David D Perlmutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4899779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David D Perlmutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | David D |
| FAMILY NAME | Perlmutter |
| SIGNATURE | PERLMUTTER D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Original Sins of Algorithmic Authenticity Verification: Provenance Neglect and Model Collapse in AI-Mediated News and Information
This conceptual and prescriptive study identifies a foundational vulnerability in AI-mediated source and information verification systems, especially for journalism: provenance neglect, the systematic failure to weight evidence by source credibility, traceable origin, and institutional accountability. Grounded in source credibility theory, we demonstrate how this design flaw produces circular reasoning, synthetic content amplification, weakness t…
Avoiding online censorship through ‘fatty’ memes: How Chinese social media users talk about North Korea
Memes are humorous images, often featuring captions with superimposed text, that are shared online. To avoid censorship, Chinese netizens strategically use memes to discuss political issues. This study content analyses memes that feature an image or likeness of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un posted by Chinese social media users on the Weibo platform. Results highlight how politically astute, tech-savvy publics can express political opinions and …
Opportunities and Challenges: Professional Development Programming in Media and Communication Education
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) leadership charged a 13-member Presidential Task Force on Careers to obtain membership’s thoughts on preferences and needs regarding career-assistance programming and activities. This Spring 2019 report details a survey of the interest of educators, of all ranks, in current AEJMC efforts and the need for more targeted and accessible opportunities, both at annual conference…
Introduction: The Facebook Election
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas J. Johnson Thomas J. Johnson (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989) is the Amon G. Carter, Jr. Centennial Professor in the School of Journalism at University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or coeditor of three books, including International Media Communication in a Global Age (Routledge, 2009). He has studied the role of new media in the presidential election since 1992 and has published mo…
Why blog? (then and now): Exploring the motivations for blogging by popular American political bloggers
Despite the impact that influential American political bloggers have had on public policies and the mainstream media agenda in recent years, very little research is currently available on the most widely read political bloggers.Through a survey of 66 top American political bloggers, the present study examines this elite group by analyzing their initial and current motivations for blogging as well as their online and offline behaviors. The finding…
Political Blogging and Campaign 2008: A Roundtable
(In)visible evidence: Pictorially enhanced disbelief in the Apollo moon landings
When pictures become journalistic, historical, and popular icons, there is a common belief that they also have a single, usable meaning, and media, political, and academic elites typically determine it. Yet, research on how people interpret images suggests that believing is seeing: pre-existing prejudices and experiences affect what meanings we draw from pictures. This is especially so when the viewer seeks out information that confirms strongly …
Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine
Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contemporary perspectives on the behind-the-scenes history of the period. Time Magazine is an especially fruitful source for such a visual-historical contrast and comparison because it was China-centric, founded and run by Henry Luce, a man who loved China and was commensurably obsessed with winning…
Blogging Down the Dictator? The Kyrgyz Revolution and Samizdat Websites
This article evaluates the impact and significance of Akaevu.net, an advocacy blog that was linked to the recent ‘tulip revolution’ in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic of Central Asia. The studyassesses (1) to what extent do samizdat (that is, unofficial) blogs serve as sources of oppositional information for citizens of the nation as well as international observers and (2) what evidence is there of the effects of the samizdat blogs on politi…
Counter-imaging: Myth-making and Americanization in Israeli Labor Party campaign ads, 2003
For several decades, the United States has exported not only its particular definition of democracy to developing nations but also the style of modern televisual politics. As a result, the nature of televised commercials in election campaigns in many nations is designed by US-based, -trained or -inspired consultants. This article examines ads run in the 2003 Israeli elections by the Israeli Labor party. Findings show that the ads (a) are indistin…
Bullets as bacteria: Television news magazines’ use of the public health model for reporting violence
Surveys of mass media content related to social violence suggest that it generally focuses on the individual, atomistic ‘act’ (e.g. the bang-bang car chase) rather than issues of cause and prevention. Yet, increasingly - but with controversy - doctors, health officials and activists have pushed for a ‘public health’ model of reporting news about crime and violence that looks at interactions between the victim, the agent of injury or death, and th…
The anatomy of a photojournalistic icon: Marginalization of dissent in the selection and framing of ‘a death in Genoa’
This study examines the case of a recent news ‘icon’, a celebrated product of photojournalism, Dylan Martinez’s so-called ‘death in Genoa’. The picture shows a scene moments before the death by police gunfire of a protester during the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Genoa in July 2001. The image was chosen by news and political elites as a metonym for the antiglobalization movement. Fitting into the typical characteristics and assumptions of the ne…
Photojournalism and Foreign Affairs
The primes of our times: An examination of the ‘power’ of visual images
Claims by political and news elites about the influence of visual images are far more common than actual evidence of such effects. This research attempts to gain insight into the ‘power’ of visual images, specifically those that accompany lexical–verbal messages in the press. We argue that the widely held notion that vivid images often drive public opinion is overly simplistic; in contrast, we posit that images most often interact with individual…
Visual Historical Methods: Problems, Prospects, Applications
(1994). Visual Historical Methods: Problems, Prospects, Applications. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 167-184
Face-lifting the death's head: The calculated pictorial legacy of the Waffen-SS and its modern audience
Defeated in war, declared a “criminal organization” by the Nuremburg tribunal, typecast as comic book villains in the popular media, the image of the Waffen‐SS (the military wing of the Nazi‐SS) seemed beyond rehabilitation. However, the pictorial legacy the Waffen‐SS created for propaganda purposes persists as a visual rebuttal of such negative labels. The same images are now being reprinted in a small number of popular modern “pictorial histori…
The primes of our times: An examination of the ‘power’ of visual images
Claims by political and news elites about the influence of visual images are far more common than actual evidence of such effects. This research attempts to gain insight into the ‘power’ of visual images, specifically those that accompany lexical–verbal messages in the press. We argue that the widely held notion that vivid images often drive public opinion is overly simplistic; in contrast, we posit that images most often interact with individual…
Why blog? (then and now): Exploring the motivations for blogging by popular American political bloggers
Despite the impact that influential American political bloggers have had on public policies and the mainstream media agenda in recent years, very little research is currently available on the most widely read political bloggers.Through a survey of 66 top American political bloggers, the present study examines this elite group by analyzing their initial and current motivations for blogging as well as their online and offline behaviors. The finding…
Introduction: The Facebook Election
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas J. Johnson Thomas J. Johnson (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989) is the Amon G. Carter, Jr. Centennial Professor in the School of Journalism at University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or coeditor of three books, including International Media Communication in a Global Age (Routledge, 2009). He has studied the role of new media in the presidential election since 1992 and has published mo…
The anatomy of a photojournalistic icon: Marginalization of dissent in the selection and framing of ‘a death in Genoa’
This study examines the case of a recent news ‘icon’, a celebrated product of photojournalism, Dylan Martinez’s so-called ‘death in Genoa’. The picture shows a scene moments before the death by police gunfire of a protester during the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Genoa in July 2001. The image was chosen by news and political elites as a metonym for the antiglobalization movement. Fitting into the typical characteristics and assumptions of the ne…
Photojournalism and Foreign Affairs
Avoiding online censorship through ‘fatty’ memes: How Chinese social media users talk about North Korea
Memes are humorous images, often featuring captions with superimposed text, that are shared online. To avoid censorship, Chinese netizens strategically use memes to discuss political issues. This study content analyses memes that feature an image or likeness of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un posted by Chinese social media users on the Weibo platform. Results highlight how politically astute, tech-savvy publics can express political opinions and …
Blogging Down the Dictator? The Kyrgyz Revolution and Samizdat Websites
This article evaluates the impact and significance of Akaevu.net, an advocacy blog that was linked to the recent ‘tulip revolution’ in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic of Central Asia. The studyassesses (1) to what extent do samizdat (that is, unofficial) blogs serve as sources of oppositional information for citizens of the nation as well as international observers and (2) what evidence is there of the effects of the samizdat blogs on politi…
Counter-imaging: Myth-making and Americanization in Israeli Labor Party campaign ads, 2003
For several decades, the United States has exported not only its particular definition of democracy to developing nations but also the style of modern televisual politics. As a result, the nature of televised commercials in election campaigns in many nations is designed by US-based, -trained or -inspired consultants. This article examines ads run in the 2003 Israeli elections by the Israeli Labor party. Findings show that the ads (a) are indistin…
Political Blogging and Campaign 2008: A Roundtable
Bullets as bacteria: Television news magazines’ use of the public health model for reporting violence
Surveys of mass media content related to social violence suggest that it generally focuses on the individual, atomistic ‘act’ (e.g. the bang-bang car chase) rather than issues of cause and prevention. Yet, increasingly - but with controversy - doctors, health officials and activists have pushed for a ‘public health’ model of reporting news about crime and violence that looks at interactions between the victim, the agent of injury or death, and th…
Visual Historical Methods: Problems, Prospects, Applications
(1994). Visual Historical Methods: Problems, Prospects, Applications. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 167-184
Face-lifting the death's head: The calculated pictorial legacy of the Waffen-SS and its modern audience
Defeated in war, declared a “criminal organization” by the Nuremburg tribunal, typecast as comic book villains in the popular media, the image of the Waffen‐SS (the military wing of the Nazi‐SS) seemed beyond rehabilitation. However, the pictorial legacy the Waffen‐SS created for propaganda purposes persists as a visual rebuttal of such negative labels. The same images are now being reprinted in a small number of popular modern “pictorial histori…
Face-lifting the death's head: The calculated pictorial legacy of the Waffen-SS and its modern audience
Defeated in war, declared a “criminal organization” by the Nuremburg tribunal, typecast as comic book villains in the popular media, the image of the Waffen‐SS (the military wing of the Nazi‐SS) seemed beyond rehabilitation. However, the pictorial legacy the Waffen‐SS created for propaganda purposes persists as a visual rebuttal of such negative labels. The same images are now being reprinted in a small number of popular modern “pictorial histori…
Visual Historical Methods: Problems, Prospects, Applications
(1994). Visual Historical Methods: Problems, Prospects, Applications. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 167-184
The primes of our times: An examination of the ‘power’ of visual images
Claims by political and news elites about the influence of visual images are far more common than actual evidence of such effects. This research attempts to gain insight into the ‘power’ of visual images, specifically those that accompany lexical–verbal messages in the press. We argue that the widely held notion that vivid images often drive public opinion is overly simplistic; in contrast, we posit that images most often interact with individual…
The anatomy of a photojournalistic icon: Marginalization of dissent in the selection and framing of ‘a death in Genoa’
This study examines the case of a recent news ‘icon’, a celebrated product of photojournalism, Dylan Martinez’s so-called ‘death in Genoa’. The picture shows a scene moments before the death by police gunfire of a protester during the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Genoa in July 2001. The image was chosen by news and political elites as a metonym for the antiglobalization movement. Fitting into the typical characteristics and assumptions of the ne…
Photojournalism and Foreign Affairs
Counter-imaging: Myth-making and Americanization in Israeli Labor Party campaign ads, 2003
For several decades, the United States has exported not only its particular definition of democracy to developing nations but also the style of modern televisual politics. As a result, the nature of televised commercials in election campaigns in many nations is designed by US-based, -trained or -inspired consultants. This article examines ads run in the 2003 Israeli elections by the Israeli Labor party. Findings show that the ads (a) are indistin…
Bullets as bacteria: Television news magazines’ use of the public health model for reporting violence
Surveys of mass media content related to social violence suggest that it generally focuses on the individual, atomistic ‘act’ (e.g. the bang-bang car chase) rather than issues of cause and prevention. Yet, increasingly - but with controversy - doctors, health officials and activists have pushed for a ‘public health’ model of reporting news about crime and violence that looks at interactions between the victim, the agent of injury or death, and th…
Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine
Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contemporary perspectives on the behind-the-scenes history of the period. Time Magazine is an especially fruitful source for such a visual-historical contrast and comparison because it was China-centric, founded and run by Henry Luce, a man who loved China and was commensurably obsessed with winning…
Blogging Down the Dictator? The Kyrgyz Revolution and Samizdat Websites
This article evaluates the impact and significance of Akaevu.net, an advocacy blog that was linked to the recent ‘tulip revolution’ in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic of Central Asia. The studyassesses (1) to what extent do samizdat (that is, unofficial) blogs serve as sources of oppositional information for citizens of the nation as well as international observers and (2) what evidence is there of the effects of the samizdat blogs on politi…
Political Blogging and Campaign 2008: A Roundtable
(In)visible evidence: Pictorially enhanced disbelief in the Apollo moon landings
When pictures become journalistic, historical, and popular icons, there is a common belief that they also have a single, usable meaning, and media, political, and academic elites typically determine it. Yet, research on how people interpret images suggests that believing is seeing: pre-existing prejudices and experiences affect what meanings we draw from pictures. This is especially so when the viewer seeks out information that confirms strongly …
Introduction: The Facebook Election
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas J. Johnson Thomas J. Johnson (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1989) is the Amon G. Carter, Jr. Centennial Professor in the School of Journalism at University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or coeditor of three books, including International Media Communication in a Global Age (Routledge, 2009). He has studied the role of new media in the presidential election since 1992 and has published mo…
Why blog? (then and now): Exploring the motivations for blogging by popular American political bloggers
Despite the impact that influential American political bloggers have had on public policies and the mainstream media agenda in recent years, very little research is currently available on the most widely read political bloggers.Through a survey of 66 top American political bloggers, the present study examines this elite group by analyzing their initial and current motivations for blogging as well as their online and offline behaviors. The finding…
Opportunities and Challenges: Professional Development Programming in Media and Communication Education
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) leadership charged a 13-member Presidential Task Force on Careers to obtain membership’s thoughts on preferences and needs regarding career-assistance programming and activities. This Spring 2019 report details a survey of the interest of educators, of all ranks, in current AEJMC efforts and the need for more targeted and accessible opportunities, both at annual conference…
Avoiding online censorship through ‘fatty’ memes: How Chinese social media users talk about North Korea
Memes are humorous images, often featuring captions with superimposed text, that are shared online. To avoid censorship, Chinese netizens strategically use memes to discuss political issues. This study content analyses memes that feature an image or likeness of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un posted by Chinese social media users on the Weibo platform. Results highlight how politically astute, tech-savvy publics can express political opinions and …
The Original Sins of Algorithmic Authenticity Verification: Provenance Neglect and Model Collapse in AI-Mediated News and Information
This conceptual and prescriptive study identifies a foundational vulnerability in AI-mediated source and information verification systems, especially for journalism: provenance neglect, the systematic failure to weight evidence by source credibility, traceable origin, and institutional accountability. Grounded in source credibility theory, we demonstrate how this design flaw produces circular reasoning, synthetic content amplification, weakness t…
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