Ralph E Dowling
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph E Dowling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph E |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowling |
| SIGNATURE | DOWLING R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ball State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
American perceptions of terrorism
The literature on terrorism makes a number of significant predictions of the effects of media coverage of terrorism on audiences, public policy, and terrorism itself. Many of these predictions are contradictory, and little or no empirical social‐scientific research has been done to determine public perceptions of international terrorism. Q‐methodology offers a means of identifying groups or "types" of persons who share similar attitudes toward a …
The contributions of speech communication scholarship to the study of terrorism
The existing research into terrorism, though tentative and exploratory in many ways, shows great promise. However, despite widespread recognition of its communicative dimensions, few studies have been done from within the discipline of speech communication. This essay defines the discipline of speech communication and rhetorical studies, reviews the few existing rhetorical studies of terrorism, and goes on to show the ways in which a rhetorical p…
Victimage and mortification
Observers often suggest that terrorism is caused or strongly motivated by the desire to receive media coverage. Even a cursory rhetorical analysis reveals, however, that such coverage serves no useful purpose to the terrorists in reaching the audiences of Western media. Hence, another explanation of the media‐terrorism relationship is called for. Kenneth Burke's dramatistic theory of rhetoric explains the rhetorical purposes of terrorism without …
Print journalism as political communication
Studies of political communication and persuasion typically focus on deliberately persuasive communications of political actors. Contemporary rhetorical theories suggest the importance of rhetorical examinations of a range of communications not normally considered rhetorical/persuasive, including media news reports. Bormann's fantasy‐theme analysis is a rhetorical‐critical method that allows critics to discover the rhetorically created social rea…
Terrorism and the Media
Journal Article Terrorism and the Media: A Rhetorical Genre Get access Ralph E. Dowling Ralph E. Dowling 1Ralph E. Dowling is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, Ball State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 1, March 1986, Pages 12–24, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1986.tb03036.x Published: 07 February 2006
Political Philosophy and the Plain Man
Pressure Group Theory
An outstanding advance in one field of human endeavor will often inspire workers in others to try to transfer its conceptions or techniques into their own less successful fields, for obvious reasons. And so political theorists who have long been discontented with the state of politics when compared with that of certain other sciences have, in consequence, sought to advance their field by adopting the ideas or techniques of their scientific contem…
Oakeshott's Theory of Reason, Tradition and Conservatism
Print journalism as political communication
Studies of political communication and persuasion typically focus on deliberately persuasive communications of political actors. Contemporary rhetorical theories suggest the importance of rhetorical examinations of a range of communications not normally considered rhetorical/persuasive, including media news reports. Bormann's fantasy‐theme analysis is a rhetorical‐critical method that allows critics to discover the rhetorically created social rea…
American perceptions of terrorism
The literature on terrorism makes a number of significant predictions of the effects of media coverage of terrorism on audiences, public policy, and terrorism itself. Many of these predictions are contradictory, and little or no empirical social‐scientific research has been done to determine public perceptions of international terrorism. Q‐methodology offers a means of identifying groups or "types" of persons who share similar attitudes toward a …
The contributions of speech communication scholarship to the study of terrorism
The existing research into terrorism, though tentative and exploratory in many ways, shows great promise. However, despite widespread recognition of its communicative dimensions, few studies have been done from within the discipline of speech communication. This essay defines the discipline of speech communication and rhetorical studies, reviews the few existing rhetorical studies of terrorism, and goes on to show the ways in which a rhetorical p…
Victimage and mortification
Observers often suggest that terrorism is caused or strongly motivated by the desire to receive media coverage. Even a cursory rhetorical analysis reveals, however, that such coverage serves no useful purpose to the terrorists in reaching the audiences of Western media. Hence, another explanation of the media‐terrorism relationship is called for. Kenneth Burke's dramatistic theory of rhetoric explains the rhetorical purposes of terrorism without …
Oakeshott's Theory of Reason, Tradition and Conservatism
Political Philosophy and the Plain Man
Pressure Group Theory
An outstanding advance in one field of human endeavor will often inspire workers in others to try to transfer its conceptions or techniques into their own less successful fields, for obvious reasons. And so political theorists who have long been discontented with the state of politics when compared with that of certain other sciences have, in consequence, sought to advance their field by adopting the ideas or techniques of their scientific contem…
Terrorism and the Media
Journal Article Terrorism and the Media: A Rhetorical Genre Get access Ralph E. Dowling Ralph E. Dowling 1Ralph E. Dowling is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, Ball State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 1, March 1986, Pages 12–24, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1986.tb03036.x Published: 07 February 2006
The contributions of speech communication scholarship to the study of terrorism
The existing research into terrorism, though tentative and exploratory in many ways, shows great promise. However, despite widespread recognition of its communicative dimensions, few studies have been done from within the discipline of speech communication. This essay defines the discipline of speech communication and rhetorical studies, reviews the few existing rhetorical studies of terrorism, and goes on to show the ways in which a rhetorical p…
Victimage and mortification
Observers often suggest that terrorism is caused or strongly motivated by the desire to receive media coverage. Even a cursory rhetorical analysis reveals, however, that such coverage serves no useful purpose to the terrorists in reaching the audiences of Western media. Hence, another explanation of the media‐terrorism relationship is called for. Kenneth Burke's dramatistic theory of rhetoric explains the rhetorical purposes of terrorism without …
Print journalism as political communication
Studies of political communication and persuasion typically focus on deliberately persuasive communications of political actors. Contemporary rhetorical theories suggest the importance of rhetorical examinations of a range of communications not normally considered rhetorical/persuasive, including media news reports. Bormann's fantasy‐theme analysis is a rhetorical‐critical method that allows critics to discover the rhetorically created social rea…
American perceptions of terrorism
The literature on terrorism makes a number of significant predictions of the effects of media coverage of terrorism on audiences, public policy, and terrorism itself. Many of these predictions are contradictory, and little or no empirical social‐scientific research has been done to determine public perceptions of international terrorism. Q‐methodology offers a means of identifying groups or "types" of persons who share similar attitudes toward a …
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