Afsheen Nomai
Biographic Data
| ID | 4911769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Afsheen Nomai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Afsheen |
| FAMILY NAME | Nomai |
| SIGNATURE | NOMAI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Newspapers and the Internet: A uses and gratifications perspective
Applying a uses and gratifications perspective, this study examines interaction, surveillance, and diversion as uses associated with the Internet and newspapers. Different uses and gratifications were hypothesized for the two media. Students (N = 128) at a West Coast university were studied. Consistent with the hypotheses, there is a statistically significant preference for newspapers for surveillance and the Internet for diversion. As hypothesiz…
Framing the Cubas narrative: The American dream and the capitalist reality
This paper analyzes news coverage of Major League Baseball agent Joe Cubas and his clients, defecting Cuban ballplayers. Based on the political, economic and social orientation of the media, we argue that the stories about Cubas are framed in a way which reifies the dominant ideology of the materialist mythos of the American Dream. This analysis of more than 30 news stories suggests that the “Cubas Narrative”; presents anecdotal evidence justifyi…
An experimental investigation of news credibility: Newspapers & the Internet
This study used an experiment to examine differences in credibility assigned to news read in paper form and the same news read on a web site. Subsequent to exposure to six identical news stories, randomly assigned newspaper treatment and Internet treatment groups rated the credibility of the stories they read, using standard credibility measures. Generally, news stories appearing on a web site were evaluated as less credible than their identical …
Framing the Cubas narrative: The American dream and the capitalist reality
This paper analyzes news coverage of Major League Baseball agent Joe Cubas and his clients, defecting Cuban ballplayers. Based on the political, economic and social orientation of the media, we argue that the stories about Cubas are framed in a way which reifies the dominant ideology of the materialist mythos of the American Dream. This analysis of more than 30 news stories suggests that the “Cubas Narrative”; presents anecdotal evidence justifyi…
An experimental investigation of news credibility: Newspapers & the Internet
This study used an experiment to examine differences in credibility assigned to news read in paper form and the same news read on a web site. Subsequent to exposure to six identical news stories, randomly assigned newspaper treatment and Internet treatment groups rated the credibility of the stories they read, using standard credibility measures. Generally, news stories appearing on a web site were evaluated as less credible than their identical …
Framing the Cubas narrative: The American dream and the capitalist reality
This paper analyzes news coverage of Major League Baseball agent Joe Cubas and his clients, defecting Cuban ballplayers. Based on the political, economic and social orientation of the media, we argue that the stories about Cubas are framed in a way which reifies the dominant ideology of the materialist mythos of the American Dream. This analysis of more than 30 news stories suggests that the “Cubas Narrative”; presents anecdotal evidence justifyi…
Newspapers and the Internet: A uses and gratifications perspective
Applying a uses and gratifications perspective, this study examines interaction, surveillance, and diversion as uses associated with the Internet and newspapers. Different uses and gratifications were hypothesized for the two media. Students (N = 128) at a West Coast university were studied. Consistent with the hypotheses, there is a statistically significant preference for newspapers for surveillance and the Internet for diversion. As hypothesiz…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Newspaper (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)