A survey found the public does not strongly endorse traditional journalism norms of watchdog and rapid reporting. Furthermore, when opinions of survey respondents and journalists were compared, survey respondents were significantly more likely to say providing a community forum, a public journalism principle, was extremely important. African Americans, Hispanics, women, and adults with less education and income strongly endorsed the public journalism principle of offering solutions to problems. A factor analysis of thirteen public and traditional journalism roles and characteristics revealed four dimensions of journalism as perceived by the public: good neighbor, watchdog, unbiased and accurate, and fast.

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New communication technologies in general and the Internet in particular have led some scholars to speculate that we are ushering in a new era of pluralistic and democratic communication. This article takes a critical look at this optimistic view. Using textual analysis and a feminist theoretical framework, the authors examine pornography sites on the World Wide Web to illustrate how the Internet seems to be reifying existing power structures (i.e., male dominance and the exploitation of women). The authors determined that these sites reinforce traditional constructions of men's power over women, and this may cause us to pause as we consider how new communication technology will be used in the future.