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January 2011

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Missouri Journalism Faculty Shape Journalism and Mass Communication Literature; 75+ Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Published in Past Three Years

The Missouri School of Journalism is a leader in journalism education and research. Since awarding the nation's first master's (1921) and doctor of philosophy in journalism (1934) degrees, the knowledge created by faculty and students has transformed the areas' scholarship while adding value to day-to-day industry practice.

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"Faculty expertise, high-caliber students, the School's real-media experiences and the new Reynolds Journalism Institute all contribute to making Missouri a rich intellectual environment," notes Esther Thorson, associate dean of graduate studies and research.

Since 2008 Missouri journalism faculty have written or co-authored (often with alumni and students) more than 75 peer-reviewed articles that have been published in leading academic journals. The following are listed in alphabetical order of first author, and faculty names are in bold.

2010 and 2011

  • Britten, B. and Smith, Z. (2010). "Acquiring taste: Graham Nash and the evolution of the photography collection." Visual Communication Quarterly.
  • Cochran, Barbara. (2010). "Rethinking public media: more local, more inclusive, more interactive." The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
  • Cohen, E. L., Caburnay, C. A., Len-Ríos, M. E., Poor, T. J., Cameron, G.T., Luke, D.A., Powe, B., Stemmle, J. & Kreuter, M. W. (2010). "Engaging ethnic media to expand the reach and effectiveness of communication strategies to reduce health disparities." Health Communication.
  • Craft, S. (2010). "Press freedom and responsibility." In Meyers, C. (Ed.) Journalism Ethics: A Philosophical Approach, Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
  • Duffy, M. and Page, J. (2010). "Does political humor matter? You betcha!" Journal of Popular Culture.
  • Edmondson, A. and Perry, E.L. (2010). "To the detriment of the institution: The Missouri student's fight to desegregate the University of Missouri." American Journalism.
  • Greenwood, K. & Reinardy, S. (In Press). "Self-trained and self-motivated: Newspaper photojournalists strive for quality during technological challenges." Visual Communication Quarterly.
  • Greenwood, K. (In Press). "Pictures of pixels past: Digital photographic archives at U.S. newspapers." Newspaper Research Journal.
  • Jin, Y., Pang, A. & Cameron, G. T. (2010). "The role of emotions in crisis responses: Inaugural test of the integrated crisis mapping (ICM) model." Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 15(4), 428-452.
  • Jin, Y., Park, S., & Len-Ríos, M. E. (2010). "Strategic communication of hope and anger: A case of Duke University's conflict management with multiple publics." Public Relations Review.
  • Hyo Kim and Glen Cameron. (In Press). "Responding to angry public vs. sad public: Exploring the role of discrete emotions in consumers' attitudes to corporate crisis Response." Communication Research.
  • Lacy, S., Duffy, M., Riffe, D., Thorson, E. and Fleming, K. (2010). "Citizen journalism websites complement newspapers." Newspaper Research Journal.
  • Lee, H., Park, S., Lee, Y. & Cameron, G.T. (2010). "Assessment of motion media on believability and credibility: An exploratory study." Public Relations Review, 36 (3), 310-312.
  • Len-Ríos, M.E. (2010). "Image repair strategies, local news portrayals and crisis stage: A case study of Duke University's lacrosse team crisis." International Journal of Strategic Communication.
  • Len-Ríos, M.E., Cohen, E.L., & Caburnay, C.A. (2010). "Readers use black newspapers for health/cancer information." Newspaper Research Journal.
  • Leshner, G., Bolls, P.D. & Wise, K. (In Press). "Motivated processing of fear appeal and disgust images in televised anti-tobacco ads." Journal of Media Psychology.
  • Leshner, G., Vultee, F., Bolls, P.D. & Moore, J. (2010). "When a fear appeal isn't just a fear appeal: The effects of graphic anti-tobacco messages." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.
  • Lumpkins, C.Y., Bae, J. & Cameron, G.T. (2010). "Generating conflict for greater good: Utilizing contingency theory to assess Black and mainstream newspapers as public relations vehicles to promote better health among African Americans." Public Relations Review, 36 (2010) 73-77.
  • Norris, R., Bailey, R., Bolls, P.D. & Wise, K. (In Press). "Effects of emotional tone and visual complexity on processing health information in prescription drug advertising." Health Communication.
  • Page, J. and Duffy, M. (2010). "Battle of visions: Dueling images of morality in U.S. political campaign TV ads." Communication, Culture and Critique.
  • Sternadori, M. & Wise, K. (2010). Do men and women read news differently? Effects of story structure on cognitive processing of text. Journal of Media Psychology, 22(1), 14-25.
  • Volz, Y., Lee, F., Xiao, G., and Lu, X. (2010). "Critical events and reception of foreign culture: An examination of cultural discount of foreign-language films in the U.S. before and after 9/11." International Communication Gazette.
  • Volz, Y. and Lee, Chin-Chuan. (2010). "Semi-colonialism and journalistic sphere of influence: British-American press competition in early twentieth-century China." Journalism Studies.
  • Vos, T.P. (In Press). "A mirror of the times: A history of the mirror metaphor in journalism." Journalism Studies, 12(5).
  • Vos, T.P. (2011). "Explaining the origins of public relations: Logics of historical explanation." Journal of Public Relations Research 23(2).
  • Vos, T.P. (2010). "A cultural explanation for early broadcast policy: Professionalism, voluntarism, and U.S. broadcast networks." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 54(2).
  • Vultee, F., Craft, S. & Velker, M. (2010). Faith and Values: Journalism and the Critique of Religion Coverage of the 1990s. Journal of Media & Religion, 9(3), 150-164.
  • Wilkins, L. (2010). Ed: Robert Fortner and Mark Fackler. "The ethics of professional corruption." Ethics and Evil in the Public Sphere: Media, Universal Values and Global Development, edited by Robert Fortner and Mark Fackler.
  • Willis, E., Wang, Y. and Rodgers, S. (2010). "Online health communities and health literacy: Applying a framework for understanding domains of health literacy." E-health communities and online self-help groups: Applications and usage.
  • Wise, K., Alhabash, S. & Park, H. (2010). "Emotional responses during social information seeking on Facebook." CyberPsychology & Behavior, 13(5), 555-562.
  • Zou, S. M. and Volz, Y. (2010). "An integrated theory of global advertising: An application of the GMS theory." International Journal of Advertising.

2009

  • Bailey, R., Wise, K. & Bolls, P.D. (2009). "How Avatar customizability affects children's arousal and subjective presence during junkfood-sponsored online videogames. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 12(3), 277-283.
  • Craft, S. & Heim, K. (2009). "Transparency: Meanings, merits and risks." In Wilkins, L. and Christians, C. (Eds.) Handbook of Mass Media Ethics, New York: Routledge.
  • Craft, S. (2009). "Value of solitude: Henry David Thoreau." In Christians, C. and Merrill, J. (Eds.) Ethical Communication: Five Moral Stances in Human Dialogue. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
  • Greenwood, Keith and Smith, Zoe. (2009). "Conventionalization in feature photography: A study of winning photographs in the Pictures of the Year International competition." Journalism Practice.
  • Amanda Hinnant. (2009). "The cancer on your coffee table: A discourse analysis of the health content in mass-circulated women's magazines." Feminist Media Studies.
  • Hinnant, A., & Len-Ríos, M. E. (2009). "Tacit understandings of health literacy: Interview and survey research with health journalists." Science Communication.
  • Hudson, B. (2009). "To privilege the visual: An alternative approach to media History." American Journalism.
  • Hudson, B. and Boyajy, K. (2009). "The rise and fall of an ethnic advocate and American huckster: Louis N. Hammerling and the immigrant press." Media History.
  • Hudson, B. and Townsend, R. (2009). "Unraveling the webs of influence and intimacy: Harper's Magazine and Willie Morris, 1967-1971." Literary Journalism Studies.
  • Hudson, B. and Ostman, R. (2009). "'A Desire to End These Things': An analytical history of John L. Spivak's photographic portrayal of 1930s Georgia chain gangs." Visual Communication Quarterly.
  • Hwang, S., Geana, M. & Cameron, G.T. (2009). "Penetration of innovation: South Korean cornea donation broadcasting campaign & the change of individuals' perception about the donation." Media, Gender & Culture, 12, 241-282.
  • Hwang, S.W. & Cameron, G.T. (2009). "The estimation of a corporate crisis communication." Public Relations Review, 35 (2), 136-138.
  • Kim, J., Kim, H. J. and Cameron, G.T. (2009). "Making nice may not matter: The interplay of crisis type, response type and crisis issue on perceived organizational responsibility." Public Relations Review, 35(1), 86-88.
  • Lacy, S., Riffe, D., Thorson, E. and Duffy, M. (2009). Examining the features, policies and resources of citizen journalism: Citizen news sites and blogs. Web Journal of Mass Communication Research.
  • Lee, Jung-Gyo & Thorson, Esther (2009). "Cognitive and emotional processes in individuals and commercial Web sites." Journal of Business & Psychology.
  • Len-Ríos, M. E., Hinnant, A., Park, S., Cameron, G.T., Frisby, C.M. & Lee, Y. (2009). "Health news agenda building: Journalists' perceptions of the role of public relations." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
  • Len-Ríos, M. E., Onyebadi, U., Fleshert, M., & Qiu, Q. (2009). "The South African elite press and the prominence of HIV/AIDS on the media agenda." International Communication Bulletin.
  • Len-Ríos, M.E. & Perry, E.L. (2009). "Assessing cross-cultural learning and the effects of personality and negative attitudes on journalism students' knowledge." Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.
  • Len-Ríos, M.E., Hinnant, A. & Park, S. (2009). "Understanding how health journalists judge public relations sources: A rules theory approach." Public Relations Review.
  • Leshner, G., Bolls, P., Thomas, E. (2009). "Scare 'em or disgust 'em: The effects of graphic health promotion messages." Health Communication.
  • Leshner, G., & Cheng, I.H. (2009). "The effects of frame, appeal, and outcome extremity of antismoking messages on cognitive processing." Health Communication.
  • Micu, A., Thorson, E., Antecol, M. (2009). "In the mood for a commercial break? A model of consumer response to television commercials during sensitive news." Management & Marketing, 4(3), 35-52.
  • Lindsay Ray & Amanda Hinnant (2009). "Media representation of mental disorders: A study of ADD and ADHD coverage in magazines from 1985 to 2008." Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, 11(1).
  • Sternadori, Meglina & Thorson, Esther (2009). "Anonymous sourcing and story quality impact on credibility." Newspaper Research Journal.
  • Volz, Y. and Lee, C. C. (2009). "American pragmatism and Chinese modernization: Importing the Missouri model of journalism education to modern China." Media, Culture & Society.
  • Volz, Y. and Lee, C. C. (2009). "From Gospel to news: Evangelism and secularization of the Protestant missionary press in China, 1870s-1900s." Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism.
  • Houchin Winfield, B. and Kalyango, Y. (2009). "Rhetorical media framing of two first lady political candidates across cultures." Global Media Journal 8:15.
  • Wise, K., Bolls, P.D., Meyers, J.G., & Sternadori, M. (2009). "How writing style and video intensity affect cognitive processing of online news." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53(4), 532-546.
  • Wise, K., Eckler, P., Kononova, A., & Littau, J. (2009). "Exploring the 'wire' in the hardwired for news hypothesis: How threat proximity affects the cognitive and emotional processing of health-related print news." Communication Studies, 60(3), 268-287.
  • Wise, K., Kim, H.J. & Kim, J. (2009). "The effect of searching versus surfing on cognitive and emotional responses to online news." Journal of Media Psychology, 21(2), 49-59.

2008

  • Caburnay, C., Kreuterm, M., Cameron, G., Luke, D., Cohen, E., McDaniels, L., Wohlberg, M. & Atkins, P. (2008). "Black newspapers as a tool for cancer education in African-American communities." Ethnicity & Disease, 18(4), 488-495.
  • Choi, Y., Leshner, G. & Choi, J. (2008). "Third-person effects of idealized body image in magazine advertisements." American Behavioral Scientist.
  • Cohen, E., Caburnay, C., Luke, D., Rodgers, S., Cameron, G. & Kreuter, M. (2008). "Cancer coverage in general-audience and black newspapers cancer coverage." Health Communication, 23(5), 427-435.
  • Craft, S. & Waisbord, S. (2008). "When foreign news remains foreign: The cartoon controversy in the US and Argentine press." In Kunelius, R. and Eide, E. (Eds.) Freedom of Speech as News, Göteborg, Sweden: Nordicom.
  • Kenneth Fleming & Esther Thorson (2008). "Assessing the role of information-processing strategies in learning from local news media about sources of social capital." Mass Communication and Society, 11(4), 398-419.
  • Geiger, T.M., Miedema, B.W., Geana, M.V., Thaler, K., Rangnekar, N.J. & Cameron, G.T. (2008). "Improving rates for screening colonoscopy: Analysis of the health information national trends survey (HINTS I) data." Surgical Endoscopy, 22, 527-533.
  • Eszter Hargittai & Amanda Hinnant (2008). "Digital inequality: Differences in young adults' use of the Internet." Communication Research, 35(5), 602-621.
  • Amanda Hinnant (2008). "Getting the science right: An experiment on how readers evaluate medical news coverage in magazine health journalism." Journal of Health & Mass Communication, 1(1/2), 58-76.
  • Hudson, B. (2008) "News from foreign homelands and the new heartland: Immigrant press flourishes in turn of the twentieth-century Missouri." Gateway, Missouri Historical Society journal.
  • Hwang, S. W. & Cameron, G.T. (2008). "Public's expectation about an organization's stance in crisis communication based on perceived leadership and perceived severity of threats." Public Relations Review, 34, 70-73.
  • Hwang, S. W. & Cameron, G.T. (2008). "The elephant in the room is awake and takes things personally: The North Korean nuclear threat & the general public's estimation of American diplomacy." Public Relations Review, 34, 41-48.
  • Lee, Jung-Gyo and Thorson, Esther. (2008). "The impact of celebrity-product incongruence on the effectiveness of product endorsement." Journal of Advertising Research, September, 433-449.
  • Lee, Jung-Gyo and Thorson, Esther. (2008). "Cognitive and emotional processes in Individuals and commercial Web sites." Journal of Business Psychology. Volume 24, Number 1, 105-115.
  • Len-Ríos, M.E., Park, S., Cameron, G.T., Luke, D.A., & Kreuter, M. (2008). "Study asks if reporter's gender or audience predict paper's cancer coverage." Newspaper Research Journal.
  • Micu, A., Thorson, E. (2008). "Leveraging news and advertising to introduce new brands on the Web." Journal of Interactive Advertising, 9(1), 14-26.
  • Earnest Perry and Aimee Edmondson. (2008). "Objectivity and the Journalist's Creed: Local Coverage of Lucile Bluford's Fight to Enter the Missouri School of Journalism." Journalism History.
  • Wise, K., Bolls, P.D., Kim, H.J., Venkataraman, A. & Meyer, R. (2008). "Enjoyment of advergames results in more positive brand attitudes when the game and the brand are thematically related." Journal of Interactive Advertising, 9(1).
  • Wise, K., Bolls, P.D. & Schaefer, S. (2008). "Choosing and reading online news: How available choice affects cognitive processing." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52(1), 69-85.
  • Wise, K. & Kim, H.J. (2008). "Searching versus surfing: How different ways of acquiring content online affect cognitive processing." CyberPsychology & Behavior, 11(3), 360-362.
  • Wise, K., Lee, S., Lang, A., Fox, J.R. & Grabe, M.E. (2008). "Responding to change on TV: How viewer-controlled changes in content differ from programmed changes in content." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 52(2), 182-199.
  • Wise, K. & Pepple, K. (2008). "The effect of available choice on the cognitive processing of pictures." Computers In Human Behavior, 24, 388-402.


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