Using news absracts to represent news agendas

被引：11

作者：

Edy, JA ^{[1
]}

Althaus, SL

Phalen, PF

机构：

[1] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA

[2] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

[3] George Washington Univ, Washington, DC 20052 USA

来源：

JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY | 2005年 / 82卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1177/107769900508200212

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Many scholars rely upon the Vanderbilt Television News Index and Abstracts to represent the topics covered by network broadcast news. Earlier research has shown that the Abstracts do not adequately capture the evaluative tone of news, but the degree of topical correspondence between the abstracts and the full transcripts of newscasts has never been formally tested. This paper uses content analysis of transcripts of ABC's coverage of the 1991 Gulf War and the corresponding Vanderbilt Abstracts entries to assess the relationship between the topical content of newscasts and that of their abstracts. It demonstrates that under the right conditions, the topical content of news can be effectively represented in abstracts, but emerging topics and those not discussed by the Mite House are likely to be underrepresented in abstracts.

引用

页码：434 / 446

页数：13

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