The Community Editor's Power and the Reporting of Conflict

Olien, Clarice N.; Donohue, George A.; Tichenor, Phillip J.

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“…Community volunteers would be expected to have more success in obtaining coverage in weekly newspapers and in newspapers in smaller, less pluralistic communities given the local orientation and less complex power structures in those types of communities (Olien et al, 1968). The findings show that community pluralism and frequency of publication formed a significant interaction that, when controlled, revealed that the majority of the effects were confined to communities with weekly newspapers.…”

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Building a health promotion agenda in local newspapers

Martinson¹

2004

Health Education Research

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This is an analysis of newspaper coverage of breast cancer topics during a community-based health promotion campaign. The 4-year campaign, called the Breast Cancer Screening Campaign (BCSC), was devoted to promoting mammography screening in a Midwestern state. The BCSC included both paid advertising and volunteer-led community interventions that were intended, in part, to increase the flow of information about breast cancer and mammography screening in the local mass media. Findings showed that intervention was positively associated with local newspaper content about breast cancer, but the effects were confined to communities served by weekly newspapers. We discuss the implications of this study for future community-based health promotion campaigns.

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Building a health promotion agenda in local newspapers

Martinson¹

2004

Health Education Research

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“…First, structural pluralism research should conduct not only cross-sectional studies but also longitudinal studies (e.g., Olien et al, 1968;Pollock, 2007, pp. 211-229;Tichenor et al, 1973) to keep track of journalism and news coverage in conjunction with community conflictcontrol and change.…”

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Structural Pluralism in Journalism and Media Studies: A Concept Explication and Theory Construction

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Armstrong

2011

Mass Communication and Society

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the article explicates structural pluralism as a multifaceted concept with multiple dimensions and indicators. While reviewing relationships or hypotheses between structural pluralism and various outcomes, the article then discusses and proposes issues and agendas for future studies.The authors are grateful to three anonymous reviewers and the guest editor for thier valuable comments and suggestions.Seungahn Nah (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Leadership Development at University of Kentucky. His research centers on the interrelationships among communication, community, and democracy with special emphasis on the roles of digital communication technologies in community and democratic processes and outcomes.

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“…Newspaper content reflected local leadership arrangements while ultimately serving to reinforce community solidarity, albeit in different ways depending on the community's structural pluralism (Donohue et al, 1973). Hence, social solidarity is reinforced in the larger community via local media reports of local controversies, and in the smaller community via reports of conflict solutions presented by community leaders (Olien et al, 1968).…”

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“…Similarly, Kang and Kwak (2003) controlled for residential stability in three Madison neighborhoods to demonstrate significant cross-level interactions between aggregate levels of length of residence and media effects on a two-item indicator of social participation. The structural pluralism model was developed to help understand variation in local newspaper content and editor attitudes through the use of traditional sociological theories regarding the effects of community conditions on social interaction and organization (Olien et al, 1968). The model suggested that newspapers operated within the constraints imposed by patterns of social interaction within the community it served.…”

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“…Tichenor, Donohue and Olien's community structural pluralism model was among the first to conceptualize media content and effects as dependent variables that are systematically constrained and enabled by communitylevel factors (Donohue, Olien, & Tichenor, 1985, 1989Donohue, Tichenor, & Olien, 1986;Hindman, 1996;Olien, Donohue, & Tichenor, 1968;Olien, Tichenor, & Donohue, 1988;Tichenor, Olien, & Donohue, 1987). The Minnesota group's research program is in direct contrast to research in the media effects tradition, which treats psychological predispositions and media use as independent variables and individual-level effects on cognitive structures, attitudes, and behavior as dependent variables.…”

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Social Capital in a Community Context: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual- and Community-Level Predictors of Social Trust

Hindman

Yamamoto

2011

Mass Communication and Society

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The community structural pluralism model represents the earliest and most enduring research program to conceptualize media effects within a community context. The model, which has intellectual roots in social theory concerned with the impact of population size and density on human interaction, is relevant to the resurgence of interest in multilevel analysis in media research, particularly research regarding the media effects on indicators of social capital such as social trust. The present study uses multilevel modeling to test the linear development model (Berry & Kasarda, 1977) which predicts that community structural pluralism would be negatively associated with individual-level social trust, even while controlling for individual-level predictors including media use and length of residence. Using survey data from 21 communities included in the 2001 Social Capital Community Benchmark Study, the analysis includes a rigorous test of the community structural pluralism model by determining whether the relationship between media use and

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The Community Editor's Power and the Reporting of Conflict

Cited by 49 publications

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Building a health promotion agenda in local newspapers

Building a health promotion agenda in local newspapers

Structural Pluralism in Journalism and Media Studies: A Concept Explication and Theory Construction

Social Capital in a Community Context: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual- and Community-Level Predictors of Social Trust

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