Performance Expectation Based Broadcast Education

Parcells (1985; Parcells & Hadwiger, 1984) data from a census survey of every commercial radio station manager in five states (Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa) to ascertain entry-level skills, long-term success characteristics, and advice for success in radio careers indicated that a reorientation of broadcast education was in order. Essentially, it challenged higher educators to respond by revising curriculum, instruction, textbooks, advisement, and overall subject matter to reflect the new reality of the communication industry. This study moves beyond the area of curriculum and instruction to discover whether broadcast graduates are being properly prepared for careers in the communication industry. The purpose of this research is to ascertain the current status of the reorientation of broadcast education in reparesentative colleges and universities throughout the five state area of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Indiana. The study responds to the question \u27\u27has broadcast education moved toward a performance expectation orientation in curriculum, instruction, textbooks, advisement, and overall subject matter? The study employed a survey approach and used a descriptive statistical and phenomenological method of analysis. Broadcast department heads were surveyed to determine the direction of curriculum, instruction, and student advisement in select universities and colleges throughout the five state area. The survey was mailed to 102 universities and colleges described as housing a broadcast department. Following three mailings the overall response rate for this survey was 72.5% with 74 replies. The data were then tabulated and organized as public university results, private university results, and total university results. Results showed that broadcast education has moved toward a performance expectation orientation in curriculm, instruction, and advisement

Performance Expectation Based Broadcast Education

Parcells (1985; Parcells & Hadwiger, 1984) data from a census survey of every commercial radio station manager in five states (Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa) to ascertain entry-level skills, long-term success characteristics, and advice for success in radio careers indicated that a reorientation of broadcast education was in order. Essentially, it challenged higher educators to respond by revising curriculum, instruction, textbooks, advisement, and overall subject matter to reflect the new reality of the communication industry. This study moves beyond the area of curriculum and instruction to discover whether broadcast graduates are being properly prepared for careers in the communication industry. The purpose of this research is to ascertain the current status of the reorientation of broadcast education in reparesentative colleges and universities throughout the five state area of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Indiana. The study responds to the question \u27\u27has broadcast education moved toward a performance expectation orientation in curriculum, instruction, textbooks, advisement, and overall subject matter? The study employed a survey approach and used a descriptive statistical and phenomenological method of analysis. Broadcast department heads were surveyed to determine the direction of curriculum, instruction, and student advisement in select universities and colleges throughout the five state area. The survey was mailed to 102 universities and colleges described as housing a broadcast department. Following three mailings the overall response rate for this survey was 72.5% with 74 replies. The data were then tabulated and organized as public university results, private university results, and total university results. Results showed that broadcast education has moved toward a performance expectation orientation in curriculm, instruction, and advisement

Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information

We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a high detection risk has a significant and highly robust deterrent effect. Neither appealing to morals nor imparting information about others’ behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities where evasion is believed to be common. Overall, the economic model of crime performs remarkably well in explaining our data.field experiments, law enforcement, compliance, deterrence

Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information

We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a high detection risk has a significant and highly robust deterrent effect. Neither appealing to morals nor imparting information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities where evasion is believed to be common. Overall, the economic model of crime performs remarkably well in explaining our data.Field experiments, law enforcement, compliance, deterrence

Digital TV in Australia and the USA: a cross-impact analysis of the adoption and diffusion of digital TV in Australia and the United States

The paper examines the adoption and diffusion of Digital Television (DTV) in Australia and the United States, identifying historical, technical, regulatory, marketing, and other commonalities and differences that appear to be most significant to its adoption, as both countries have experienced a \u27sluggish\u27 diffusion and adoption of DTV so far. Using library research and borrowing the cross-impact matrix method from futures research, the authors develop J J events related to the various influences and groups of stakeholders that had shaped the policy making and adoption of DTV. We then carry out a comparative analysis between the two countries to make evident their impacts, strengths, and directions of influence. The authors suggest that the implementation of DTV in these two developed countries appears to be nearly identical. Even though Australian and US broadcasting models are fundamentally different, the diffusion process for DTV is primarily affected by the nature of digital technology and globalisation, two trends that may be diminishing the import of the nation-state in the technology adoption process. The paper concludes that these broader economic and technical events may have greater import to DTV\u27s successful diffusion than do traditional, cultural, and nationalistic factors suggested in earlier comparative broadcast studies.<br /

Dysfunctional Trends in Nigeria’s Broadcast Content and Slide towards Educational Paucity of the Nigerian Child

The broadcast media exist to cater for all segments of the audience including the youths. They strive to achieve this by offering fresh information and trendy entertainment. Their offering, however, could and sometimes do have negative, unintended consequences. This discourse examines how programming by the broadcast media, driven largely by the desire for returns on investment, has had dysfunction of effects on the youths. The discourse encourages the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to live up to its duty of pushing broadcast stations to comply with the provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code. The paper also encourages the broadcast media to reinvent their programming to address the needs of the youths and to ensure that their programming has a human face, driven less by economics but more by service to their audience. Key words: Programming, curriculum, young ones, responsibilities, influence, obligation

From Franco´s propaganda to the Brand Spain: 70 years of Spanish Foreign Radio.

En 2012, se ha cumplido el LXX aniversario de las emisiones internacionales de Radio Nacional de España que, desde 1977, se emiten bajo el indicativo de Radio Exterior de España. Aunque comenzaron como instrumento propagandístico de la dictadura franquista, la instauración en España de una Monarquía Parlamentaria, tras la muerte de Franco en 1975, propició un cambio de rumbo en la emisora. A partir de entonces, sus emisiones han servido para trasladar al mundo la nueva normalización democrática y los valores de España como país.In 2012, it was the LXX anniversary of the international emissions of the Spanish National Radio that, since 1977, have been issued under the name Spanish Foreign Radio. Although they started as an advertising instrument of the Franco dictatorship, the establishment of a Parliamentary Monarchy after Franco ´s dead, in 1975, supposed a change in the station. Right then, their emissions have served to export to the world the new democratic standards and values of Spain as a country

La transition vers la convergence : l’approche réglementaire du CRTC

[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : CRDP - Droit et technologies d'information et de communication

International Media Coverage of North Korea: A Study of Journalists and News Reports on the Six-party Nuclear Talks

This is the author's final draft. Copyright 2009 Taylor & FrancisThis study examines what factors influence journalists’ perceived importance of different attributes of North Korea. In particular, this study analyzes the degree to which journalists’ perceived credibility of their sources influences their perceptions of different attributes of North Korea, even after controlling for individual, organizational, and social-system factors. To examine these issues, this study conducts a survey of South Korean and Western journalists who covered North Korea and a content analysis of media reports on North Korea. The results show that the influence of factors at different levels can vary depending on the issues or aspects of issues that journalists deal with. In the case of North Korea issues, sources at the institutional level had significant influence on journalists’ perceived importance of the rogue state dimension of North Korea. In comparison, journalists’ nationality at the social system level best predicted journalists’ perceived importance of the dialogue partner dimension of North Korea