Andrew L Mendelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 642667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew L Mendelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendelson |
| SIGNATURE | MENDELSON A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Imagining the Journalist of the Future: Technological Visions of Journalism Education and Newswork
Digitization has resulted in great uncertainty for journalism, leading to disruption of business models, revenue streams, media distinctions, and production practices. This uncertainty has led to many articles, reports, blog posts, and general commentary discussing the future of both journalism and the skills required by journalists to succeed in this environment. This essay analyzes these discourses, focusing specifically on the nature of techno…
A Qualitative Experiment: Research on Mediated Meaning Construction Using a Hybrid Approach
This article presents a hybrid methodological technique that fuses elements of experimental design with qualitative strategies to explore mediated communication. Called the “qualitative experiment,” this strategy uses focus groups and in-depth interviews within randomized stimulus conditions typically associated with experimental research. This mixed methods research draws on the advantages of qualitative inquiry to better understand meaning cons…
X’-ing out enemies: Time magazine, visual discourse, and the war in Iraq
This article examines Time magazine’s visual discourse in its coverage of Iraq War insurgent Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death. Time marked the event by using the same visual trope — a head crossed out by a red ‘X’ — used to mark the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and Adolf Hitler in 1945. The study provides a semiotic analysis of the cover, traces the historic development of the ‘X’, and compares it to rival Newsweek’s coverage. Time’s cover points t…
Photojournalism and today's news: Creating visual reality
Public life and the internet: If you build a better website, will citizens become engaged
This study links uses and gratifications theory to a theory that addresses civic engagement and then applies it to create an electronic public sphere designed to encourage citizens to participate in civic life. An experimental website on the topic of the state budget was created and tested to assure maximum usability by citizens. It found that the site designed to conform to users' wants and needs in content, navigation and appearance did indeed …
Seeing Themselves through the Lens of the Other: An Analysis of the Cross-Cultural Production and Negotiation of National Geographies “The Samurai Way” Story
More than any other publication, National Geographic magazine has taught Americans about the world around them. Recently, the magazine's view of the world has become more complex. Since 1995, the magazine has been producing editions published in languages other than English. This raises questions as to how international audiences negotiate these “glocalized” representations. By investigating how the National Geographic “The Samurai Way” story res…
On the function of the United States paparazzi: Mosquito swarm or watchdogs of celebrity image control and power
One group of media practitioners is consistently viewed more negatively than others – the paparazzi. When the topic of the paparazzi arises, it is usually in reference to their relationship with celebrities and privacy. Rather than examining the celebrity–paparazzi issue through the lens of privacy, the purpose of this article is to reframe the issue by examining it through the lens of self‐presentation theory and image control. This requires thi…
Vision of a New State: Israel as mythologized by Robert Capa1
The establishment of a Jewish homeland is central to many aspects of Judaism, and from any standard of newsworthiness, the events in Palestine in the late 1940s and early 1950s were a major development. Still, journalistic texts are not created in a vacuum. To fully understand the meaning of these texts, the cultural context in which they are created and the viewpoint embodied in the producer's work must be examined. The work of Robert Capa repre…
How Verbalizers and Visualizers Process the Newspaper Environment
This article addresses the question of how people process news photographs and news stories as a function of their scores on 2 scales designed to measure 2 “cognitive styles” called visualizing and verbalizing. Although newspaper practitioners believe news photos enhance the newspaper reading process, research has not demonstrated a clearly positive impact. Education theory about visualizing and verbalizing suggests these 2 individual-specific in…
The impact of role‐congruency and photo presence on the processing of news stories about Hillary Clinton
An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of news photo presence and role‐congruency in news stories of Hillary Clinton on reader interest and memory. In the photos and stories, Clinton was either portrayed as a wife, or as a professional person. Results indicate readers processed the photos at least sufficiently to rate them as fitting with the story or not. Further, this study showed that mere presence of a photo meant the story would …
Imagining the Journalist of the Future: Technological Visions of Journalism Education and Newswork
Digitization has resulted in great uncertainty for journalism, leading to disruption of business models, revenue streams, media distinctions, and production practices. This uncertainty has led to many articles, reports, blog posts, and general commentary discussing the future of both journalism and the skills required by journalists to succeed in this environment. This essay analyzes these discourses, focusing specifically on the nature of techno…
X’-ing out enemies: Time magazine, visual discourse, and the war in Iraq
This article examines Time magazine’s visual discourse in its coverage of Iraq War insurgent Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death. Time marked the event by using the same visual trope — a head crossed out by a red ‘X’ — used to mark the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and Adolf Hitler in 1945. The study provides a semiotic analysis of the cover, traces the historic development of the ‘X’, and compares it to rival Newsweek’s coverage. Time’s cover points t…
Photojournalism and today's news: Creating visual reality
Public life and the internet: If you build a better website, will citizens become engaged
This study links uses and gratifications theory to a theory that addresses civic engagement and then applies it to create an electronic public sphere designed to encourage citizens to participate in civic life. An experimental website on the topic of the state budget was created and tested to assure maximum usability by citizens. It found that the site designed to conform to users' wants and needs in content, navigation and appearance did indeed …
A Qualitative Experiment: Research on Mediated Meaning Construction Using a Hybrid Approach
This article presents a hybrid methodological technique that fuses elements of experimental design with qualitative strategies to explore mediated communication. Called the “qualitative experiment,” this strategy uses focus groups and in-depth interviews within randomized stimulus conditions typically associated with experimental research. This mixed methods research draws on the advantages of qualitative inquiry to better understand meaning cons…
Seeing Themselves through the Lens of the Other: An Analysis of the Cross-Cultural Production and Negotiation of National Geographies “The Samurai Way” Story
More than any other publication, National Geographic magazine has taught Americans about the world around them. Recently, the magazine's view of the world has become more complex. Since 1995, the magazine has been producing editions published in languages other than English. This raises questions as to how international audiences negotiate these “glocalized” representations. By investigating how the National Geographic “The Samurai Way” story res…
Vision of a New State: Israel as mythologized by Robert Capa1
The establishment of a Jewish homeland is central to many aspects of Judaism, and from any standard of newsworthiness, the events in Palestine in the late 1940s and early 1950s were a major development. Still, journalistic texts are not created in a vacuum. To fully understand the meaning of these texts, the cultural context in which they are created and the viewpoint embodied in the producer's work must be examined. The work of Robert Capa repre…
The impact of role‐congruency and photo presence on the processing of news stories about Hillary Clinton
An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of news photo presence and role‐congruency in news stories of Hillary Clinton on reader interest and memory. In the photos and stories, Clinton was either portrayed as a wife, or as a professional person. Results indicate readers processed the photos at least sufficiently to rate them as fitting with the story or not. Further, this study showed that mere presence of a photo meant the story would …
The impact of role‐congruency and photo presence on the processing of news stories about Hillary Clinton
An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of news photo presence and role‐congruency in news stories of Hillary Clinton on reader interest and memory. In the photos and stories, Clinton was either portrayed as a wife, or as a professional person. Results indicate readers processed the photos at least sufficiently to rate them as fitting with the story or not. Further, this study showed that mere presence of a photo meant the story would …
How Verbalizers and Visualizers Process the Newspaper Environment
This article addresses the question of how people process news photographs and news stories as a function of their scores on 2 scales designed to measure 2 “cognitive styles” called visualizing and verbalizing. Although newspaper practitioners believe news photos enhance the newspaper reading process, research has not demonstrated a clearly positive impact. Education theory about visualizing and verbalizing suggests these 2 individual-specific in…
Vision of a New State: Israel as mythologized by Robert Capa1
The establishment of a Jewish homeland is central to many aspects of Judaism, and from any standard of newsworthiness, the events in Palestine in the late 1940s and early 1950s were a major development. Still, journalistic texts are not created in a vacuum. To fully understand the meaning of these texts, the cultural context in which they are created and the viewpoint embodied in the producer's work must be examined. The work of Robert Capa repre…
On the function of the United States paparazzi: Mosquito swarm or watchdogs of celebrity image control and power
One group of media practitioners is consistently viewed more negatively than others – the paparazzi. When the topic of the paparazzi arises, it is usually in reference to their relationship with celebrities and privacy. Rather than examining the celebrity–paparazzi issue through the lens of privacy, the purpose of this article is to reframe the issue by examining it through the lens of self‐presentation theory and image control. This requires thi…
Public life and the internet: If you build a better website, will citizens become engaged
This study links uses and gratifications theory to a theory that addresses civic engagement and then applies it to create an electronic public sphere designed to encourage citizens to participate in civic life. An experimental website on the topic of the state budget was created and tested to assure maximum usability by citizens. It found that the site designed to conform to users' wants and needs in content, navigation and appearance did indeed …
Seeing Themselves through the Lens of the Other: An Analysis of the Cross-Cultural Production and Negotiation of National Geographies “The Samurai Way” Story
More than any other publication, National Geographic magazine has taught Americans about the world around them. Recently, the magazine's view of the world has become more complex. Since 1995, the magazine has been producing editions published in languages other than English. This raises questions as to how international audiences negotiate these “glocalized” representations. By investigating how the National Geographic “The Samurai Way” story res…
Photojournalism and today's news: Creating visual reality
X’-ing out enemies: Time magazine, visual discourse, and the war in Iraq
This article examines Time magazine’s visual discourse in its coverage of Iraq War insurgent Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death. Time marked the event by using the same visual trope — a head crossed out by a red ‘X’ — used to mark the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and Adolf Hitler in 1945. The study provides a semiotic analysis of the cover, traces the historic development of the ‘X’, and compares it to rival Newsweek’s coverage. Time’s cover points t…
A Qualitative Experiment: Research on Mediated Meaning Construction Using a Hybrid Approach
This article presents a hybrid methodological technique that fuses elements of experimental design with qualitative strategies to explore mediated communication. Called the “qualitative experiment,” this strategy uses focus groups and in-depth interviews within randomized stimulus conditions typically associated with experimental research. This mixed methods research draws on the advantages of qualitative inquiry to better understand meaning cons…
Imagining the Journalist of the Future: Technological Visions of Journalism Education and Newswork
Digitization has resulted in great uncertainty for journalism, leading to disruption of business models, revenue streams, media distinctions, and production practices. This uncertainty has led to many articles, reports, blog posts, and general commentary discussing the future of both journalism and the skills required by journalists to succeed in this environment. This essay analyzes these discourses, focusing specifically on the nature of techno…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works)