John Dimmick
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Dimmick |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimmick |
| SIGNATURE | DIMMICK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Diversity and Diversification: A Special Issue of the journal of Media Economics
Capturing mobility: The time–space diary as a method for assessing media use niches
As mobile media have grown more advanced, and mobile Internet access has increased to a near-ubiquitous state, media use is often described as occurring “anytime, anywhere.” Consequently, measuring media use and understanding competition and coexistence within such an environment is a constant challenge for researchers. To help address this issue the present study explicates a method for measuring media use and competition, the time–space diary, …
The niches of interpersonal media: Relationships in time and space
According to the theory of the niche, media must differentiate themselves along resource dimensions that allow for their survival to compete and coexist within a resource space. Within this study, contacts with personal relationships are framed as a key resource domain over which channels of interpersonal communication (interpersonal media) compete to occupy niches within the resource spaces of social networks. One hundred and forty-two college u…
News in the interstices: The niches of mobile media in space and time
The recent growth of mobile channels has provided steadily increasing opportunities for individuals to access news and other mass-mediated content. Media ecological perspectives argue that the introduction of such new technologies can shift the existing biases in prevailing social systems. According to one ecological perspective, the theory of the niche, when new media technologies are successfully introduced into a domain, displacement may occur…
Extending Society: The role of personal networks and gratification-utilities in the use of interactive communication media
This study examined the relationship among personal network characteristics, gratification-utilities and the frequency of use of three interactive communication technologies (landline telephone, email and instant messaging). A conceptual framework is presented, providing a rationale for three hypotheses predicting positive relationships between personal network characteristics (size, intimacy and physical proximity), gratification-utilities and f…
Competition Between the Internet and Traditional News Media: The Gratification-Opportunities Niche Dimension
Over the last decade, the Internet has become one of the most popular vehicles facilitating a variety of communication and information-sharing tasks worldwide. Its growing popularity as a new medium of communication has resulted in changes in use of traditional media. The purpose of this study was to better understand the uses of online news compared with news use via traditional media. In light of the niche theory and the theory of uses and grat…
The Conceptualization and Measurement of Diversity
This article defines dual-concept diversity as a two-dimensional construct that holds a central place of study in many fields, including communication. The authors present 12 measures of dual-concept diversity appearing in the literature and assess the differential sensitivity of these measures in capturing the two dimensions. After assessing each measure and eliminating measures that are redundant or computationally intractable, the article comp…
The Gratification Niches of Personal E-mail and the Telephone: Competition, Displacement, and Complementarity
The theory of the niche predicts that a new medium will compete with established media for consumer satisfaction, consumer time, and / or consumer advertising dollars. Competition between e-mail and telephone use was measured in this study at the level of gratifications derived by consumers. Gratifications and gratification opportunities (consumers' beliefs that a medium allows them to obtain greater opportunities for satisfaction) were derived f…
Making Local News: A Holistic Analysis of Sources, Selection Criteria, and Topics
TV news has great potential to influence our day-to-day decisions and to cultivate our perceptions of what issues and events are important in society. Consequently, this holistic field study analyzes the sources, topics, and selection criteria that frame the perceptions viewers glean from one local station. Traditional news selection criteria were good predictors of which news story ideas would make it to the small screen, and a new criterion (af…
Critical response and reply: Comments on Kaul and McKerns' “Dialectic ecology”
(1986). Critical response and reply. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 380-383
The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries
Journal Article The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries Get access John Dimmick, John Dimmick 1John Dimmick is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and School of Journalism, Ohio State University, Eric Rothenbuhler is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Rothenbu…
Popular Music: Concentration and Diversity in the Industry, 1974–1980
Eric W. Rothenbuhler, John W. Dimmick; Popular Music: Concentration and Diversity in the Industry, 1974–1980, Journal of Communication, Volume 32, Issue 1
Crime News Reporting in a Black Weekly
The Late Night Radio Talk Show as Interpersonal Communication
Media Use and the Life Span: Notes on Theory and Method
Canons and Codes as Occupational Ideologies
News in the interstices: The niches of mobile media in space and time
The recent growth of mobile channels has provided steadily increasing opportunities for individuals to access news and other mass-mediated content. Media ecological perspectives argue that the introduction of such new technologies can shift the existing biases in prevailing social systems. According to one ecological perspective, the theory of the niche, when new media technologies are successfully introduced into a domain, displacement may occur…
The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries
Journal Article The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries Get access John Dimmick, John Dimmick 1John Dimmick is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and School of Journalism, Ohio State University, Eric Rothenbuhler is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Rothenbu…
The Late Night Radio Talk Show as Interpersonal Communication
Making Local News: A Holistic Analysis of Sources, Selection Criteria, and Topics
TV news has great potential to influence our day-to-day decisions and to cultivate our perceptions of what issues and events are important in society. Consequently, this holistic field study analyzes the sources, topics, and selection criteria that frame the perceptions viewers glean from one local station. Traditional news selection criteria were good predictors of which news story ideas would make it to the small screen, and a new criterion (af…
Media Use and the Life Span: Notes on Theory and Method
The niches of interpersonal media: Relationships in time and space
According to the theory of the niche, media must differentiate themselves along resource dimensions that allow for their survival to compete and coexist within a resource space. Within this study, contacts with personal relationships are framed as a key resource domain over which channels of interpersonal communication (interpersonal media) compete to occupy niches within the resource spaces of social networks. One hundred and forty-two college u…
Extending Society: The role of personal networks and gratification-utilities in the use of interactive communication media
This study examined the relationship among personal network characteristics, gratification-utilities and the frequency of use of three interactive communication technologies (landline telephone, email and instant messaging). A conceptual framework is presented, providing a rationale for three hypotheses predicting positive relationships between personal network characteristics (size, intimacy and physical proximity), gratification-utilities and f…
Crime News Reporting in a Black Weekly
Capturing mobility: The time–space diary as a method for assessing media use niches
As mobile media have grown more advanced, and mobile Internet access has increased to a near-ubiquitous state, media use is often described as occurring “anytime, anywhere.” Consequently, measuring media use and understanding competition and coexistence within such an environment is a constant challenge for researchers. To help address this issue the present study explicates a method for measuring media use and competition, the time–space diary, …
Canons and Codes as Occupational Ideologies
The Late Night Radio Talk Show as Interpersonal Communication
Media Use and the Life Span: Notes on Theory and Method
Popular Music: Concentration and Diversity in the Industry, 1974–1980
Eric W. Rothenbuhler, John W. Dimmick; Popular Music: Concentration and Diversity in the Industry, 1974–1980, Journal of Communication, Volume 32, Issue 1
Crime News Reporting in a Black Weekly
The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries
Journal Article The Theory of the Niche: Quantifying Competition Among Media Industries Get access John Dimmick, John Dimmick 1John Dimmick is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and School of Journalism, Ohio State University, Eric Rothenbuhler is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Rothenbu…
Critical response and reply: Comments on Kaul and McKerns' “Dialectic ecology”
(1986). Critical response and reply. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 380-383
The Gratification Niches of Personal E-mail and the Telephone: Competition, Displacement, and Complementarity
The theory of the niche predicts that a new medium will compete with established media for consumer satisfaction, consumer time, and / or consumer advertising dollars. Competition between e-mail and telephone use was measured in this study at the level of gratifications derived by consumers. Gratifications and gratification opportunities (consumers' beliefs that a medium allows them to obtain greater opportunities for satisfaction) were derived f…
Making Local News: A Holistic Analysis of Sources, Selection Criteria, and Topics
TV news has great potential to influence our day-to-day decisions and to cultivate our perceptions of what issues and events are important in society. Consequently, this holistic field study analyzes the sources, topics, and selection criteria that frame the perceptions viewers glean from one local station. Traditional news selection criteria were good predictors of which news story ideas would make it to the small screen, and a new criterion (af…
The Conceptualization and Measurement of Diversity
This article defines dual-concept diversity as a two-dimensional construct that holds a central place of study in many fields, including communication. The authors present 12 measures of dual-concept diversity appearing in the literature and assess the differential sensitivity of these measures in capturing the two dimensions. After assessing each measure and eliminating measures that are redundant or computationally intractable, the article comp…
Competition Between the Internet and Traditional News Media: The Gratification-Opportunities Niche Dimension
Over the last decade, the Internet has become one of the most popular vehicles facilitating a variety of communication and information-sharing tasks worldwide. Its growing popularity as a new medium of communication has resulted in changes in use of traditional media. The purpose of this study was to better understand the uses of online news compared with news use via traditional media. In light of the niche theory and the theory of uses and grat…
Extending Society: The role of personal networks and gratification-utilities in the use of interactive communication media
This study examined the relationship among personal network characteristics, gratification-utilities and the frequency of use of three interactive communication technologies (landline telephone, email and instant messaging). A conceptual framework is presented, providing a rationale for three hypotheses predicting positive relationships between personal network characteristics (size, intimacy and physical proximity), gratification-utilities and f…
News in the interstices: The niches of mobile media in space and time
The recent growth of mobile channels has provided steadily increasing opportunities for individuals to access news and other mass-mediated content. Media ecological perspectives argue that the introduction of such new technologies can shift the existing biases in prevailing social systems. According to one ecological perspective, the theory of the niche, when new media technologies are successfully introduced into a domain, displacement may occur…
The niches of interpersonal media: Relationships in time and space
According to the theory of the niche, media must differentiate themselves along resource dimensions that allow for their survival to compete and coexist within a resource space. Within this study, contacts with personal relationships are framed as a key resource domain over which channels of interpersonal communication (interpersonal media) compete to occupy niches within the resource spaces of social networks. One hundred and forty-two college u…
Capturing mobility: The time–space diary as a method for assessing media use niches
As mobile media have grown more advanced, and mobile Internet access has increased to a near-ubiquitous state, media use is often described as occurring “anytime, anywhere.” Consequently, measuring media use and understanding competition and coexistence within such an environment is a constant challenge for researchers. To help address this issue the present study explicates a method for measuring media use and competition, the time–space diary, …
Diversity and Diversification: A Special Issue of the journal of Media Economics
Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (4 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (4 works)