Jack M Mcleod
Biographic Data
| ID | 206719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack M Mcleod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcleod |
| SIGNATURE | MCLEOD J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 854 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 39 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
For the Affirmative
Evaluating news media performance in terms of the expectations of the framers of the Amendment is an exercise in futility. Elections, once considered as celebrations of participatory democracy, seem characterized by politicians selling symbols while obfuscating issue positions, advertising centering on personal attacks and primal fears, episodic and horse race media coverage, and campaigns directed by image merchants and spin doctors. The print m…
When Democracy Failed
Democracy is the 18th-century Enlightenment project that is still under construction and under constant threat. We should not assume that its progress is inevitable and permanent. During the past s
The Construction of Social Reality
The frequency with which social scientists employ a term is taken as an indicator of its pragmatic utility, and then social reality would seem to be a very useful concept indeed. It is invoked not only in describing social influence processes, but also in explaining a variety of other forms of social behavior. T. J. Scheff takes a more concrete approach; his social reality is shared, but in an explicit dyadic situation. In the psychiatrist-patien…
Processes of Political Socialization
By analyzing data from a national panel survey of adolescents (ages 12-17) and their parents conducted around the 2008 general election, this study explores the varied roles communication plays in socializing youth into democratic citizenship. In particular, we propose and test a communication mediation model of youth socialization, in which interdependent communication processes located in the family, schools, media, and peer networks combine to…
Campaigns, Reflection, and Deliberation
Journal Article Campaigns, Reflection, and Deliberation: Advancing an O-S-R-O-R Model of Communication Effects Get access Jaeho Cho, Jaeho Cho 1Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dhavan V. Shah, Dhavan V. Shah 2School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI 53706 Search …
Communication Competence as a Foundation for Civic Competence
The study of political socialization must move beyond examinations of knowledge and norms to consider how young people acquire the basic motives and skills needed to participate meaningfully and ef
Communication and Political Socialization
Whether understood from the macro-social perspective of how “societies and systems inculcate appropriate norms and practices in citizens, residents, or members” or from the micro-social perspective
His Word Respected, His Judgment Revered
Journal Article His Word Respected, His Judgment Revered: In Memory of Steven H. Chaffee Get access Jack Mcleod, Jack Mcleod 1University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dale Kunkel Dale Kunkel 2University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2002, Pages 5–6, https…
Communication, Context, and Community
This research explores the influence of mass media use and community context on civic engagement. The article presents a multilevel test of print, broadcast, and Internet effects on interpersonal trust and civic participation that acknowledges there are (a) micro-level differences in the motives underlying media use, (b) age-cohort differences in patterns of media use and levels of civic engagement, and (c) macro-level differences in community / …
Values, Communication Behavior, and Political Participation
This article examines how communication patterns mediate the influences of values on political participation. We find that the positive effects of postmaterial values on participation are mediated through reading public affairs content in newspapers. In contrast, materialist values negatively affect participation through watching television entertainment. Interpersonal discussion in which disagreement occurs mediates both the positive effect of r…
Steven Chaffee and the Future of Political Communication Research
This article discusses four basic characteristics of Steven Chaffee's research: going beyond the "common research wisdom," careful explication of concepts, avoiding unsubstantiated charges against the media, and investigation of the social aspects of communication. The evolution of political socialization research is used as an example of how these characteristics have strengthened Chaffee's contribution to that area and to the larger field of po…
Media and civic socialization of youth
Understanding Deliberation
Participation in a deliberative forum has received relatively little scrutiny as opposed to more traditional forms of participation. This study examines direct and indirect effects of discussion network characteristics on willingness to participate in a deliberative forum. Using data collected in a telephone survey of 416 respondents in Madison, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1997, the authors employ structural equation modeling techniques to explore …
Research Note
Who reads daily newspapers in the USA and in Germany? Despite a steady decline of newspaper reading, the sociodemographic determinants of newspaper readership have been surprisingly stable in both countries since the mid-1970s. A long-term comparative analysis of audience data suggests that newspapers serve different cultural functions: in the USA, they seem to be more and more an instrument of social distinction; in Germany they also maintain a …
Community, Communication, and Participation
This study examines the role of community integration and mass and interpersonal communication in predicting two types of local political participation; more conventional, "institutionalized" acts of participation and less traditional acts of participating and speaking out in a forum. An analysis of survey data (N = 389) showed a strong role of newspaper readership and a somewhat lower impact of interpersonal discussion on institutionalized parti…
Community Integration, Local Media Use, and Democratic Processes
Research on dimensions of community integration has suffered from the lack of clear conceptual and operational definitions. The purposes of this article are to explicate the concept of community integration and its dimensions and to specify the structural and media antecedents and the political consequences of these dimensions. Using 15 indicators drawn from previous integration studies, we test the hypothesis that integration is a multidimension…
The rebuttal round
For the Affirmative
Comparatively Speaking
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: DIFFERENT APPROACHES An Introduction to Comparative Communication Research - Jay G Blumler, Jack M McLeod and Karl Erik Rosengren Managing Theoretical Diversity in Cross-National Studies of Political Communication - David L Swanson Comparison, Yes, But -- the Case of Technological and Cultural Change - James R Beniger PART TWO: EXEMPLARS Applying a Comparative Approach to Expectancy Violations Theory - Judee K Burgoon The …
Multilevel Analysis in Mass Communication Research
This article presents an epistemological view of levels of analysis. According to this view, four types of relationships need to be differentiated: macro-macro, macro-micro, micro-micro, and micro-macro. The two within-level relationships are linked by the two cross-level relationships that, in turn, are explicated by various theories of organizational, institutional, and social processes. Mass communication is thus conceived of as a process from…
Getting Levels Across and Crossing Levels
Beyond Simple Exposure
This study adopts a broad approach to problems associated with confusion in the literature on media orientations and political processes. Three different dependent variables representing cognition, attitude and behavior are examined in relation to multiple measures of media dependence: time spent, reliance, exposure to content, level of attention and gratifications sought. Results suggest complex relationships between media use and the dependent …
Public Opinion du Jour
This study investigates the spiral of silence theory using perceived vote outcomes as well as actual vote behaviors. The first major hypothesis—that those who see their position as gaining support will be more likely to discuss while those who see their position as losing support will be less likely to discuss—was supported by the data. Some support was also found for the hypothesis that individuals perceiving support for a certain candidate woul…
Issues and Images
The research question examined is whether reliance on television makes a difference in the way people make voting decisions. Considerable support was shown for the hypothesis that television reliant voters use candidate image characteristics in making their voting choices more than do the newspaper reliant. Little support was given to a second hypothesis that the perceptions of candidates' stands on issues will play a stronger role among the news…
Public Opinion, Communication Processes, and Voting Decisions
(1982). Public Opinion, Communication Processes, and Voting Decisions. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 759-774
Community, Communication, and Participation
This study examines the role of community integration and mass and interpersonal communication in predicting two types of local political participation; more conventional, "institutionalized" acts of participation and less traditional acts of participating and speaking out in a forum. An analysis of survey data (N = 389) showed a strong role of newspaper readership and a somewhat lower impact of interpersonal discussion on institutionalized parti…
Campaigns, Reflection, and Deliberation
Journal Article Campaigns, Reflection, and Deliberation: Advancing an O-S-R-O-R Model of Communication Effects Get access Jaeho Cho, Jaeho Cho 1Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dhavan V. Shah, Dhavan V. Shah 2School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI 53706 Search …
Values, Communication Behavior, and Political Participation
This article examines how communication patterns mediate the influences of values on political participation. We find that the positive effects of postmaterial values on participation are mediated through reading public affairs content in newspapers. In contrast, materialist values negatively affect participation through watching television entertainment. Interpersonal discussion in which disagreement occurs mediates both the positive effect of r…
Communication Competence as a Foundation for Civic Competence
The study of political socialization must move beyond examinations of knowledge and norms to consider how young people acquire the basic motives and skills needed to participate meaningfully and ef
Multilevel Analysis in Mass Communication Research
This article presents an epistemological view of levels of analysis. According to this view, four types of relationships need to be differentiated: macro-macro, macro-micro, micro-micro, and micro-macro. The two within-level relationships are linked by the two cross-level relationships that, in turn, are explicated by various theories of organizational, institutional, and social processes. Mass communication is thus conceived of as a process from…
Interpersonal Approaches to Communication Research
Communication and Political Socialization
Whether understood from the macro-social perspective of how “societies and systems inculcate appropriate norms and practices in citizens, residents, or members” or from the micro-social perspective
Comparatively Speaking
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: DIFFERENT APPROACHES An Introduction to Comparative Communication Research - Jay G Blumler, Jack M McLeod and Karl Erik Rosengren Managing Theoretical Diversity in Cross-National Studies of Political Communication - David L Swanson Comparison, Yes, But -- the Case of Technological and Cultural Change - James R Beniger PART TWO: EXEMPLARS Applying a Comparative Approach to Expectancy Violations Theory - Judee K Burgoon The …
Issues and Images
The research question examined is whether reliance on television makes a difference in the way people make voting decisions. Considerable support was shown for the hypothesis that television reliant voters use candidate image characteristics in making their voting choices more than do the newspaper reliant. Little support was given to a second hypothesis that the perceptions of candidates' stands on issues will play a stronger role among the news…
Public Opinion du Jour
This study investigates the spiral of silence theory using perceived vote outcomes as well as actual vote behaviors. The first major hypothesis—that those who see their position as gaining support will be more likely to discuss while those who see their position as losing support will be less likely to discuss—was supported by the data. Some support was also found for the hypothesis that individuals perceiving support for a certain candidate woul…
Mass Communication and Voter Volatility
Journal Article Mass Communication and Voter Volatility Get access CARL R. BYBEE, CARL R. BYBEE William Luetscher and Gina Garramone are graduate students at Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JACK M. McLEOD, JACK M. McLEOD Jack McLeod is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and Chairman of the Mass Communications Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other work…
Parental Influences On Adolescent Media Use
Research Note
Who reads daily newspapers in the USA and in Germany? Despite a steady decline of newspaper reading, the sociodemographic determinants of newspaper readership have been surprisingly stable in both countries since the mid-1970s. A long-term comparative analysis of audience data suggests that newspapers serve different cultural functions: in the USA, they seem to be more and more an instrument of social distinction; in Germany they also maintain a …
Alienation and Uses of the Mass Media
Journal Article ALIENATION AND USES OF THE MASS MEDIA Get access JACK MCLEOD, JACK MCLEOD Jack McLeod is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications and Associate Director of the Mass Communications Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SCOTT WARD, SCOTT WARD Scott Ward is a graduate student in Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin Search …
The Mass Media and Political Information in Quito, Ecuador
Does increased media exposure lead to greater political knowledge? If so, what kinds of knowledge are affected, and by which media? The authors explore these questions through interviews with a sample of adults in Quito, Ecuador. They consider as well the effects of media credibility and of preferred communications patterns within the family in mediating the relationships observed
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…
Steven Chaffee and the Future of Political Communication Research
This article discusses four basic characteristics of Steven Chaffee's research: going beyond the "common research wisdom," careful explication of concepts, avoiding unsubstantiated charges against the media, and investigation of the social aspects of communication. The evolution of political socialization research is used as an example of how these characteristics have strengthened Chaffee's contribution to that area and to the larger field of po…
For the Affirmative
Positive and Negative Affect as a Function of Perceived Discrepancy in ABX Situations
On the Measurement of Socialization
The study of socialization has lacked a consistent methodology that would permit comparisons among studies. More general and widely applicable measures are needed if the process of socialization is to be fully and appropriately investigated. This paper presents a set of related measures indexing various aspects of cognitive change as part of the socialization process
"Commentaries on Ward, "Consumer Socialization
News About Science
Information about current developments in science is more than news; it is essential to the formation of public opinion on an increasing number of public issues
Getting Levels Across and Crossing Levels
Public Opinion, Communication Processes, and Voting Decisions
(1982). Public Opinion, Communication Processes, and Voting Decisions. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 759-774
Socialization, Liking and Yielding of Opinions in Imbalanced Situations
News About Science
Information about current developments in science is more than news; it is essential to the formation of public opinion on an increasing number of public issues
Psychological correlates of blood pressure
Positive and Negative Affect as a Function of Perceived Discrepancy in ABX Situations
Alienation and Uses of the Mass Media
Journal Article ALIENATION AND USES OF THE MASS MEDIA Get access JACK MCLEOD, JACK MCLEOD Jack McLeod is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications and Associate Director of the Mass Communications Research Center at the University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar SCOTT WARD, SCOTT WARD Scott Ward is a graduate student in Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin Search …
Socialization, Liking and Yielding of Opinions in Imbalanced Situations
On the Measurement of Socialization
The study of socialization has lacked a consistent methodology that would permit comparisons among studies. More general and widely applicable measures are needed if the process of socialization is to be fully and appropriately investigated. This paper presents a set of related measures indexing various aspects of cognitive change as part of the socialization process
Post-Capitalist Society
The Mass Media and Political Information in Quito, Ecuador
Does increased media exposure lead to greater political knowledge? If so, what kinds of knowledge are affected, and by which media? The authors explore these questions through interviews with a sample of adults in Quito, Ecuador. They consider as well the effects of media credibility and of preferred communications patterns within the family in mediating the relationships observed
Parental Influences On Adolescent Media Use
Interpersonal Approaches to Communication Research
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…
"Commentaries on Ward, "Consumer Socialization
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…
Mass Communication and Voter Volatility
Journal Article Mass Communication and Voter Volatility Get access CARL R. BYBEE, CARL R. BYBEE William Luetscher and Gina Garramone are graduate students at Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JACK M. McLEOD, JACK M. McLEOD Jack McLeod is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and Chairman of the Mass Communications Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other work…
Public Opinion, Communication Processes, and Voting Decisions
(1982). Public Opinion, Communication Processes, and Voting Decisions. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 6, Communication Yearbook 6, pp. 759-774
Issues and Images
The research question examined is whether reliance on television makes a difference in the way people make voting decisions. Considerable support was shown for the hypothesis that television reliant voters use candidate image characteristics in making their voting choices more than do the newspaper reliant. Little support was given to a second hypothesis that the perceptions of candidates' stands on issues will play a stronger role among the news…
Public Opinion du Jour
This study investigates the spiral of silence theory using perceived vote outcomes as well as actual vote behaviors. The first major hypothesis—that those who see their position as gaining support will be more likely to discuss while those who see their position as losing support will be less likely to discuss—was supported by the data. Some support was also found for the hypothesis that individuals perceiving support for a certain candidate woul…
Beyond Simple Exposure
This study adopts a broad approach to problems associated with confusion in the literature on media orientations and political processes. Three different dependent variables representing cognition, attitude and behavior are examined in relation to multiple measures of media dependence: time spent, reliance, exposure to content, level of attention and gratifications sought. Results suggest complex relationships between media use and the dependent …
Getting Levels Across and Crossing Levels
Multilevel Analysis in Mass Communication Research
This article presents an epistemological view of levels of analysis. According to this view, four types of relationships need to be differentiated: macro-macro, macro-micro, micro-micro, and micro-macro. The two within-level relationships are linked by the two cross-level relationships that, in turn, are explicated by various theories of organizational, institutional, and social processes. Mass communication is thus conceived of as a process from…
The rebuttal round
For the Affirmative
Comparatively Speaking
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: DIFFERENT APPROACHES An Introduction to Comparative Communication Research - Jay G Blumler, Jack M McLeod and Karl Erik Rosengren Managing Theoretical Diversity in Cross-National Studies of Political Communication - David L Swanson Comparison, Yes, But -- the Case of Technological and Cultural Change - James R Beniger PART TWO: EXEMPLARS Applying a Comparative Approach to Expectancy Violations Theory - Judee K Burgoon The …
Community Integration, Local Media Use, and Democratic Processes
Research on dimensions of community integration has suffered from the lack of clear conceptual and operational definitions. The purposes of this article are to explicate the concept of community integration and its dimensions and to specify the structural and media antecedents and the political consequences of these dimensions. Using 15 indicators drawn from previous integration studies, we test the hypothesis that integration is a multidimension…
Understanding Deliberation
Participation in a deliberative forum has received relatively little scrutiny as opposed to more traditional forms of participation. This study examines direct and indirect effects of discussion network characteristics on willingness to participate in a deliberative forum. Using data collected in a telephone survey of 416 respondents in Madison, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1997, the authors employ structural equation modeling techniques to explore …
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