Susan Keith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Keith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Keith |
| SIGNATURE | KEITH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3382-4060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Carol Lomicky with Chuck Salestrom, North Platte’s Keith Blackledge
Night and Day
This article critically analyzes a pair of photographs from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017: Samuel Corum’s nighttime image of torch-bearing protesters on the University of Virginia campus and Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daytime image of counterprotesters falling through the air as James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into them, killing Heather Heyer. Using a close reading of the images as texts—consid…
News aggregators and copyright in the European Union and the United States in the digital age
News aggregators have triggered copyright-related disputes between tech companies and news publishers. In the EU and the U.S., copyright systems have developed distinct characteristics. Because American tech companies stand to be hugely affected by the EU’s new copyright rules, some observers point out that the copyright war in Europe is fundamentally a collision between European and American copyright law systems. To respond to this observation,…
The Pandemic Sabbatical
I started writing this essay at 2:01 a.m., near the beginning of my overnight pandemic research shift. For the first time in hours, my apartment—all 800 square feet of it—is quiet, except for the hiss of the radiators. My husband and 14-year-old daughter are sleeping. So is the cat. I am awake because I am on a pandemic sabbatical, and the wee hours are the only time I can think. I am taking part in a 140-year-old academic rite of renewal (Eells …
Researching the Framing of Still and Moving Images across Media Platforms
Prevailing models of news framing effects focus on the influence of news frames on audience perceptions and attitudes toward social and political issues. These models pay scant attention to the way people select news stories today and how the media environment can influence who receives the frames that circulate in news discourse. Recent research in audience selectivity in news exposure suggests that people relying on high-choice media, such as n…
Horseshoes, stylebooks, wheels, poles, and dummies
This essay examines five largely unsung artifacts of 20th-century newspaper journalism – the U-shaped copy desk, stylebooks, pica sticks, proportion wheels, and paper dummies – to tell a story about power shifts in US newsrooms. The essay also offers a new model of 20th-century newsroom eras, arguing that these objects of journalism mark what might be called the age of the copy desk, a time between the 1920s and 1970s when copy-desk editors exerc…
Webvergence in Practice
This article compares how U.S. news managers reported that television stations and newspapers approached online journalism during a crucial moment in the 21st century. Reports of how the two types of sites used online tools were largely similar, but newspaper respondents were more likely than those from TV stations to say their organizations prioritized online news production. Although both types of sites likely were affected by extramedia pressu…
Forgetting the Last Big War
This article reports the results of a study of coverage of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Paris published in French newspapers, newsmagazines, and online news media in 2009. Building on a previous study of images of the liberation in Parisian newspapers at the 60th anniversary in 2004, it provides empirical evidence for the conventional wisdom that less anniversary journalism is produced in non-decennial than decennial anniversaries. I…
Comparing war images across media platforms
Although many news consumers see war images on multiple media platforms, scholars generally have studied those visuals a single medium at a time. This article discusses the challenges of conducting a quantitative content analysis of war images across print, broadcast and online media in a single research project. It details some of the obstacles the authors faced in their examination of visuals of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and offers sugge…
Translating the Tower of Babel
This study sought to determine how convergence is defined by the journalists involved and to identify areas where news operations that adopt convergence encounter language- and culture-based challenges. It draws on the developing literature of convergence and interviews with journalists and managers working at two convergence partnerships: the Tampa Tribune and WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida, and the Arizona Republic and KPNX-TV in Phoenix, Arizona. T…
Translating the Tower of Babel
This study sought to determine how convergence is defined by the journalists involved and to identify areas where news operations that adopt convergence encounter language- and culture-based challenges. It draws on the developing literature of convergence and interviews with journalists and managers working at two convergence partnerships: the Tampa Tribune and WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida, and the Arizona Republic and KPNX-TV in Phoenix, Arizona. T…
Horseshoes, stylebooks, wheels, poles, and dummies
This essay examines five largely unsung artifacts of 20th-century newspaper journalism – the U-shaped copy desk, stylebooks, pica sticks, proportion wheels, and paper dummies – to tell a story about power shifts in US newsrooms. The essay also offers a new model of 20th-century newsroom eras, arguing that these objects of journalism mark what might be called the age of the copy desk, a time between the 1920s and 1970s when copy-desk editors exerc…
Comparing war images across media platforms
Although many news consumers see war images on multiple media platforms, scholars generally have studied those visuals a single medium at a time. This article discusses the challenges of conducting a quantitative content analysis of war images across print, broadcast and online media in a single research project. It details some of the obstacles the authors faced in their examination of visuals of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and offers sugge…
Forgetting the Last Big War
This article reports the results of a study of coverage of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Paris published in French newspapers, newsmagazines, and online news media in 2009. Building on a previous study of images of the liberation in Parisian newspapers at the 60th anniversary in 2004, it provides empirical evidence for the conventional wisdom that less anniversary journalism is produced in non-decennial than decennial anniversaries. I…
Translating the Tower of Babel
This study sought to determine how convergence is defined by the journalists involved and to identify areas where news operations that adopt convergence encounter language- and culture-based challenges. It draws on the developing literature of convergence and interviews with journalists and managers working at two convergence partnerships: the Tampa Tribune and WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida, and the Arizona Republic and KPNX-TV in Phoenix, Arizona. T…
Comparing war images across media platforms
Although many news consumers see war images on multiple media platforms, scholars generally have studied those visuals a single medium at a time. This article discusses the challenges of conducting a quantitative content analysis of war images across print, broadcast and online media in a single research project. It details some of the obstacles the authors faced in their examination of visuals of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and offers sugge…
Forgetting the Last Big War
This article reports the results of a study of coverage of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Paris published in French newspapers, newsmagazines, and online news media in 2009. Building on a previous study of images of the liberation in Parisian newspapers at the 60th anniversary in 2004, it provides empirical evidence for the conventional wisdom that less anniversary journalism is produced in non-decennial than decennial anniversaries. I…
Webvergence in Practice
This article compares how U.S. news managers reported that television stations and newspapers approached online journalism during a crucial moment in the 21st century. Reports of how the two types of sites used online tools were largely similar, but newspaper respondents were more likely than those from TV stations to say their organizations prioritized online news production. Although both types of sites likely were affected by extramedia pressu…
Horseshoes, stylebooks, wheels, poles, and dummies
This essay examines five largely unsung artifacts of 20th-century newspaper journalism – the U-shaped copy desk, stylebooks, pica sticks, proportion wheels, and paper dummies – to tell a story about power shifts in US newsrooms. The essay also offers a new model of 20th-century newsroom eras, arguing that these objects of journalism mark what might be called the age of the copy desk, a time between the 1920s and 1970s when copy-desk editors exerc…
Researching the Framing of Still and Moving Images across Media Platforms
Prevailing models of news framing effects focus on the influence of news frames on audience perceptions and attitudes toward social and political issues. These models pay scant attention to the way people select news stories today and how the media environment can influence who receives the frames that circulate in news discourse. Recent research in audience selectivity in news exposure suggests that people relying on high-choice media, such as n…
Night and Day
This article critically analyzes a pair of photographs from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017: Samuel Corum’s nighttime image of torch-bearing protesters on the University of Virginia campus and Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daytime image of counterprotesters falling through the air as James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into them, killing Heather Heyer. Using a close reading of the images as texts—consid…
News aggregators and copyright in the European Union and the United States in the digital age
News aggregators have triggered copyright-related disputes between tech companies and news publishers. In the EU and the U.S., copyright systems have developed distinct characteristics. Because American tech companies stand to be hugely affected by the EU’s new copyright rules, some observers point out that the copyright war in Europe is fundamentally a collision between European and American copyright law systems. To respond to this observation,…
The Pandemic Sabbatical
I started writing this essay at 2:01 a.m., near the beginning of my overnight pandemic research shift. For the first time in hours, my apartment—all 800 square feet of it—is quiet, except for the hiss of the radiators. My husband and 14-year-old daughter are sleeping. So is the cat. I am awake because I am on a pandemic sabbatical, and the wee hours are the only time I can think. I am taking part in a 140-year-old academic rite of renewal (Eells …
Carol Lomicky with Chuck Salestrom, North Platte’s Keith Blackledge
Sociology (8 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Newspaper (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Journalism (3 works) · Law (3 works)