How We Got Where We Are Now: 20 Years of Research Into Online Mass Communication: An Annotation

Part Three, 2000-2004: Hitting our stride By Thomas H.P. Gould, Aobo Dong and Jacob A. Mauslein WJMCR 33 (June 2011) 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |2004 While the total number of research articles published between 2000 and 2004 remained relatively constant among the journals examined, the number of articles that addressed online mass communication rose steadily. This increase was expected. However, […]

How We Got Where We Are Now: 20 Years of Research Into Online Mass Communication: An Annotation

Part Four, 2005-2009: Continuing the Patterns By Thomas H.P. Gould, Aobo Dong and Jacob A. Mauslein WJMCR 34 (July 2011) 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |2009 We have looked at 15 years of research targeting online mass communications. This last five years we have found more articles addressing online subjects (782 to 616), but we have also found more overall articles […]

How We Got Where We Are Now: 20 Years of Research Into Online Mass Communication: An Annotation

Part Two, 1995-1999: Gaining Due Attention By Thomas H.P. Gould, Aobo Dong and Jacob A. Mauslein WJMCR 31, vol. 2 (April 2011) 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 As we noted in the Part 1, interest in the new phenomena—the World Wide Web—attracted what might be best described as “splashing about” in the shallow end of the research pool. The research […]

Table Manners: A Retrospective on the Online Poker Craze

By Marc A. Londo and Maria Cristina Santana WJMCR 27 (December 2010) Introduction | Social Cognitive Theory | Method | Results | Discussion Abstract In late 2003, there was a surge in the popularity of tournament poker television shows on American television. The poker craze became a marketing phenomenon, and its influences were the cause […]

Exploring eWOM in Online Consumer Reviews: Experience Versus Search Goods

By Jinsoo Kim, Jaejin Lee and Matt Ragas WJMCR 32 (May 2011) Introduction | Purpose | Literature Review | Research Questions | Methods | Findings | Summary and Discussion | Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research Abstract The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide a description of eWOM that allows a better understanding of this new communication phenomenon by conducting content analysis. The study analyzes 828 online consumer reviews […]

How We Got Where We Are Now: 20 Years of Research Into Online Mass Communication: An Annotation

Part 1, 1990-94: Describing the Elephant in the Dark Room By Thomas H.P. Gould, Aobo Dong and Jacob A. Mauslein WJMCR 31 (April 2011) Journal Selection | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 Why do we seek to annotate when professors worldwide can search most efficiently the web and electronic databases? Perhaps because the term “efficiently” used in the sentence above should be […]

Engaging in Risk-involved Online Activities: Recognizing the Impact of Knowledge and Experience

By Hye Jin Yoon WJMCR 19 (April 2010) Introduction|Background|Demographic Factors|Hypotheses|Discussion Abstract Purchasing, sharing and downloading online are considered risk-involved online activities, due to concerns of privacy violations and virus infections. The current study seeks to identify factors that distinguish individuals who engage in these three activities from those who do not. Through logistic regression of data […]

A Baker’s Dozen of Issues Facing Online Academic Journal Start-ups

Thomas Gould WJMCR 14 (March 2009) Introduction|Conclusions Abstract The rapid upsurge in online academic journal creation, publishing, and management has challenged researchers and universities. Much of the recent flurry of activity has occurred in reaction to rapidly rising costs for journals produced by for-profit publishing houses. Few guidelines and protocols have been created to assist online […]

Newspapers and Their Online Editions: Factors that Influence Successful Integration

Bonnie Bressers and Robert Meeds WJMCR 10 (May 2007) Introduction|Literature Review|Hypotheses|Method|Results|Discussion Abstract As newspapers continue in the evolutionary process of optimally utilizing new information technologies to meet the myriad challenges of the day, they are struggling with issues of �clarifying� and �routinizing� the innovative technology as amplified by Rogers1 in his exploration of the innovation process organizations […]

Online Communication Research in 33 Mass Communication Journals, 1993-2003

Thomas Gould [WJMCR 7:2 March 2004] Sections: Introduction|Research Questions|Method|Conclusions Introduction In a recent issue of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Tomasello suggested that the Internet was not attracting the appropriate amount of attention from communication researchers.1 She came to no broad conclusions regarding the Internet-focused research articles she found in five major journals between 1994 and 1999, except […]