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Although "globalization" has been widely addressed in the tradition of international communication, media reporting of it has not gained much attention in the globalization debate. This study is designed to collect some empirical evidence on the meaning construction of the 1997 Asian economic crisis and the International Monetary Fund bailouts within the context of the newly emerged "globalization" news paradigm. The examination of major themes, described causes and solutions to the crisis, and story context of five countries' news reports helps to detect the existence of a pro-neoliberal news frame.

By applying the Principle of Relative Constancy, this article extends prior research about consumer expenditures on mass media. To analyze four major mass media markets in Korea, including newspaper, movie, television, and VCR, this study employs two complementary methods: a regression analysis to test the Relative Constancy Hypothesis and market scale and elasticity analyses to measure the level of fluctuation of media markets during selected time periods.

This study examined New York Times and Washington Post news coverage and U.S. government responses and foreign policy decisions concerning two similar East Asian political movements in the 1980s—the Kwangju movement in South Korea and the Tiananmen movement in China. The study was grounded in the interdependent relationship between the U.S. media and government. Based on a content analysis of news reports, supplemented with U.S. government documents, the study found that U.S. elite newspapers used news sources and symbolic terms in a diametrical manner to report the two events. The events were reported in a manner that coincided with the U.S. government definitions. Findings are discussed in relation to news source indexing and journalistic accessibility.

This study presents a theoretical and methodological review of communication research about the internet. Through a thematic meta-analysis of recent research publications about the internet, we identified topical, methodological and theoretical trends of current internet studies. The patterns of the internet research agenda are discussed in relation to a development model of communication research. We hope the findings of this study provide not only an overview of current internet research trends but also new insights for future research directions regarding this new medium.

Polls conducted by ABC, CBS, & NBC TV & by the New York Times & the Washington Post are analyzed for the time period 1996-1998 to determine the frequency with which perceived salience of knowledge of issues is described. The news reports are also analyzed to determine how frequently these media reports follow the minimum disclosure standards of AAPOR & WAPOR. It is concluded that though new trends evident in polling & opinion surveys appear promising, very few reports currently offer information about salience or knowledge of issues (fewer than one in 10). Likewise, only a small number of reports conform to any of the AAPOR/WAPOR disclosure standards. If public opinion research is to be improved, public opinion scholars & practitioners must continue to work to ensure that the "top-down" agenda-setting process in the US is replaced by a more balanced approach. Conformity to AAPOR/WAPOR standards & insistence on measures of knowledge & salience is an essential first step. 1 Table, 2 Figures, 28 References. K. Larsen

By employing three different methods—content analysis, survey, and experiment—this study attempts to answer a series of questions about online polls: how news media report them, how people perceive them, and how people perceive the influence of reports of traditional versus online polls on the credibility of news stories. Our findings suggest that U.S. news media have increasingly reported online poll results since 1995 and that the public generally considers opinion polls found in traditional news media more credible than online polls. Even though the experimental findings do not show statistically significant differences in poll credibility and story believability between traditional and online poll story versions, there is a pattern of slightly higher scores for the traditional poll story version, lending some support to the survey findings.