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Journalism Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Promoting Healthy Behavior from the Pulpit: Clergy Share Their Perspectives on Effective Health Communication in the African American Church
(Springer Verlag, 2013-12)African Americans continue to suffer disproportionately from health disparities when compared to other ethnicities (ACS 2010; CDC 2007). Research indicates that the church and the pastor in the African American community ... -
Employing the Church as a Marketer of Cancer Prevention: A Look at a Health Promotion Project Aimed to Reduce Colorectal Cancer Among African Americans in the Midwest
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2013)Health promotion programs designed to address colorectal cancer disparities among African Americans are increasing. Unfortunately, this group still shoulders a disproportionate mortality burden in the United States; these ... -
Improving Health Promotion to American Indians in the Midwest United States: Preferred Sources of Health Information and Its Use for the Medical Encounter
(Springer Verlag, 2012-12)American Indians and Alaska Natives suffer significant health disparities for many infectious and chronic diseases as compared to the general population. Providing accurate and culturally tailored health information to ... -
Mixed Message Media: Girls’ Voices and Civic Engagement in Student Journalism
(Berghahn Journals, 2017-04)Prior research has illustrated the benefits of media literacy and production programs for girls’ self-expression and civic engagement. This study examines whether formal high school journalism programs can be similarly ... -
A computerized intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening for underserved populations: Theoretical background and algorithm development
(IOS Press, 2012)Objective The aim of this exploratory study was to assess factors deemed by patients as “important” as they planned and considered undergoing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, and to use this data to design a ... -
Talking Politics on Facebook: Network Centrality and Political Discussion Practices in Social Media
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This study examines the relationship between political discussion on Facebook and social network location. It uses a survey name generator to map friendship ties between students at a university and to calculate their ... -
Student Media in U.S. Secondary Schools Associations with School Demographic Characteristics
(SAGE Publications, 2012-05-21)A survey measured student media availability in a representative sample of U.S. public high schools (N = 1,023). Most schools had yearbooks (94%) and newspapers (64%); some had television programs (29%); few had radio ... -
“Hit me up and we can get down” U.S. youths’ risk behaviors and sexual self-disclosure in MySpace profiles
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-12-02)Young people’s sexual self-disclosures in social media profiles can be problematic for those who produce them and for those who consume them. This study merged a content analysis with survey data to identify the characteristics ... -
Social media divide: Characteristics of emerging adults who do not use social network websites
(2013-09-16)Public opinion has embraced social media as a vital tool to reach U.S. emerging adults, but this generation has not universally adopted social media technologies. Using indepth interviews, this study examined the characteristics ... -
Sharing the News: Effects of Informational Utility and Opinion Leadership on Online News Sharing
(2015-02-20)This study examined the joint effect of message and personality attributes on online news sharing. In two experiments (N = 270; N = 275) readers indicated their likelihood to share news representing two content domains and ... -
Sexual intensity of adolescents' online self-presentations: Joint contribution of identity, media consumption, and extraversion
(Elsevier, 2015-12-31)Adolescents produce and distribute a vast quantity of digital media content. A growing literature examines the sexually explicit (i.e., nude) content that adolescents share online. Because adolescents’ sexual content need ... -
Who Are the “Journalism Kids?” Academic Predictors of Journalism Participation in Secondary Schools
(SAGE Publications, 2015-12-31)Prior scholastic journalism research did not adequately address the possibility that journalism students perform better academically because of their backgrounds and inherent abilities. Using Education Longitudinal Study ... -
Baring Their Souls in Online Profiles or Not? Religious Self-Disclosure in Social Media
(Wiley, 2011-12-01)This study measured the prevalence of religious self-disclosure in public MySpace profiles that belonged to a subsample of National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) wave 3 respondents (N=560). Personal attributes associated ... -
Effects of Online Christian Self-Disclosure on Impression Formation
(Wiley, 2010-09-01)Increased reliance on social media to initiate and maintain relationships warrants research that investigates how religion affects Internet-based impressions. Evidence suggests that some Christians avoid identifying ... -
Adolescent Religiosity and Selective Exposure to Television
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-02-21)Relying on the Adolescent Media Practice Model and selective exposure theory, this study investigated whether religious adolescents watch less mature television entertainment programs than their less religious peers. Program ... -
Preparing for the coming storm: Exploring interactions between corporate values and crisis management
(2016)One of the most prevalent corporate trends of the last several years has been the rush for companies to identify their core purpose and core values as a means to differentiate and create a sustainable winning culture. Yet ... -
Civic Implications of Secondary School Journalism: Associations With Voting Propensity and Community Volunteering
(SAGE Publications, 2016-09-01)This study examines the association between high school journalism and civic engagement in early adulthood, independent of other civic activities. Nationally representative data show that taking high school journalism ... -
WikiLeaks, the First Amendment, and the Press
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Feast and famine? Local television news workers expand the offerings but say they are hungry for quality journalism
(Intellect, 2014)By the nature of the work, television news workers face a time famine: too much to do in too little time. The famine has been compounded in recent years as local newsrooms produce content for two-screen and three-screen ... -
Autonomy and Perceptions of Work Quality: Drive the job satisfaction of TV news workers
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Self-determination theory says intrinsic and extrinsic motivations influence our goal-oriented behavior and determine satisfaction. For TV news workers, those motivations include deadlines, breaking news, multiple-screen ...