Michael B Salwen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael B Salwen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael B |
| FAMILY NAME | Salwen |
| SIGNATURE | SALWEN M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research
"An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research provides an in-depth overview of communication studies as well as integrating theory with research. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of current theory and research written by the top theorists and researchers in each area. It has been updated to address the growing influence of technology, changing relationships, and several growing integrated approaches to communicati…
Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research
Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research
Feature Review - Mass Communication Theories and Effects Textbooks: Two new texts and two classics revisited
The study of “media effects” traces its lineage to the social sciences. Political scientist Harold Lasswell focused researchers’ attention on media effects with his provocative, if cryptic, model: “Who Says What in Which Channel to Whom with What Effect?” (emphasis added). Still, as some of the books reviewed in this essay testify, critical and cultural scholars lay some legitimate claim to the effects tradition. This review examines media effect…
Evelyn Waugh in Ethiopia: The novelist as war correspondent and journalism critic
This study describes novelist-turned-war correspondent Evelyn Waugh's criticisms of war correspondents' practices on the eve of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Few critics during Waugh's time treated Waugh's writings about Ethiopia as formal journalism criticism, elaborating specific criticisms. This problem persists because most contemporary Waugh scholars have literary backgrounds and little interest in journalism. The present study focus…
The Third-Person Effect: A Meta-Analysis of the Perceptual Hypothesis
In this study, we report the results of a meta-analysis concerning the third-person effect's perceptual hypothesis. The hypothesis predicts that people judge the media to exert greater persuasive influence on other people than on themselves. Thirty-two published and unpublished studies with 121 separate effect sizes were examined. The overall effect size between estimated media effects on self and on others was r = .50. Among the 8 moderators inv…
Feature Review: Lippmann, Winchell and the State of Punditry in American Journalism
Impact of Question Order on the Third-Person Effect
A nationwide telephone survey in the United States was conducted to investigate the impact of question order on the perceptual and behavioral hypotheses of the third-person effect. The perceptual hypothesis posits that individuals perceive other people to be more vulnerable than themselves to persuasive media messages, whereas the behavioral hypothesis predicts that perceiving others as more vulnerable increases support for message restrictions. …
Perceptions of Media Influence and Support for Censorship: The Third-Person Effect in the 1996 Presidential Election
Complaints about media coverage of presidential elections have raised concerns that the public may support restrictions on election campaign messages. This study, based on a nationwide telephone survey (N = 549), investigated perceptions of media influence and support for campaign message restrictions during the 1996 presidential campaign. The study was theoretically grounded in the third-person effect approach. The results confirmed the perceptu…
Finding Their Place in Journalism: Newspaper Sports Journalists' Professional “Problems
This study examined sports journalists' beliefs about the problems in their field. It used a combination of a standardized survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The sports journalists saw their concerns as distinctly different from those of journalists in other news departments. Still, there were areas of shared concern, including professionalism and economic and job-related issues. Open-ended interviews with a representative sample of the sp…
Consequences of Third-Person Perception in Support of Press Restrictions in the O. J. Simpson Trial
A nationwide telephone survey about the O. J. Simpson trial affirmed the third-person effect perceptual-bias hypothesis that people perceive news media coverage to exert greater influence on other people than on themselves. The study did not indicate an association between third-person perception and support for restrictions on press coverage of the trial. The findings suggested that respondents' opinion about Simpson's guilt interacted with the …
Broadcasting to Latin America: Reconciling industry-government functions in the pre-Voice of America era
Predicting the spiral of silence on a controversial public issue
The “spiral of silence”; hypothesis asserts that media presentations of social issues are often regarded as the barometer for public opinions by the audience. In particular, audiences whose opinions do not coincide with their perceived majority opinion tend to maintain their silence rather than speak out. The present study assesses how different types of perceived public opinion and media climates may affect the spiral of silence dynamic. The iss…
Setting the news agenda with an ethnic‐relevant topic: Public salience of illegal immigration
This study investigated news media agenda‐setting with the issue of illegal immigration. Respondents in Phoenix, Arizona, assessed their self‐identified “most important problem”; differently from illegal immigration along several dimensions. The “most important problem”; measure, often used in agenda‐setting, was rated higher on experience, interest, and a series of evaluations than the ethnic‐relevant problem of illegal immigration. Although fin…
Radio and Television in Cuba: The Pre-Castro Era
This text examines the Cuban broadcast media, then consisting of 156 radio stations and 27 television stations, prior to the revolution of 1959 and the takeover by Fidel Castro following which Cuban mass media succumbed to governmental control
U.S. television viewing in Trinidad: Cultural consequences on adolescents
This study examined the relationship between Trinidadian high school students' exposure to U.S. television programming and cultivation indicators. Television viewing was related to liberal social values concerning relationships, family, and authority. It was not related to cultural knowledge and estimations of Americans' material wealth. The findings raise questions about the assumed linear relationship between television viewing and cultivation.…
Feeling Informed? The ‘Assurance Function’ of the Mass Media
Journal Article FEELING INFORMED? THE 'ASSURANCE FUNCTION' OF THE MASS MEDIA Get access Michael B. Salwen, Michael B. Salwen Michael B. Salwen (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1985) is an associate professor of communication at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA. His research interests include mass communication effects and international mass media systems. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book on integrating theory and research in …
International news on Japanese and American network television: Regionalism and conflict
This study compared the coverage of international news on Japanese and United States network evening newscasts. Support was found for the hypothesis that both countries' newscasts would carry more national news than international news. But, contrary to expecta tions, neither country's newscasts devoted more attention to conflictive than non-conflictive international news. Nor was there evidence to suggest that developing countries were reported i…
The origins of CMQ: Pre-Castro Cuba's leading radio network
Support for Radio Marti among Miami's cubans and non-cubans
Public Salience of Foreign Nations
There is a relationship between media mentions of certain foreign nations and reader/viewer learning. A study in Dade County, Florida, matched a content analysis of major media with results of an extensive telephone survey within the context of agenda-setting hypotheses. Cumulative correlations over time suggest that the amount of news coverage devoted to various nations was accurately perceived by the audience. Media coverage, however, did not a…
Cultural imperialism: A media effects approach
The issue of cultural imperialism has emerged largely from the communication literature involving development and political economy. These orientations ultimately construct formulations concerning cultural heritage and behavior based on analysis of government and/or corporate policy and practice. This paper questions the legitimacy of such inferences and explores the idea of integrating direct‐behavior research with political‐economy perspectives
A Free Press in South Korea: Temporary Phenomenon or Permanent Fixture?
Research Article| March 01 1990 A Free Press in South Korea: Temporary Phenomenon or Permanent Fixture? Kyu Ho Youm, Kyu Ho Youm Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Michael B. Salwen Michael B. Salwen Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1990) 30 (3): 312–325. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644568 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Suppl…
Newspaper Sports Journalists: A Profile of the 'Profession
News of terrorism: A comparison of the U.S. and South Korean press
This study compared U.S. and South Korean newspaper coverage of the November 1987 crash of Korean Airlines (KAL) flight 858 over the Thai‐Burma border. Comparisons were made before and after evidence of North Korean terrorist involvement in the crash was uncovered. The findings did not suggest evidence supporting the notion that the press plays up or sensationalizes reports of terrorism with little or no evidence. Even though the U.S. and South K…
The Third-Person Effect: A Meta-Analysis of the Perceptual Hypothesis
In this study, we report the results of a meta-analysis concerning the third-person effect's perceptual hypothesis. The hypothesis predicts that people judge the media to exert greater persuasive influence on other people than on themselves. Thirty-two published and unpublished studies with 121 separate effect sizes were examined. The overall effect size between estimated media effects on self and on others was r = .50. Among the 8 moderators inv…
Public Salience of Foreign Nations
There is a relationship between media mentions of certain foreign nations and reader/viewer learning. A study in Dade County, Florida, matched a content analysis of major media with results of an extensive telephone survey within the context of agenda-setting hypotheses. Cumulative correlations over time suggest that the amount of news coverage devoted to various nations was accurately perceived by the audience. Media coverage, however, did not a…
Cultural imperialism: A media effects approach
The issue of cultural imperialism has emerged largely from the communication literature involving development and political economy. These orientations ultimately construct formulations concerning cultural heritage and behavior based on analysis of government and/or corporate policy and practice. This paper questions the legitimacy of such inferences and explores the idea of integrating direct‐behavior research with political‐economy perspectives
Finding Their Place in Journalism: Newspaper Sports Journalists' Professional “Problems
This study examined sports journalists' beliefs about the problems in their field. It used a combination of a standardized survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The sports journalists saw their concerns as distinctly different from those of journalists in other news departments. Still, there were areas of shared concern, including professionalism and economic and job-related issues. Open-ended interviews with a representative sample of the sp…
Newspaper Sports Journalists: A Profile of the 'Profession
Predicting the spiral of silence on a controversial public issue
The “spiral of silence”; hypothesis asserts that media presentations of social issues are often regarded as the barometer for public opinions by the audience. In particular, audiences whose opinions do not coincide with their perceived majority opinion tend to maintain their silence rather than speak out. The present study assesses how different types of perceived public opinion and media climates may affect the spiral of silence dynamic. The iss…
Setting the news agenda with an ethnic‐relevant topic: Public salience of illegal immigration
This study investigated news media agenda‐setting with the issue of illegal immigration. Respondents in Phoenix, Arizona, assessed their self‐identified “most important problem”; differently from illegal immigration along several dimensions. The “most important problem”; measure, often used in agenda‐setting, was rated higher on experience, interest, and a series of evaluations than the ethnic‐relevant problem of illegal immigration. Although fin…
Newspaper agenda-setting among elites and non-elites in Ghana
Impact of Question Order on the Third-Person Effect
A nationwide telephone survey in the United States was conducted to investigate the impact of question order on the perceptual and behavioral hypotheses of the third-person effect. The perceptual hypothesis posits that individuals perceive other people to be more vulnerable than themselves to persuasive media messages, whereas the behavioral hypothesis predicts that perceiving others as more vulnerable increases support for message restrictions. …
Feeling Informed? The ‘Assurance Function’ of the Mass Media
Journal Article FEELING INFORMED? THE 'ASSURANCE FUNCTION' OF THE MASS MEDIA Get access Michael B. Salwen, Michael B. Salwen Michael B. Salwen (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1985) is an associate professor of communication at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA. His research interests include mass communication effects and international mass media systems. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book on integrating theory and research in …
Feature Review: Lippmann, Winchell and the State of Punditry in American Journalism
International news on Japanese and American network television: Regionalism and conflict
This study compared the coverage of international news on Japanese and United States network evening newscasts. Support was found for the hypothesis that both countries' newscasts would carry more national news than international news. But, contrary to expecta tions, neither country's newscasts devoted more attention to conflictive than non-conflictive international news. Nor was there evidence to suggest that developing countries were reported i…
The origins of CMQ: Pre-Castro Cuba's leading radio network
News of terrorism: A comparison of the U.S. and South Korean press
This study compared U.S. and South Korean newspaper coverage of the November 1987 crash of Korean Airlines (KAL) flight 858 over the Thai‐Burma border. Comparisons were made before and after evidence of North Korean terrorist involvement in the crash was uncovered. The findings did not suggest evidence supporting the notion that the press plays up or sensationalizes reports of terrorism with little or no evidence. Even though the U.S. and South K…
Mass Media Issue Dependency and Agenda-Setting
This study sought to determine whether mass media issue dependency enhances agenda-setting. A combination content analysis and survey supported the hypothesis. Respondents who depended on mass media for information about the environment showed a stronger relationship with the media's agenda than the nondependent respondents. Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael B. SalwenMichael B. Salwen is assistant professor in the Department of C…
Mass Media Issue Dependency and Agenda-Setting
This study sought to determine whether mass media issue dependency enhances agenda-setting. A combination content analysis and survey supported the hypothesis. Respondents who depended on mass media for information about the environment showed a stronger relationship with the media's agenda than the nondependent respondents. Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael B. SalwenMichael B. Salwen is assistant professor in the Department of C…
News of terrorism: A comparison of the U.S. and South Korean press
This study compared U.S. and South Korean newspaper coverage of the November 1987 crash of Korean Airlines (KAL) flight 858 over the Thai‐Burma border. Comparisons were made before and after evidence of North Korean terrorist involvement in the crash was uncovered. The findings did not suggest evidence supporting the notion that the press plays up or sensationalizes reports of terrorism with little or no evidence. Even though the U.S. and South K…
Newspaper agenda-setting among elites and non-elites in Ghana
Newspaper Sports Journalists: A Profile of the 'Profession
A Free Press in South Korea: Temporary Phenomenon or Permanent Fixture?
Research Article| March 01 1990 A Free Press in South Korea: Temporary Phenomenon or Permanent Fixture? Kyu Ho Youm, Kyu Ho Youm Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Michael B. Salwen Michael B. Salwen Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1990) 30 (3): 312–325. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644568 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Suppl…
Cultural imperialism: A media effects approach
The issue of cultural imperialism has emerged largely from the communication literature involving development and political economy. These orientations ultimately construct formulations concerning cultural heritage and behavior based on analysis of government and/or corporate policy and practice. This paper questions the legitimacy of such inferences and explores the idea of integrating direct‐behavior research with political‐economy perspectives
Support for Radio Marti among Miami's cubans and non-cubans
Public Salience of Foreign Nations
There is a relationship between media mentions of certain foreign nations and reader/viewer learning. A study in Dade County, Florida, matched a content analysis of major media with results of an extensive telephone survey within the context of agenda-setting hypotheses. Cumulative correlations over time suggest that the amount of news coverage devoted to various nations was accurately perceived by the audience. Media coverage, however, did not a…
The origins of CMQ: Pre-Castro Cuba's leading radio network
Feeling Informed? The ‘Assurance Function’ of the Mass Media
Journal Article FEELING INFORMED? THE 'ASSURANCE FUNCTION' OF THE MASS MEDIA Get access Michael B. Salwen, Michael B. Salwen Michael B. Salwen (Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1985) is an associate professor of communication at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA. His research interests include mass communication effects and international mass media systems. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book on integrating theory and research in …
International news on Japanese and American network television: Regionalism and conflict
This study compared the coverage of international news on Japanese and United States network evening newscasts. Support was found for the hypothesis that both countries' newscasts would carry more national news than international news. But, contrary to expecta tions, neither country's newscasts devoted more attention to conflictive than non-conflictive international news. Nor was there evidence to suggest that developing countries were reported i…
Radio and Television in Cuba: The Pre-Castro Era
This text examines the Cuban broadcast media, then consisting of 156 radio stations and 27 television stations, prior to the revolution of 1959 and the takeover by Fidel Castro following which Cuban mass media succumbed to governmental control
U.S. television viewing in Trinidad: Cultural consequences on adolescents
This study examined the relationship between Trinidadian high school students' exposure to U.S. television programming and cultivation indicators. Television viewing was related to liberal social values concerning relationships, family, and authority. It was not related to cultural knowledge and estimations of Americans' material wealth. The findings raise questions about the assumed linear relationship between television viewing and cultivation.…
Consequences of Third-Person Perception in Support of Press Restrictions in the O. J. Simpson Trial
A nationwide telephone survey about the O. J. Simpson trial affirmed the third-person effect perceptual-bias hypothesis that people perceive news media coverage to exert greater influence on other people than on themselves. The study did not indicate an association between third-person perception and support for restrictions on press coverage of the trial. The findings suggested that respondents' opinion about Simpson's guilt interacted with the …
Broadcasting to Latin America: Reconciling industry-government functions in the pre-Voice of America era
Predicting the spiral of silence on a controversial public issue
The “spiral of silence”; hypothesis asserts that media presentations of social issues are often regarded as the barometer for public opinions by the audience. In particular, audiences whose opinions do not coincide with their perceived majority opinion tend to maintain their silence rather than speak out. The present study assesses how different types of perceived public opinion and media climates may affect the spiral of silence dynamic. The iss…
Setting the news agenda with an ethnic‐relevant topic: Public salience of illegal immigration
This study investigated news media agenda‐setting with the issue of illegal immigration. Respondents in Phoenix, Arizona, assessed their self‐identified “most important problem”; differently from illegal immigration along several dimensions. The “most important problem”; measure, often used in agenda‐setting, was rated higher on experience, interest, and a series of evaluations than the ethnic‐relevant problem of illegal immigration. Although fin…
Perceptions of Media Influence and Support for Censorship: The Third-Person Effect in the 1996 Presidential Election
Complaints about media coverage of presidential elections have raised concerns that the public may support restrictions on election campaign messages. This study, based on a nationwide telephone survey (N = 549), investigated perceptions of media influence and support for campaign message restrictions during the 1996 presidential campaign. The study was theoretically grounded in the third-person effect approach. The results confirmed the perceptu…
Finding Their Place in Journalism: Newspaper Sports Journalists' Professional “Problems
This study examined sports journalists' beliefs about the problems in their field. It used a combination of a standardized survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The sports journalists saw their concerns as distinctly different from those of journalists in other news departments. Still, there were areas of shared concern, including professionalism and economic and job-related issues. Open-ended interviews with a representative sample of the sp…
Impact of Question Order on the Third-Person Effect
A nationwide telephone survey in the United States was conducted to investigate the impact of question order on the perceptual and behavioral hypotheses of the third-person effect. The perceptual hypothesis posits that individuals perceive other people to be more vulnerable than themselves to persuasive media messages, whereas the behavioral hypothesis predicts that perceiving others as more vulnerable increases support for message restrictions. …
The Third-Person Effect: A Meta-Analysis of the Perceptual Hypothesis
In this study, we report the results of a meta-analysis concerning the third-person effect's perceptual hypothesis. The hypothesis predicts that people judge the media to exert greater persuasive influence on other people than on themselves. Thirty-two published and unpublished studies with 121 separate effect sizes were examined. The overall effect size between estimated media effects on self and on others was r = .50. Among the 8 moderators inv…
Feature Review: Lippmann, Winchell and the State of Punditry in American Journalism
Evelyn Waugh in Ethiopia: The novelist as war correspondent and journalism critic
This study describes novelist-turned-war correspondent Evelyn Waugh's criticisms of war correspondents' practices on the eve of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Few critics during Waugh's time treated Waugh's writings about Ethiopia as formal journalism criticism, elaborating specific criticisms. This problem persists because most contemporary Waugh scholars have literary backgrounds and little interest in journalism. The present study focus…
Feature Review - Mass Communication Theories and Effects Textbooks: Two new texts and two classics revisited
The study of “media effects” traces its lineage to the social sciences. Political scientist Harold Lasswell focused researchers’ attention on media effects with his provocative, if cryptic, model: “Who Says What in Which Channel to Whom with What Effect?” (emphasis added). Still, as some of the books reviewed in this essay testify, critical and cultural scholars lay some legitimate claim to the effects tradition. This review examines media effect…
An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research
"An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research provides an in-depth overview of communication studies as well as integrating theory with research. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of current theory and research written by the top theorists and researchers in each area. It has been updated to address the growing influence of technology, changing relationships, and several growing integrated approaches to communicati…
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