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Title: Coordinating the Internet. (book reviews)
Author: Bruce C. Klopfenstein
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: v41Issue: n4Page: p573(11)

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From the author: The primary purpose of this exploratory study was to determine if gender-specific descriptors regularly found in television and newspaper sport coverage were present in two popular online sites from the emerging medium of Internet sport journalism. Descriptors given to players and coaches during the 2006 NCAA Division I women's and men's basketball tournaments by ESPN Internet and CBS SportsLine were examined. Results contradicted gender-specific descriptors found in previous studies on sport media coverage that scholars have argued help uphold hegemonic masculinity in sport.

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Title: ESPN--the women's sports network? A content analysis of Internet coverage of March madness.(Report)
Author: Edward "Ted" M. Kian
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 53Issue: 3Page: 477(19)

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Title: Public Access to the Internet. (book reviews)
Author: Bruce C. Klopfenstein
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: v41Issue: n4Page: p573(11)

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Power Media Selects identifies the inner circle of powerful journalists who wield vast impact, profiling more than 700 of the most influential print and broadcast media outlets and organizing them into one single volume. Each listing provides contact name and title, publication, column or program name; and street address, phone,fax, and online information when available. Newspaper listings also contain in-depth listings of editorial assignments.

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All-the-answers guide to television receivers

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I'm reading this book right now, but haven't finished it, but was so pleased with the volume that I wanted to make a few comments. I might have more to say when I complete it.

I bought this book after starting to bone up on digital TV, and realized that I could use a good, comprehensive review on analog TV, on which I'd become rusty. I'm not a professional in the field but an interested amateur, and was looking for a good book on the subject. In fact, it's primarily about digital TV, but there are excellent reviews of analog TV principles, including chapters on wave propagation; frequency sources; basic analog receiver principles and design, with discussions of the most important components, such as modulators and demodulators, amplifier principles; analog to digital conversion; phase locked loops and synchronization issues in general, analog and digital filters, consumer video and networking, cable television, satellite TV, and other topics.

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Many of the chapters are still pretty technical despite the lack of math, so don't let that fool you. In other words, your background should be at least as good as Schrader's classic, introductory volume on Electronic Communication before reading this, which is a book used in junior college technical courses in electronics.

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Subjects covered include analog and digital TV, cable TV, broadcast TV, and satellite TV. The satellite chapter is a little short, but then that would require a whole volume by itself, such as Roddy's volume on the subject, Satellite Communications, which I can also highly recommend.

The book is now seven years old, but keep in mind this is more of an intermediate book covering many of the fundamentals as well as a lot of the more advanced material. Much of it is far beyond the basics, however, although perhaps not at the highest level with all the complex engineering math. My advanced math probably isn't at that level anymore, either, but if you can read and understand this, you'll probably know far more than anyone except an experienced broadcast engineering professional.

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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 777 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Losing out: local TV management should get serious about the Web. (The Online Frontier).(Brief Article)
Author: Barb Palser
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 24Issue: 7Page: 70(1)

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This digital document is an article from Wireless Satellite and Broadcasting Newsletter, published by Information Gatekeepers, Inc. on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 636 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: MDTV subscriber base exceeds 11,000 during Q3 2002. (Financial News).(MDU Communications International Inc. reports growth)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Publication: Wireless Satellite and Broadcasting Newsletter (Newsletter)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: Information Gatekeepers, Inc.
Volume: 12Issue: 7Page: 6(2)

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This digital document is an article from Video Age International, published by TV Trade Media, Inc. on August 1, 1994. The length of the article is 534 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cellular video and other strange things.... (includes article on the 1994 Satellite Show) (Info Superhighway)
Author: Ken Carlton
Publication: Video Age International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1994
Publisher: TV Trade Media, Inc.
Volume: v14Issue: n6Page: p22(1)

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“West's Encyclopedia of American Law” is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West’s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the everyday user in mind.Everyone from the layperson hooked on the weekly TV courtroom procedural to the serious student can find such valuable information as brief definitions of legal jargon, exhaustive examinations of courtroom procedure, explanations of complex topics such as civil rights, biographies of standout attorneys, analyses of controversial issues, and transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, published by Broadcast Education Association on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 7441 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: The uses and gratifications approach is well suited for studying the World Wide Web as a whole and for examining specific types of sites within the Web. This study, therefore, examines the uses and gratifications of accessing online sources for political information. A factor analysis revealed 4 primary motivations for connecting to online political information: guidance information-seeking/surveillance, entertainment, and social utility. Additionally, significant correlations emerged between the 4 motivations and amount of use, trust in government, feelings of efficacy, interest in politics, and the likelihood of voting.

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Title: Online and in the know: uses and gratifications of the web for political information.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Barbara K. Kaye
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 46Issue: 1Page: 54(18)

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From the author: This study examined whether motives and individual differences (social activity, interpersonal interaction, locus of control, sensation-seeking, innovativeness and YouTube affinity) predicted viewing videos on YouTube and sharing videos with others. Consistent with uses and gratifications assumptions, motives and individual differences differentially predicted viewing and sharing behaviors. Participants viewed videos for information seeking, and viewed and shared videos for entertainment, co-viewing and social interaction. Results suggest that while people watch videos on YouTube for some of the same reasons identified in studies of television viewing, there is a distinctly social aspect to YouTube use that reflects its social networking characteristics.

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Title: Social interaction and co-viewing with youtube: blending mass communication reception and social connection.(Report)
Author: Paul Haridakis
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 53Issue: 2Page: 317(19)

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From the author: This study evaluated the extent to which online news is accessible to visually-impaired individuals. The home pages of 69 online news sites (representing print newspapers, news magazines, national television/radio/cable networks, and Internet-only organizations) were evaluated for accessibility in June 2002 and March 2003. Findings indicate that accessibility was nearly nonexistent in 2002 (where only 3% of sites" home pages were completely accessible) and little improved in 2003 (where only 7% were completely accessible). Analyses of reasons preventing access indicate that accessibility could be greatly improved if relatively simple design and coding changes were implemented. Recommendations for improvement are discussed.

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Title: The accessibility divide: the visually-impaired and access to online news.
Author: Joel J. Davis
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 47Issue: 3Page: 474(8)

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From the author: Researchers believe that the Web functions to supplement traditional news media. Little is known, however, about how traditional news media consumption influences Web use patterns. This study investigates how prior TV news exposure influences individuals" subsequent Web use by testing 3 theories that may explain individuals" information selection patterns--accessibility, instrumental utility, and personal issue importance. The results of this study reveal the strong effects of personal issue importance when selecting information on the Web, regardless of news coverage in traditional media. The findings also indicate higher levels of information selection when there is no prior exposure to news coverage.

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Title: Where is my issue? The influence of news coverage and personal issue importance on subsequent information selection on the Web.
Author: Young Mie Kim
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2008
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 52Issue: 4Page: 600(22)

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From the author: The diffusion of the establishment of World Wide Web sites as a campaign tactic into the 1998 Congressional and Gubernatorial elections is examined based on the presumption that the more relative advantages a campaign perceives in establishing a site, the more likely they will be to adopt. Thus, campaigns which spent more money more frequently adopted. Incumbents, many of whom have non-campaign presences on the Web and thus see fewer benefits, adopted less frequently.

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Title: Adoption of the World Wide Web by American Political Candidates, 1996-1998.(Abstract)
Author: Dave D'Alessio
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 44Issue: 4Page: 556

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From the author: Selective attention is a key concept in communication research despite equivocal supporting evidence. This study focuses on methodological concerns in the study of selective attention. Using unobtrusive measures of selective attention to online political content this study found consistent support for the selective attention hypothesis. Three within-subjects quasi experiments were conducted (n = 29, n = 36, and n = 75) that measured subjects' attention to information consistent with and counter to their beliefs. Two other measures of selective attention were also used: (1) whether subjects turned first to consistent or counter information, and (2) how deeply into the material they read.

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Title: Selective attention to online political information.(Report)
Author: Joseph Graf
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2008
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 52Issue: 1Page: 86(15)

Article Type: Report

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, published by Broadcast Education Association on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 8199 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This study was designed to examine the collection of personal information from children online. The authors content analyzed 166 children's Web sites in late May and early June 1998. Almost all (n = 163) were revisited in July 1998 to assess possible changes due to the FTC's release of its online privacy report. It appears that children are not well protected online. A majority of Web sites collect information from children without either disclosure or effort to elicit parental involvement.

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Title: Online Privacy Issues Associated with Web Sites for Children.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Xiaomei Cai
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 44Issue: 2Page: 197

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From the author: This study investigated the impact of online media on other media and family communication. Data gathered from 185 persons in 84 households indicate that time spent in television viewing, newspaper reading, telephone usage, and family conversations is affected by online use. Usage of online media is significantly different among genders and generations. A process of functional displacement may be occurring in which television is being gradually displaced by online media as the primary source of information.

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Title: Displacement Effects of Online Media in the Socio-Technical Contexts of Households.
Author: Joseph M. Kayany
Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2000
Publisher: Broadcast Education Association
Volume: 44Issue: 2Page: 215

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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 4015 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Resurgent Radio.(innovations in radio broadcasting)
Author: Marc Fisher
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 22Issue: 10Page: 33

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Successful Internet marketers Daniel Hall & Tom Antion reveal how to use pick a shopping cart that makes you money.Every consideration is covered.This book will save you hours of research and can really help propel your online business to new profit heights. ... Read more