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Mass Communication Theory
Educators Toolbox > Readings & Research > Mass Communication Theory
Note: Almost all articles in refereed scholarly journals appearing under any subject heading in this Educators’ Toolbox contain at least some explicit or implicit literature review and therefore a theoretical orientation. However, articles on this list are especially aimed at theory testing and/or development.
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| “Paradoxical Views of ‘Homosexuality’ in the Rhetoric of Social Scientists: A Fantasy Theme Analysis,” by Chesebro, James W. (1980). Quarterly Journal of Speech 66(2): 127 (April). |
| “Homosexuals and the Military: An Analysis of the Spiral of Silence,” by Gonzenbach, William J.; King, Cynthia & Jablonski, Patrick (1999). Howard Journal of Communications 10(4): 281 (October). |
| “Mainstream Television, Adolescent Homosexuality, and Significant Silence,” by Kielwasser, Alfred P. & Wolf, Michelle A. (1992). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 9(4): 350 (December). |
| “A Cross-cultural Test of the Spiral of Silence Theory in Singapore and the United States,” by Waipeng Lee; Detenber, Benjamin H.; Willnat, Lars; Aday, Sean & Graf, Joseph (2004). Asian Journal of Communication 14(2):205 (September). |
| “Social identity and media dependency in the gay community: The prediction of safe sex attitudes,” by Morton, T.A. & Duck, J.M. (2000). Communication Research 27: 438-60. |
| “Do talk shows cultivate adolescents' views of the world? A prolonged-exposure experiment,” by Rössler, P & Brosius, H-B (2001). Journal of Communication 51(1):143 (Spring). |
| “A return to cultural indicators,” by Shanahan, James (2004). Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research 29(3):277 (September). |
| “Review and Criticism,” by Steiner, Linda (1993). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 10(4):395 (December). |
| “Skirting and Suiting Stereotypes Representations of Marginalized Sexualities in Japan,” by Valentine, James (1997). Theory, Culture & Society 14(3): 57 (August). |
| “The Sexual Citizen,” by Weeks, Jeffrey (1998). Theory, Culture & Society 15(3/4):35 (August/November). |
| “Individual-Level Predictors of Public Outspokenness: A Test of the Spiral of Silence Theory in Singapore,” by Willnat, Lars; Lee, Waipeng; & Detenber, Benjamin H. (2002). International Journal of Public Opinion Research 14(4): 391 (Winter). |
| “The Use of the Internet Among Academic Gay Communities in Taiwan: An Exploratory Study,” by Yang, Chung-Chuan (2000). Information Communication & Society 3(2): 153 (June). |
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