D Charles Whitney
Biographic Data
| ID | 4907807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Charles Whitney |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitney |
| SIGNATURE | WHITNEY D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Violence and Media
Media Coverage of the “Political Correctness” Debate
Agenda-Setting
(1991). Agenda-Setting: Power and Contingency. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 14, Communication Yearbook 14, pp. 347-356
Geographic and source biases in network television news 1982‐1984
Content analysis of 5,190 network evening news stories appearing between May 1982 and April 1984 reveals two sorts of biases: a “geographic” bias whereby some geographic areas receive far more news coverage than is due them than their populations would proportionately predict, while others receive far less, and a “source” bias showing that governmental agencies and major institutions particularly business and major political parties are the most …
The Public as Dummies
A number of recent public polls and commentaries on the media have suggested that the American public is woefully uninformed across a broad range of issues and topics, to the extent, as one such commentator argues, that citizens “are not mentally prepared to continue the society because they basically do not understand the society enough to value it.” A review of the literature does disclose vast areas of general-public ignorance, but the argumen…
Media Use and Time of Vote Decision
A panel study of registered voters around the time of the 1980 presidential election, compared with the conditions and results of a similar study of the 1976 race, reveals that features of a particular campaign environment exert an impact both on the various phases during the campaign when different voters decide for whom to vote and on the mass communication uses and effects associated with different voter types and campaign phases. The study re…
Media Sociology and Media Workers
Keeping the Gates’ for Gatekeepers
Keeping the Gates’ for Gatekeepers
Geographic and source biases in network television news 1982‐1984
Content analysis of 5,190 network evening news stories appearing between May 1982 and April 1984 reveals two sorts of biases: a “geographic” bias whereby some geographic areas receive far more news coverage than is due them than their populations would proportionately predict, while others receive far less, and a “source” bias showing that governmental agencies and major institutions particularly business and major political parties are the most …
Media Use and Time of Vote Decision
A panel study of registered voters around the time of the 1980 presidential election, compared with the conditions and results of a similar study of the 1976 race, reveals that features of a particular campaign environment exert an impact both on the various phases during the campaign when different voters decide for whom to vote and on the mass communication uses and effects associated with different voter types and campaign phases. The study re…
The Public as Dummies
A number of recent public polls and commentaries on the media have suggested that the American public is woefully uninformed across a broad range of issues and topics, to the extent, as one such commentator argues, that citizens “are not mentally prepared to continue the society because they basically do not understand the society enough to value it.” A review of the literature does disclose vast areas of general-public ignorance, but the argumen…
Keeping the Gates’ for Gatekeepers
Media Sociology and Media Workers
Media Use and Time of Vote Decision
A panel study of registered voters around the time of the 1980 presidential election, compared with the conditions and results of a similar study of the 1976 race, reveals that features of a particular campaign environment exert an impact both on the various phases during the campaign when different voters decide for whom to vote and on the mass communication uses and effects associated with different voter types and campaign phases. The study re…
The Public as Dummies
A number of recent public polls and commentaries on the media have suggested that the American public is woefully uninformed across a broad range of issues and topics, to the extent, as one such commentator argues, that citizens “are not mentally prepared to continue the society because they basically do not understand the society enough to value it.” A review of the literature does disclose vast areas of general-public ignorance, but the argumen…
Geographic and source biases in network television news 1982‐1984
Content analysis of 5,190 network evening news stories appearing between May 1982 and April 1984 reveals two sorts of biases: a “geographic” bias whereby some geographic areas receive far more news coverage than is due them than their populations would proportionately predict, while others receive far less, and a “source” bias showing that governmental agencies and major institutions particularly business and major political parties are the most …
Agenda-Setting
(1991). Agenda-Setting: Power and Contingency. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 14, Communication Yearbook 14, pp. 347-356
Media Coverage of the “Political Correctness” Debate
Violence and Media
Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Mass media (3 works) · Politics (3 works)