Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age

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Carol M. Liebler (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. She has authored a wide variety of journal articles on media and diversity, primarily from a media sociological perspective.

Tim P. Vos (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is Chair and Associate Professor of Journalism Studies and Coordinator of Global Research Initiatives at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He is co-author of Gatekeeping Theory (2009) and co-editor of Gatekeeping in Transition (2015).

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Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass communications research. Her body of work, spanning four decades, has included groundbreaking conceptual and methodological advances, particularly in the areas of gatekeeping, survey research and content analysis. The chapters in this collection build upon her legacy in both theory and method, and particularly in the area of news research. At the heart of the book are chapters that apply concepts found in Shoemaker's earliest work, such as deviance and newsworthiness, and extend theories such as gatekeeping and agenda-setting into the digital era. Empirical analyses on topics such as international and political news provide insights into journalism in these transitional times. Additional chapters explore digital media and the "mediated method." The closing section, Reflections on the Transitional Age, includes two chapters that pay homage to Shoemaker's contributions through discussion of the importance of theory and research from a personal perspective. The final chapter challenges academics to consider the implications of the digital era for scholarly creativity.

A collection with wide appeal to all media scholars, Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age is particularly well-suited to graduate student seminars on mass communications theory, media sociology and news scholarship.

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Figures - Tables - Acknowledgements - Michael Roloff: Foreword - Tim P. Vos and Carol M. Liebler: Introduction: Examining Media in a Transitional Age - Theorizing the Transitional Age - Hyunjin Seo: Social Change in the Networked Information Age - Gina Masullo Chen: Online Incivility and Public Deliberation - Gang (Kevin) Han and Josh Shear: Influences of Audience Feedback on News Content in Traditional and New Media: A Theoretical Evaluation - Marcos Paulo da Silva: Journalism, Rationality and Common Sense: A Theoretical Model for Relations Between News Selection and Cultural Construction of Everyday Regularity - Suman Lee: Deviance, Social Significance, and International Public Relations: A Synthesized View of Influencing Factors on National Image in News - Dominic L. Lasorsa: Communication Research as a "Great Crossroads": Bridging Fields of Social Science - Elena Vartanova: Mediating the Digital Message: Agenda-Setting Theory in Modern Russian Media - The Empirical Landscape in a Transitional Age - Maxwell McCombs, Pei Zheng, and Paro Pain: The World through the Eyes of the New York Times and People's Daily: A Network Agenda-Setting Analysis of Psychological Geography - Di Zhang, Shuya Pan, and Xiuli Wang: Geographical Difference in Media Effects on Political Discussion in China: Economy, Cultural Characteristics and Social Trust - Akiba A. Cohen: Israelis and Foreign News: A 25-year Follow-up on Interest and Perceived Functions - Jong Hyuk Lee and Yun Jung Choi: Network Analyses of Attention to Deviance and Social Significance Based on Gene and Culture Co-Evolution Theory - Nick Michael and Tim P. Vos: From Gatekeeping to Bridge-Keeping: Gatekeeping Theory through the Lens of Micro-Documentary - Elizabeth A. Skewes: Stuck in the Second Tier: News Coverage of the Non-Frontrunners in the 2012 Presidential Campaign - John Wolf: The Psychometry of Sexting: Non-Normative Psychic Desire as a Predictor of Sexual Text Message Engagement - The "Mediated" Method - Erica Scharrer: Documenting the "Mediated Message": The Art and Science of Content Analysis Research - Michael J. Breen: Just the Facts, Ma'am: Merging Media Content Analysis with Survey Research - Carol M. Liebler: Content Analysis and Social Justice: Mediated Erasure and News Coverage of Missing Children - Reflections on the Transitional Age - Guido H. Stempel III: Sixty Years of Challenging Dubious Conclusions - Brenda J. Wrigley: Queen Bees, Beekeepers, Hives and Ecosystems: The Social Forces Influencing Gender and Diversity in Public Relations and Communication Management - Stephen D. Reese: The Intellectual Craftsman in a Digital World - Contributors - Index.