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Journal of Communication
Volume 57(2), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Lee, Jong-Eun Roselyn, Nass, Clifford, Brave, Scott Brenner, Morishima, Yasunori, Nakajima, Hiroshi, and Yamada, Ryota The case for caring colearners: The effects of a computer-mediated colearner agent on trust and learning. 183-204
 
  This research examines the effects of a computer-mediated colearner agent that manifests caring orientations toward human learners 
 
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interpersonal
computer
technologies
cognition
memory
 
 
Cho, Jaeho, and McLeod, Douglas M. Structural antecedents to knowledge and participation: Extending the knowledge gap concept to participation. 205-228
 
  This paper investigates relationships between community characteristics and levels of knowledge and participation examined at both the individual and the community levels 
 
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democracy
demographics
small group roles
 
 
Dixon, Travis L., and Azocar, Cristina L. Priming crime and activating blackness: Understanding the psychological impact of the overrepresentation of blacks as lawbreakers on television news. 229-253
 
  Two experiments examined the extent to which U.S. viewers' perceptions that blacks face structural limitations to success, support for the death penalty, and culpability judgments could be influenced by exposure to racialized crime news 
 
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death
law
news
cognition
African American issues and civil rights
race and ethnicity
television
 
 
Simon, Adam F., and Jerit, Jennifer Toward a theory relating political discourse, media, and public opinion. 254-271
 
  This paper presents a multimethod investigation of framing in the government-media-public interaction during the so-called partial-birth abortion (PBA) debate in the U.S. Operationalizing framing as the use of the word "baby" or "fetus," content analysis first shows that opposing political elites employed almost exclusive vocabularies in attempts to justify their views and shape attitudes 
 
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theory
contemporary issues
politics and government
public opinion
news
print journalism
 
 
Niederdeppe, Jeff, Davis, Kevin C., Farrelly, Matthew, and Yarsevich, Jared Stylistic features, need for sensation, and confirmed recall of national smoking prevention advertisements. 272-292
 
  A growing body of research suggests that specific stylistic message features have meaningful implications for message attention, recall, and processing 
 
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health
persuasion
cognition
visualization
advertising
 
 
Cho, Hyunyi, and Salmon, Charles T. Unintended effects of health communication campaigns. 293-317
 
  Health communication campaigns, as an outcome of and an input into the social process, can create unintended as well as intended effects 
 
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health
persuasion
reticence
 
 
Hetsroni, Amir Three decades of sexual content on prime-time network programming: A longitudinal meta-analytic review. 318-348
 
  This paper uses meta-analysis to review 25 content analyses that examined the frequency of sexual content on American prime-time network programming between 1975 and 2004 
 
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methodology
television
sexuality
 
 
Kelly, Lynne, and Keaten, James A. Development of the affect for communication channels scale. 349-365
 
  As computers have increasingly provided new channels of communication, scholars have taken an interest in computer-mediated communication (CMC) in general and the impact of personality traits and other antecedents of preference for face-to-face or computer channels 
 
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computer
personality and psychology
technologies
nonverbal
interpersonal
methodology
 
 
Kleinnijenhuis, Jan, van Hoof, Anita M. J., Oegema, Dirk, and de Ridder, Jan A. A test of rivaling approaches to explain news effects: News on issue positions of parties, real-world developments, support and criticism, and success and failure. 366-384
 
  Different "paradigmatic" approaches to explain news effects on voting may supplement each other, because their starting points are based on different news types in political campaign news: news on issue positions of parties, news on real-world developments, news on support or criticism for parties, and news on success and failure of parties 
 
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political elections
Europe
news
 
 
Lee, Eun-Ju Deindividuation effects on group polarization in computer-mediated communication: The role of group identification, public-self-awareness, and perceived argument quality. 385-403
 
  The present experiment investigated how deindividuation affects group polarization in computer-mediated communication 
 
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computer
interpersonal
small group roles
technologies
persuasion