Dennis Davis

• Pennsylvania State University

Dennis K. Davis and Stanley J. Baran, Mass Communication and Everyday Life: A Perspective on Theory and Effects (Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth Publishing, 1981—$7.95, paper)

This paper reviews research on learning from television news and develops a theoretical framework which can guide future research. Two models of memory and understanding are considered in detail: episodic memory and semantic network models. Guidelines are offered for research based on both of these models.

Les AA. etudient l'evolution du champ de la communication depuis quatre siecles. Ils distinguent deux grands moments : l'ere moderne, du 16 eme siecle a la premiere moitie du 20 eme siecle (modernisme), et la periode post-moderne apres la seconde guerre mondiale (post-modernisme). Ils montrent comment le contenu de la recherche en matiere de commun...

“The Centrality of Reciprocity to Communication and Democracy” by Dianne Rucinski. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 8, 2 (June 1991) 184–194.

In this essay, we begin with a review of the arguments in the debate over media and then seek to move beyond the narrow issues raised by previous media criticism. We argue that a culture-centered paradigm for media scholarship is emerging that explicitly abandons many of the assumptions about media and audiences that were central to the old debate....

News stories about four recent U.S. air crashes were analyzed to assess the use of visual devices and narrative structure. Air crashes raise serious questions about the safety of technology and arouse many deep-seated fears associated with flying. The stories were found to provide quite effective explanations of events which raised and answered que...

Remarks before the National Association of Broadcasters Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 15, 1985Issues in Research on Television News: Content, Cognition, and ControlDon Kowet. A matter of honor. New York: MacMillan, 1984. 317 pp. $16.95 (cloth)Burton Benjamin. The CBS Benjamin report. Washington, DC: Media Institute, 1984. 155 pp. $14.95 (pap...

PersuasionBostrom, R. N. (1983). Persuasion. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc.Persuasion and human actionSmith, M. J. (1982). Persuasion and Human Action. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co.Persuasion: Theory and contextReardon, K. K. (1981). Persuasion: Theory and Context. Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, Inc...

Recent research on children's use of television is reviewed and an innovative perspective based on Goffman's frame analysis theory is presented. Three developmental stages closely related to television use are differentiated using frame analysis theory. Current research findings are reinterpreted to develop and support our perspective. The implicat...

Robert Sobel's The Manipulators: America in the Media Age (New York: Doubleday, 1976---$9.95)Sidney Kraus and Dennis Davis's The Effects of Mass Communication on Political Behavior (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976---$16.50/7.95)

This study assesses the effect on the audience, programming, and finances which resulted from covering the Watergate hearings.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-217). Photocopy of typescript. Ann Arbor : University of Microfilms, 1979 -- 29 cm.