Does U.S. communication research have a flagship journal? Not really, if by flagship we mean something like the American Sociological Review or the American Political Science Review. Those are unquestioned flagships, ratified (in a self-reinforcing loop) by citation metrics and by the disciplines’ tacit knowledge (Garand & Giles, 2003; Hargens, 1991; Oromaner, 2008). Ask a media studies scholar, and she might mention the Journal of Communication—but she could just as easily offer Quarterly Journal of Speech, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly or even Cinema Journal. She wouldn’t be wrong in any case. All four titles carry a major scholarly association's imprimatur. What is odd, of course, is that there are four scholarly associations all claiming the same territory. If media and communication has no flagship, it is because there no coherent discipline in the first place.Let’s stipulate that there is no media studies flagship. While our would-be discipline’s problems run deep, my view is that this is no longer one of them. Maybe it is OK, in other words, that we do not have an organ to anoint the “best” stuff. There was always something problematic about the flagship anyway: It is too easy for a narrow agenda to seize the power to consecrate. (Just ask a sociologist.) But the main reason that we are better off without a flagship, after all these years, is that its good and valuable functions can be taken up elsewhere.
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Over the past decades, research on opinion leaders has been based on an implicit assumption that the structure of social networks is stable and that only attitudes and behavior are subject to change in a diffusion process. The finding that social groups often display similar attitudes or behavior was therefore regarded as evidence of opinion leaders’ influence. However, network autocorrelation also can emerge due to social selection processes in which likeminded people establish new ties and cut dissonant ties. In fact, without controlling for social selection processes, one is likely to overestimate the power of influence processes. Stochastic actor-oriented modeling of dynamic social networks allows disentangling and quantifying these two processes. This reanalysis of a four-wave panel survey of adolescents’ conversation networks and their TV use is the first to do this on the level of specific TV programs. The results demonstrate that influence of opinion leaders may become insignificant if parameters for social selection and general patterns of program preferences are included in the analysis. Overall, this study challenges an overly simplistic view of opinion leadership and illustrates the power of longitudinal social network analysis for disentangling social influence and social selection processes.
{"title":"Opinion Leadership| Influence Versus Selection: A Network Perspective on Opinion Leadership","authors":"Thomas N. Friemel","doi":"10.5167/UZH-186616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-186616","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decades, research on opinion leaders has been based on an implicit assumption that the structure of social networks is stable and that only attitudes and behavior are subject to change in a diffusion process. The finding that social groups often display similar attitudes or behavior was therefore regarded as evidence of opinion leaders’ influence. However, network autocorrelation also can emerge due to social selection processes in which likeminded people establish new ties and cut dissonant ties. In fact, without controlling for social selection processes, one is likely to overestimate the power of influence processes. Stochastic actor-oriented modeling of dynamic social networks allows disentangling and quantifying these two processes. This reanalysis of a four-wave panel survey of adolescents’ conversation networks and their TV use is the first to do this on the level of specific TV programs. The results demonstrate that influence of opinion leaders may become insignificant if parameters for social selection and general patterns of program preferences are included in the analysis. Overall, this study challenges an overly simplistic view of opinion leadership and illustrates the power of longitudinal social network analysis for disentangling social influence and social selection processes.","PeriodicalId":51388,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Communication","volume":"24 1","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2015-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89145151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study analyzes which forms opinion leadership takes in contemporary media environments where communication channels have increased and started to permeate interpersonal interaction. Some scholars assume that opinion leadership becomes more important under these conditions, as more media are available to enact it, and that more orientation is needed. Others argue that opinion leadership loses its importance as online media target audiences directly without interaction from opinion leaders. This study demonstrates that opinion leadership still exists in contemporary media environments. Using a cluster analysis of German online survey data, three clusters were identified that resemble communicative roles from earlier studies: Opinion Leaders, Followers, and Inactives. An additional fourth cluster, Mediatized Opinion Leaders, was also found. Individuals in this cluster exhibit the strongest and most diverse use of media and communication channels both for informing themselves and for communicating with followers.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.14355/IJC.2015.04.002
B. Lekshmi, I. Raglend
Phased arrays when mounted on aircraft and missiles will be capable of allowing only the desired signals to be received and simultaneously suppress all other unwanted ones incident from hostile sources. This in turn will make them invisible for the radars at the enemy base or on their aircraft. This paper discusses about the design of Phased array antenna for military airborne radar applications. A milllimeter wave active phased array antenna has been developed that is capable of wide scanning angle in both Eand H-planes. In order to achieve wide angle scanning over X-band frequency, a linear tapered slot antenna (LTSA) element has been designed and the resulting element is capable of scanning out to 60o from broadside in all scan planes for a bandwidth of 11-14GHz and an active reflection coefficient less than -10 dB. Beam scanning angles of above ±45 degrees in the E-plane and ±60 degrees in the H-plane were obtained for an isolated element. An end fire array pattern with half power beamwidth of 14 degrees in E-plane is achieved over 11-14GHz frequency. This design was implemented on linear array antenna consisting of 7-elements and planar array antenna consisting of 49 (7x7) elements. The predicted performance of the antenna was verified by simulation of element patterns, array radiation patterns and S-parameter plot using commercially available electromagnetic simulator HFSS. Since the radar antenna is intended for applications where stealth is important. The antenna aperture consists many radiating elements used for beam-forming and hence through the adjustment of elemental phases steer the beam efficiently. Moreover, they are capable of rejecting all the unwanted components of the received signals while maintaining at the same time sufficient pattern gain in the desired directions. These characteristics can be implemented for stealth applications.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.14355/IJC.2015.04.001
Mboungou Mouyabi Seke
With the emergent demand for information technology (IT) services, African Universities should consider adopting cloud computing to meet with this growing demand on different IT services, Cloud computing could provide good business models for African universities since these universities often do not have enough resources and knowledge to manage the necessary information technology (IT) support for educational, research and developmental activities that must be delivered in a higher education environment, while cloud computing aims to eliminate these complexities from the user. This paper describes the importance and the challenges facing higher education in Africa, introduction to cloud computing technologies, services and deployment models, adoption of cloud computing in higher education as a possible solution despite the challenges facing higher education in Africa.
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Along with the media landscape, the patterns of opinion leadership have changed profoundly. The concept of opinion leadership, which was established in the 1940s and has been used in numerous studies since, has been challenged by the intermingling of old and new media. This special section of the International Journal of Communication analyzes what kinds of opinion leadership can be found in contemporary media environments and to what extent extensions or adaptations of the original concept might be necessary. The special section presents three empirical studies focusing on different facets of opinion leadership—on the opinion leaders themselves, on opinion leadership in parasocial relations, and on influence and selection processes in adolescent networks— as well as a commentary by Elihu Katz.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.14355/IJC.2015.04.003
Mboungou Mouyabi Seke
The focus of the progressively important topic brought by Information Technology (IT) today on Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) as it is called in academia constitutes the aim of this paper. The author intends to draw particularity on one current and one recent research paper to strengthen the subject of reinvention of CRM from higher education perspective in the African region. Reasons as to why universities are unenthusiastic to adopt new technological trends in this particular portion of the globe which is the African region; this paper discusses factors over adoption of CRM with particular emphasis on its reinvention in higher education.
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Television news has come a long way from the days when millions of Americans gathered around in unison to watch Edward R. Murrow take on Joseph McCarthy on See it Now. The consumption of news today, in comparison, is anything but synchronized. In addition to hundreds of TV channels—many of which are watched on digital video recording or online broadcasts—a countless number of websites, social networks, and software applications also deliver news in today’s information age. As a result of these developments in digital media, journalists have entered an era vastly different than the one navigated by Murrow.
电视新闻已经有了很大的发展，那时数百万美国人聚集在一起，观看爱德华·r·默罗(Edward R. Murrow)与约瑟夫·麦卡锡(Joseph McCarthy)在《See it Now》节目中的对决。相比之下，今天的新闻消费是完全不同步的。除了数以百计的电视频道——其中许多是通过数字录像或在线广播观看的——在今天的信息时代，无数的网站、社会网络和软件应用程序也提供新闻。由于数字媒体的这些发展，记者们进入了一个与莫罗所引领的时代截然不同的时代。
{"title":"Rena Bivens, Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public Are Shaping TV News","authors":"M. Kearney","doi":"10.5860/choice.52-0659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.52-0659","url":null,"abstract":"Television news has come a long way from the days when millions of Americans gathered around in unison to watch Edward R. Murrow take on Joseph McCarthy on See it Now. The consumption of news today, in comparison, is anything but synchronized. In addition to hundreds of TV channels—many of which are watched on digital video recording or online broadcasts—a countless number of websites, social networks, and software applications also deliver news in today’s information age. As a result of these developments in digital media, journalists have entered an era vastly different than the one navigated by Murrow.","PeriodicalId":51388,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Communication","volume":"64 1","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2014-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85353709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the field of modern communications network, the quality of a system performance usually determines the application of the system. This paper mainly uses the Markov chain theory to analysis the user blocking rate and losing rate, which are two important indicators of the priority distinction double-queue and double-server communication network(PDDDCN). Through mathematical analysis, we get the corresponding mathematical expression, and make the computer simulations. Simulation results show the correctness of the theoretical analysis, and the relationship between system performance and the arrival rate or the probability that ordinary users fail to relinquish a server.
{"title":"The Analysis of Performance for Priority Distinction Double-queue and Double-server Communication Network","authors":"J. Xiong, Zhijun Yang, H. Ding, Qianlin Liu","doi":"10.2495/CCEEE140271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2495/CCEEE140271","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of modern communications network, the quality of a system performance usually determines the application of the system. This paper mainly uses the Markov chain theory to analysis the user blocking rate and losing rate, which are two important indicators of the priority distinction double-queue and double-server communication network(PDDDCN). Through mathematical analysis, we get the corresponding mathematical expression, and make the computer simulations. Simulation results show the correctness of the theoretical analysis, and the relationship between system performance and the arrival rate or the probability that ordinary users fail to relinquish a server.","PeriodicalId":51388,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Communication","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2014-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87383096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Nilsen and Sarah Turner’s edited volume, The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America, considers how American politics of multiculturalism, along with colorblind racism, contribute to a unique atmosphere in television where race is briefly taken into account in celebration of diversity, but then immediately dismissed as inconsequential. This volume adds a new dimension to recent works on television that highlight the various ways the medium has evolved, transitioned, or transformed over the last three decades (see Lotz, 2007; Spigel & Olsson, 2004). These studies document the changes in television as a result of deregulation, media convergence, changes in programming, the introduction of new technologies, shifts in audiences’ viewing habits, and so on. While recognizing the valuable contributions such works make to the field of media studies, I think it is wise to examine what is meant by “change,” “transformation,” and “evolution” with respect to contemporary television. In discussions about how television has changed, there is a failure to account for the ways the medium has, when it comes to representations of racial difference, perpetuated an illusion of progress. Put simply, notions of television’s evolution are complicated by the medium’s racial paradox: At this moment in the 21st century, racial politics on television appear to be both progressive and regressive. Nilsen and Turner address this paradox in their collection of essays.
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