Abstract
There won’t be any special issue for the Quarterly in 2019. But don’t be disappointed. We have prepared a series of forums with highly interesting topics for you based on the positive feedback from our readers and board members. Beginning this spring issue is the forum on Beyond Framing, administered by our associate editor Sei-Hill Kim. Framing is probably one of the most commonly used perspectives to explain news media’s influence on society and audiences. Despite some misuses of framing, there are also new research opportunities for framing with new technology and frames can be analyzed beyond the text. The five senior scholars offer their unique insights on the topic. Whether you are a critic or a supporter of framing, you’ll find this forum useful.
We are having a special issue call for the Quarterly in 2020 on Advancing Journalism and Communication Research: New Theories and Concepts. The uniqueness of this call is that it will only accept submissions of conceptual papers so that authors won’t be confined by data availability and resources; and allowing scholars from different research orientations to contribute. The three guest editors come from institutions from three continents: Claudia Mellado of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile; Myria Georgiou of London School of Economics, and Seunghan Nah of the University of Oregon. Please see the call for papers at the inside back cover of this issue.
The Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) website (https://journals-sagepub-com-s.web.bisu.edu.cn/home/JMQ) now offers even more features for you to use. We’ll provide the journal’s overall and individual article readership figure which combines the download and page views and multiple impact metrics such as Journal Citation Report (Clarivate), Scopus, and Google Scholar as well as Altmetrics for individual articles. You can cite the journal article in any major citation style or in Refworks on the article page.
In addition to the forum, we also have a virtual theme collection essay on Immigrants as Minorities in News Media by Dana Mastro. Readers are encouraged to go to our website to access the previous JMCQ articles featured in the essay for their research reference.
We also resumed to put the “Newly Released” book list in the print issue. The list is also published OnlineFirst so that readers can get the latest book information.
Reviewers are the lifeblood, not just unsung heroes, for refereed scholarly journals. We always need fresh blood and good blood. In response to the call for better reviewing in the AEJMC Conference in Washington, D.C., JMCQ launched the first doctoral students reviewer trainee program this fall. In this inaugural cohort, we have 30 doctoral student participants from 20 universities. Some of the manuscripts were chosen to have the reviewer trainee as the additional reviewer based on the expertise of the trainee. To be fair to all manuscripts, the trainee’s publication recommendation will not influence the editor’s editorial decision. Useful comments from the trainees will be provided to the authors for reference. The reviewer trainees received materials on best practices in reviewing, including the Guideline for Reviewers issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics. They took a quiz and had to achieve 90% or above and pledge confidentiality before they started reviewing manuscripts. They also received the editorial decision letter, feedback from the editor on their reviews, and how to improve them if necessary. Each student reviewer will review two manuscripts satisfactorily to receive a certificate of completion. To my knowledge, this is the most rigorous reviewer training program I am aware of. We believe these trainees will become great reviewers in the future for the field.
Speaking of reviewers, it is time to thank our 432 ad hoc reviewers and 84 editorial board members in 2018 who generously donated their time, gave their insights to the authors and challenged them to the high quality and rigor you see in the journal. The full list of ad hoc reviewers can be found at the end of this editorial essay. Over the years, we have increased the number of commended ad hoc reviewers and review board members. In 2016, when I started the commendation of reviewers, we had only 20 commended board members and 52 commended ad hoc reviewers. By 2018, our number of commended board members increased to 43 and commended ad hoc reviewers increased to 96 using the same standard of on time review submission, quality of review, and acceptance ratio of our review invitation. In the future, it may be necessary to set the bar even higher to make it harder to get the commendation. But for now, I am pleased with the growth in the number of the commended reviewers because it means more reviewers are meeting or exceeding our expectations.
Highlights of Articles
In this spring issue, we present 12 original research articles. The first article, “The Winner Takes It All: International Inequality in Communication and Media Studies Today,” by Marton Demeter is a longitudinal network analysis of communication scholarship in 79 Web of Science communication journals from 1975 to 2017 which shows how communication research has been dominated by U.S. scholarship consistently with only slight changes over time. The most recent years witnessed the emergence of scientific ghettos in specific regions with close ties with the U.S. and non-U.S. Web of Science journals. Compared with other science disciplines, communication and psychology are the two disciplines most dominated by U.S. scholars.
The second and third article is a pair of articles on the use of algorithm in news. Seth Lewis, Amy Kristin Sanders, Casey Carmody’s “Libel by Algorithm? Automated Journalism and the Threat of Legal Liability,” asked an interesting question whether news generated by algorithm has the same legal liability as human reported news. They argue that news organizations as publishers of automated news would be liable to libel to private plaintiffs, unlike search engines that positions themselves as distributors and not originators of news.
Thomas Waddell’s article, “Can an Algorithm Reduce the Perceived Bias of News? Testing the Effect of Machine Attribution on News Readers’ Evaluations of Bias, Anthropomorphism, and Credibility,” is an experiment to compare if news readers see automated journalism as more credible and objective than authored by journalists. Indeed, he found that the news story that was authored by both automated journalism and journalists in tandem was the best in perceived credibility and lower in the bias than just automated news or human authored only.
David H. Weaver, Lars Willnat, and G. Cleveland Wilhoit made their comeback to our journal with their 2013 national survey of journalists as the fourth wave of the decennial study on the profile of American journalists, “The American Journalist in the Digital Age: Another Look at U.S. News People.” It shows significant decline in perceived job autonomy among journalists and importance of social media in checking breaking news and monitoring other news media organizations. Most of the journalists see social media having a positive effect on the journalism industry.
Tom Arenberg and Wilson Lowrey’s innovative comparative case study of two news organizations examines whether the emphasis of online news audience metrics affects news decision for a community. Indeed, they found the newspaper that emphasizes audience metrics, publishes fewer in-depth civic-issue stories. Uncertainty is further reduced when journalists use metrics to validate their professional judgment. However, reporters with expertise on strategies for increasing audience numbers can also free themselves to do more public service work for the community.
The most common media effects studied in our field are probably political effects and effects on children. With decades of studies, what did we learn so far? We present two meta-analysis articles. The first article is “A Meta-Analysis on News Media’s Public Agenda Setting Effects 1972-2015” by Yunjuan Luo, Hansel Burley, Alexander Moe, and Mingxiao Sui. Their meta-analysis of agenda-setting studies worldwide found that there is a strong and consistent effect of news media on the public agenda over the years and shows no diminishing effect in recent years. “Reducing Harm From Media: A Meta-Analysis of Parental Mediation” by Liang Chen and Jinyuan Shi shows that restrictive mediation was only effective in decreasing the amount of time children spent on media, whereas the effects of active mediation and co-using were greater than those of restrictive mediation on reducing the incidence of media-related risks.
Another persistent theme in media research is gender inequity. We have a pair of research on this topic. One is using a historical perspective from the United States on broadcast news with in-depth interviews by Tracy Lucht and Kelsey Batschelet: “‘That Was What I Had to Use’: Social and Cultural Capital in the Careers of Women Broadcasters.” Helle Sjøvaag and Truls André Pedersen provide a Norwegian perspective with a combination of manual content analysis and computer-aided analysis of 125 newspapers to show the underrepresentation of females as news sources in all types of news except lifestyle news and identify the structural conditions of gender representations.
On a related note, the prevalence of sexual assault is another important problem discussed in the past year. James Pokrywczynski, Robert J. Griffin, and Gregory J. Calhoun’s national survey of information seeking related to sexual assault and prevention among women aged 18 to 25 revealed that college students are less aware of their risk of sexual aggression than their noncollege student counterparts and that they don’t see binge drinking make them vulnerable to sexual assault. Such findings have important implications in using different strategies in preventing sexual assault by increasing their perceived vulnerability.
In addressing recovering from damages caused by natural disasters as postcrisis communication, community resilience and cooperation are essential. Xiaochen Angela Zhang and Ronen Shay’s “An Examination of Antecedents to Perceived Community Resilience in Disaster Postcrisis Communication,” is a survey of residents surviving from Hurricane Matthew and shows how crisis efficacy, community identification, positive and negative emotions, and social media engagement are factors contributing perceived community resilience.
In concluding this issue, we have Patrick Ferrucci’s “The End of Ombudsmen? 21st-Century Journalism and Reader Representatives.” It is a historical study with meta-journalistic discourse and textual analysis of ombudsmen (public editor) as a position in news media and how their roles have been diminished in the digital age. He argues that ombudsmen are more important than ever to maintain media accountability for the pblic.
Acknowledgment of 2018 Reviewers
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