Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap - Volume 38, Issue 1, 2010

Dit nummer van het Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap bevat vijf artikelen. Het eerste artikel is getiteld: Professionele journalistieke identiteit in een digitale omgeving: Een essay. De overgang van de gedrukte kranten naar digitaal nieuws verandert de journalistiek. José van Dijck analyseert in dit artikel het spanningsveld waarin kwaliteitsjournalistiek zich ontwikkelt en zij presenteert een heuristiek waarmee nieuws Read More

The migration of newspapers to a digital domain The migration of newspapers to a digital domain The decline of newspapers has caused academics to study its problematic migration from an analogue to a digital environment. Yet while the need for change has become pressingly urgent, news organizations often tend to focus on dwindling circulation as a mere economic or technical problem, which can only be sol Read More

Viral commercials: the consumer as marketeer Viral commercials: the consumer as marketeer Research into the reasons why consumers pass along viral commercials: their motives, the content characteristics of viral commercials and the medium context in which viral commercials appear.Based on the uses and gratifications perspective this study has determined which motives of consumers, content characteristics Read More

What is national about national cinema? The academic debate unravelled What is national about national cinema? The academic debate unravelled The concept of national cinema has been the subject of a heated debate in film studies for almost 20 years. In this article it is argued that the debate should be seen in the light of the discussion on the concepts of nation and national identity. The starting point is Higson’s pioneeri Read More

Communication with Dutch and Turkish general practitioner patients: an exploratory study on differences in information and participation preferences Communication with Dutch and Turkish general practitioner patients: an exploratory study on differences in information and participation preferences Intercultural doctor-patient communication is often less adequate than intracultural communication. In order t Read More

Ask your doctor: From prescription drug advertising to physician’s prescription Ask your doctor: From prescription drug advertising to physician’s prescription Ongoing proposals by the European Commission to adapt the current ban on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs (DTCA) are generating much public debate. This article reviews the –mainly US based– empirical evidence for the effects of DTCA on a) c Read More