Kentucky
Journal
of Communication
VOLUME 23
Fall 2004
Number 2
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Kentucky Journal of Communication
VOLUME 23 FALL 2004 NUMBER 2
ARTICLES
News Perceptions of Sensationalism and Medium in the Entertainment Age
Jennifer M. Proffitt and Hyeseung Yang
This study explores how receivers perceive sensational and non-sensational news stories and how medium, specifically print and online newspapers, affects these perceptions. Participants (N=83) in a 2 (story-type) X 2 (media-type) between-participants factorial experiement were exposed to either sensational or non-sensational news stories in either the print or online medium. Findings suggest that senstaional news stories, although perceived as significantly more salient than non-sensational stories, are perceived as significantly less credible and objective. No significant differences between media-type or the rleationship between story-type and media-type were found.
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Connecting the Dots: Implicit Commonalities Among Cultural Morphogenesis, Structuration, and Market Economics
Stephen D. Cooper
Perhaps the central foundational issue of our time is the relationship of human agency and social structure. If human actors are constrained by the rules and rhetoric of the social system, how is it that those actors can yet bring about radical change in that social system? A similar puzzle exists in economics: how is it that individual transactions both maintain and transform the marketplace? This paper begins to identify common ground implicit in the work of Margaret Archer, Anthony Giddens, and Friedrich Hayek. Emergence, change, reproduction, time, agency, power, and knowledge are themes which can be read in these scholars' theories of cultural morphogenesis, structuration, and market economics.
Japanese Media and Politics in Social Construction of the Pacific War
Koji Fuse
This paper explores Japanese media's newsgathering routines in light of how and why traditional conservative interpretations of the Pacific War have long remained as the accepted public discourse on the issue. Japanese media share with most democratic societies various common newsgathering tactics, but there are some uniquely Japanese media routines that inevitably work to the advantage of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and government officials. The research dissects three Japanese media routines--the kisha kurabu (press club) system, intimate reporter-politician relations, and the Japanese objectivity norm--that have structurally functioned to uphold the LDP conservatism and forcibly exclude certain oppostional views on the Pacific War from the domain of public discourse. Furuther, it suggests that these routines inevitably require outside pressure to change the status quo of the Japanese body politic.
BOOK REVIEW
Fierce Converstations: Achieving Success at Work & Life, One Conversation at at Time by Susan Scott
Paul Pittman
Pittman reports that "this is an excellent book that both communication professionals and the average reader would enjoy. Scott is successful at convincing her readers that by improving the quality of each and every conversation, we are, in fact, improving the quality of our lives.
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