William G Christ

Biographic Data

ID233136
NAMEWilliam G Christ
GIVEN NAMESWilliam G
FAMILY NAMEChrist
SIGNATURECHRIST W G
AFFILIATIONSTrinity University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Media Literacy

    Open AccessW James Potter, William G ChristOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2021

    As people spend more time with the growing variety of media and become more engrossed in their media exposures, concern about media literacy has increased. This concern has attracted a wide variety of people who have created a huge literature of ideas. Some of those ideas address conceptual issues, such as what literacy about media should mean and in what ways literacy is important. And some of those ideas are suggestions about what individuals, …

  • Media Literacy

    Open AccessW James Potter, William G ChristOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Media literacy is a term that has been used to refer to a great many ideas. It has been treated as a public policy health issue; a critical‐cultural issue; as a set of pedagogical tools for school teachers or suggestions for parents; and as a topic of scholarly inquiry from a physiological, psychological, behavioral, sociological, and/or anthropological tradition. Some writers focus primarily on one culture, such as American culture, British cult…

  • Assessment, Media Literacy Standards, and Higher Education

    Open AccessWilliam G ChristARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2004References: 5

    Recent assessment trends suggest that those interested in media literacy in higher education will need to clearly define the term and develop standards and competencies to measure media literacy student-learning outcomes. Standards, one from an accreditation agency and the other from an academic association, are presented as starting points for further conversation

  • Media Literacy, Media Education, and the Academy

    Open AccessWilliam G Christ, W James PotterARTICLEJournal of Communication1998

    This initial essay in the Media Literacy Symposium serves two purposes. First, we introduce the nine authors who have written the eight essays especially for this symposium. Second, we provide a broad context for the thinking expressed by those nine scholars. In building that context, we discuss a range of conceptual and application issues. The conceptual issues focus on the range of definitions for both media and literacy. The application issues…

  • The Missions and Purposes of Journalism and Mass Communication Education

    Open AccessWilliam G Christ, Terry HynesARTICLEJournalism & Mass Communication…1997Cited by: 1

    In 1994, the incoming presidents of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) appointed a joint committee to review the missions and purposes of journalism and mass (JMC) education. In their charge to the joint members, AEJMC President Judy Van Slyke Turk and ASJMC President Wick Rowland asked the committee to examine the actual and approp…

  • The Construct of Arousal in Communication Research

    Open AccessWilliam G ChristARTICLEHuman Communication Research1985Cited by: 3References: 38

    The construct of arousal is pivotal to those who investigate the relationship between emotions and communication. This study seeks to compare Zillmann's and Mehrabian's concepts of arousal in order to identify common ground between the theorists. The goal is, through such commonalities, to provide a more complete and useful framework for understanding arousal's role in communication. This common framework is important to those researchers who fin…