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Mass Comm & Society
Volume 12(3), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Arpan, Laura M. The effects of exemplification on perceptions of news credibility 249-270
 
  Exemplification (the use of examples) in news stories is a common method of providing information about social phenomena to make stories more interesting to audience members 
 
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news
cognition
persuasion
broadcasting and media
 
 
Overby, L. Marvin, and Barth, Jay The media, the medium, and malaise: Assessing the effects of campaign media exposure with panel data 271-290
 
  In this article we extend recent work on exposure to campaign advertisements, comparing the effects of television ads, radio ads, and campaign-related e-mails using an unusual panel data set that provides information on multiple media sources 
 
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broadcasting and media
politics and government
advertising
computer
political elections
 
 
Williams, Kevin D. The effects of frustration, violence, and trait hostility after playing a video game 291-310
 
  An experiment was conducted with 150 male college undergraduates playing different video games to investigate the impact of violent content, frustration with gameplay, and the interaction of those factors with aggressive personality (trait hostility) 
 
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computer
technologies
gender
education
personality and psychology
emotion
theory
conflict
 
 
Raney, Arthur A., and Kinnally, William Examining perceived violence in and enjoyment of televised rivalry sports contests 311-331
 
  The scholarly attention paid to the ways in which television viewers perceive sports action as violent, how perceptions may differ across games, and how perceptions might impact enjoyment is limited 
 
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cognition
broadcasting and media
television
sports
conflict
 
 
Signorielli, Nancy Race and sex in prime time: A look at occupations and occupational prestige 332-352
 
  A content analysis of 10 week-long samples of network prime time broadcast between the fall of 1997 and the fall of 2006 found that the leading characters in programs defined by racial diversity differ in terms of their distributions of men and women as well as racial groups 
 
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television
race and ethnicity
broadcasting and media
african american issues and civil rights
 
 
McCluskey, Michael, Stein, Susan E., Boyle, Michael P., and McLeod, Douglas M. Community structure and social protest: Influences on newspaper coverage 353-371
 
  Research on news coverage of social protest has yielded evidence of a "protest paradigm," a framework of common news attributes that contribute to the marginalizing of protesters as social deviants 
 
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news
newspaper
print journalism
broadcasting and media