Sandra J Ball-Rokeach
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 102118 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sandra J Ball-Rokeach |
| NOMBRES | Sandra J |
| APELLIDO | Ball-Rokeach |
| FIRMA | BALL-ROKEACH S J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 428 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
The Ebb and Flow of Communication Research
An analysis of all published research articles in the Journal of Communication (N = 1574) revealed a slow progression toward openness and diversity of thought, interrupted by temporal slowdowns and declines. Among the recorded gaps is the overwhelmingly small representation of voices outside the United States. The assumption of interdisciplinarity is also questioned, as primary journal contributors were limited to a small set of sub-disciplines. …
Communication Ecologies
The continued fragmentation of information and the proliferation of communication resources necessitate a shift toward perspectives that situate communication practices in a multilevel ecosystem. The current article offers a method to map and analyze communication ecologies—defined as the networks of communication connections that individuals depend on in order to construct knowledge and achieve goals—as social networks. To demonstrate the potent…
The weight of networks
Objectives: Latinos have a disproportionately high risk for obesity and hypertension. The current study analyzes survey data from Latin American women to detect differences in rates of obesity and hypertension based on their number of health-related social ties. Additionally, it proposes individuals' health-related media preference (ethnic/ mainstream) as a potential moderator. Design: The dataset includes 364 Latinas (21-50 years old) from the g…
Causing Ripples in Local Power Relations
Hyperlocal news operations have been considered a promising alternative to the shrinking legacy media for sustaining civic discourse and engagement in local communities. However, these operations’ meso-level influence on civic engagement has not been widely investigated. Building upon the Media System Dependency theory, this article proposed an analytical framework for assessing such influence. This framework was applied to an ethnically diverse …
Intergroup relations in South Los Angeles – Combining communication infrastructure and contact hypothesis approaches
Building a new media platform for local storytelling and civic engagement in ethnically diverse neighborhoods
This article describes a research-driven initiative to develop a hyper-local news website to promote civic engagement in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Utilizing Communication Infrastructure Theory’s elucidation of the contribution of an integrated local storytelling network to civic engagement, multi-method research was conducted to identify gaps and opportunities in the extant storytelling n…
The internet and the changing global media environment
This chapter describes current trends in the global media environment, with a focus on their implications for the management of public agendas and political processes. It assesses the extent to which trends such as the growth of the blogosphere, citizen and other forms if user-generated content, have complicated and problematized news and agenda management as engaged in by both media and political elites. It argues that, in large part due to the …
Maintaining the digital hub
Community technology centers (CTCs) are potentially a critical component in the communication environment of urban communities. They have been investigated extensively as instruments of technology-based public policy and social service capacity-building, yet they have not been subject to research that posits these centers as integral components of larger communication systems essential to civic participation and empowerment. This article describe…
Civic Engagement From a Communication Infrastructure Perspective
The purpose of this study is to articulate the concepts and assumptions of communication infrastructure theory (CIT) in its present stage of development and validation. As an ecological approach to communication and community, CIT claims that access to storytelling community resources is a critical factor in civic engagement. When embedded in a neighborhood environment where key community storytellers encourage each other to talk about the neighb…
Reaching at risk groups
Latinos are at high risk for many health problems, but are often missed by traditional health communication campaigns aired through general audience channels. This article explores Latinos’ connections to communication channels for health goals - both mediated and interpersonal and media that is general audience and geo-ethnic (targeted toward a specific ethnicity and/or community). Data from a random digit dial telephone survey of Latinos in two…
Geo-Ethnicity” and Neighborhood Engagement
This article introduces the concept of “geo-ethnicity”—ethnically articulated attitudes and behaviors grounded in a specific temporal and spatial situation. Based upon survey data gathered in seven “geo-ethnic” communities, we demonstrate a unique effect of geo-ethnicity on individuals' neighborhood engagement. We analyze two types of cross-sectional comparisons: a comparison of different ethnic groups in the same Los Angeles area and comparisons…
Community Storytelling Network, Neighborhood Context, and Civic Engagement
Journal Article Community Storytelling Network, Neighborhood Context, and Civic Engagement: a Multilevel Approach Get access Yong-Chan Kim, Yong-Chan Kim 1Department of Telecommunication and Film, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 1Corresponding author: Yong-Chan Kim; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach 2…
Internet connectedness before and after September 11 2001
Based on survey data gathered before and after September 11, 2001 (‘9/11’), this study examines the relationship between ‘internet connectedness’ and communicative actions after September 11 2001. The study found that: (1) people heightened their dependency relations with traditional mass media after September 11, regardless of whether or not they had an internet connection; (2) ‘internet high-connectors’ intensified their internet connections, w…
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport
Civic Actions after September 11
Interpersonal and media storytelling were crucial to information dissemination about the September 11 tragedies. The storytelling processes through which urban residents are transformed into members of a broader community are illustrated by their connections to media and their participation in neighborhood discussions and community organizations after September 11. This study demonstrates how a communication infrastructure approach contributes to…
Fear and Misperception of Los Angeles Urban Space
Imagining urban space as being comfortable or fearful is studied as an effect of people's connections to their residential area communication infrastructure. Geographic Information System (GIS) modeling and spatial-statistical methods are used to process 215 mental maps obtained from respondents to a multilingual survey of seven ethnically marked residential communities of Los Angeles. Spatial-statistical analyses reveal that fear perceptions of …
Storytelling Neighborhood
This article develops and tests a communication infrastructure model of belonging among dwellers of urban residential environments. The concept of a communication infrastructure—a storytelling system set in its communication action context—is discussed. Storytelling neighborhood, the communication process through which neighborhood discussion transforms people from occupants of a house to members of a neighborhood, is proposed as an essential com…
Real and Virtual Social Ties
The relationship between online and offline social ties is studied in seven Los Angeles ethnically marked residential areas. Contrary to visions proposing a zero-sum game between the two, the authors advance a "the more, the more" approach to online social ties. A higher level of belonging to real communities translates into a higher propensity for interaction online. This approach is informed by a social shaping of technology perspective, which …
A Theory of Media Power and a Theory of Media Use
Television Shopping
The television shopping phenomenon is analyzed in terms of media system dependency theory. The analysis begins with a discussion of potential changes in structural relationships within the media system introduced by television shopping. We discuss how these structural changes imply changes in microlevel dependency relations. A hierarchy of dependency relations is proposed, with television dependency leading to dependency upon a genre of TV progra…
Stability and change in American value priorities, 1968–1981
The Future Study of Public Opinion
Media, Audience, and Social Structure
Introduction - Sandra J Ball-Rokeach and Muriel G Cantor The Media and the Social Fabric PART ONE: SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY INTO THE MEDIA AND MASS COMMUNICATION: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL ORIGINS Mass Communication Rediscovered - Charles R Wright Its Past and Future in American Sociology Reflections on the Lost Vision of Communication Theory - Thelma McCormack The Menu of Media Research - Michael Schudson PART TWO: MEDIA AND SOCIAL PROCESS The Info…
A Countervalence in the Great Television Effects Debates
The Great American Values Test
Community Storytelling Network, Neighborhood Context, and Civic Engagement
Journal Article Community Storytelling Network, Neighborhood Context, and Civic Engagement: a Multilevel Approach Get access Yong-Chan Kim, Yong-Chan Kim 1Department of Telecommunication and Film, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 1Corresponding author: Yong-Chan Kim; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach 2…
Stability and change in American value priorities, 1968–1981
Civic Engagement From a Communication Infrastructure Perspective
The purpose of this study is to articulate the concepts and assumptions of communication infrastructure theory (CIT) in its present stage of development and validation. As an ecological approach to communication and community, CIT claims that access to storytelling community resources is a critical factor in civic engagement. When embedded in a neighborhood environment where key community storytellers encourage each other to talk about the neighb…
Values and Violence
This research examines the hypothesis that violent behavior results from a commitment to a subcultural value and attitude pattern. Special attention is given to Wolfgang and Ferracutti's subculture of violence thesis. Two types of violent behavior are considered - interpersonal violence and violent crime. Findings are drawn from two independent studies: one on the values and attitudes associated with interpersonal violence in a national area prob…
Media, Audience, and Social Structure
Introduction - Sandra J Ball-Rokeach and Muriel G Cantor The Media and the Social Fabric PART ONE: SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY INTO THE MEDIA AND MASS COMMUNICATION: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL ORIGINS Mass Communication Rediscovered - Charles R Wright Its Past and Future in American Sociology Reflections on the Lost Vision of Communication Theory - Thelma McCormack The Menu of Media Research - Michael Schudson PART TWO: MEDIA AND SOCIAL PROCESS The Info…
Building a new media platform for local storytelling and civic engagement in ethnically diverse neighborhoods
This article describes a research-driven initiative to develop a hyper-local news website to promote civic engagement in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Utilizing Communication Infrastructure Theory’s elucidation of the contribution of an integrated local storytelling network to civic engagement, multi-method research was conducted to identify gaps and opportunities in the extant storytelling n…
Roots
Questions about who watched “Roots: The Next Generation,” and with what effect, were addressed through pre- and posttest surveys of two eastern Washington cities. Evidence was obtained suggesting selectivity in the viewership of Roots II: Multivariate analysis revealed that a general dimension of egalitarianism distinguished Roots II viewers from nonviewers, even when various personal and demographic variables were controlled. However, tests for …
From Pervasive Ambiguity to a Definition of the Situation
This paper presents a conceptual and empirical analysis of one major type of ambiguity. Pervasive ambiguity is discussed as both a cognitive and an affective problem which occurs when individuals or collectives are unable to define a social situation. The research reported here involved an attempt to create an ambiguity-producing situation so that the adaptive behavior of persons experiencing pervasive ambiguity could be observed. Three hypothese…
Reaching at risk groups
Latinos are at high risk for many health problems, but are often missed by traditional health communication campaigns aired through general audience channels. This article explores Latinos’ connections to communication channels for health goals - both mediated and interpersonal and media that is general audience and geo-ethnic (targeted toward a specific ethnicity and/or community). Data from a random digit dial telephone survey of Latinos in two…
Geo-Ethnicity” and Neighborhood Engagement
This article introduces the concept of “geo-ethnicity”—ethnically articulated attitudes and behaviors grounded in a specific temporal and spatial situation. Based upon survey data gathered in seven “geo-ethnic” communities, we demonstrate a unique effect of geo-ethnicity on individuals' neighborhood engagement. We analyze two types of cross-sectional comparisons: a comparison of different ethnic groups in the same Los Angeles area and comparisons…
Internet connectedness before and after September 11 2001
Based on survey data gathered before and after September 11, 2001 (‘9/11’), this study examines the relationship between ‘internet connectedness’ and communicative actions after September 11 2001. The study found that: (1) people heightened their dependency relations with traditional mass media after September 11, regardless of whether or not they had an internet connection; (2) ‘internet high-connectors’ intensified their internet connections, w…
Communication Ecologies
The continued fragmentation of information and the proliferation of communication resources necessitate a shift toward perspectives that situate communication practices in a multilevel ecosystem. The current article offers a method to map and analyze communication ecologies—defined as the networks of communication connections that individuals depend on in order to construct knowledge and achieve goals—as social networks. To demonstrate the potent…
Causing Ripples in Local Power Relations
Hyperlocal news operations have been considered a promising alternative to the shrinking legacy media for sustaining civic discourse and engagement in local communities. However, these operations’ meso-level influence on civic engagement has not been widely investigated. Building upon the Media System Dependency theory, this article proposed an analytical framework for assessing such influence. This framework was applied to an ethnically diverse …
Real and Virtual Social Ties
The relationship between online and offline social ties is studied in seven Los Angeles ethnically marked residential areas. Contrary to visions proposing a zero-sum game between the two, the authors advance a "the more, the more" approach to online social ties. A higher level of belonging to real communities translates into a higher propensity for interaction online. This approach is informed by a social shaping of technology perspective, which …
Maintaining the digital hub
Community technology centers (CTCs) are potentially a critical component in the communication environment of urban communities. They have been investigated extensively as instruments of technology-based public policy and social service capacity-building, yet they have not been subject to research that posits these centers as integral components of larger communication systems essential to civic participation and empowerment. This article describe…
A Theory of Media Power and a Theory of Media Use
Intergroup relations in South Los Angeles – Combining communication infrastructure and contact hypothesis approaches
Receptivity to Sexual Equality
The weight of networks
Objectives: Latinos have a disproportionately high risk for obesity and hypertension. The current study analyzes survey data from Latin American women to detect differences in rates of obesity and hypertension based on their number of health-related social ties. Additionally, it proposes individuals' health-related media preference (ethnic/ mainstream) as a potential moderator. Design: The dataset includes 364 Latinas (21-50 years old) from the g…
From Pervasive Ambiguity to a Definition of the Situation
This paper presents a conceptual and empirical analysis of one major type of ambiguity. Pervasive ambiguity is discussed as both a cognitive and an affective problem which occurs when individuals or collectives are unable to define a social situation. The research reported here involved an attempt to create an ambiguity-producing situation so that the adaptive behavior of persons experiencing pervasive ambiguity could be observed. Three hypothese…
Values and Violence
This research examines the hypothesis that violent behavior results from a commitment to a subcultural value and attitude pattern. Special attention is given to Wolfgang and Ferracutti's subculture of violence thesis. Two types of violent behavior are considered - interpersonal violence and violent crime. Findings are drawn from two independent studies: one on the values and attitudes associated with interpersonal violence in a national area prob…
Reply to Magura
Receptivity to Sexual Equality
Roots
Questions about who watched “Roots: The Next Generation,” and with what effect, were addressed through pre- and posttest surveys of two eastern Washington cities. Evidence was obtained suggesting selectivity in the viewership of Roots II: Multivariate analysis revealed that a general dimension of egalitarianism distinguished Roots II viewers from nonviewers, even when various personal and demographic variables were controlled. However, tests for …
A Countervalence in the Great Television Effects Debates
The Great American Values Test
The Future Study of Public Opinion
Media, Audience, and Social Structure
Introduction - Sandra J Ball-Rokeach and Muriel G Cantor The Media and the Social Fabric PART ONE: SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY INTO THE MEDIA AND MASS COMMUNICATION: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL ORIGINS Mass Communication Rediscovered - Charles R Wright Its Past and Future in American Sociology Reflections on the Lost Vision of Communication Theory - Thelma McCormack The Menu of Media Research - Michael Schudson PART TWO: MEDIA AND SOCIAL PROCESS The Info…
Stability and change in American value priorities, 1968–1981
Television Shopping
The television shopping phenomenon is analyzed in terms of media system dependency theory. The analysis begins with a discussion of potential changes in structural relationships within the media system introduced by television shopping. We discuss how these structural changes imply changes in microlevel dependency relations. A hierarchy of dependency relations is proposed, with television dependency leading to dependency upon a genre of TV progra…
A Theory of Media Power and a Theory of Media Use
Fear and Misperception of Los Angeles Urban Space
Imagining urban space as being comfortable or fearful is studied as an effect of people's connections to their residential area communication infrastructure. Geographic Information System (GIS) modeling and spatial-statistical methods are used to process 215 mental maps obtained from respondents to a multilingual survey of seven ethnically marked residential communities of Los Angeles. Spatial-statistical analyses reveal that fear perceptions of …
Storytelling Neighborhood
This article develops and tests a communication infrastructure model of belonging among dwellers of urban residential environments. The concept of a communication infrastructure—a storytelling system set in its communication action context—is discussed. Storytelling neighborhood, the communication process through which neighborhood discussion transforms people from occupants of a house to members of a neighborhood, is proposed as an essential com…
Real and Virtual Social Ties
The relationship between online and offline social ties is studied in seven Los Angeles ethnically marked residential areas. Contrary to visions proposing a zero-sum game between the two, the authors advance a "the more, the more" approach to online social ties. A higher level of belonging to real communities translates into a higher propensity for interaction online. This approach is informed by a social shaping of technology perspective, which …
Civic Actions after September 11
Interpersonal and media storytelling were crucial to information dissemination about the September 11 tragedies. The storytelling processes through which urban residents are transformed into members of a broader community are illustrated by their connections to media and their participation in neighborhood discussions and community organizations after September 11. This study demonstrates how a communication infrastructure approach contributes to…
Paradoxes of Youth and Sport
Internet connectedness before and after September 11 2001
Based on survey data gathered before and after September 11, 2001 (‘9/11’), this study examines the relationship between ‘internet connectedness’ and communicative actions after September 11 2001. The study found that: (1) people heightened their dependency relations with traditional mass media after September 11, regardless of whether or not they had an internet connection; (2) ‘internet high-connectors’ intensified their internet connections, w…
Civic Engagement From a Communication Infrastructure Perspective
The purpose of this study is to articulate the concepts and assumptions of communication infrastructure theory (CIT) in its present stage of development and validation. As an ecological approach to communication and community, CIT claims that access to storytelling community resources is a critical factor in civic engagement. When embedded in a neighborhood environment where key community storytellers encourage each other to talk about the neighb…
Reaching at risk groups
Latinos are at high risk for many health problems, but are often missed by traditional health communication campaigns aired through general audience channels. This article explores Latinos’ connections to communication channels for health goals - both mediated and interpersonal and media that is general audience and geo-ethnic (targeted toward a specific ethnicity and/or community). Data from a random digit dial telephone survey of Latinos in two…
Geo-Ethnicity” and Neighborhood Engagement
This article introduces the concept of “geo-ethnicity”—ethnically articulated attitudes and behaviors grounded in a specific temporal and spatial situation. Based upon survey data gathered in seven “geo-ethnic” communities, we demonstrate a unique effect of geo-ethnicity on individuals' neighborhood engagement. We analyze two types of cross-sectional comparisons: a comparison of different ethnic groups in the same Los Angeles area and comparisons…
Community Storytelling Network, Neighborhood Context, and Civic Engagement
Journal Article Community Storytelling Network, Neighborhood Context, and Civic Engagement: a Multilevel Approach Get access Yong-Chan Kim, Yong-Chan Kim 1Department of Telecommunication and Film, College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 1Corresponding author: Yong-Chan Kim; Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach 2…
Maintaining the digital hub
Community technology centers (CTCs) are potentially a critical component in the communication environment of urban communities. They have been investigated extensively as instruments of technology-based public policy and social service capacity-building, yet they have not been subject to research that posits these centers as integral components of larger communication systems essential to civic participation and empowerment. This article describe…
The internet and the changing global media environment
This chapter describes current trends in the global media environment, with a focus on their implications for the management of public agendas and political processes. It assesses the extent to which trends such as the growth of the blogosphere, citizen and other forms if user-generated content, have complicated and problematized news and agenda management as engaged in by both media and political elites. It argues that, in large part due to the …
Building a new media platform for local storytelling and civic engagement in ethnically diverse neighborhoods
This article describes a research-driven initiative to develop a hyper-local news website to promote civic engagement in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Utilizing Communication Infrastructure Theory’s elucidation of the contribution of an integrated local storytelling network to civic engagement, multi-method research was conducted to identify gaps and opportunities in the extant storytelling n…
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