Reflections on news event diffusion research

Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 561-576

  Rogers, Everett M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 0034258663     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900007700307     Document Type: Review

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4. Everett M. Rogers, A History of Communication Study: A Biographical Approach (New York: Free Press, 1994); Wilbur Schramm, The Beginnings of Communication Study: A Personal Memoir, ed. Steven H. Chaffee and Everett M. Rogers (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1997).
5. Everett M. Rogers, A History of Communication Study: A Biographical Approach (New York: Free Press, 1994); Wilbur Schramm, The Beginnings of Communication Study: A Personal Memoir, ed. Steven H. Chaffee and Everett M. Rogers (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1997).
6. Deutschmann and Danielson, "Diffusion of Knowledge."
7. Everett M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, 4th ed. (New York: Free Press, 1995), 75.
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13. James W. Dearing and Everett M. Rogers, Agenda-Setting (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1996).
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16. Deutschmann and Danielson, "Diffusion of Knowledge, "335.
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23. Walter Gantz and Hiroshi Tokinoya, "Diffusion of News about the Assassination of Olof Palme: A Trans-Continental, Two-City Comparison of the Process, "European Journal of Communication 2 (1987): 197-210.
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25. Walter Gantz, "The Diffusion of News about the Attempted Reagan Assassination, "Journal of Communication 33 (winter 1983): 56-66; R. A. WeaverLariscy, B. Sweeney, and Thomas M. Steinfatt, Communication during Assassination Attempts: Diffusion of Information in Attacks on President Reagan and the Pope, "Southern Speech Communication Journal 49 (spring 1984): 258-76.
26. Walter Gantz, "The Diffusion of News about the Attempted Reagan Assassination, "Journal of Communication 33 (winter 1983): 56-66; R. A. WeaverLariscy, B. Sweeney, and Thomas M. Steinfatt, Communication during Assassination Attempts: Diffusion of Information in Attacks on President Reagan and the Pope, "Southern Speech Communication Journal 49 (spring 1984): 258-76.
27. N.M. Medalia and Otto N. Larsen, "Diffusion and Belief in a Collective Delusion: The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic, "American Sociological Review 23 (February 1958): 180-86.
28. Jon D. Miller, The Impact of the Challenger Accident on Public Attitudes Toward the Space Program (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois State University, Survey Research Center, Report to the National Science Foundation, 1987); Michael E. Mayer, William B. Gudykunst, Norman K. Perrill, and Bruce D. Merrill, "A Comparison of Competing Models of the News Diffusion Process, "Western Journal of Speech Communication 54 (winter 1990): 113-23.
29. Jon D. Miller, The Impact of the Challenger Accident on Public Attitudes Toward the Space Program (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois State University, Survey Research Center, Report to the National Science Foundation, 1987); Michael E. Mayer, William B. Gudykunst, Norman K. Perrill, and Bruce D. Merrill, "A Comparison of Competing Models of the News Diffusion Process, "Western Journal of Speech Communication 54 (winter 1990): 113-23.
30. Michael D. Basil and William J. Brown, "Interpersonal Communication in News Diffusion: A Study of Magic Johnson's Announcement, "Journalism Quarterly 71 (summer 1994): 305-320.
31. Walter Gantz, Kathy A. Krendl, and Susan R. Robertson, "Diffusion of a Proximate News Event, "Journalism Quarterly 63 (summer 1986): 282-87.
32. Arvind Singhal, Everett M. Rogers, and Meenakshi Mahajan, "The Gods Are Drinking Milk! Word-of-Mouth Diffusion of a Major News Event in India, "Asian Journal of Communication 9 (1, 1999): 86-107.
33. Richard J. Hill and Charles M. Bonjean, "News Diffusion: A Test of the Regularity Hypothesis, "Journalism Quarterly 41 (summer 1964): 336-42.
34. Mayer et al., "A Comparison of Competing Models." The investment community also responded very quickly to the Challenger news story. The stock market value of Morton-Thiokol, the manufacturer of the Challenger's O-rings, dropped by 20 percent within a few hours of the disaster (this stock market loss was recovered within the following month). This observation suggests that the stock market is one indicator of public opinion for certain news events.
35. Post-hearing discussion of a news event with others (the question asked by several scholars) may be quite different from telling others about the news event, as Mayer and others ("A Comparison of Competing Models") pointed out.
36. Bradley S. Greenberg, "Person to Person Communication in the Diffusion of News of Major and Minor Events, "Journalism Quarterly 41 (autumn 1964): 489-94.
37. Richard W. Budd, Malcolm S. MacLean Jr., and Arthur M. Barnes, "Regularities in the Diffusion of Two Major News Events, "Journalism Quarterly 43 (summer 1960): 221-30.
38. Edwin O. Haroldson and Kenneth Harvey, "The Diffusion of 'Shocking' Good News, "Journalism Quarterly 56 (winter 1979): 771-75.
39. Singhal, Rogers, and Mahajan, "The Gods Are Drinking Milk."
40. William J. Brown, Michael D. Basil, and Mihai C. Bocarnea, "Responding to the Death of Princess Diana: Audience Involvement with an International Celebrity" (paper presented at the International Communication Association, Jerusalem, 1998).
41. Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers, Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1999).
42. Brown, Basil, and Bocarnea, "Responding to the Death."
43. Singhal and Rogers, Entertainment-Education.
44. Mayer et al., "A Comparison of Competing Models."
45. Mayer et al., "A Comparison of Competing Models."
46. Mayer et al., "A Comparison of Competing Models."
47. Mayer et al., "A Comparison of Competing Models."
48. De Fleur, "The Growth and Decline."
49. A. Fine, "Recall of Information about Diffusion of a Major News Event, "Journalism Quarterly 52 (winter 1975): 751-55.
50. L.E. Ostland, "Interpersonal Communication Following McGovern's Eagelton Decision, "Public Opinion Quarterly 37 (spring 1973): 601-610.
51. Miller, The Impact of the Challenger Accident.
52. Mayer et al., "A Comparison of Competing Models."
53. Another possible solution to the funding of firehouse research on news diffusion is provided by quick-response research on such disasters as floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The National Science Foundation provides funding to a research center at the University of Colorado to which investigators apply for preplanned and prefunded research. Then, when a natural disaster occurs (one does not need to wait very long), the investigator contacts the Boulder research center, and begins gathering data at the disaster site.
54. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, 75.
55. De Fleur, "The Growth and Decline."
56. One of the early investigations of the overt behavior effects of a news event's diffusion was a study of the impacts of "Magic" Johnson's November 1991 announcement that he was HIV positive (Basil and Brown, "Interpersonal Communication"; William J. Brown and Michael D. Basil, "Media Celebrities and Public Health: Response to 'Magic' Johnson's HIV Disclosure and Its Impact on AIDS Risk and High-Risk Behaviors, "Health Communication 7 [summer 1995]: 345-71).
57. One of the early investigations of the overt behavior effects of a news event's diffusion was a study of the impacts of "Magic" Johnson's November 1991 announcement that he was HIV positive (Basil and Brown, "Interpersonal Communication"; William J. Brown and Michael D. Basil, "Media Celebrities and Public Health: Response to 'Magic' Johnson's HIV Disclosure and Its Impact on AIDS Risk and High-Risk Behaviors, "Health Communication 7 [summer 1995]: 345-71).
58. Miller, The Impact of the Challenger Accident.
59. Singhal, Rogers, and Mahajan, "The Gods Are Drinking Milk, "87.
60. Singhal, Rogers, and Mahajan, "The Gods Are Drinking Milk."
61. Medalia and Larsen, "Diffusion and Belief."
62. De Fleur, "The Growth and Decline."
63. News event diffusion may contribute to "copycat crimes, "as occurred in the months after the 1999 Littleton, Colorado, high school shootings.
64. Singhal, Rogers, and Mahajan, "The Gods Are Drinking Milk."
65. Brown, Basil, and Bocarnea, "Responding to the Death."