A New Variety of Urban Press: Neighborhood Public-Affairs Publications

Ward, Jean; Gaziano, Cecilie

doi:10.1177/107769907605300109

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“…Although the aforementioned reviews suggest that local media tend to highlight harmonious aspects of community life, they do not shy away from reporting conflict, both internally and externally (e.g., Jeffres et al, 1999;Hindman, 1996;Ward & Gaziano, 1976). Although reporting internal conflict may disrupt regular patterns of community operation, it helps identify common problems and mobilize collective action (Coser, 1956;Hindman, 1996).…”

Section: Applying the Social Control Model Of Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 95%

“…This section considers the implications of the present social control model in terms of community-level variations in crime and delinquency. This approach is rooted in the community journalism literature that points to the importance of local media in community organization (e.g., Janowitz, 1952=1967;Jeffres, Cutietta, Lee, & Sekerka, 1999;Ward & Gaziano, 1976). It is also informed by a theory of communicatively integrated community (Friedland, 2001;Friedland & McLeod, 1999) and a communication infrastructure perspective (Ball-Rokeach et al, 2001).…”

Section: Applying the Social Control Model Of Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Its indicators may include penetration rates derived from the media economics literature (Lacy, Coulson, & Martin, 2004) and aggregate measures of individual local media use (Paek, Yoon, & Shah, 2005). The use of these measures is based on the empirical evidence that local mass media support social structural and cultural dimensions of the community (e.g., Edelstein & Larsen, 1960;Janowitz, 1952=1967;Jeffres et al, 1999;Ward & Gaziano, 1976). The prevalence of local media information could be more precisely measured by assessing the interplay of local media messages and interpersonal discussion about a community (Chaffee, 1972).…”

Section: Applying the Social Control Model Of Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mass Media as a Macrolevel Source of Social Control: A New Direction in the Community Structure Model

Yamamoto

2011

Mass Communication and Society

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A community structure model is grounded in the structural model of mass media originally formulated by the Minnesota team of Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien. Although recent theoretical and empirical work has led to major refinements of the community structure research, there remain substantive and promising issues that deserve to be examined by mass communication scholars. This article recasts the original structural model by integrating a community-oriented approach to social control and formulates a set of hypotheses with regard to the role of local mass media in community social control.A community structure approach to the study of mass media is rooted in the structural model of mass media originally formulated by the Minnesota team of Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien . To understand the role of mass media in society, this approach examines social mechanisms that influence the distribution of information and its social control implications, particularly regarding the stability of a social system that revolves around the

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Section: Applying the Social Control Model Of Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Applying the Social Control Model Of Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Applying the Social Control Model Of Mass Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mass Media as a Macrolevel Source of Social Control: A New Direction in the Community Structure Model

Yamamoto

2011

Mass Communication and Society

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“…Agenda setting may be a contingent condition for knowledge gaps to occur (McCombs, 1976;Gaziano, 1976). Some researchers (e.g., Benton and Frazier, 1976) have studied agenda setting in the context of depth knowledge.…”

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“…The study described is on the neighborhood level, and it assumes that neighborhood newspapers and neighborhood leaders are among the most impor-tant influences on neighborhood residents' issue agendas and definitions of issues. Neighborhood newspapers give neighborhood issues much more attention and consistent coverage than other media do (Ward andGaziano, 1976, 1978;Gaziano and Ward, 1978). The study also examines neighborhood newspapers' and leaders' influences on potential divisions of the neighborhood along socioeconomic lines.…”

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Neighborhood Newspapers and Neighborhood Leaders

Gaziano

1985

Communication Research

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Assuming that neighborhood newspapers and neighborhood leaders are among the most important influences on neighborhood residents' issue agendas and definitions of issues, a study examined some of these influences by interviewing a random sample of 239 residents of a low income, urban neighborhood in Minneapolis. In addition, a purposive sample of 52 leaders of raighborhood organizations who had an interest in one or more of four issues was interviewed. Residents and leaders were asked to identify the neighborhood's most important problems or issues. Among the issues of greatest concern were crime, housing, physical appearance of the neighborhood, economic development, and chemical dependency of many residents. The order of emphasis by neighborhood residents varied, however, by education. The agenda of the leaders as a group correlated most highly with the agenda of the most educated. When definitions of the issues were examined in detail, the relative emphases by the neighborhood press bore comparatively much less relationship to the emphases by neighborhood residents. It was concluded that organization leaders were more influential in defining issues than the neighborhood press, and that leaders exerted the most influence when public attention to issues and knowledge about them were low. References and data tables are appended. (HOD)

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Communication channels within ethnic groups

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Hur

1981

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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A New Variety of Urban Press: Neighborhood Public-Affairs Publications

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Mass Media as a Macrolevel Source of Social Control: A New Direction in the Community Structure Model

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