Lee B Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 157291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee B Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee B |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Don’t know’ responses in American polls about Arab countries: More than just ‘No Opinion’
This study examines the factors that determine the use of ‘don’t know’ (DK) responses in American public opinion polls about Arab countries. The data show that the American respondents tend to use the DK option more often when asked about their overall attitudes towards these countries. Drawing on a series of telephone surveys conducted by Gallup (2000–2013) that used national samples (N=13,527 in fourteen surveys), the findings show that DK resp…
Audience Responses To Media Diversification: Coping with Plenty
Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Enrollments: Enrollments Decline for Second Year in a Row
Enrollments in journalism and mass communication programs in the United States have declined over the last two years, reversing a pattern of growth that has sustained the field for twenty years. It is a decline at a time of continued growth in enrollments at universities generally. It is a decline at a time when enrollments have been growing in the instructional field of communication of which journalism and mass communication is a part. The data…
Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Enrollments: Enrollments Decline, Reversing the Increase of a Year Earlier, and Suggesting Slow Growth for Future
Enrollments in journalism and mass communication programs declined in the autumn of 2011, compared to a year earlier. Enrollments were down slightly at the senior and junior levels and substantially at the freshman level. Enrollment increased at the sophomore level. The majority of administrators say they have made curricular changes in the past two years in response to changes taking place in the communication landscape. Much of that change is f…
Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Enrollments: Enrollments Grow, Reversing Stagnation of Recent Years
Undergraduate enrollments in U.S. journalism and mass communication programs increased by 2.0% in the autumn of 2010, a reverse in a two-year slowdown, but perhaps temporary. Graduate level enrollments increased 6.3% in doctoral programs and a dramatic 13.4% in master's programs. JMC programs sent a record number of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree recipients into the job market. Enrollment in the journalism specialization declined again…
News Organizations and Routines
Journalists and the organizations for which they work produce news. In other words, news is both an individual product and an organizational product. Even freelance journalists-journalists not employed by a media organization-were dependent until recently on media organizations for the distribution of their messages. The complex technologies that have been used to distributed media messages have required resources that few individuals controlled
Is More Always Better: Examining the adverse effects of competition on media performance
While classic market economic theory argues that competition among media is better for consumers, preliminary research in emerging media markets suggests otherwise. High levels of competition in markets with limited advertising revenues may lead to poorer journalistic performance. This study tests that argument using secondary analysis of data from a purposive sample of countries where measures of news media performance and market competition exi…
Enrollment Report: Slow Rate of Growth May Signal Weakening of Demand
Enrollments in U.S. journalism and mass communication programs increased in the autumn of 2008 compared with a year earlier. Enrollments at the freshman and sophomore levels, however, declined, suggesting that enrollment growth rates in the next few years will slow. The percentage of students enrolled in print journalism, broadcast journalism, or journalism generally was lower in the autumn of 2008 than a year earlier, but the change was not dram…
Wissenschaft mit Wirkung: Beiträge zu Journalismus- und Medienwirkungsforschung : Festschrift für Klaus Schönbach
Der Band vereint 22 Beiträge von Kollegen und Freunden, SchÃ1⁄4lern und Weggefährten Klaus Schönbachs. Den 60. Geburtstag des international hoch angesehenen Kommunikationswissenschaftlers nehmen die Autoren zum Anlass, aktuelle Fragen der Medienwirkungs- und der Journalismusforschung aufzugreifen. Die Antworten, zu denen sie gelangen, dokumentieren in ihrer Vielfalt die Leistungsfähigkeit, Zeitnähe und gesellschaftliche Relevanz des Faches Kommun…
Enrollment Growth Rate Slows; Field's Focus on Undergraduate Education at Odds with University Setting
Undergraduate and graduate enrollments in the field of journalism and mass communication grew again in the autumn of 2004, but at rates considerably smaller than in recent years. Enrollment at the freshman level was considerably higher than a year earlier, however, suggesting increased enrollment demand at the undergraduate level for the future. While the field of journalism and mass communication is heavily slanted toward undergraduate education…
Annual Enrollment Report: Graduate and Undergraduate Enrollments Increase Sharply
Enrollments at both the graduate and undergraduate level increased in the autumn of 2002, resulting in the largest number of students enrolled in journalism and mass communication ever. The growth in graduate enrollment follows a period of decline, while the increase in undergraduate enrollment continues a pattern of growth. The percentage of undergraduates enrolled who were female increased slightly, as did the percentage of students who were Af…
Determinants of Newsroom Use of Staff Expertise: The Case of International News
This article examines the role of the community in determining why some news organizations invest in staff expertise in the area of international news and provide extensive international news content, while others do not. Data from daily newspapers in the US show organizational size rather than community factors to be the dominant influence on the news organization's commitment to specialization. Community factors did matter, however, and general…
Predictors of Diversification of Journalism & Mass Communication Faculties 1989–1998
The percentage of faculty in journalism and mass communication programs who are women is increasing, but the change is so gradual that, at the present rate, it will be around the year 2035 before the faculty looks like the students enrolled in journalism and mass communication programs today in terms of gender. The situation is much the same in terms of race and ethnicity. Growth in the percentage of faculty who are not white is such that, at the…
A Comparative Study of the Role of Media Evaluations: German and U.S. Differences and Similarities
An evolving program of scholarship has demonstrated that those who use the news media are able and willing to assess those media on a number of dimensions. For example, audience members evaluate the media in terms of the completeness of the story they tell, the biases they harbor, and fairness of their coverage. Some have termed these "naive" or commonsense theories about how the media operate and about the nature of the news they contain. Growin…
Cognitive strategies for media use during a presidential campaign
This study investigates whether attention to political news and attention to debates during a presidential campaign are affected by audience members' cognitive schemata concerning media and politics and the information‐processing strategies they claim to use when encountering the media. Data come from a telephone survey of a probability sample of 706 registered voters in a metropolitan area. Hierarchical regression using political and sociologica…
Implications for American programs: The European Community and professional journalism training
Journalism education in Europe is entering a new phase of collaboration and potential standardization. This phase, which in some ways parallels earlier developments in the USA, also provides alternative models for the future training of professional communicators. To some extent, the changes in Europe are the result of ‘European’ thinking associated with the creation of a common economic market at the end of 1992 and the expected monetary and pos…
Racial Differences in Evaluations of the Mass Media
Analysis of two national data sets reveals that African-Americans in general know less about how the mass media operate, see fewer outside influences on the media, see themselves as having less influence on the media and are less cynical about the media than are whites. African-Americans who have the most contact with the dominant white society do evaluate the media as being more biased, compared with those with less contact with white people. Bl…
Reflecting on Metaphors
Local Voting Decisions and the Flow of Campaign Information
Keeping the Gates’ for Gatekeepers: The Effects of Wire News
Western Wire Services and News of the USA in the Yugoslav Press
The Role of the Press in Determining Voter Reactions to Presidential Primaries 1
The Role of the Press in Determining Voter Reactions to Presidential Primaries Get access Lee B. Becker, Lee B. Becker 1Lee B. Becker (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974) is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maxwell E. McCombs Maxwell E. McCombs 2Maxwell E. McCombs (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1966) i…
Correlates of Daily Newspaper Performance in New England
Public Support for the Press
Watergate and the 1974 Congressional Elections
Strong, if delayed, public reactions to the Watergate scandals are documented through examination of Gallup and Harris poll results. Analysis of panel data (N = 181) collected before, during and after the major Watergate revelations, however, suggest that beliefs about Nixon's involvement in the scandal had little relationship to 1974 political behaviors. Some evidence is provided that whom or what the voters blamed for the scandal beyond Nixon d…
Keeping the Gates’ for Gatekeepers: The Effects of Wire News
Young Voters' Reactions To Early Watergate Issues
Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Enrollments: Enrollments Decline, Reversing the Increase of a Year Earlier, and Suggesting Slow Growth for Future
Enrollments in journalism and mass communication programs declined in the autumn of 2011, compared to a year earlier. Enrollments were down slightly at the senior and junior levels and substantially at the freshman level. Enrollment increased at the sophomore level. The majority of administrators say they have made curricular changes in the past two years in response to changes taking place in the communication landscape. Much of that change is f…
Public Support for the Press
Watergate and the 1974 Congressional Elections
Strong, if delayed, public reactions to the Watergate scandals are documented through examination of Gallup and Harris poll results. Analysis of panel data (N = 181) collected before, during and after the major Watergate revelations, however, suggest that beliefs about Nixon's involvement in the scandal had little relationship to 1974 political behaviors. Some evidence is provided that whom or what the voters blamed for the scandal beyond Nixon d…
Cognitive strategies for media use during a presidential campaign
This study investigates whether attention to political news and attention to debates during a presidential campaign are affected by audience members' cognitive schemata concerning media and politics and the information‐processing strategies they claim to use when encountering the media. Data come from a telephone survey of a probability sample of 706 registered voters in a metropolitan area. Hierarchical regression using political and sociologica…
Predictors of Diversification of Journalism & Mass Communication Faculties 1989–1998
The percentage of faculty in journalism and mass communication programs who are women is increasing, but the change is so gradual that, at the present rate, it will be around the year 2035 before the faculty looks like the students enrolled in journalism and mass communication programs today in terms of gender. The situation is much the same in terms of race and ethnicity. Growth in the percentage of faculty who are not white is such that, at the…
Racial Differences in Evaluations of the Mass Media
Analysis of two national data sets reveals that African-Americans in general know less about how the mass media operate, see fewer outside influences on the media, see themselves as having less influence on the media and are less cynical about the media than are whites. African-Americans who have the most contact with the dominant white society do evaluate the media as being more biased, compared with those with less contact with white people. Bl…
Correlates of Daily Newspaper Performance in New England
Determinants of Newsroom Use of Staff Expertise: The Case of International News
This article examines the role of the community in determining why some news organizations invest in staff expertise in the area of international news and provide extensive international news content, while others do not. Data from daily newspapers in the US show organizational size rather than community factors to be the dominant influence on the news organization's commitment to specialization. Community factors did matter, however, and general…
Predictors of Change in Religious Beliefs and Behaviors during College
Evidence of change during college in two religious criterion variables is provided in panel studies conducted at two different institutions. In addition, the data show relatively strong evidence that the change can be attributed at least in part to the influence of peer groups on students. While the findings for two peer communication variables are conflicting, viewed as a whole the data provide evidence that crucial aspects of the college enviro…
Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Enrollments: Enrollments Decline for Second Year in a Row
Enrollments in journalism and mass communication programs in the United States have declined over the last two years, reversing a pattern of growth that has sustained the field for twenty years. It is a decline at a time of continued growth in enrollments at universities generally. It is a decline at a time when enrollments have been growing in the instructional field of communication of which journalism and mass communication is a part. The data…
Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Enrollments: Enrollments Grow, Reversing Stagnation of Recent Years
Undergraduate enrollments in U.S. journalism and mass communication programs increased by 2.0% in the autumn of 2010, a reverse in a two-year slowdown, but perhaps temporary. Graduate level enrollments increased 6.3% in doctoral programs and a dramatic 13.4% in master's programs. JMC programs sent a record number of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree recipients into the job market. Enrollment in the journalism specialization declined again…
Annual Enrollment Report: Graduate and Undergraduate Enrollments Increase Sharply
Enrollments at both the graduate and undergraduate level increased in the autumn of 2002, resulting in the largest number of students enrolled in journalism and mass communication ever. The growth in graduate enrollment follows a period of decline, while the increase in undergraduate enrollment continues a pattern of growth. The percentage of undergraduates enrolled who were female increased slightly, as did the percentage of students who were Af…
Is More Always Better: Examining the adverse effects of competition on media performance
While classic market economic theory argues that competition among media is better for consumers, preliminary research in emerging media markets suggests otherwise. High levels of competition in markets with limited advertising revenues may lead to poorer journalistic performance. This study tests that argument using secondary analysis of data from a purposive sample of countries where measures of news media performance and market competition exi…
Enrollment Growth Rate Slows; Field's Focus on Undergraduate Education at Odds with University Setting
Undergraduate and graduate enrollments in the field of journalism and mass communication grew again in the autumn of 2004, but at rates considerably smaller than in recent years. Enrollment at the freshman level was considerably higher than a year earlier, however, suggesting increased enrollment demand at the undergraduate level for the future. While the field of journalism and mass communication is heavily slanted toward undergraduate education…
Another Look At the Agenda-Setting Function of the Press
The agenda-setting hypothesis asserts that the media have an effect indirectly by choosing certain issues for emphasis, thus making those issues more salient to the audiences. The hypothesis, stated in such general terms, presents formidable conceptual and methodological difficulties that are dealt with in this article. A controlled study of the audiences of two newspapers with differing content emphases was conducted during the 1972 presidential…
Young Voters' Reactions To Early Watergate Issues
Two Tests of Media Gratifications: Watergate and the 1974 Election
Watergate and the 1974 Congressional Elections
Strong, if delayed, public reactions to the Watergate scandals are documented through examination of Gallup and Harris poll results. Analysis of panel data (N = 181) collected before, during and after the major Watergate revelations, however, suggest that beliefs about Nixon's involvement in the scandal had little relationship to 1974 political behaviors. Some evidence is provided that whom or what the voters blamed for the scandal beyond Nixon d…
Predictors of Change in Religious Beliefs and Behaviors during College
Evidence of change during college in two religious criterion variables is provided in panel studies conducted at two different institutions. In addition, the data show relatively strong evidence that the change can be attributed at least in part to the influence of peer groups on students. While the findings for two peer communication variables are conflicting, viewed as a whole the data provide evidence that crucial aspects of the college enviro…
The Role of the Press in Determining Voter Reactions to Presidential Primaries 1
The Role of the Press in Determining Voter Reactions to Presidential Primaries Get access Lee B. Becker, Lee B. Becker 1Lee B. Becker (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974) is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maxwell E. McCombs Maxwell E. McCombs 2Maxwell E. McCombs (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1966) i…
Correlates of Daily Newspaper Performance in New England
Public Support for the Press
Western Wire Services and News of the USA in the Yugoslav Press
Keeping the Gates’ for Gatekeepers: The Effects of Wire News
Local Voting Decisions and the Flow of Campaign Information
Reflecting on Metaphors
Racial Differences in Evaluations of the Mass Media
Analysis of two national data sets reveals that African-Americans in general know less about how the mass media operate, see fewer outside influences on the media, see themselves as having less influence on the media and are less cynical about the media than are whites. African-Americans who have the most contact with the dominant white society do evaluate the media as being more biased, compared with those with less contact with white people. Bl…
Implications for American programs: The European Community and professional journalism training
Journalism education in Europe is entering a new phase of collaboration and potential standardization. This phase, which in some ways parallels earlier developments in the USA, also provides alternative models for the future training of professional communicators. To some extent, the changes in Europe are the result of ‘European’ thinking associated with the creation of a common economic market at the end of 1992 and the expected monetary and pos…
Cognitive strategies for media use during a presidential campaign
This study investigates whether attention to political news and attention to debates during a presidential campaign are affected by audience members' cognitive schemata concerning media and politics and the information‐processing strategies they claim to use when encountering the media. Data come from a telephone survey of a probability sample of 706 registered voters in a metropolitan area. Hierarchical regression using political and sociologica…
A Comparative Study of the Role of Media Evaluations: German and U.S. Differences and Similarities
An evolving program of scholarship has demonstrated that those who use the news media are able and willing to assess those media on a number of dimensions. For example, audience members evaluate the media in terms of the completeness of the story they tell, the biases they harbor, and fairness of their coverage. Some have termed these "naive" or commonsense theories about how the media operate and about the nature of the news they contain. Growin…
Annual Enrollment Report: Graduate and Undergraduate Enrollments Increase Sharply
Enrollments at both the graduate and undergraduate level increased in the autumn of 2002, resulting in the largest number of students enrolled in journalism and mass communication ever. The growth in graduate enrollment follows a period of decline, while the increase in undergraduate enrollment continues a pattern of growth. The percentage of undergraduates enrolled who were female increased slightly, as did the percentage of students who were Af…
Determinants of Newsroom Use of Staff Expertise: The Case of International News
This article examines the role of the community in determining why some news organizations invest in staff expertise in the area of international news and provide extensive international news content, while others do not. Data from daily newspapers in the US show organizational size rather than community factors to be the dominant influence on the news organization's commitment to specialization. Community factors did matter, however, and general…
Predictors of Diversification of Journalism & Mass Communication Faculties 1989–1998
The percentage of faculty in journalism and mass communication programs who are women is increasing, but the change is so gradual that, at the present rate, it will be around the year 2035 before the faculty looks like the students enrolled in journalism and mass communication programs today in terms of gender. The situation is much the same in terms of race and ethnicity. Growth in the percentage of faculty who are not white is such that, at the…
Enrollment Growth Rate Slows; Field's Focus on Undergraduate Education at Odds with University Setting
Undergraduate and graduate enrollments in the field of journalism and mass communication grew again in the autumn of 2004, but at rates considerably smaller than in recent years. Enrollment at the freshman level was considerably higher than a year earlier, however, suggesting increased enrollment demand at the undergraduate level for the future. While the field of journalism and mass communication is heavily slanted toward undergraduate education…
News Organizations and Routines
Journalists and the organizations for which they work produce news. In other words, news is both an individual product and an organizational product. Even freelance journalists-journalists not employed by a media organization-were dependent until recently on media organizations for the distribution of their messages. The complex technologies that have been used to distributed media messages have required resources that few individuals controlled
Is More Always Better: Examining the adverse effects of competition on media performance
While classic market economic theory argues that competition among media is better for consumers, preliminary research in emerging media markets suggests otherwise. High levels of competition in markets with limited advertising revenues may lead to poorer journalistic performance. This study tests that argument using secondary analysis of data from a purposive sample of countries where measures of news media performance and market competition exi…
Enrollment Report: Slow Rate of Growth May Signal Weakening of Demand
Enrollments in U.S. journalism and mass communication programs increased in the autumn of 2008 compared with a year earlier. Enrollments at the freshman and sophomore levels, however, declined, suggesting that enrollment growth rates in the next few years will slow. The percentage of students enrolled in print journalism, broadcast journalism, or journalism generally was lower in the autumn of 2008 than a year earlier, but the change was not dram…
Wissenschaft mit Wirkung: Beiträge zu Journalismus- und Medienwirkungsforschung : Festschrift für Klaus Schönbach
Der Band vereint 22 Beiträge von Kollegen und Freunden, SchÃ1⁄4lern und Weggefährten Klaus Schönbachs. Den 60. Geburtstag des international hoch angesehenen Kommunikationswissenschaftlers nehmen die Autoren zum Anlass, aktuelle Fragen der Medienwirkungs- und der Journalismusforschung aufzugreifen. Die Antworten, zu denen sie gelangen, dokumentieren in ihrer Vielfalt die Leistungsfähigkeit, Zeitnähe und gesellschaftliche Relevanz des Faches Kommun…
Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Enrollments: Enrollments Grow, Reversing Stagnation of Recent Years
Undergraduate enrollments in U.S. journalism and mass communication programs increased by 2.0% in the autumn of 2010, a reverse in a two-year slowdown, but perhaps temporary. Graduate level enrollments increased 6.3% in doctoral programs and a dramatic 13.4% in master's programs. JMC programs sent a record number of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree recipients into the job market. Enrollment in the journalism specialization declined again…
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