August E Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 164668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | August E Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | August E |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches to Journalism Education
Many journalism programs embrace the teaching hospital model because of its practical approach, employing working journalists as journalism educators. However, critics contend a more conceptual model of journalism education is needed. This essay explores the literature on journalism education models and seeks to integrate the teaching hospital and entrepreneurial journalism approaches with the revised Bloom's Taxonomy and Fink's Taxonomy of Signi…
The Broadcast Journalism Capstone Experience: An Updated Overview
This study updates the current state of Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC)-accredited journalism and mass communication broadcast capstone programs, building on the foundational 2012 study by Tanner, Forde, Besley, and Weir. It examines significant practices and adaptations to major media technologies within broadcast journalism capstone courses. Through a survey of capstone faculty in 70 U.S. ACEJMC-ac…
Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals: 16Th Edition
A classic now in its 14th edition, Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals is the single best resource for students and professionals looking to brush up on how these technologies have developed, grown, and converged, as well as whats in store for the future. It begins by developing the communication technology frameworkthe history, ecosystem, and structurethen delves into each type of technology, including everything from mass media, to…
Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals: 15Th Edition
An Examination of How Academic Advancement of U.S. Journalism Students Relates to Their Degree Motivations, Values, and Technology Use
The newsroom is a powerful influence in a journalist’s identity formation. Research has yet to verify the socializing impact of academia. This research utilized the quantitative survey method applying it to undergraduate journalism students ( n = 798) to assess how academic status relates to students’ degree motivations, life values, and technology use. The results show advancement is related to variations in perceptions of some degree motivation…
The Convergence Years
The emergence of the Internet, social media, and digital technologies in the twenty-first century accelerated an evolution in journalism and communication that fit under the broad term of convergence. That evolution changed the relationship between news producers and consumers. It broke down the geographical boundaries in defining our communities, and this change forced new organizational and economic models for news and information. This retrosp…
Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World
Media Functionality and the Principle of Relative Constancy: An Explanation of the VCR Aberration
The introduction and diffusion of the videocassette recorder (VCR) coincided with an increase in consumer spending on mass media as a proportion of gross national product. This article attempts to explain this apparent aberration to the principle of relative constancy by analyzing both the pattern of consumer expenditures on all mass media and the functionality of the VCR in relation to other media. An examination of audience needs and uses of th…
The Structure of News Sources on Television: A Network Analysis of “CBS News,”“Nightline,”“MacNeil/Lehrer,” and “This Week with David Brinkley”
Behind the “conventional wisdom” of mainstream television news lies a structured pattern of sources: newsmakers, experts, and commentators. This study uses network analysis to examine the interconnections of these sources—defined as joint appearances—within and across programs to produce a cohesive “framework,” Supporting an elite model, a single cohesive “insiders” group, knit together by officials, accounts for most of these sources and spans a…
Television Shopping: A Media System Dependency Perspective
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…
Individual and network influences on the adoption and perceived outcomes of electronic messaging
An Examination of How Academic Advancement of U.S. Journalism Students Relates to Their Degree Motivations, Values, and Technology Use
The newsroom is a powerful influence in a journalist’s identity formation. Research has yet to verify the socializing impact of academia. This research utilized the quantitative survey method applying it to undergraduate journalism students ( n = 798) to assess how academic status relates to students’ degree motivations, life values, and technology use. The results show advancement is related to variations in perceptions of some degree motivation…
Media Functionality and the Principle of Relative Constancy: An Explanation of the VCR Aberration
The introduction and diffusion of the videocassette recorder (VCR) coincided with an increase in consumer spending on mass media as a proportion of gross national product. This article attempts to explain this apparent aberration to the principle of relative constancy by analyzing both the pattern of consumer expenditures on all mass media and the functionality of the VCR in relation to other media. An examination of audience needs and uses of th…
Individual and network influences on the adoption and perceived outcomes of electronic messaging
Television Shopping: A Media System Dependency Perspective
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…
The Structure of News Sources on Television: A Network Analysis of “CBS News,”“Nightline,”“MacNeil/Lehrer,” and “This Week with David Brinkley”
Behind the “conventional wisdom” of mainstream television news lies a structured pattern of sources: newsmakers, experts, and commentators. This study uses network analysis to examine the interconnections of these sources—defined as joint appearances—within and across programs to produce a cohesive “framework,” Supporting an elite model, a single cohesive “insiders” group, knit together by officials, accounts for most of these sources and spans a…
Media Functionality and the Principle of Relative Constancy: An Explanation of the VCR Aberration
The introduction and diffusion of the videocassette recorder (VCR) coincided with an increase in consumer spending on mass media as a proportion of gross national product. This article attempts to explain this apparent aberration to the principle of relative constancy by analyzing both the pattern of consumer expenditures on all mass media and the functionality of the VCR in relation to other media. An examination of audience needs and uses of th…
Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World
An Examination of How Academic Advancement of U.S. Journalism Students Relates to Their Degree Motivations, Values, and Technology Use
The newsroom is a powerful influence in a journalist’s identity formation. Research has yet to verify the socializing impact of academia. This research utilized the quantitative survey method applying it to undergraduate journalism students ( n = 798) to assess how academic status relates to students’ degree motivations, life values, and technology use. The results show advancement is related to variations in perceptions of some degree motivation…
The Convergence Years
The emergence of the Internet, social media, and digital technologies in the twenty-first century accelerated an evolution in journalism and communication that fit under the broad term of convergence. That evolution changed the relationship between news producers and consumers. It broke down the geographical boundaries in defining our communities, and this change forced new organizational and economic models for news and information. This retrosp…
Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals: 15Th Edition
Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals: 16Th Edition
A classic now in its 14th edition, Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals is the single best resource for students and professionals looking to brush up on how these technologies have developed, grown, and converged, as well as whats in store for the future. It begins by developing the communication technology frameworkthe history, ecosystem, and structurethen delves into each type of technology, including everything from mass media, to…
The Broadcast Journalism Capstone Experience: An Updated Overview
This study updates the current state of Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC)-accredited journalism and mass communication broadcast capstone programs, building on the foundational 2012 study by Tanner, Forde, Besley, and Weir. It examines significant practices and adaptations to major media technologies within broadcast journalism capstone courses. Through a survey of capstone faculty in 70 U.S. ACEJMC-ac…
Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches to Journalism Education
Many journalism programs embrace the teaching hospital model because of its practical approach, employing working journalists as journalism educators. However, critics contend a more conceptual model of journalism education is needed. This essay explores the literature on journalism education models and seeks to integrate the teaching hospital and entrepreneurial journalism approaches with the revised Bloom's Taxonomy and Fink's Taxonomy of Signi…
Computer Science (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Journalism (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Advertising (3 works)