Robert H Wicks
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1320745 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert H Wicks |
| PRENOMES | Robert H |
| SOBRENOME | Wicks |
| ASSINATURA | WICKS R H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-9305-1650 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Wagner in Context
Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first collection to examine directly the rich array of intellectual, social and cultural contexts within which Wagner worked. Alongside fresh accounts of historical topics, from spa culture to racial theory, sentient bodies to stage technology, America to Spain, it casts an eye forward to contexts of Wagner's ongoing reception, from video…
Closing the Knowledge Gap
One mechanism by which citizens learn about candidates and issues is through watching presidential debates. Some scholars have raised concerns that these events, however, disproportionately benefit those already high in political knowledge more so than others with lesser knowledge levels. We hypothesize that knowledge begets knowledge because it prompts a constructive cognitive process that results from elaboration and reflection. We test this hy…
Outcome-based dissonance and Morton's Fork
The present research investigates outcome-based dissonance in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a context where a significant number of citizens had unfavorable opinions of both candidates. When one is faced with a choice between two unfavorable alternatives, the outcome will be the same (i.e., unfavorable) regardless of the choice. This dilemma of having multiple alternatives leading to the same unfavorable outcome is known as Morton's Fork. …
Visual Presentation Style 1
This study explores whether visual presentation style (i.e., camera shot variation) may influence perceptions of Presidential candidates during televised debates. In a field experiment, 341 randomly assigned college students viewed or listened to one of seven broadcast network or cable/satellite channel conditions during the first televised Presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. A feeli…
Visual Presentation Style 2
A field experiment was conducted to analyze the third and final 2016 presidential debate. Randomly assigned participants watched the debate in the format of mainly solo camera shots that alternate between the candidates (i.e., switched feed), or with both candidates framed side-by-side on screen (i.e., split screen feed). Though viewer feelings of positivity toward the candidates did not differ, visual presentation style had a significant effect …
Partisan Media Selective Exposure During the 2012 Presidential Election
This report explores the variables related to partisan selective media exposure, a process by which people select media outlets and content consistent with their political predispositions. This study employs national survey data ( N = 876) during the month of October 2012 immediately prior to the U.S. presidential election. Political orientation (i.e., liberal, moderate, or conservative) served as the dependent variable. The analysis revealed tha…
Youth Political Consumerism and the 2012 Presidential Election
The authors examine whether predictors of adult political consumerism (i.e., boycotting and buycotting) and factors associated with youth civic and political participation also predict youth political consumerism. Data from a national mail survey of adolescents ages 12 to 17 years and their parents ( n = 876) conducted in October 2012 are used to examine predictors of youth political consumerism. Factors analyzed include youth political and civic…
Correlates of Political and Civic Engagement Among Youth During the 2012 Presidential Campaign
A national mail survey of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 ( n = 876) was conducted immediately before the U.S. presidential election (October 2012) to investigate socialization agents that may correlate with political and civic engagement. The relative importance of potential correlates of engagement including demographics, parents, peers, schools, religion, traditional media, social networks, and digital communication were evaluated. R…
Young Citizens, Media, and Political Participation Revisited, Part 2
Young Citizens, Media, and Political Participation Revisited, Part 1
Modeling Political Consumerism Among Young Consumers
Studies of political consumerism among young citizens are a relatively recent development. In this study, the authors use Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of child development as a first attempt to build an explanatory model of teens' socialization into political consumption behaviors. Structural equation modeling indicates that certain cultural factors (e.g., church attendance, parent education) influence micro-level systems within which child…
What's on the menu? Disclaimers, emotional appeals and production techniques in food advertising on child-rated programs in the united states
(2013). What's on the menu? Disclaimers, emotional appeals and production techniques in food advertising on child-rated programs in the united states. Journal of Children and Media: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 334-348
Online Environmental Engagement Among Youth
Although young citizens may not always politically engage in the same fashion as their elders, research suggests they are using Facebook, Twitter, and other newer communication systems to mobilize politically both generally and around environmental issues. Given the declining environmental conditions facing young citizens, a national stratified quota sample of 1,096 U.S. parents and their children between the ages of 12 and 17 was conducted to in…
Tracking the Blogs
This study employed Benoit's functional theory of presidential discourse to examine the incidence of attacks, acclaims, and rebuttals on four politically aligned blogs and six politically nonaligned blogs. Results suggest that candidates use their own blogs for acclaims, political parties use their blogs to level attacks against opponents, and rebuttals on blogs are rare. These findings are contrasted with the entries on six politically nonaligne…
Does Presentation Style of Presidential Debates Influence Young Voters' Perceptions of Candidates
In this study, college students were exposed to the final 2004 Bush-Kerry televised presidential debate. Participants were randomly assigned to one of five presentation conditions (i.e., ABC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, and PBS). Using a pretest-posttest experimental design, participants rated the candidates on 12 personal and professional attributes. A feeling thermometer also assessed whether the participants' feelings toward the candidates changed …
Managing Voter Impressions
Presidents Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton mastered of art of using television to manage impressions in the television age. With the advent of the Internet, recent presidential campaigns have begun to recognize the potential of this medium in shaping images and managing impressions among voters. This study focuses on the 2000 presidential election and the images of the presidential candidates appearing on their official campaign Web sites. It also e…
Message Framing and Constructing Meaning
This chapter analyzes the influence of framing research on the advancement of a meanings paradigm also known as constructionism. Framing models have been useful during the past 2 decades to help explain how people construct meaning by drawing upon stored knowledge or schemas to interpret news and information. Media or message framing refers both to the process of selecting and the manner in which information is presented. News messages may be fra…
Tracking the 2004 Presidential Campaign Web Sites
This study analyzed the content of news releases posted on the presidential candidate Web sites of George W. Bush and John Kerry during the 2004 election campaign. Findings suggest topics like terrorism and the war in Iraq received significant attention in the news releases, supplanting traditional campaign policy issues such as education, social security, and Medicare. The 2004 online campaign news releases also confirmed the prominence of attac…
Understanding Audiences
Understanding Audiences helps readers to recognize the important role that media plays in their lives and suggests ways in which they may use media constructively. Author Robert H. Wicks considers the relationship between the producers and the receivers of media information, focusing on how messages shape perceptions of social reality. He analyzes how contemporary media--including newspapers, film, television, and the Internet--vie for the attent…
Standpoint
1996). Standpoint: Joseph Klapper and the effects of mass communication: A retrospective. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 563-569
Cautious Optimism
A population study of television news directors was conducted in spring 1992 to assess their plans for coverage of the 1992 election. The findings revealed an interest in providing greater election analysis, with strong emphasis on the coverage of political advertising. In addition, the news directors reported that they planned to use the new satellite-based technologies to enhance their coverage efforts. These changes might signal a significant …
Differences in live coverage between CNN and the Broadcast Networks in the Persian Gulf War
The crisis in the Persian Gulf presented a unique opportunity to assess differences in the coverage of live breaking news between the Cable News Network (CNN) and the broadcast networks. For the first time, CNN and the broadcast networks competed directly for audiences by presenting round the clock coverage of certain events. A content analysis revealed that CNN focused on the presentation of five events while the broadcast networks concentrated …
Schema Theory and Measurement in Mass Communication Research
The schema construct has received considerable attention in the mass communication literature during the last decade because it has helped to explain the cognitive processes associated with information processing. However, the fuzziness of the concept and difficulties associated with schema measurement may have prevented it from blossoming into a more widely used theoretical construct. This chapter endeavors to explicate the schema construct as i…
Understanding Audiences
Understanding Audiences helps readers to recognize the important role that media plays in their lives and suggests ways in which they may use media constructively. Author Robert H. Wicks considers the relationship between the producers and the receivers of media information, focusing on how messages shape perceptions of social reality. He analyzes how contemporary media--including newspapers, film, television, and the Internet--vie for the attent…
Correlates of Political and Civic Engagement Among Youth During the 2012 Presidential Campaign
A national mail survey of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 ( n = 876) was conducted immediately before the U.S. presidential election (October 2012) to investigate socialization agents that may correlate with political and civic engagement. The relative importance of potential correlates of engagement including demographics, parents, peers, schools, religion, traditional media, social networks, and digital communication were evaluated. R…
Youth Political Consumerism and the 2012 Presidential Election
The authors examine whether predictors of adult political consumerism (i.e., boycotting and buycotting) and factors associated with youth civic and political participation also predict youth political consumerism. Data from a national mail survey of adolescents ages 12 to 17 years and their parents ( n = 876) conducted in October 2012 are used to examine predictors of youth political consumerism. Factors analyzed include youth political and civic…
Online Environmental Engagement Among Youth
Although young citizens may not always politically engage in the same fashion as their elders, research suggests they are using Facebook, Twitter, and other newer communication systems to mobilize politically both generally and around environmental issues. Given the declining environmental conditions facing young citizens, a national stratified quota sample of 1,096 U.S. parents and their children between the ages of 12 and 17 was conducted to in…
Does Presentation Style of Presidential Debates Influence Young Voters' Perceptions of Candidates
In this study, college students were exposed to the final 2004 Bush-Kerry televised presidential debate. Participants were randomly assigned to one of five presentation conditions (i.e., ABC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, and PBS). Using a pretest-posttest experimental design, participants rated the candidates on 12 personal and professional attributes. A feeling thermometer also assessed whether the participants' feelings toward the candidates changed …
Schema Theory and Measurement in Mass Communication Research
The schema construct has received considerable attention in the mass communication literature during the last decade because it has helped to explain the cognitive processes associated with information processing. However, the fuzziness of the concept and difficulties associated with schema measurement may have prevented it from blossoming into a more widely used theoretical construct. This chapter endeavors to explicate the schema construct as i…
Visual Presentation Style 1
This study explores whether visual presentation style (i.e., camera shot variation) may influence perceptions of Presidential candidates during televised debates. In a field experiment, 341 randomly assigned college students viewed or listened to one of seven broadcast network or cable/satellite channel conditions during the first televised Presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. A feeli…
Partisan Media Selective Exposure During the 2012 Presidential Election
This report explores the variables related to partisan selective media exposure, a process by which people select media outlets and content consistent with their political predispositions. This study employs national survey data ( N = 876) during the month of October 2012 immediately prior to the U.S. presidential election. Political orientation (i.e., liberal, moderate, or conservative) served as the dependent variable. The analysis revealed tha…
Message Framing and Constructing Meaning
This chapter analyzes the influence of framing research on the advancement of a meanings paradigm also known as constructionism. Framing models have been useful during the past 2 decades to help explain how people construct meaning by drawing upon stored knowledge or schemas to interpret news and information. Media or message framing refers both to the process of selecting and the manner in which information is presented. News messages may be fra…
Tracking the 2004 Presidential Campaign Web Sites
This study analyzed the content of news releases posted on the presidential candidate Web sites of George W. Bush and John Kerry during the 2004 election campaign. Findings suggest topics like terrorism and the war in Iraq received significant attention in the news releases, supplanting traditional campaign policy issues such as education, social security, and Medicare. The 2004 online campaign news releases also confirmed the prominence of attac…
Visual Presentation Style 2
A field experiment was conducted to analyze the third and final 2016 presidential debate. Randomly assigned participants watched the debate in the format of mainly solo camera shots that alternate between the candidates (i.e., switched feed), or with both candidates framed side-by-side on screen (i.e., split screen feed). Though viewer feelings of positivity toward the candidates did not differ, visual presentation style had a significant effect …
Standpoint
1996). Standpoint: Joseph Klapper and the effects of mass communication: A retrospective. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 563-569
Differences in live coverage between CNN and the Broadcast Networks in the Persian Gulf War
The crisis in the Persian Gulf presented a unique opportunity to assess differences in the coverage of live breaking news between the Cable News Network (CNN) and the broadcast networks. For the first time, CNN and the broadcast networks competed directly for audiences by presenting round the clock coverage of certain events. A content analysis revealed that CNN focused on the presentation of five events while the broadcast networks concentrated …
Schema Theory and Measurement in Mass Communication Research
The schema construct has received considerable attention in the mass communication literature during the last decade because it has helped to explain the cognitive processes associated with information processing. However, the fuzziness of the concept and difficulties associated with schema measurement may have prevented it from blossoming into a more widely used theoretical construct. This chapter endeavors to explicate the schema construct as i…
Cautious Optimism
A population study of television news directors was conducted in spring 1992 to assess their plans for coverage of the 1992 election. The findings revealed an interest in providing greater election analysis, with strong emphasis on the coverage of political advertising. In addition, the news directors reported that they planned to use the new satellite-based technologies to enhance their coverage efforts. These changes might signal a significant …
Standpoint
1996). Standpoint: Joseph Klapper and the effects of mass communication: A retrospective. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 563-569
Understanding Audiences
Understanding Audiences helps readers to recognize the important role that media plays in their lives and suggests ways in which they may use media constructively. Author Robert H. Wicks considers the relationship between the producers and the receivers of media information, focusing on how messages shape perceptions of social reality. He analyzes how contemporary media--including newspapers, film, television, and the Internet--vie for the attent…
Message Framing and Constructing Meaning
This chapter analyzes the influence of framing research on the advancement of a meanings paradigm also known as constructionism. Framing models have been useful during the past 2 decades to help explain how people construct meaning by drawing upon stored knowledge or schemas to interpret news and information. Media or message framing refers both to the process of selecting and the manner in which information is presented. News messages may be fra…
Tracking the 2004 Presidential Campaign Web Sites
This study analyzed the content of news releases posted on the presidential candidate Web sites of George W. Bush and John Kerry during the 2004 election campaign. Findings suggest topics like terrorism and the war in Iraq received significant attention in the news releases, supplanting traditional campaign policy issues such as education, social security, and Medicare. The 2004 online campaign news releases also confirmed the prominence of attac…
Managing Voter Impressions
Presidents Kennedy, Reagan, and Clinton mastered of art of using television to manage impressions in the television age. With the advent of the Internet, recent presidential campaigns have begun to recognize the potential of this medium in shaping images and managing impressions among voters. This study focuses on the 2000 presidential election and the images of the presidential candidates appearing on their official campaign Web sites. It also e…
Does Presentation Style of Presidential Debates Influence Young Voters' Perceptions of Candidates
In this study, college students were exposed to the final 2004 Bush-Kerry televised presidential debate. Participants were randomly assigned to one of five presentation conditions (i.e., ABC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, and PBS). Using a pretest-posttest experimental design, participants rated the candidates on 12 personal and professional attributes. A feeling thermometer also assessed whether the participants' feelings toward the candidates changed …
Tracking the Blogs
This study employed Benoit's functional theory of presidential discourse to examine the incidence of attacks, acclaims, and rebuttals on four politically aligned blogs and six politically nonaligned blogs. Results suggest that candidates use their own blogs for acclaims, political parties use their blogs to level attacks against opponents, and rebuttals on blogs are rare. These findings are contrasted with the entries on six politically nonaligne…
What's on the menu? Disclaimers, emotional appeals and production techniques in food advertising on child-rated programs in the united states
(2013). What's on the menu? Disclaimers, emotional appeals and production techniques in food advertising on child-rated programs in the united states. Journal of Children and Media: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 334-348
Online Environmental Engagement Among Youth
Although young citizens may not always politically engage in the same fashion as their elders, research suggests they are using Facebook, Twitter, and other newer communication systems to mobilize politically both generally and around environmental issues. Given the declining environmental conditions facing young citizens, a national stratified quota sample of 1,096 U.S. parents and their children between the ages of 12 and 17 was conducted to in…
Partisan Media Selective Exposure During the 2012 Presidential Election
This report explores the variables related to partisan selective media exposure, a process by which people select media outlets and content consistent with their political predispositions. This study employs national survey data ( N = 876) during the month of October 2012 immediately prior to the U.S. presidential election. Political orientation (i.e., liberal, moderate, or conservative) served as the dependent variable. The analysis revealed tha…
Youth Political Consumerism and the 2012 Presidential Election
The authors examine whether predictors of adult political consumerism (i.e., boycotting and buycotting) and factors associated with youth civic and political participation also predict youth political consumerism. Data from a national mail survey of adolescents ages 12 to 17 years and their parents ( n = 876) conducted in October 2012 are used to examine predictors of youth political consumerism. Factors analyzed include youth political and civic…
Correlates of Political and Civic Engagement Among Youth During the 2012 Presidential Campaign
A national mail survey of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 ( n = 876) was conducted immediately before the U.S. presidential election (October 2012) to investigate socialization agents that may correlate with political and civic engagement. The relative importance of potential correlates of engagement including demographics, parents, peers, schools, religion, traditional media, social networks, and digital communication were evaluated. R…
Young Citizens, Media, and Political Participation Revisited, Part 2
Young Citizens, Media, and Political Participation Revisited, Part 1
Modeling Political Consumerism Among Young Consumers
Studies of political consumerism among young citizens are a relatively recent development. In this study, the authors use Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of child development as a first attempt to build an explanatory model of teens' socialization into political consumption behaviors. Structural equation modeling indicates that certain cultural factors (e.g., church attendance, parent education) influence micro-level systems within which child…
Visual Presentation Style 1
This study explores whether visual presentation style (i.e., camera shot variation) may influence perceptions of Presidential candidates during televised debates. In a field experiment, 341 randomly assigned college students viewed or listened to one of seven broadcast network or cable/satellite channel conditions during the first televised Presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. A feeli…
Visual Presentation Style 2
A field experiment was conducted to analyze the third and final 2016 presidential debate. Randomly assigned participants watched the debate in the format of mainly solo camera shots that alternate between the candidates (i.e., switched feed), or with both candidates framed side-by-side on screen (i.e., split screen feed). Though viewer feelings of positivity toward the candidates did not differ, visual presentation style had a significant effect …
Outcome-based dissonance and Morton's Fork
The present research investigates outcome-based dissonance in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a context where a significant number of citizens had unfavorable opinions of both candidates. When one is faced with a choice between two unfavorable alternatives, the outcome will be the same (i.e., unfavorable) regardless of the choice. This dilemma of having multiple alternatives leading to the same unfavorable outcome is known as Morton's Fork. …
Closing the Knowledge Gap
One mechanism by which citizens learn about candidates and issues is through watching presidential debates. Some scholars have raised concerns that these events, however, disproportionately benefit those already high in political knowledge more so than others with lesser knowledge levels. We hypothesize that knowledge begets knowledge because it prompts a constructive cognitive process that results from elaboration and reflection. We test this hy…
Wagner in Context
Few composers embodied wider cultural interests than Wagner or had greater cultural consequences. This is the first collection to examine directly the rich array of intellectual, social and cultural contexts within which Wagner worked. Alongside fresh accounts of historical topics, from spa culture to racial theory, sentient bodies to stage technology, America to Spain, it casts an eye forward to contexts of Wagner's ongoing reception, from video…
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