Kirsten Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3738982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elizabethtown College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3782-7688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach
Amy Beach was a pathbreaking composer and pianist who transcended the restrictions of nineteenth-century Boston to become America's most famous turn-of-the-century female composer and, later in her career, a prominent performing artist and promoter of music education. The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach makes her life and music accessible to a new generation of listeners. It outlines her remarkable talent as a child prodigy, her marriage to a pr…
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Transparency in the News
An experimental study was conducted to see what impact varying the level of self-disclosure by a journalist, as well as providing information about why and how a story is being covered, has on the perceived credibility of the journalist, the story, and the organization for which the journalist works. A study was conducted that included 885 participants from the United States. Results indicate the group that saw a picture of the journalist, a low …
Public Journalism Without the Public
A review of public journalism journal articles from 1991 through 2018 revealed significant gaps in (a) conceptualizing the public sphere, and (b) ascertaining the credibility of public journalism efforts. These gaps have implications for a press that is becoming increasingly challenged in an era of self-curated news selection and polarization. This work offers conclusions regarding how journalistic engagement efforts can better consider audience …
News Stories on the Facebook Platform
This experimental study examined whether stories presented on Facebook that appeared to be from a news organization were rated as higher in perceived credibility than stories that appeared to be from a non-news organization. One-hundred-and-seven participants took part in the online study. One group saw stories that appeared to be from a news organization and another group saw the same stories that appeared to be from a non-news organization. Bot…
I Got a New Puppy! The Impact of Personal, Opinion, and Objective Tweets on a Journalist’s and a News Organization’s Perceived Credibility
This experimental study examined the impact of posting different types of tweets on a journalist’s perceived credibility. Three-hundred-and-eighty-seven participants were randomly assigned into one of three groups. One group saw tweets from a journalist that were about the journalist’s personal life, another group saw tweets from the same journalist that were written objectively about news stories, and the third group saw tweets from the same jou…
Work–life balance in media newsrooms
This research examined work–life balance in media newsrooms. A total of 50 in-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted with individuals currently employed in US newsrooms of varying market sizes including small and medium market television stations, such as KCAU (Sioux City, IA), WHTM (Harrisburg, PA), WGAL (Lancaster County, PA), NBC12 (Richmond, VA), NY1 (News York, NY), and WNBC (New York, NY); regional newspapers, such as Lancaster Newspa…
Citizen Journalists' Views on Traditional Notions of Journalism, Story Sourcing, And Relationship Building
This study examines whether citizen journalists adhere to traditional journalistic norms when reporting. A nationwide survey and follow-up interviews with selected US citizen journalists showed they do consider traditional norms such as objectivity, gatekeeping, and balance to be very important. This is contrary to what some previous studies have found. Citizen journalists also indicated that both official and unofficial sources were integral to …
A national population-based assessment of 2007–2008 election-related violence in Kenya
On a national level in Kenya, politically-motivated and opportunistic sexual and physical violations were commonly reported among sampled adults with associated health and mental health outcomes
Patch.com
Patch.com, an online community journalism platform, is focused on the reporting of local news at more than 900 communities across the United States. Scholars have observed that community journalists often display personal engagement in the stories that they report, and, envisioning their community, actively work to facilitate a sense of connection among their readers. This work finds that Patch.com sites, however, exhibit a lack of clear engageme…
Kristen Johnson's Reply to Eric Stoddart's Review of her Book
The article presents a response by Kristen Johnson to Eric Stoddart's review of her book. She argues that Western political liberalism be revised to offer more space for constituencies in their midst that do not easily fit into the category of so-called private realm. She further clarifies that Augustine reconciliation between unity and diversity is possible only through participation in Christ who reconciles the One and the many
Association of Combatant Status and Sexual Violence With Health and Mental Health Outcomes in Postconflict Liberia
CONTEXT: Liberia's wars since 1989 have cost tens of thousands of lives and left many people mentally and physically traumatized. OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence and impact of war-related psychosocial trauma, including information on participation in the Liberian civil wars, exposure to sexual violence, social functioning, and mental health. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A cross-sectional, population-based, multistage random cluster sur…
Employment of a livelihoods analysis to define genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan
In Darfur, Sudan, since March 2003, between 170,000 and 255,000 non-Arab Darfurians have been killed in a genocidal campaign waged by the Government of Sudan. Diplomats, humanitarian aid workers, medical professionals, academics, human rights activists, journalists and legal scholars have engaged in vigorous and significant debate about whether these killings and related assaults constitute the crime of genocide, as defined in the UN Genocide Con…
Calypso Meets the Professions
"Theses on Peasantry" Revisited
Wife Assault and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
The Socio-Legal Governance of Obscenity in Canada, Britain and the United States
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Environmental Knowledge and Response to Natural Hazards in Mountainous Nepal
Kirsten Johnson, Elizabeth Ann Olson, Sumitra Manandhar, Environmental Knowledge and Response to Natural Hazards in Mountainous Nepal, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 2, No. 2 (May, 1982), pp. 175-188
Peasant Struggles in Contemporary Mexico
Disintegration of a Traditional Resource-Use Complex
Kirsten Johnson, Disintegration of a Traditional Resource-Use Complex: The Otomí of the Mezquital Valley, Hidalgo, Mexico, Economic Geography, Vol. 53, No. 4, The Human Face of Desertification (Oct., 1977), pp. 364-367
Patch.com
Patch.com, an online community journalism platform, is focused on the reporting of local news at more than 900 communities across the United States. Scholars have observed that community journalists often display personal engagement in the stories that they report, and, envisioning their community, actively work to facilitate a sense of connection among their readers. This work finds that Patch.com sites, however, exhibit a lack of clear engageme…
Wife Assault and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Work–life balance in media newsrooms
This research examined work–life balance in media newsrooms. A total of 50 in-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted with individuals currently employed in US newsrooms of varying market sizes including small and medium market television stations, such as KCAU (Sioux City, IA), WHTM (Harrisburg, PA), WGAL (Lancaster County, PA), NBC12 (Richmond, VA), NY1 (News York, NY), and WNBC (New York, NY); regional newspapers, such as Lancaster Newspa…
Transparency in the News
An experimental study was conducted to see what impact varying the level of self-disclosure by a journalist, as well as providing information about why and how a story is being covered, has on the perceived credibility of the journalist, the story, and the organization for which the journalist works. A study was conducted that included 885 participants from the United States. Results indicate the group that saw a picture of the journalist, a low …
Citizen Journalists' Views on Traditional Notions of Journalism, Story Sourcing, And Relationship Building
This study examines whether citizen journalists adhere to traditional journalistic norms when reporting. A nationwide survey and follow-up interviews with selected US citizen journalists showed they do consider traditional norms such as objectivity, gatekeeping, and balance to be very important. This is contrary to what some previous studies have found. Citizen journalists also indicated that both official and unofficial sources were integral to …
News Stories on the Facebook Platform
This experimental study examined whether stories presented on Facebook that appeared to be from a news organization were rated as higher in perceived credibility than stories that appeared to be from a non-news organization. One-hundred-and-seven participants took part in the online study. One group saw stories that appeared to be from a news organization and another group saw the same stories that appeared to be from a non-news organization. Bot…
I Got a New Puppy! The Impact of Personal, Opinion, and Objective Tweets on a Journalist’s and a News Organization’s Perceived Credibility
This experimental study examined the impact of posting different types of tweets on a journalist’s perceived credibility. Three-hundred-and-eighty-seven participants were randomly assigned into one of three groups. One group saw tweets from a journalist that were about the journalist’s personal life, another group saw tweets from the same journalist that were written objectively about news stories, and the third group saw tweets from the same jou…
Disintegration of a Traditional Resource-Use Complex
Kirsten Johnson, Disintegration of a Traditional Resource-Use Complex: The Otomí of the Mezquital Valley, Hidalgo, Mexico, Economic Geography, Vol. 53, No. 4, The Human Face of Desertification (Oct., 1977), pp. 364-367
Disintegration of a Traditional Resource-Use Complex
Kirsten Johnson, Disintegration of a Traditional Resource-Use Complex: The Otomí of the Mezquital Valley, Hidalgo, Mexico, Economic Geography, Vol. 53, No. 4, The Human Face of Desertification (Oct., 1977), pp. 364-367
Environmental Knowledge and Response to Natural Hazards in Mountainous Nepal
Kirsten Johnson, Elizabeth Ann Olson, Sumitra Manandhar, Environmental Knowledge and Response to Natural Hazards in Mountainous Nepal, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 2, No. 2 (May, 1982), pp. 175-188
Peasant Struggles in Contemporary Mexico
The Socio-Legal Governance of Obscenity in Canada, Britain and the United States
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Wife Assault and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Calypso Meets the Professions
"Theses on Peasantry" Revisited
Association of Combatant Status and Sexual Violence With Health and Mental Health Outcomes in Postconflict Liberia
CONTEXT: Liberia's wars since 1989 have cost tens of thousands of lives and left many people mentally and physically traumatized. OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence and impact of war-related psychosocial trauma, including information on participation in the Liberian civil wars, exposure to sexual violence, social functioning, and mental health. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A cross-sectional, population-based, multistage random cluster sur…
Employment of a livelihoods analysis to define genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan
In Darfur, Sudan, since March 2003, between 170,000 and 255,000 non-Arab Darfurians have been killed in a genocidal campaign waged by the Government of Sudan. Diplomats, humanitarian aid workers, medical professionals, academics, human rights activists, journalists and legal scholars have engaged in vigorous and significant debate about whether these killings and related assaults constitute the crime of genocide, as defined in the UN Genocide Con…
Kristen Johnson's Reply to Eric Stoddart's Review of her Book
The article presents a response by Kristen Johnson to Eric Stoddart's review of her book. She argues that Western political liberalism be revised to offer more space for constituencies in their midst that do not easily fit into the category of so-called private realm. She further clarifies that Augustine reconciliation between unity and diversity is possible only through participation in Christ who reconciles the One and the many
Patch.com
Patch.com, an online community journalism platform, is focused on the reporting of local news at more than 900 communities across the United States. Scholars have observed that community journalists often display personal engagement in the stories that they report, and, envisioning their community, actively work to facilitate a sense of connection among their readers. This work finds that Patch.com sites, however, exhibit a lack of clear engageme…
A national population-based assessment of 2007–2008 election-related violence in Kenya
On a national level in Kenya, politically-motivated and opportunistic sexual and physical violations were commonly reported among sampled adults with associated health and mental health outcomes
Citizen Journalists' Views on Traditional Notions of Journalism, Story Sourcing, And Relationship Building
This study examines whether citizen journalists adhere to traditional journalistic norms when reporting. A nationwide survey and follow-up interviews with selected US citizen journalists showed they do consider traditional norms such as objectivity, gatekeeping, and balance to be very important. This is contrary to what some previous studies have found. Citizen journalists also indicated that both official and unofficial sources were integral to …
News Stories on the Facebook Platform
This experimental study examined whether stories presented on Facebook that appeared to be from a news organization were rated as higher in perceived credibility than stories that appeared to be from a non-news organization. One-hundred-and-seven participants took part in the online study. One group saw stories that appeared to be from a news organization and another group saw the same stories that appeared to be from a non-news organization. Bot…
I Got a New Puppy! The Impact of Personal, Opinion, and Objective Tweets on a Journalist’s and a News Organization’s Perceived Credibility
This experimental study examined the impact of posting different types of tweets on a journalist’s perceived credibility. Three-hundred-and-eighty-seven participants were randomly assigned into one of three groups. One group saw tweets from a journalist that were about the journalist’s personal life, another group saw tweets from the same journalist that were written objectively about news stories, and the third group saw tweets from the same jou…
Work–life balance in media newsrooms
This research examined work–life balance in media newsrooms. A total of 50 in-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted with individuals currently employed in US newsrooms of varying market sizes including small and medium market television stations, such as KCAU (Sioux City, IA), WHTM (Harrisburg, PA), WGAL (Lancaster County, PA), NBC12 (Richmond, VA), NY1 (News York, NY), and WNBC (New York, NY); regional newspapers, such as Lancaster Newspa…
Transparency in the News
An experimental study was conducted to see what impact varying the level of self-disclosure by a journalist, as well as providing information about why and how a story is being covered, has on the perceived credibility of the journalist, the story, and the organization for which the journalist works. A study was conducted that included 885 participants from the United States. Results indicate the group that saw a picture of the journalist, a low …
Public Journalism Without the Public
A review of public journalism journal articles from 1991 through 2018 revealed significant gaps in (a) conceptualizing the public sphere, and (b) ascertaining the credibility of public journalism efforts. These gaps have implications for a press that is becoming increasingly challenged in an era of self-curated news selection and polarization. This work offers conclusions regarding how journalistic engagement efforts can better consider audience …
The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach
Amy Beach was a pathbreaking composer and pianist who transcended the restrictions of nineteenth-century Boston to become America's most famous turn-of-the-century female composer and, later in her career, a prominent performing artist and promoter of music education. The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach makes her life and music accessible to a new generation of listeners. It outlines her remarkable talent as a child prodigy, her marriage to a pr…
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