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Outstanding Research Article Award and Reader Participation in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
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I am pleased to announce the launch of the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) Outstanding Research Article Award of the Year this year for refereed articles published in print in 2016. The annual award is to recognize the author(s) of our journal whose article is deemed most significant in contribution to the theory or methodology to the journalism and mass communication field by our editorial team, review board, and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) members who are our individual print journal subscribers. This award is different from other research awards in that it consists of a twostep process: First, all AEJMC members are invited to nominate the article that they deemed most significant in contribution to the theory or methodology in journalism and mass communication research. Their participation as readers and print issue subscribers is important. We simplified the nomination process with a simple online form. Then the top five articles with the most nominations will be evaluated by the JMCQ editorial board members and the editorial team to cast the final selection vote. The article with the most support from these esteemed scholars will be the final winner. We will open up the five finalist articles for free access to the public for one month. Such massive post-publication “review” process on an annual basis probably is a more powerful and faster way to assess the contribution of an article than simply counting the number of citations of an article. The honor and attention the author(s) of the winning article will receive is well beyond the certificate and the US$1,000 cash award. To move articles faster in print within the page budget, each regular issue of JMCQ will publish about 12 refereed articles, starting in 2017. To make all our accepted works appear as timely as possible, both journal articles and book reviews are already published OnlineFirst. In addition, the newly released book list section compiled by Lisa Romero will only be listed online, but not in print anymore, because timeliness of such information is more important. It will be listed on the home page of our website as soon as it was compiled and attached to the beginning of online issue. So readers are asked to check out our newly configured journal website at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jmq to read the list of the latest books published in our field.
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This spring 2017 issue is another supersized issue because of a different reason from the winter 2016 issue. We have an additional special section of five articles sponsored by the Kettering Foundation as the AEJMC Presidential Paper call on Revitalizing the Bonds of Journalism, Citizenship and Democracy. Please read the special section editorial essay of Jack Rosenberry, the special section editor, on the background of this initiative and introduction of those articles.
Highlights of the Articles This issue is anchored by a Virtual Theme Collection essay written by Peter Neijens on the Virtual Theme Collection on Working on the Fundamentals of Journalism and Mass Communication Research: Advancing Methods in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2007-2016. He selected eight articles published in our journal in the past 10 years to showcase the advancement of research methodology in our field such as methodological issues in content analysis, surveys, focus groups, interviews, and measurement and scale development. The articles selected are mustread references for scholars who intend to use these methods and scales and keep up with the latest advancements and standards in our field. I will also recommend authors who plan to submit manuscripts to us and use these methods should read these articles as handy references for standards and best practices. Subscribers can retrieve these articles online on our journal website. News sharing and commenting increase the impact of digital news through audience participation and wider dissemination. This issue features three articles addressing this topic using different theories and methods. Sung Woo Yoo, Ji Won Kim, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga’s panel data showed that sharing on social media benefits the senders by their elaboration on the information they share with civic motivations. They proposed a theoretical model that implies a virtuous cycle of information flow on the social media sphere. Damian Trilling, Petro Tolochko, and Björn Burscher used a big data analysis approach to examine whether newsworthiness of articles can predict the number of sharing in six major Dutch news sites. They found that traditional criteria of newsworthiness indeed play a role in predicting the number of shares, and that further development of a theory of shareworthiness based on the foundations of newsworthiness can offer fruitful insights in news dissemination processes. Who are more likely to post comments on online news in news sites and social media? Tai-Yee Wu and David Atkin used the Big Five Personality Inventory and motivation theory in a survey of college students to show that those who were more agreeable and narcissistic were more motivated for posting comments on online news. To inform, receive feedback, and exhibit were motivations that predicted the frequency of posting on news comment sections, while social connection was a major predictor of commenting on the news shared in social media. Social media is not just used for news sharing but is also an important public relations tool between organizations and their publics. Linjuan Rita Men and Sidharth
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Muaralidharan’s comparative study of U.S. and Chinese social peer communication on social media about companies found similar use of social media about companies, and that tie strength and public–organization social engagement are positive predictors of amount of peer communication about companies and lead to positive organization– public outcomes. In nonprofit organizations, stewardship, the demonstration of socially responsible management of resources to those who have supported an organization, is a key factor in effective relationship management. Geah Pressgrove refined a scale to measure perceptions of stewardship strategies for nonprofit organizations with 5 R dimensions: Reporting, Regard, Recognition, Responsibility, and Relationship nurturing. Yi-Ru Regina Chen, Chun-Ju Flora Hung-Baesecke, and Jeong-Nam Kim’s study in Taiwan shows the utility of the situational theory of problem solving (STOPS) in segmenting the communication behaviors of publics formed around U.S. beef import, a government policy issue with intensive media coverage (hot-issue publics). Opposing party identity is a better identifier of subgroups of the hot-issue public active in information behaviors than trust of government. Do readers appreciate error correction in online news and the transparency in the process? Michael Karlsson, Christer Clerwall, and Lars Nord’s study of Swedish newspaper readers found that only those who already trust the news media will appreciate the correction. Those who do not trust media will be negative toward the correction. While data journalism is on the rise, what are the ethical issues involved and how do journalists use data? David Craig, Stan Ketterer, and Mohammad Yousuf’s qualitative analysis of three discussion threads in the listserv of the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting on publication of Gun Permit Mapping data found these ethical frames: freedom versus responsibility, consequences, privacy and verification, and alternatives. Regina Marchi studied how low-income Latino immigrant youths in the United States used the Internet for newsgathering. Her in-depth interviews of 30 Latino youths in Boston found these youths translated and explained U.S. news for their immigrant parents with their use of Internet technologies, and gained participatory and deliberative skills useful for civic engagement. Claudia Mellado and Arjen van Dalen’s study of elite and popular Chilean’s newspapers’ responses to audiences led them to refute the journalistic paradigm of audience as consumer or citizen as two poles of one continuum and propose a three-dimensional model: the infotainment, the service, and the civic. Jason Turcotte’s study of how the questions used in presidential primary, general election, and state electoral debates from 1960 to 2012 found journalists’ questions cited political elites far more frequently than members of the public; overall results suggested that the debates are more susceptible to elite frames and are shaped more by elites than the electorate. The last regular issue article in the issue by Anke Wooneberger and Mariana Irazoqui is a method paper that examines TV use survey response errors through individual and contextual factors by comparing a national sample of Dutch consumers’
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self-reported responses with metered responses of the same time period. They discovered that in self-reporting TV use, people tend to overreport the frequency of watching and underreport the viewing duration probably due to the higher cognitive demand of remembering duration.
Reviewer Acknowledgment It is also the time of the year that we acknowledge the 470 ad hoc reviewers who generously gave their time to help us reviewing manuscripts in 2016. This list includes the special issue on “Advances in Global Health Communication” reviewers. The number listed in parentheses next to the reviewer’s name is the number of completed reviews in 2016. Our board members, who committed to review up to 6 times a year, are listed in the masthead on every issue. A big thank you to all of them in maintaining the rigor of our journal. Louisa Ha Editor Professor, Bowling Green State University
Acknowledgment of 2016 Ad Hoc Reviewers. Aayeshah, Wajeehah (1) Abbott, Jennifer (1) Abernathy, Penny (1) Abril, Eulalia (2) Achterman, Margaret (1) Aday, Sean (1) Agunwamba, Amenah (2) Ahern, Lee (1) Al-Azdee, Mohammed (2) Aldoory, Linda (2) Alhabash, Saleem (1) Alkazemi, Mariam (2) Alost, Stan (1) Amazeen, Michelle (2) Antunovic, Dunja (1) Appelman, Alyssa (1) Appiah, Osei (2) Arceneaux, Noah (1) Ardèvol-Abreu, Alberto (1) Arlt, Dorothee (1) Austin, Lucinda (2) Avery, Elizabeth (1) Barnes, Spencer (2) Barnidge, Matthew (1)
Barthel, Michael (1) Baumgartner, Jody (1) Baur, Cynthia (1) Baym, Geoffrey (2) Beam, Michael (1) Bell, Robert (1) Benjamin, Louise (1) Bhandari, Manu (1) Bien-Aime, Steve (1) Billings, Andrew (1) Bird, S. Elizabeth (1) Blake, Matthew (1) Blevens, Fred (1) Blom, Robin (2) Bobkowski, Piotr (5) Bock, Mary (1) Bode, Leticia (3) Boehmer, Jan (2) Bonini, Tiziano (1) Boomgaarden, Hajo (1) Borden, Sandr (1) Bortree, Denise (1) Bowe, Brian J. (2) Boyle, Kris (2)
Boyles, Jan Lauren (4) Braddock, Kurt (1) Brennen, Bonnie (1) Bronstein, Carolyn (1) Brooks, Dwight (1) Brosius, Hans-Bernd (3) Brulle, Bob (1) Bruns, Axel (1) Bucy, Erik (1) Burkey, Brant (1) Busselle, Rick (1) Cacciatore, Mike (2) Callahan, Clark (1) Calvert, Clay (1) Campbell, Christopher (2) Campbell, Joseph (1) Carcioppolo, Nicholas (1) Carpenter, Serena (4) Crrillo-Duran, Victoria (1) Cassidy, Bill (4) Chadha, Monica (2) Chae, Jiyoung (1) Chan, Joseph Man (1) Chan, Michael (5) (continued)
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Editorial Essay (continued) Chan-Olmsted, Sylvia (2) Cheng, Benjamin (2) Chernobrov, Dmitry (1) Cho, Hyunyi (2) Cho, Jaeho (1) Choi, Jihyang (1) Christen, Cindy (1) Christensen, John (1) Clark, Andrew (4) Clayton, Russell (1) Coche, Roxane (1) Coddington, Mark (3) Coe, Kevin (2) Compton, Josh (1) Connolly-Ahern, Colleen (1) Conway, Bethany (1) Coronel, Jason (1) Coulson, Neil (1) Cozma, Raluca (1) Crosswell, Laura (2) Cummings, James (1) Cummins, Glenn (2) Dahmen, Nicole (3) Dalisay, Francis (1) Dardis, Frank (2) Davidson, Sanrdra (1) Davie, William (2) de Beer, Arnold (2) Deifenbach, Don (1) Delbaere, Marjorie (1) Dick, Steven (2) DiFonzo, Nicholas (1) Dixon, Travis (2) Drechsel, Robert (1) Du, Ying (2) Duffy, Andrew (4) Dunaway, Johanna (1) Dunsmore, Katherine (2) Durham, Meenakshi (1) Eckert, Stine (1) Edgar, Timothy (1) Edgerly, Stephanie (2) Eko, Lyombe (1) Elasmar, Michael (1) El-Bendary, Mohamed (2) Ellithorpe, Morgan (2) Endres, Kathleen (1)
Escalas, Jennifer (1) Everbach, Tracy (3) Fadnis, Deepa (2) Farnall, Olan (2) Feeley, Thomas (1) Feng, Bo (1) Feng, Yang (1) Fernandes, Juliana (3) Ferre, John (1) Fico, Frederick G. (4) Fink, Katherine (1) Fogarty, Brian (1) Folkerts, Jean (1) Formentin, Melanie (2) Foss, Katherine (2) Frolich, Dennis (1) Fu, Hanlong (2) Fullerton, Jami (1) Funk, Marcus (1) Gade, Peter (2) Gaither, Barbara (2) Gearhart, Sherice (1) Geertsema-Sligh, Margaretha (2) Gieseler, Carly (1) Gil de Zúñiga, Homero (2) Glasser, Theodore (1) Golan, Guy (1) Gonzenbach, William (2) Graves, Lucas (1) Greenwood, Keith (1) Griffin, Robert (1) Groshek, Jacob (4) Gross, Peter (1) Grunig, James E. (2) Gruszczynski, Mike (1) Guo, Lei (4) Haenschen, Katherine (1) Haigh, Michel (1) Hains, Rebecca (1) Hall, Alice (2) Haller, Beth (1) Hallin, Dan (1) Ham, Chang-Dae (1) Han, Gang (2) Hanasano, Lisa (1) Hang, Min (1) Hanitzsch, Thomas (1)
Harlow, Summer (2) Harmon, Mark (1) Harp, Dustin (2) Harrington, Stephen (1) Hayes, Danny (1) Heim, Kyle (2) Heinonen, Ari (1) Heiss, Andrew (1) Hellmueller, Lea (2) Henderson, Jennifer (1) Hester, Joe Bob (1) Hindman, Douglas (1) Hmielowski, Jay (5) Hoeken, Hans (1) Hoewe, Jennifer (2) Hoffman, Lindsay (1) Hollander, Barry (1) Hollifield, Anne (1) Holody, Kyle (1) Holton, Avery (2) Hong, Traci (2) Hopp, Toby (2) Houston, Brant (3) Houston, Brian (2) Houston, J. Brian (1) Huang, Sangruo (1) Hull, Kevin (1) Humanes, María Luisa (1) Hunt, Daniel (1) Hussain, Shabbir (1) Hutchens, Myiah (1) Igartua Perosanz, Juan José (1) Jahng, Mi (1) Jang, S. Mo (2) Jankowski, Stacie (1) Jeffres, Leo (1) Jenner, Marieke (1) Jensen, Jakob (1) Jiang, Hua (1) Jin, Yan (2) Jinadasa, Manoj (1) Johnson, Benjamin (1) Johnson, Brett (1) Johnson, Carolyn (1) Johnson, Kirsten (1) Jones, David (1) Ju, Youngkee (2) (continued)
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(continued) Jung, Jaemin (3) Kahlor, LeeAnn (1) Kampf, Zohar (1) Karlsson, Michael (1) Kayode, Olujimi (2) Keene, Justin (1) Keith, Susan (1) Khang, Hyoungkoo (2) Kian, Edward (1) Kielbowicz, Richard (1) Kim, Hyunjung (1) Kim, Jangyul (1) Kim, Ji Young (1) Kim, Sora (1) Kim, Yonghwan (1) Kim, Yung Soo (2) Kinney, Lance (1) Konieczna, Magda (2) Konieczna, Magdalena (1) Kononova, Anastasia (1) Kowal, Christopher (2) Krishnan, Archana (1) Kruikemeier, Sanne (1) Kumar, Deepa (1) Kuypers, Jim (2) Lanosga, Gerry (1) LaRose, Bob (1) Laskin, Alexander (3) Lau, Tuenyue (1) Lazard, Allison (3) Lee, Angela (2) Lee, Chul-joo (3) Lee, Francis (1) Lee, Guiohk (1) Lee, Hyunmin (2) Lee, Jae (1) Lee, Liming (1) Lee, Sang (1) Lee, Shin Haeng (1) Lee, Tien-Tsung (5) Lee, Yoon-Joo (1) Len-Rios, Maria (2) Lerner, Kevin (1) Levine, Michael (1) Lewis, Norman (1) Li, Cong (1)
Li, Hairong (1) Li, Xiaoqin (1) Li, Zongchao (1) Lichtenstein, Dennis (1) Lieberman, Morton (1) Lim, Joon Soo (1) Lipschultz, Jeremy (2) Lischka, Juliane (1) Littau, Jeremy (1) Livingstone, Sonia (1) Livio, Oren (2) Lo, Ven-Hwei (2) Loggins, Ginger (1) Loh, Tracy (1) Lou, Shanshan (1) Lovejoy, Jennette (2) Lueck, Therese (2) Luther, Catherine (1) Magee, Robert (1) Maier, Scott (2) Major, Lesa Hatley (2) Marchi, Regina (1) Mari, Will (1) Martin, Jason (1) Martínez-Carrillo, Nadia (1) Masket, Seth (1) Massey, Brian (1) Masullo Chen, Gina (2) Matthews, Julian (1) Maurantonio, Nicole (2) Maurer, Marcus (1) Mazzocco, Phil (1) McGregor, Susan (1) McKeever, Brooke (2) McKeever, Robert (2) McLean, James (1) McManus, John (2) McMillan, Sally (1) Medina, Mercedes (1) Meeks, Lindsey (1) Meirick, Patrick (2) Men, Linjuan Rita (2) Mendenhall, Doug (1) Meraz, Sharon (2) Metzgar, Emily (1) Mierzejewska, Bozena (1)
Miller, Michael (1) Moller, Judity (1) Molyneux, Logan (1) Morimoto, Shauna (1) Morin, David (1) Mothes, Cornelia (1) Motta, Bernardo (1) Mou, Yi (3) Mrja, Ellen (1) Mudrick, Michael (1) Murray, Michael (1) Myrick, Jessica (3) Nee, Rebecca (1) Nekmat, Elmie (1) Newman, Elana (1) Newton, Greg (1) Niederdeppe, Jeff (2) Noar, Seth (1) Oeldorf-Hirsch, Anne (1) Oh, Sang-Hwa (1) Oh, Soo-Kwang (2) Örnebring, Henrik (1) Ott, Holly (1) Pan, Po-Lin (1) Pardun, Carol (1) Park, Hyojung (1) Park, Jin Seong (3) Park, Sung-Yeon (1) Parrott, Scott (2) Paskin, Danny (1) Pearson, Mark (1) Peifer, Jason (1) Peng, Zengjun (2) Perks, Lisa (1) Perloff, Richard (1) Phalen, Patricia (1) Phillips, Angela (1) Pjesivac, Ivanka (1) Pollock, John (1) Popp, Richard (2) Porter, Lance (1) Potter, W. James (2) Powell, Kimberly (1) Powers, Angela (2) Rains, Stephen (1) Raney, Arthur (2) (continued)
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Editorial Essay (continued) Reese, Stephen D. (1) Reinardy, Scott (1) Rice, Ronald (1) Rim, Hyejoon (2) Rivenburgh, Nancy (1) Robbins, Rebecca (2) Roberts, Shearon (1) Rodgers, Shelly (1) Roh, Sungjong (1) Rosenberry, Jack (1) Rosenthal, Sonny (2) Rupar, Verica (2) Sadiq, Najma (1) Sanders-Jackson, Ashley (2) Santana, Arthur (3) Sar, Sela (2) Scacco, Joshua (1) Schely-Newman, Esther (1) Schill, Dan (1) Schmitz Weiss, Amy (1) Schultz, Brad (1) Searles, Kathleen (1) Seo, Mihye (2) Sestir, Marc (1) Sewell, John (1) Shabazz, David (1) Sheehan, Kim (1) Shen, Hongmei (1) Shen, Lijiang (1) Sherrick, Brett (2) Simmons, Charlene (1) Slavtcheva-Petkova, Vera (2) Smith, Rachel (3) Song, Yunya (1) Spratt, Meg (1) St. John III, Burton (2) Sternadori, Miglena (3) Straw, William (1) Su, Leona (2)
Suggs, David (1) Swain, Kristen (1) Tai, Zixue (1) Takahashi, Bruno (1) Tan, Alex (1) Tandoc Jr., Edson (3) Taneja, Harsh (1) Tang, Lu (3) Tao, Chen-Chao (1) Taylor, Maureen (1) Teresa, Carrie (2) Theriault, Sean (1) Thomas, Ryan (1) Thornton, Leslie (1) Thorson, Kjerstin (1) Thrasher, James (1) Timmins, Lydia (1) Toth, Elizabeth (3) Tran, Hai (1) Tremlett, Annabel (1) Trilling, Damian (1) Trumbly-Lamsam, Teresa (1) Trust, Rhonda (1) Tsay, Mina (2) Turcotte, Jason (1) Usher, Nikki (1) van Reijmersdal, Eva (1) Vargo, Chris (1) Verón, José Juan (1) Voakes, Paul (2) von Sikorski, Christian (2) Vos, Tim (2) Vu, Hong (2) Wagner, Michael (2) Wald, Dara (2) Walsh-Childers, Kim (2) Wang, Fei (1) Wang, Guofeng (2) Wang, Weirui (1)
Wang, Xiao (2) Ward, Stephen (1) Watson, Brendan (2) Weeks, Brian (1) Whaley, Bryan (1) Wicks, Jan (1) Wilkin, Holley (1) Willis, Erin (1) Winburn, Jonathan (1) Winter, Stephan (2) Woelfel, Joseph (1) Wojcieszak, Magdalena (1) Wojdynski, Bartosz (3) Wonneberger, Anke (1) Worthington, Nancy (1) Wu, Yue (3) Xie, Shuang (2) Xu, Qian (2) Yang, Qinghua (1) Ye, Yinjiao (1) Yegiyan, Narine (1) Yeo, Tien Ee Dominic (1) Yin, Jiafei (1) Yoo, Chan (1) Yoo, Woohyun (2) York, Chance (3) You, Myoungsoon (2) Young, Dannagal (1) Yu, Nan (1) Yun, Gi Woong (2) Yungeng, Xie (1) Zafar, Mohammad (1) Zamith, Rodrigo (2) Zhang, Jing (1) Zhang, Jingwen (1) Zhang, Xiaoqun (5) Zhang, Xinzhi (2) Zhang, Yuan (1) Zhou, Shuhua (1)
