James W Chesebro
Biographic Data
| ID | 4910123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James W Chesebro |
| GIVEN NAMES | James W |
| FAMILY NAME | Chesebro |
| SIGNATURE | CHESEBRO J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Communication, values, and popular television series—A twenty‐five year assessment and final conclusions
Employing a dramatistic system based upon the critical frameworks of Kenneth Burke and Northrop Frye, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of primetime network television series from the 1974–1975 season through the 1998–1999 season is presented. A total of 1,365 series are classified as either ironic, mimetic, leader‐centered, romantic, or mythical communication systems, and then examined for their value orientation. It is concluded that duri…
Extending the Burkeian system
Extensions of the Burkeian system
Extensions of the Burkeian System focuses upon the writings of Kenneth Burke, who has been hailed as one of the leading U.S. critics in the second half of the 20th century. Kenneth Burke's writings now span a 70-year period. During this period he has developed a system for understanding and critically responding to human communication systems, from literary and artistic works to historical and cultural eras, to entire sociopolitical and technolog…
Text, narration, and media
Text and performance are viewed, in this essay, as media‐dependent. Noting that the encoding features of a text can function as generative, rather than derived, social acts, a media perspective is outlined and employed to distinguish oral, literate, and electronic modes of communication. Narration is employed as the extended example to illustrate the ways in which the nature of a medium governs experiences with and understandings of communicative…
Diversity as Scholarly Enrichment in SCA's Publication Program
(1989). Diversity as Scholarly Enrichment in SCA's Publication Program. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 11-19
Critical response and reply
Popular music as a mode of communication, 1955–1982
Employing a dramatistic system based upon the critical frameworks of Kenneth Burke and Northrop Frye, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the fifteen most popular recorded single records each year between 1955 and 1982 is presented. Popular music is conceptually defined as a nondiscursive epideictic mode of communication and operationally defined as Billboard's top fifteen “hit” single records each year between 1955 and 1982. A total of 39…
The media reality
This essay focuses upon cognitive and cultural relationships now associated with the electronic “media explosion.” Neurophysiological research is surveyed and assessed for its potential power as a means for viewing the electronic media as a social reality equal in power to the kind of understandings produced by science and everyday experiences. Particularly, the existing literature is examined for the credibility it lends to the notion that media…
Paradoxical views of “homosexuality” in the rhetoric of social scientists
Social scientists’ descriptions of same‐sex relationships are examined as persuasive messages. Two major recurring, but paradoxical, fantasies permeate the rhetoric of social scientists: (1) the “ ‘homosexual’ as degenerate,” and (2) “mainstrearning the ‘homosexual.’” The word gay and its referents are proposed as a substitute research base
Political communication
Communication, Values, and Popular Television Series
A movement perspective on the 1972 presidential election
Employing the 1972 presidential campaign and “The Movement” as extended examples, tentative hypotheses are offered identifying the relationships between campaigns and movements. Since McGovern's lopsided defeat also constituted arepudiation by the electorate of “The Movement” on which his candidacy was built, this analysis examines, retrospectively, the options which were open to “The Movement” and offers hypotheses about relationships between pr…
Communication, values, and popular television series—A twenty‐five year assessment and final conclusions
Employing a dramatistic system based upon the critical frameworks of Kenneth Burke and Northrop Frye, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of primetime network television series from the 1974–1975 season through the 1998–1999 season is presented. A total of 1,365 series are classified as either ironic, mimetic, leader‐centered, romantic, or mythical communication systems, and then examined for their value orientation. It is concluded that duri…
Extensions of the Burkeian system
Extensions of the Burkeian System focuses upon the writings of Kenneth Burke, who has been hailed as one of the leading U.S. critics in the second half of the 20th century. Kenneth Burke's writings now span a 70-year period. During this period he has developed a system for understanding and critically responding to human communication systems, from literary and artistic works to historical and cultural eras, to entire sociopolitical and technolog…
Communication, Values, and Popular Television Series
Paradoxical views of “homosexuality” in the rhetoric of social scientists
Social scientists’ descriptions of same‐sex relationships are examined as persuasive messages. Two major recurring, but paradoxical, fantasies permeate the rhetoric of social scientists: (1) the “ ‘homosexual’ as degenerate,” and (2) “mainstrearning the ‘homosexual.’” The word gay and its referents are proposed as a substitute research base
Political communication
A movement perspective on the 1972 presidential election
Employing the 1972 presidential campaign and “The Movement” as extended examples, tentative hypotheses are offered identifying the relationships between campaigns and movements. Since McGovern's lopsided defeat also constituted arepudiation by the electorate of “The Movement” on which his candidacy was built, this analysis examines, retrospectively, the options which were open to “The Movement” and offers hypotheses about relationships between pr…
A movement perspective on the 1972 presidential election
Employing the 1972 presidential campaign and “The Movement” as extended examples, tentative hypotheses are offered identifying the relationships between campaigns and movements. Since McGovern's lopsided defeat also constituted arepudiation by the electorate of “The Movement” on which his candidacy was built, this analysis examines, retrospectively, the options which were open to “The Movement” and offers hypotheses about relationships between pr…
Communication, Values, and Popular Television Series
Political communication
Paradoxical views of “homosexuality” in the rhetoric of social scientists
Social scientists’ descriptions of same‐sex relationships are examined as persuasive messages. Two major recurring, but paradoxical, fantasies permeate the rhetoric of social scientists: (1) the “ ‘homosexual’ as degenerate,” and (2) “mainstrearning the ‘homosexual.’” The word gay and its referents are proposed as a substitute research base
The media reality
This essay focuses upon cognitive and cultural relationships now associated with the electronic “media explosion.” Neurophysiological research is surveyed and assessed for its potential power as a means for viewing the electronic media as a social reality equal in power to the kind of understandings produced by science and everyday experiences. Particularly, the existing literature is examined for the credibility it lends to the notion that media…
Popular music as a mode of communication, 1955–1982
Employing a dramatistic system based upon the critical frameworks of Kenneth Burke and Northrop Frye, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the fifteen most popular recorded single records each year between 1955 and 1982 is presented. Popular music is conceptually defined as a nondiscursive epideictic mode of communication and operationally defined as Billboard's top fifteen “hit” single records each year between 1955 and 1982. A total of 39…
Critical response and reply
Text, narration, and media
Text and performance are viewed, in this essay, as media‐dependent. Noting that the encoding features of a text can function as generative, rather than derived, social acts, a media perspective is outlined and employed to distinguish oral, literate, and electronic modes of communication. Narration is employed as the extended example to illustrate the ways in which the nature of a medium governs experiences with and understandings of communicative…
Diversity as Scholarly Enrichment in SCA's Publication Program
(1989). Diversity as Scholarly Enrichment in SCA's Publication Program. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 11-19
Extensions of the Burkeian system
Extensions of the Burkeian System focuses upon the writings of Kenneth Burke, who has been hailed as one of the leading U.S. critics in the second half of the 20th century. Kenneth Burke's writings now span a 70-year period. During this period he has developed a system for understanding and critically responding to human communication systems, from literary and artistic works to historical and cultural eras, to entire sociopolitical and technolog…
Extending the Burkeian system
Communication, values, and popular television series—A twenty‐five year assessment and final conclusions
Employing a dramatistic system based upon the critical frameworks of Kenneth Burke and Northrop Frye, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of primetime network television series from the 1974–1975 season through the 1998–1999 season is presented. A total of 1,365 series are classified as either ironic, mimetic, leader‐centered, romantic, or mythical communication systems, and then examined for their value orientation. It is concluded that duri…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · History (3 works)