Journalism publications (MU)

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Measuring news media literacy: how knowledge and motivations combine to create news-literate teens
(2013-04) Craft, Stephanie; Maksl, Adam M.; Ashley, Seth D.
Developing ways to improve young people's news media literacy has been the focus of much recent attention among scholars, educators, and news professionals. Common definitions and approaches, however, have been scarce, making it difficult to compare and analyze curriculum effectiveness and research results. This project sought to create a measure of news media literacy that can be used to further our understanding of what constitutes news media literacy and to help validate and improve education and training.
The E-mail is Down! Using a 1940s method to analyze a 21st century problem
(2000-08) Bentley, Clyde H., 1951-; Fisher, Brooke Allison
When the electronic mail system at a university crashed, researchers turned to a methodology developed more than 50 years earlier to examine its impact. Using a modified version of Bernard Berelson “missing the newspaper” survey questionnaire, student researchers collected qualitative comments from 85 faculty and staff members. Like the original, the study found extensive anxiety over the loss of the information source, plus a high degree of habituation and dependence on the new medium.

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