Frank Michael Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4899647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Michael Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9977-3967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Margaret Sullivan and metajournalistic discourse
This study concerns how Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan discursively protected journalistic autonomy, expelled deviant actors, and accepted expansion of journalistic boundaries if necessary to preserve the field. Attention to Sullivan’s columns is justified based on her position as an individual with substantial journalistic capital hired to critique news media by two newspapers that hold elite institutional-level roles within U.S.…
BREAKING local news
This study concerns Twitter use in a large local news market. Nonprofit newsrooms and a regional newspaper used replies to engage in reciprocal exchanges with audiences, but broadcasters used retweets, hashtags, and mentions for branding. News media differed in attention to news topics valued by audiences, with resource-constrained local newspapers overemphasizing sports. Attention to weather and crime were predictors of audience sharing of tweet…
Civility, credibility, and health information
As individuals turn to social media sites for health information, it is important to understand the factors that influence their perceptions of this information. This study employed an experiment to investigate the impact of social media discussion on perceptions of vaccines. Analysis, using structural equation modeling, revealed that source credibility and the civility of a discussion indirectly influence policy support requiring vaccinations, i…
Theorizing Journalism’s Institutional Relationships
This essay reexamines the institutional level of gatekeeping theory by retheorizing journalism’s institutional relationships and uses Silicon Valley technology platforms as a case in point. The essay puts forward a new framework for assessing institutional influences on journalism, contextualizing journalism’s relative autonomy (strong, equilibrium, or weak) by accounting for the dominant forms of pressure on journalism (regulative, normative, or…
The New Gatekeepers
This study explores interactions between journalism and Silicon Valley with a qualitative textual analysis of interviews in the Riptide oral history of the digital disruption of journalism. Discourse between 4 senior news executives and 22 technology executives, developers, investors, and entrepreneurs indicated that journalists and technologists interact with each other based on institutional-level concerns. Journalists and technologists express…
Times Are a Changin’
This study offers an ethnographic analysis of the merger of the digitally native news nonprofit the St. Louis Beacon and St. Louis Public Radio. Researchers observed news work and interviewed journalists before and after the merger, paying close attention to how routines shifted subsequently. Through the lens of gatekeeping theory, researchers discuss how new specialized roles, technical changes, and shifting news judgments affected communication…
Theorizing Journalism’s Institutional Relationships
This essay reexamines the institutional level of gatekeeping theory by retheorizing journalism’s institutional relationships and uses Silicon Valley technology platforms as a case in point. The essay puts forward a new framework for assessing institutional influences on journalism, contextualizing journalism’s relative autonomy (strong, equilibrium, or weak) by accounting for the dominant forms of pressure on journalism (regulative, normative, or…
The New Gatekeepers
This study explores interactions between journalism and Silicon Valley with a qualitative textual analysis of interviews in the Riptide oral history of the digital disruption of journalism. Discourse between 4 senior news executives and 22 technology executives, developers, investors, and entrepreneurs indicated that journalists and technologists interact with each other based on institutional-level concerns. Journalists and technologists express…
Times Are a Changin’
This study offers an ethnographic analysis of the merger of the digitally native news nonprofit the St. Louis Beacon and St. Louis Public Radio. Researchers observed news work and interviewed journalists before and after the merger, paying close attention to how routines shifted subsequently. Through the lens of gatekeeping theory, researchers discuss how new specialized roles, technical changes, and shifting news judgments affected communication…
Times Are a Changin’
This study offers an ethnographic analysis of the merger of the digitally native news nonprofit the St. Louis Beacon and St. Louis Public Radio. Researchers observed news work and interviewed journalists before and after the merger, paying close attention to how routines shifted subsequently. Through the lens of gatekeeping theory, researchers discuss how new specialized roles, technical changes, and shifting news judgments affected communication…
The New Gatekeepers
This study explores interactions between journalism and Silicon Valley with a qualitative textual analysis of interviews in the Riptide oral history of the digital disruption of journalism. Discourse between 4 senior news executives and 22 technology executives, developers, investors, and entrepreneurs indicated that journalists and technologists interact with each other based on institutional-level concerns. Journalists and technologists express…
Civility, credibility, and health information
As individuals turn to social media sites for health information, it is important to understand the factors that influence their perceptions of this information. This study employed an experiment to investigate the impact of social media discussion on perceptions of vaccines. Analysis, using structural equation modeling, revealed that source credibility and the civility of a discussion indirectly influence policy support requiring vaccinations, i…
Theorizing Journalism’s Institutional Relationships
This essay reexamines the institutional level of gatekeeping theory by retheorizing journalism’s institutional relationships and uses Silicon Valley technology platforms as a case in point. The essay puts forward a new framework for assessing institutional influences on journalism, contextualizing journalism’s relative autonomy (strong, equilibrium, or weak) by accounting for the dominant forms of pressure on journalism (regulative, normative, or…
BREAKING local news
This study concerns Twitter use in a large local news market. Nonprofit newsrooms and a regional newspaper used replies to engage in reciprocal exchanges with audiences, but broadcasters used retweets, hashtags, and mentions for branding. News media differed in attention to news topics valued by audiences, with resource-constrained local newspapers overemphasizing sports. Attention to weather and crime were predictors of audience sharing of tweet…
Margaret Sullivan and metajournalistic discourse
This study concerns how Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan discursively protected journalistic autonomy, expelled deviant actors, and accepted expansion of journalistic boundaries if necessary to preserve the field. Attention to Sullivan’s columns is justified based on her position as an individual with substantial journalistic capital hired to critique news media by two newspapers that hold elite institutional-level roles within U.S.…
Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gatekeeping (3 works) · Journalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · News media (2 works)