An Evaluation of Empirical Studies Reported in Seven Journals in the '70s

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 262-282

  Lowry, Dennis T ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84972748899     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769907905600205     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. For tome cumple, see Richard R. Cole and Thomas A. Bowers, “Research Article Productivity of U.S. Journalism Faculties,” Journalism Quarterly, 50:246-54 (1973);
2. Jeffrey Katzer and James Sodt, “An Analysis of the Use of Statistical Testing in Communication Research,” Journal of Communication, 23:251-65 (1973);
3. Lawrence J. Chase and Raymond K. Tucker, “A Power-Analytic Examination, of Contemporary Communication Research,” Speech Monographs, 42:29-41 (1975);
4. Richard M. Perloff, “Journalism Research: A 20-Year Perspective,” Journalism Quarterly, 53:123-26 (1976);
5. Lawrence J. Chase and Stanley J. Baran, “An Assessment of Quantitative Research in Mass Communication,” Journalism Quarterly, $3:308-11 (1976);
6. K.E.M. Kent and Ramona R. Rush, “International Communication as a Field: A Study of Journalism Quarterly Citations,” Journalism Quarterly, $4:580-83 (1977).
7. Julia S. Brown and Brian G. Gilmartin, “Sociology Today: Lacunae, Emphases, and Surfeits,” The American Sociologist, 4:283-91 (1969).
8. Philip J. Runkel and Joseph E. McGrath. Research on Human Behavior: A Systematic Guide to Method (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1972), pp. 82-117. Runkel and McGrath use the term “judgment task” to refer to research situations in which subjects are presented with stimuli and asked to judge them, evaluate them, or discriminate between them in some manner.
9. Por a related study which critically analyzes the same sample of articles from an entirely different perspective, see Dennis T. Lowry. “Population Validity of Communication Research: Sampling the Samples,” Journalism Quarterly 56:62-68; 76 (1979).
10. Brown and Gilmartin, 76 (1979), p. 288.
11. Eugene J. Webb. Donald T. Campbell. Richard D. Schwartz and Lee Sechrest. Unobtrusive Measures: Nonre active Research in the Social Sciences (Chicago. Rand McNally. 1966).
12. Walter Saunders, “CBS Plans News Show for Teens,” Rocky Mountain News. Denver, Colorado. April 3, 1978, p. 70.