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Volume 85(2), 2008

 
CONTENTS
 
Kalyanaraman, Sriram, and Sundar, S. Shyam Portrait of the portal as a metaphor: Explicating web portals for communication research 239-256
 
  Web portals are increasing in their presence as well as importance, yet suffer from lack of conceptual clarity 
 
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computer
technologies
metaphor
rhetoric
 
 
Tweksbury, David, Hals, Michelle L., and Bibart, Allyson The efficiency of news browsing: The relationship of news consumption style to social and political efficacy 257-272
 
  Research on audience uses of news media points to the presence of two basic types of audience news gathering processes: information browsing - choosing a range of news topics when using the media - and information selecting - limiting news consumption to a few specific topics 
 
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news
print journalism
television
broadcasting and media
 
 
Paek, Hye-Jin, Lambe, Jennifer L., and McLeod, Douglas M. Antecedents to support for content restrictions 273-290
 
  This study investigates the roles of multiple factors, including audience factors, content factors, and third-person perceptions, in predicting support for content restrictions on mass-mediated information, entertainment, and propaganda 
 
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cognition
broadcasting and media
 
 
Scharrer, Erica Media exposure and sensitivity to violence in news reports: Evidence of desensitization? 291-310
 
  This study explores whether amount of exposure to entertainment television violence, local newspapers, and local television news relates to reactions to reading news stories that recount violent events 
 
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television
news
broadcasting and media
emotion
interpersonal
personality and psychology
 
 
Besley, John C. Media use and human values 311-330
 
  Research shows that both values and some media effects develop slowly, over a similar time frame 
 
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broadcasting and media
europe
interpersonal
computer
theory
 
 
Sung, Yongjun, and Hennink-Kaminski, Heidi J. The master settlement agreement and visual imagery of cigarette advertising in two popular youth magazines 331-352
 
  While the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA between tobacco companies and forty-six states banned targeting youth through advertising and promotions, it did not designate specific visual imagery restrictions for magazine advertisements 
 
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visualization
drugs
advertising
print journalism
children
 
 
Lewis, Norman P. Plagiarism antecedents and situational influences 353-370
 
  A study of daily newspaper plagiarism over a ten-year period reveals the offense results from a combination of individual and systemic causes 
 
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print journalism
rhetoric
ethics
broadcasting and media
news
 
 
Peter, J. Gade Journalism guardians in a time of great change: Newspaper editors' perceived influence in integrated news organizations 371-392
 
  A national survey of top newspaper editors explored industry uncertainty and organizational change and how organizational integration, team-based newsrooms, newspaper size, and profit emphasis impact editors' perceived organizational influence 
 
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organizational
print journalism
broadcasting and media
economics
newspaper
 
 
Uhm, Kiyul The founders and the revolutionary underpinning of the concept of the right to know 393-416
 
  In examining the revolutionary characteristics of the concept of the people's right to know, this study calls attention to pecuniary motives behind the American Revolution 
 
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democracy
history
 
 
Carter, Edward L. Reclaiming copyright from privacy: Public interest in use of unpublished materials 417-434
 
  Although the primary justification for Anglo-American copyright law is a utilitarian economic incentive, copyright law is sometimes invoked to protect privacy in unpublished materials 
 
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law
europe
privacy