revealed from my ethnography of so-called ‘modern’ Japanese families living in the media-rich Tokyo Metropolitan Area. The seven modes of engagement I will consider are: information-seeking activity, connectivity, ‘world-creation’, parasocial interaction, utility, interpretation and, finally, participation. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the concept of media allusions and the reasons for and use of them by college students. Media allusions are references to or adaptations of lines from movies, television, and other popular media. The literature suggests that people use media allusions as “cultural handshakes” to identify others with shared social and mediated knowledge and to simply add humor or enjoyment to a conversation. Results showed that people who use media allusions enjoy the puzzle aspect of using and recognizing these allusions in social interactions, and that they derive pleasure from using media allusions to describe situations. Furthermore, these motives for using media allusions are related to personal identity and mood management reasons for using films. Implications for understanding media allusions are discussed. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last three decades there has been a voluminous output of research on new technologies. Yet, when we look back for theoretical inspiration as we puzzle over another new technology, we find only nuggets of insight. The lack of conceptual residue from a prolonged period of hectic research activity gives reason for pause. On reflection it seems that we often get caught in a cycle where soon after we have made some sense of and described a new technology yet another one appears on the horizon and drawn by its newness we move our attention. In this paper we revisit the voluminous literature on videotex, a technology that had captured the imagination of researchers not too long ago, and map out this cycle and then suggest strategies for breaking out of it. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to examine the copyright law and its implementation in India using two case studies- New York based author Barbara Bradford Taylor’s copyright infringement case in India against Sahara Televisions network and Indian music composer Bappi Lahiri’s lawsuit in a district court in Los Angeles against Dr. Dre who is the producer of the song “Addictive” by “Truth Hurts”. The second case study is used to analyze the differences of the Indian copyright law to that of the US. The study highlights the loopholes in the copyright law in India, a country where piracy is in abundance causing the U.S. an estimated loss of 500 million dollars in 2004 alone. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How did “fatwa,” once an unambiguous, simple term for a ruling on a question of Islamic religious law, come to mean “death sentence” in U.S. news language and popular culture? This paper uses content analysis to trace this newly created meaning through a series of gatekeeping failures to a position from which its more ominous meaning is easily inferred – not simply in references to political-religious violence but in discussions of baseball, advertising, and literature. The shared meanings it reflects are the underpinnings of the Orientalism that Said described in the 1970s and 1980s, a “pervasive Western discourse” built around a fundamental “ideology of difference.” ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Roaring Twenties and early years of the Depression, proponents of birth control, especially the American Birth Control League (ABCL), found difficulty locating broadcast stations willing to carry their messages. This narrative chronicles and analyzes the confluence of three concurrent movements: broadcast program censorship policies in the late 1920s and early 1930s, splits in feminist ranks over what women’s birth control rights should be publicly advocated, and general fears that women’s power over their own lives would have a detrimental affect on patriarchy, family values and the traditional family structure. This paper specifically reviews how the major company involved in broadcasting – the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), which owned and operated two networks – framed the issue of contraception to keep the contentious issue off their networks’ airwaves. Most other broadcasters followed NBC’s lead, and the strategies they developed collectively became the underpinning for controlling non-dominant, controversial issues presented over radio. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In India, the number of dowry-related deaths has been increasing exponentially. This study explores newspaper coverage over a period of five years to examine media content. The study also includes interviews with editors of the papers to observe the factors that led to this coverage. Using the hoopla hypothesis, the study employs a content analysis of 3,358 newspaper articles and interviews with a convenience sample of 23 editors from the same newspapers. Across all four newspapers studied, there were discernable pre-hoopla, hoopla, and post-hoopla stages. The hoopla period, characterized by the most number of stories, was ushered in by identifiable triggering events. A comparison of the national and regional newspapers’ coverage showed that the coverage was more intense in the national newspapers that produced longer and in-depth articles. The results also show that regardless of the scope of coverage (national vs. regional), coverage intensity is related to the prevalence of dowry within a sub-national region and the “newsworthiness” of dowry cases—a characteristic that is reiterated in the editor’s responses. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper commences by asking why the media in Shanghai lag behind their peers in Beijing and Guangzhou in terms of political courage. Several explanations have been furnished. We hold the cultural “traits” of Shanghai people to be too reductive and too general. Market abundance may be important to understanding the media’s complacency, but is still inadequate to account for political factors. In sum, we must explain the political economy of the media in relation to a particular cultural milieu. The most crucial explanation appears to lie in the patron-client relationship in the practices of authoritarian corporatism. Based on field interviews, we conclude that Shanghai is a big city but a small place: a resource-rich city that only has one layer of power authorities, and hence the distance from the epicenter of power to various media organizations is very short, making media control through a patron-client system very effective and powerful. We have examined this patron-client relationship from the perspectives of media conglomeration, elite circulation, resource allocation, and (lack of) media professionalism. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a paper aimed at examining the dynamics of pharmacist-client interaction and relationship in the frame of Relational Dialectics Theory (RDT), which was presented at the International Communication Association Convention, held in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 26, 2011. It explains how competing discourses can be related to the enactment of client-centeredness in the pharmacist-client relationship. Also highlights the changes have been made in the field of community pharmacy.

This paper compares the case law of the U.S. Supreme Court with that of the ECHR by examining the similarities and differences between the U.S. Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. It analyzes the United States and Europe on freedom of expression on the assumption that 'the American approach [to freedom of speech], as compared with that which prevails elsewhere, is largely a function of experience, and of the increasing array of cases and challenges that come from time.' The substantive case analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court on the First Amendment and of the ECHR on Article 10 is the main focus of this paper. Critical attention is paid to those key free speech areas such as prior restraint, defamation, obscenity, and commercial speech: a large body of case law in these areas has been accumulated, and a significant trend can be more easily discerned for comparison. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existing scholarship (Ebo, 1992; Fair, 1992; Fair, 1996; Fair, & Parks, 2001; Hawk, 1992; Hultman, 1992) points to the problems with Western media reporting on the continent of Africa and Africans. Perpetually underreported, Africa still emerges in the media as the "Dark continent," inhabited by inferior and irrational people. This paper looks at the representations of the African women in an entertainment medium - a woman's magazine, Marie Claire. It scrutinizes if the range of images and narratives of African woman is any broader and/or different in the entertainment medium targeted at an exclusively female audience by implicitly comparing them to those in the news media. Moreover, drawing on Said's (1994) theory of Orientalism, the paper analyzes if Marie Claire disrupts or simply reinforces Black Orientalist discourses. The paper concludes that narratives and images in Marie Claire are far from blatant and unequivocal statements of Black Orientalism; instead, they are rather complex and at times ambivalent, i.e., accommodating ideological positions, but also leaving plenty of room for negotiation. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Few consistent conclusions have been reached in research on selective exposure - the motivated selection of information that matches one's beliefs. While some scholars argue that selective exposure occurs, others dismiss selective exposure as an antiquated concept. After briefly reviewing the controversial history of selective exposure, this paper aims to clarify the concept. First, this paper argues that we should not expect people to engage in selective exposure based on any topic. Rather, certain topics are more likely to inspire people to engage in selective exposure relative to others. Politics is isolated as one topical domain where people may be particularly likely to engage in selective exposure. Second, this paper argues that studies of a single media exposure decision (e.g. viewing a film) should be supplemented with studies that attempt to more comprehensively model people's media exposure decisions across-outlets. Using data from the 2004 National Annenberg Election Survey, this study then turns to empirically evaluating selective exposure. Categorizing thousands of individual responses about people's newspaper, talk radio, cable television, and Internet use, this study supports the idea that people's political beliefs are related to their media exposure patterns. Through the use of over-time analyses, this paper goes further to establish that people's political beliefs motivate their media use patterns. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public relations scholars have often ascribed the organizational conscience role to public relations practitioners. At the same time, public relations scholars have also been ascribed the role of cocreators of culture. And yet, while both conscience and culture are informed by values, none have examined how practitioners are involved in organizational value setting. This paper examines the organizational conscience role by focusing on public relations practitioners' involvement in organizational value setting. To address this aim, this paper examines the current literature on public relations as conscience roles, public relations as cocreators of culture, and the value-setting process. The paper then presents and discusses the results of interviews undertaken with Australian public relations and communication practitioners on their involvement in the organizational value-setting process. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International attention is currently fixated on the Iranian 'threat', and there is every indication in the American media that the Bush administration may lead America into another Middle Eastern bloodbath. Given these dire predictions, this paper will investigate two aspects of America's propaganda offensive against Iran. Initially, it will examine how the American media is manufacturing public consent for another illegal war: then it will investigate how the ostensibly democratic National Endowment of Democracy is being used by the US government in an attempt to overthrow the Iranian government from within. Finally, the paper will argue that when both of these strategies are considered together an illegal war may not in fact be on the horizon, and the US government may be counting on a propaganda-facilitated ouster of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the relationship between organizational politics in a public broadcasting corporation and the corporation's resulting interpretation of the public interest principle. Public interest, the most widely referred policy principle behind public broadcasting, remains difficult to define. While previous studies on the public interest principle have focused on the normative, legal, or macro-political interactive processes between and among policy actors, this paper focuses on the internal politics within the sub-units or departments of a public broadcasting corporation. Based on a survey of employees across 10 departments, this study extracted 2 frames with which to interpret the public interest: public interest as a duty and public interest as a service. The relationship of these 2 frames with the organization members' attitude toward the privatization of the public broadcasting system was then determined. The results show that organizational politics is more related to structural differences than to individual differences. This implies that the broadcasting industry is a dynamic coalition of heterogeneous groups and that organizational politics should be considered when formulating or implementing the public interest policy. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

National media focused on "general political information" are considered to be a central vehicle for the articulation of a wide range of actors' claims on European issues. This paper assesses the conditions of such articulations from a media-sociological and discourse analytical perspective. It compares the highly polarized debates on the EU Constitution in two Polish and two French major "quality press" outlets, scrutinizing frames, sources and actor representations. The paper finds that news production mechanisms and discursive practices disadvantage bottom-up contributions and favor nation-centered perspectives. Polish and French media present the EU Constitutional process as a matter concerning only national politicians, experts and intellectuals. Societal actors are marginalized. Instead, they use alternative formats, such as commentary functions in newspapers' online editions. The findings illuminate a lack of inclusiveness of the traditional quality press and point to the limits of the creation of a European public sphere. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the shape that global Internet regulation has taken in the context of the UN-initiated World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and in particular in two 'multi-stakeholder' bodies that have played central roles in the reconfiguration of the regulatory principles and governance mechanisms pertaining to the Internet. The paper has two main goals. Firstly, to examine how the regulation of the Internet has emerged as an object of global governance in the context of the United Nations. Secondly, using a neo-Foucauldian governmentality perspective, to explore and explain how these UN-initiated regulatory activities have been driven and shaped by a cluster of concerns, principals and imageries about technological features of the Internet and its relationship to socio-political transformations. This exploration gives important insights into the contemporary shape of Internet regulation and the principals and knowledge bases that have given momentum to and shaped this emergent object of global governance. In particular, the paper shows how technological features of the Internet have come to function as models for the shape of its regulation. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The keyword 'framing' is being increasingly recognized as a practicable way to characterize the social relations of representation shaping the news reporting of science and risk. It is often described as a discursive strategy utilized by journalists to define the nature of a particular event, a process with implications for how certain occurrences are selected as newsworthy, the narrative conventions guiding the ways in which they are reported, and the possible consequences for influencing public perceptions. This paper examines Nisbet and Mooney's (2007) call for scientists to proactively frame their findings, and the controversy it generated amongst science bloggers. In the course of analyzing the debate across the blogosphere, it explores issues regarding the relative advantages and limitations of framing, especially where the news reporting of scientific uncertainty is concerned. In offering an evaluative assessment, the paper discerns a basis for the further elaboration of framing as a keyword. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a telephone survey of 986 residents, this paper investigates the uses and gratifications of wireless portable broadband in Korea. Methodology includes exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory analysis, and multiple regression analysis of subsequent theoretical constructs. Results describe 3 key dimensions related to consumer use of wireless broadband, including process, content, and social gratifications as previously found in studies of the Internet, as well as an embedded gratification that is unique to wireless broadband use. All 4 dimensions of gratification are relevant to managing wireless broadband, and measures developed from the gratification profiles identified here can serve as trait-valid scales in future Internet research. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper advances the notion of mass media content homogenization and its corollary, information deprivation, in relation to U.S. news presentations. It is argued homogenization and deprivation have epistemological consequences that contribute to an impoverished public discourse on matters critical to the exercise of democracy. It is further suggested that the homogenized news product is increasingly typical of that exhibited by media artifacts of authoritarian political regimes. An elaborated conceptualization of gatekeeping and its relevance to homogenization is offered. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of stakeholder identification and resource capability (SIRC) that augments to the study and practice of organization-public relationships and stakeholder interests. In doing so, we first provide a historical sketch of relationship management as a general theory of public relations. Second, we suggest stakeholder identification as a complement to relationship outcome measurements and explain why it links more effectively to organizational success. Third, we introduce stakeholder resources in business and society literature to help reframe and recast organization-public relationship constructs in group and organizational contexts. Finally, by using a recent research at a regional hospital, we formulate some propositions based on the typology to provide specific conditions and strategies for organizations to cultivate communal sharing relationships with stakeholder groups. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication technologies are changing how citizens participate in political public discourse. This research considers one of the most recent ways citizens are able to enter into political conversations on the Internet-through video-sharing websites. Specifically this paper uses qualitative methods to identify genres of political videos on YouTube. The second stage of the research turns to quantitative methods to illustrate how political bloggers link to and essentially use YouTube as part of its political discourse. The research shows that bloggers still tend to link to content produced mainly by mainstream media. That said, the research offers new ways to think about citizens as gatekeepers of online poltiical content. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

No systematic inquiry explicates the role of communication in the coevolution of organizing and networking. If it is acknowledged that communicating is inherently relational, and relating is inherently communicative, and that the coevolution of organizing and networking is achieved through communicative means, then all actions in networks have to be examined as of potentially communicative value to others. As an initial attempt to gauge the implications of such a conceptualization, this paper focuses on network actors as employing cognitive frames to make sense of observed networking behavior that is relevant to them. Issues discussed in reference to the "relating as communicating" postulate include social actors as contextualizing ties, structural constraints on subjective sense-making, network opacity, routinized interpolation, cross-level coevolution, and temporal aspects. Theoretical as well as methodological implications of such a communication-centered approach to the study of multidimensional networks as outlined in Monge and Contractor's (2003) multitheoretical, multilevel (MTML) framework are discussed. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The organization-public relationship has been the most important research area in the study of public relations since Ferguson (1984) suggested 'relationship management' as a new paradigm for public relations research. Conceptualizing the relationship and its application to subordinate fields of public relations is an ongoing agenda among scholars. Crisis management is also a field that the relationship management paradigm can be applied to (Coombs, 2000). Coombs (2000) asserted that the public would analyze the same crisis situation differently according to their organization-public relationship. Kim (2004) stated that various organizational relationships affect crisis management and vice versa. Despite the importance and attention given to the organization-public relationship in crisis communication, there has been little examination of the practical effect of the public and organization's relationship in crises situations. Despite the importance of, and the research attention devoted to, organization-public relationship in crisis communication, there has been little empirical study that examines the practical effect of organizational public relationships in a crisis situation. The purpose of the study is twofold: to examine the impact of the organization-public relationship on perception toward a crisis and crisis communication; and, to empirically investigate the relation between perceptions toward the crisis and crisis communication. This paper begins with a brief review of organization-public relationship and then assesses the previous literature about crisis communication. Next, the research questions and hypothesis are introduced and the research design will be presented. Finally, the results will be reported and discussed. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prophecy, far from being antiquated in its relevance, is today shaping our cultural landscape with considerable force. This paper investigates how the success of oracular prophecy is built upon language's tendency to fail. To achieve this end prophecy is examined as a performative speech act. Discovered is that, due to part its future anterior structure, the prophecy as performative navigates its way through language's slippage to emerge triumphant. Austin and Derrida's work on the performative are revisited while Lacan is utilized to discuss the future anterior. Prophecy is suggested to be a performative par excellence in that it relies neither upon context nor intention, and evades temporal specificity. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues for a clearer conceptualization of media stimuli in experimental research and identifies three issues impeding our understanding of message processing: (1) assumptions bolstered by manipulation checks about homogeneity of response to media stimuli; (2) the conflation of two different classes of variables – media attributes and psychological states; and, (3) discrepancies between the conceptual model and operational-level hypotheses in much media effects research. To address this situation, we suggest a clearer conceptual separation between message attributes and cognitive responses and introduce a general model to provide a more complete framework for investigating media effects. After providing an overview of the model, we subject it to three empirical tests and find an increase in explained variance in each instance. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]