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Pekka Mertala; Eleni Moens; Marko Teräs – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
Citations are valuable capital in the academy as the number of citations is the most frequently used indicator in evaluating the quality of papers, journals, researchers, and universities. Thus, the characteristics of highly cited articles (HCA) have become a common research topic but the approach has been mainly descriptive with no profound…
Descriptors: Credibility, Information Sources, Content Analysis, Media Research
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Tsvetkova, Milena – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
Object of the study: The broad object of this study is the academic field of the book and the book as an area of interdisciplinary teaching. Purpose: to prove that the 21st-century cross-media and hybrid media ecosystem emancipates Book Science from the rest of the sciences in whose objects it can partake only as a constituent using one of its…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Media Research, Books
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Nuñez, Roland – Educational Media International, 2018
Media consumption can influence viewer perceptions and attitudes. Recent research on media's effect on college students has failed to address gender differences. Using Mere Repeated Exposure Theory (traditionally used in marketing research), this study aims to answer three research questions regarding college media consumption and college…
Descriptors: College Students, Expectation, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
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Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
Twenty years after South Africa's first democratic elections, what is the state of film and media studies education at the country's higher education institutions? The article examines several key debates, from calls for the decolonisation of curricula to the tension between internationalisation and local research in local media industries. Is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Film Study, Media Research
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Blasi, Brigida; Romagnosi, Sandra; Bonaccorsi, Andrea – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
University rankings have raised huge interest in the social sciences because of their methodological foundations and impact. Rankings have also gained popularity in the media system. In this article we analyze the coverage offered by the media to the Italian Research Evaluation exercise--VQR 2004-2010. Even though this evaluation did not have…
Descriptors: Universities, Achievement Rating, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation
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Tokunaga, Robert Shota – Human Communication Research, 2013
This article extends theory on the deficient self-regulation (DSR) of Internet use and media habits by integrating predictors relevant to technology use. It introduces novelty perceptions of a technology and flow as conditions that increase the likelihood of experiencing DSR and media habits. An experiment, with between- and within-subjects…
Descriptors: Internet, Change, Social Behavior, Self Control
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Yettick, Holly – Educational Researcher, 2015
Most members of the American public will never read this article. Instead, they will obtain much of their information about education from the news media. Yet little academic research has examined the type or quality of education research and expertise they will find there. Through the lens of gatekeeping theory, this mixed-methods study aims to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Peer Evaluation, Expertise, Scholarship
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Moyer-Guse, Emily; Nabi, Robin L. – Human Communication Research, 2010
Research has examined the ability of entertainment-education (E-E) programs to influence behavior across a variety of health and social issues. However, less is known about the underlying mechanisms that account for these effects. In keeping with the extended elaboration likelihood model (E-ELM) and the entertainment overcoming resistance model…
Descriptors: College Students, Adolescents, Pregnancy, Audience Response
Parola, Alberto; Ranieri, Maria – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2011
This paper presents and discusses the results of OnAir, a European project on Media Education funded by the European Commission. This two-year project aimed at collecting, documenting, and developing media education practices across Europe, especially in Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. In particular, the paper focuses on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Journalism Education, Educational Research
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Friesen, N.; Lowe, S. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
Facebook and other social media have been hailed as delivering the promise of new, socially engaged educational experiences for students in undergraduate, self-directed, and other educational sectors. A theoretical and historical analysis of these media in the light of earlier media transformations, however, helps to situate and qualify this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Electronic Learning, Television
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Watts, Christopher; Simons, Janet Thomas; Baird, David – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
In 2007, Hamilton College, Colgate University, and St. Lawrence University received a grant from the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Instructional Innovation Fund to take stock of the ways in which multimodal assignments were being used on campuses and to look in particular at the ways in which such assignments…
Descriptors: Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Scholarship, Assignments
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Bishop, Ronald – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2009
A frame analysis was conducted to explore themes in recent coverage by print journalists of the college application process, with special attention paid to the use by reporters of "keywords, stock phrases, stereotyped images, sources of information, and sentences that provide reinforcing clusters of facts or judgments" (Entman, p. 52) about this…
Descriptors: College Admission, Newspapers, Content Analysis, Mass Media Effects
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Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens; Taylor, Laramie D. – Human Communication Research, 2009
We present a program of research investigating the effects of lad magazines on male body self-consciousness and appearance anxiety. Study 1, based on panel data from undergraduate men, showed that lad magazine exposure in Year 1 predicted body self-consciousness in Year 2. Study 2 was an experiment that showed that men assigned to view objectified…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Anxiety, Males, Undergraduate Students
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Ketterl, Markus; Schulte, Olaf A.; Hochman, Adam – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Opencast Community, a global community of individuals, institutions, and commercial stakeholders exchanging knowledge about all matters relevant in the context of academic video and promoting projects in this context. It also gives an overview of the most prominent of these projects, Opencast…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Media Research, Computer Software, International Education
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Herubel, Jean-Pierre V. M. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2007
For English-speaking researchers, French doctoral dissertations can represent a "terra incognita." For this reason, a retrospective bibliometric study of French dissertations in press and media studies offers a useful profile of available research to researchers concentrating in studies of the press and other media. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, French, Interdisciplinary Approach
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