Meelis Stamm
Biographic Data
| ID | 135790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meelis Stamm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meelis |
| FAMILY NAME | Stamm |
| SIGNATURE | STAMM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0090-008X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Waves and Radiation
This article explores how anxiety about the possible radioactivity of media devices became a part of American life in the atomic age. The initial impetus came in the late 1960s, when a panic erupted over the possibility that as many as five percent of American color television sets were emitting hazardous levels of radiation. In response, Congress undertook a series of investigations, the findings from which became part of the Radiation Control f…
Farm to Table Reading
Following a period of profligate pulpwood logging that threatened domestic forest resources, a 1911 change in North American tariff policy made Canadian newsprint a duty-free import to the United States. While this gave newspaper publishers subsidized access to plentiful paper supplies, it also generated fears that the functioning of the American press was now dependent on a commodity produced in a foreign country. As part of a nationalist mood i…
Analysis of body build and physical abilities of volleyball players aged 10-12 years
The aim of the study was to analyse the body build and physical abilities of 10-12-year-old volleyball players in order to identify the most promising young volleyball players in Estonia. The following research tasks were set: to find the anthropometric variables and physical abilities tests results of young volleyball players based on age classes and individually, to establish the body build types of young volleyball players based on a 5 SD heig…
What we can learn from books in the digital age
Though books are often considered “old media” in the digital age, their production in this period in fact has been continually reimagined and redefined through new technologies of printing, especially paper and ink manufacturing. This paper explores how three specific recent printed books demonstrate this point in both form and content: David Brower’s Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run (1995), William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s Cra…
Analysis of serves of the Estonian national volleyball team in the final tournament of the European Championship 2021 and comparison with the final tournament of the European Championship 2019
The aim of this study was to compare the tactics and proficiency of the Estonian men team’s games in the finals of the European Championships in 2019 and 2021. A total of ten games were analysed (five games of the 2019 tournament and five games of the 2021 tournament). The data were collected by video analysis and were entered into the Excel program where further analysis was performed. Additional statistical data processing was performed using t…
Offensive pass tactics analysis of volleyball setters in olympic finals of 2000 and 2021
The aim of the current study was to analyse offensive pass tactics in Olympic Games finals in 2000 and 2021. The authors of the study were interested how the game of volleyball has developed in 20 years, whether it has become faster or even slower. We were also interested whether setters' game tactics had changed in 20 years. Therefore, we undertook three tasks: to compare offensive pass tactics according to types of sets; to compare the distribu…
Comparison of agility in 13-16-year-old volleyball and football players and non-athletes
The aim of the study was to find and compare the agility abilities and anthropometric characteristics of 13-16-year-old volleyball and football players and adolescents not engaged in sports. The following research questions were posed: to find the agility results and anthropometric characteristics of volleyball and football players and non-athletes and to compare the agility results and anthropometric characteristics between athletes and not non-…
Reinforcement in the Aggregate
While generally understood as an individual-level effect, we argue that reinforcement effects—or the strengthening of existing party loyalties through media exposure—might also play a role in shaping aggregate-level outcomes. Looking across eight presidential elections from 1900 to 1928, this study provides evidence that partisan newspaper circulation was significantly linked to two-party vote share at the county level. Counties with higher circu…
Estonian women’s national volleyball team’s success in 2019 European Championship final tournament
The aim of the article was to analyse the game success and tactics of the Estonian team in subgroup C of the 2019 European Championship final tournament in sets won and lost. The subjects were the players of the Estonian volleyball team in the final tournament of the European Championship in 2019. The paper analyses Estonia’s performance in five games of the European Championship: Hungary – Estonia, Croatia – Estonia, Romania – Estonia, the Nethe…
The International Materiality of Domestic Information
In the first half of the twentieth century, as newspapers were the most important means of communicating information about current events, Canada became the world’s leading producer of newsprint. Its neighbor, the United States, was its leading consumer and the top global newsprint consumer. European countries depended substantially on Scandinavian newsprint production, and many countries around the world lacked domestic resources to make paper. …
Comparative assessment of agility in girls aged 11-13 years who practise or do not practise sports
The aim of the study was to test and assess agility of young girls aged 11-13 years and to find whether agility differs in girls who practise sports and in those who do not. The subjects of the study were 60 girls 30 of whom practised sports or attended workouts and 30 did not. To conduct the study, six agility tests taken from J. Dawes and M. Roozen's book Developing Agility and Quickness were used. The study revealed differences in agility betw…
Life quality of injured defence forces veterans who play sitting volleyball
The purpose of the study was to analyse the life quality and changes in it throughout three different periods in Estonian injured war veterans' life (before the injury, after the injury and after starting to play sitting volleyball). The main questions the veterans were asked concerned the positive and negative aspects of sitting volleyball, the effect of sitting volleyball on their health and social life, the motivating factors for participating…
Assessment of development of adolescent volleyball players' jumping ability
The aim of the study was to find the influence of Prof. A. Belyayev and L. Bulykina's a month-and-a-half vertical jumping ability development programme on adolescent volleyball players aged 12-14 years. The subjects in the experimental group were 15 adolescent volleyball players whose mean age was 12.9 years - 7 boys whose initial mean running jump result was 52.9 cm and 8 girls whose mean running jump result was 36.9 cm. The control group consis…
Individual proficiency of reception by the Estonian men’s national team at the qualification tournament of the European Championship
The aim of the study was to analyse players’ individual proficiency at serve reception and its influence on the following attack in the Estonian national team during the qualification for the European Championship in 2016. The subjects were the players of Estonian national volleyball team during the qualification for the European Championship in 2016. To collect data, video recordings of eight games of the Estonian national team were viewed; the …
Proficiency of Attack in volleyball and its relations with anthropometric characteristics in U-16 boys
Attack has a very significant role in volleyball. It can be considered one of the most essential elements for scoring points. To perform successful attacks, certain body build characteristics are needed, which would facilitate the training of attack competence. The aim of the current study was to assess the performance of attack by boys of the U-16 age group considering their body build and to analyse the differences of attack in sets won and los…
Do height and weight play an important role in block and attack efficiency in high-level men's volleyball
The research objective was to study the relationships of players' efficiency in attack and block with their anthropometric characteristics. Data on men's weight and height and their proficiency in the game were used. The subjects were the members of the Estonian, Italian, French and Croatian national volleyball teams who participated in Pool B of the European Championship. Data are given on men's height, weight, age, total number of spikes, attac…
Comparative analysis of serve and serve reception performance in pool B of European Men’s Volleyball Championship 2015
The aim of the study was to analyse the successfulness of tactics of serve and serve reception of the national teams who participated in Pool B of European Men’s Volleyball Championship in 2015.The study included four national teams: Estonia, France, Croatia and Italy. A total of six games and 912 serves were analysed.Data were collected using the statistics program Data Volley 2007. The data were transferred to Microsoft Excel 2010, which was us…
Comparative analysis of the elements of attack and defence in men's and women's games in the Estonian volleyball highest league
The aim of this study was to analyse the differences between men's and women's teams of the Estonian highest league in attack, serve, block, defence and serve reception. The sample consisted of 5 men's and 5 women's teams of the Estonian volleyball highest league in the 2014/2015 season. To collect data, two game videos of each team were watched; from them tempo of attack, type of attack, block and serve, and the results of defence and cover were…
Reassessing the People's Choice
This article reassesses The People's Choice by Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet, one of the foundations of communication and voting behavior research. As with most classics, which are often cited but seldom read, we believe this book has much to teach contemporary social scientists. We return to the original context of the research and use voting data from the period with three broad goals: (a) to find ideas and lessons from th…
Comparison of the body build and physical abilities of the students of sports classes and ordinary classes
The aim of the current study was to analyse and compare the peculiarities of physical abilities and body build of the students of the primary school classes (Year 1–4) of ordinary classes and sports classes at Tallinn Lilleküla Secondary School.The sample consisted of 170 primary school students – 93 boys and 77 girls. It involved 56 boys and 29 girls in sports classes and 37 boys and 48 girls in ordinary classes. The body height and weight of al…
The Space for News
In the early twentieth century, American newspapers enjoyed high circulations while presenting readers with diverse and plentiful content. After 1920, radio broadcasting made even more information available for public consumption, giving audience members an abundant range of media choices. During a time of plenty for readers and listeners, companies in the business of media struggled with the opposite problem: scarcity. As the amount of media con…
Short-Run Decisions Threaten Papers' Long-Run Viability
This commentary argues that managerial short-run decisions from 1985 to 2004 contributed greatly to the current crisis. The history of newspaper companies' adaptation to technological change suggests strategies for innovative management in the current news environment
Basic anthropometric measurements and proficiency in the game of adolescent (up to 16-year-old) male volleyballers at Estonian championships in three different years
The article analyses young male volleyballers’ age, body build and performance at Estonian championships for up to 16-year-olds at three tournaments – Tartu 2005, Viljandi 2006 and Rakvere 2008. In all these years, the participants were the eight best teams of Estonia at the moment. A total of 197 boys were studied; 13 body measurements were taken. Proficiency in the game was assessed for both teams in parallel with two computers provided with th…
What Really Happened to the 1960s
Book Review| January 01 2013 What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy, Edward P. Morgan, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010; 405 pages. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780700617562. Michael Stamm Michael Stamm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2013) 7 (1): 149–15…
Development of jumping ability and its influence on the proficiency of attack in the female volleyball team of Tallinn University in the 2012/2013 season
The aim of this study was to improve the jump performance of the Tallinn University female volleyball team and to examine the relation between the development of jump performance and attack performance.The study examined 10 female Premier League volleyball players, aged 21.3±2.4 years and with 11.3±2.5 years of experience from Tallinn University during the 2012/2013 season. Anthropometric measuring (height, weight and 9 circumferences), jump perf…
Short-Run Decisions Threaten Papers' Long-Run Viability
This commentary argues that managerial short-run decisions from 1985 to 2004 contributed greatly to the current crisis. The history of newspaper companies' adaptation to technological change suggests strategies for innovative management in the current news environment
The Space for News
In the early twentieth century, American newspapers enjoyed high circulations while presenting readers with diverse and plentiful content. After 1920, radio broadcasting made even more information available for public consumption, giving audience members an abundant range of media choices. During a time of plenty for readers and listeners, companies in the business of media struggled with the opposite problem: scarcity. As the amount of media con…
Paul Lazarsfeld's Radio and the Printed Page
This article analyzes Paul Lazarsfeld's 1941 book, Radio and the Printed Page, arguing for the book's enduring significance in communication and media studies. In the book, Lazarsfeld rejected the then-influential technological determinist model that Hadley Cantril and Gordon Allport had developed through studying the new medium of radio. In contrast to Cantril and Allport, Lazarsfeld found through studying Americans' listening and reading habits…
Adolescent female volleyballers' (aged 13-15 years) body build classification and proficiency in competitions
The present paper studies the body build and proficiency in the game of 74 female volleyballers aged 13-15 years from eight teams, who participated in Estonian championships. Fourteen anthropometric measurements were taken from the players, and these data were systematized into a 5 SD height-weight classification (small, medium, large, pyknomorphous and leptomorphous). The players participated in 28 matches, which were recorded in parallel with t…
Newspapers, Radio, and the Business of Media in the United States
Journal Article Newspapers, Radio, and the Business of Media in the United States Get access Michael Stamm Michael Stamm Department of History and School of Journalism at Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 25–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/24.1.25 Published: 01 January 2010
Paul Lazarsfeld's Radio and the Printed Page
This article analyzes Paul Lazarsfeld's 1941 book, Radio and the Printed Page, arguing for the book's enduring significance in communication and media studies. In the book, Lazarsfeld rejected the then-influential technological determinist model that Hadley Cantril and Gordon Allport had developed through studying the new medium of radio. In contrast to Cantril and Allport, Lazarsfeld found through studying Americans' listening and reading habits…
Points on the Dial
"Points on the Dial: golden age radio beyond the networks." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 32(2), pp. 341–342
Broadcasting Mainline Protestantism
This article analyzes the broadcast activities of the Chicago Sunday Evening Club (CSEC), a mainline Protestant organization founded in 1908 and still active today. The CSEC began broadcasting its weekly meetings on the radio in 1922 and on television in 1956. Drawing on archival organizational records from the CSEC and from listener correspondence, this essay traces how the club's use of the new media of particular historical moments shaped its …
Anthropometric and psychophysiological characteristics of top female volleyballers in relation to the players' position on the court
The aim of the current study was to find if the players who play in different positions in Estonian top female teams can be differentiated by their body build and psychophysiological characteristics. The study involved four female teams of the Estonian league: Viimsi Spa, Viljandi Metall, Tallinn University and the Junior National Team. In total, 41 female volleyballers were studied; they were divided as follows: first tempo attackers – 13, sette…
Training programme to develop young volleyballers' jumping ability
In the current study, the jumping ability development programme created by A. V. Belyayev and L. V. Bulykina was used in training groups of young volleyballers of different sex and age during 54 days. The sample being trained consisted of two groups. The first group, aged 16–20 years, consisted of 6 girls and 6 boys. The second group, aged 8–13 years, consisted of 4 girls and 6 boys. All of them were beginning volleyballers who had practised for …
What Really Happened to the 1960s
Book Review| January 01 2013 What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy, Edward P. Morgan, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010; 405 pages. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780700617562. Michael Stamm Michael Stamm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2013) 7 (1): 149–15…
Development of jumping ability and its influence on the proficiency of attack in the female volleyball team of Tallinn University in the 2012/2013 season
The aim of this study was to improve the jump performance of the Tallinn University female volleyball team and to examine the relation between the development of jump performance and attack performance.The study examined 10 female Premier League volleyball players, aged 21.3±2.4 years and with 11.3±2.5 years of experience from Tallinn University during the 2012/2013 season. Anthropometric measuring (height, weight and 9 circumferences), jump perf…
The Space for News
In the early twentieth century, American newspapers enjoyed high circulations while presenting readers with diverse and plentiful content. After 1920, radio broadcasting made even more information available for public consumption, giving audience members an abundant range of media choices. During a time of plenty for readers and listeners, companies in the business of media struggled with the opposite problem: scarcity. As the amount of media con…
Short-Run Decisions Threaten Papers' Long-Run Viability
This commentary argues that managerial short-run decisions from 1985 to 2004 contributed greatly to the current crisis. The history of newspaper companies' adaptation to technological change suggests strategies for innovative management in the current news environment
Basic anthropometric measurements and proficiency in the game of adolescent (up to 16-year-old) male volleyballers at Estonian championships in three different years
The article analyses young male volleyballers’ age, body build and performance at Estonian championships for up to 16-year-olds at three tournaments – Tartu 2005, Viljandi 2006 and Rakvere 2008. In all these years, the participants were the eight best teams of Estonia at the moment. A total of 197 boys were studied; 13 body measurements were taken. Proficiency in the game was assessed for both teams in parallel with two computers provided with th…
Reassessing the People's Choice
This article reassesses The People's Choice by Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet, one of the foundations of communication and voting behavior research. As with most classics, which are often cited but seldom read, we believe this book has much to teach contemporary social scientists. We return to the original context of the research and use voting data from the period with three broad goals: (a) to find ideas and lessons from th…
Comparison of the body build and physical abilities of the students of sports classes and ordinary classes
The aim of the current study was to analyse and compare the peculiarities of physical abilities and body build of the students of the primary school classes (Year 1–4) of ordinary classes and sports classes at Tallinn Lilleküla Secondary School.The sample consisted of 170 primary school students – 93 boys and 77 girls. It involved 56 boys and 29 girls in sports classes and 37 boys and 48 girls in ordinary classes. The body height and weight of al…
Comparative analysis of serve and serve reception performance in pool B of European Men’s Volleyball Championship 2015
The aim of the study was to analyse the successfulness of tactics of serve and serve reception of the national teams who participated in Pool B of European Men’s Volleyball Championship in 2015.The study included four national teams: Estonia, France, Croatia and Italy. A total of six games and 912 serves were analysed.Data were collected using the statistics program Data Volley 2007. The data were transferred to Microsoft Excel 2010, which was us…
Comparative analysis of the elements of attack and defence in men's and women's games in the Estonian volleyball highest league
The aim of this study was to analyse the differences between men's and women's teams of the Estonian highest league in attack, serve, block, defence and serve reception. The sample consisted of 5 men's and 5 women's teams of the Estonian volleyball highest league in the 2014/2015 season. To collect data, two game videos of each team were watched; from them tempo of attack, type of attack, block and serve, and the results of defence and cover were…
Do height and weight play an important role in block and attack efficiency in high-level men's volleyball
The research objective was to study the relationships of players' efficiency in attack and block with their anthropometric characteristics. Data on men's weight and height and their proficiency in the game were used. The subjects were the members of the Estonian, Italian, French and Croatian national volleyball teams who participated in Pool B of the European Championship. Data are given on men's height, weight, age, total number of spikes, attac…
Proficiency of Attack in volleyball and its relations with anthropometric characteristics in U-16 boys
Attack has a very significant role in volleyball. It can be considered one of the most essential elements for scoring points. To perform successful attacks, certain body build characteristics are needed, which would facilitate the training of attack competence. The aim of the current study was to assess the performance of attack by boys of the U-16 age group considering their body build and to analyse the differences of attack in sets won and los…
Individual proficiency of reception by the Estonian men’s national team at the qualification tournament of the European Championship
The aim of the study was to analyse players’ individual proficiency at serve reception and its influence on the following attack in the Estonian national team during the qualification for the European Championship in 2016. The subjects were the players of Estonian national volleyball team during the qualification for the European Championship in 2016. To collect data, video recordings of eight games of the Estonian national team were viewed; the …
Comparative assessment of agility in girls aged 11-13 years who practise or do not practise sports
The aim of the study was to test and assess agility of young girls aged 11-13 years and to find whether agility differs in girls who practise sports and in those who do not. The subjects of the study were 60 girls 30 of whom practised sports or attended workouts and 30 did not. To conduct the study, six agility tests taken from J. Dawes and M. Roozen's book Developing Agility and Quickness were used. The study revealed differences in agility betw…
Life quality of injured defence forces veterans who play sitting volleyball
The purpose of the study was to analyse the life quality and changes in it throughout three different periods in Estonian injured war veterans' life (before the injury, after the injury and after starting to play sitting volleyball). The main questions the veterans were asked concerned the positive and negative aspects of sitting volleyball, the effect of sitting volleyball on their health and social life, the motivating factors for participating…
Assessment of development of adolescent volleyball players' jumping ability
The aim of the study was to find the influence of Prof. A. Belyayev and L. Bulykina's a month-and-a-half vertical jumping ability development programme on adolescent volleyball players aged 12-14 years. The subjects in the experimental group were 15 adolescent volleyball players whose mean age was 12.9 years - 7 boys whose initial mean running jump result was 52.9 cm and 8 girls whose mean running jump result was 36.9 cm. The control group consis…
Reinforcement in the Aggregate
While generally understood as an individual-level effect, we argue that reinforcement effects—or the strengthening of existing party loyalties through media exposure—might also play a role in shaping aggregate-level outcomes. Looking across eight presidential elections from 1900 to 1928, this study provides evidence that partisan newspaper circulation was significantly linked to two-party vote share at the county level. Counties with higher circu…
Estonian women’s national volleyball team’s success in 2019 European Championship final tournament
The aim of the article was to analyse the game success and tactics of the Estonian team in subgroup C of the 2019 European Championship final tournament in sets won and lost. The subjects were the players of the Estonian volleyball team in the final tournament of the European Championship in 2019. The paper analyses Estonia’s performance in five games of the European Championship: Hungary – Estonia, Croatia – Estonia, Romania – Estonia, the Nethe…
The International Materiality of Domestic Information
In the first half of the twentieth century, as newspapers were the most important means of communicating information about current events, Canada became the world’s leading producer of newsprint. Its neighbor, the United States, was its leading consumer and the top global newsprint consumer. European countries depended substantially on Scandinavian newsprint production, and many countries around the world lacked domestic resources to make paper. …
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