Role Of Print Media Research Articles

White Paper From the ACR Task Force on Print Media in Radiology

The rapidly changing technological and business environment in which scientific journals are published will necessitate ongoing reassessment of operations, goals, and priorities. In this white paper, the ACR Task Force on Print Media in Radiology reviews the history and role of print media in radiology; discusses current and anticipated societal, technological, and financial challenges; and explores a variety of strategies to help ensure the relevance of professional society publishing in the future.

Inventing the nation: Diorama in Norway 1888–1894

This article discusses the role of images, visual popular culture and especially diorama paintings in the creation of nationalism in Norway. The influential theorist Benedict Anderson has privileged the role of print media, and especially newspapers, in the creation and global spread of nation states and nationalism in the nineteenth century, and he does not include visual cuilture in his analysis. This article uses Norway and diorama paintings and diorama buildings to argue that images and visual representation were important in the creation of nationalism in Norway in the late nineteenth century. Diorama paintings did play a role in the construction of the new country Norway, that became a soveriegn state in 1905, ending a union with Sweden.

One newspaper’s role in the demise of the Tasmanian Essential Learnings Curriculum: Adding new understandings to Cohen’s moral panic theory in analyzing curriculum change

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of print media in the development of systemwide curriculum change. Consideration is given to the nature and influence of newspapers on public opinion about curriculum change through the examination of the role of the Mercury in one period in the history of Tasmanian curriculum change. The application of Cohen’s (Folk devils and moral panics: The creation of the mods and rockers (3rd ed.), London: Routledge, 2002) work on moral panics in influencing public opinion is utilized as a theoretical framework.

Using print media for STD prevention: reflections of a journalist/public health researcher.

This paper focuses on the role of print media in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The study presents specific studies that have been published in Glamour magazine and aims to: 1) enhance understanding so that health care providers journalists and researchers can work together more effectively; and 2) suggest styles of presentation that will also be effective with patients. The following are examples of how the author made condom stories newsworthy and influenced the readers: 1) raising the HIV/STD susceptibility awareness of the readers is an essential component in getting them to use condoms; 2) emphasizing that STDs are preventable through consistent condom use; 3) the publics lingering doubt about condom safety is a barrier to condom use; 4) studies focusing on the lack of easy accessibility which is a critical predictor of condom use; 5) consistent and proper use of condom are necessary in the prevention of STD transmission; 6) introducing comfortable condoms that minimize reduced sensation increases the likelihood of compliance with the directive to use condoms from beginning to end of each sexual act; and 7) identifying other reasons that detract from consistent condom use. In addition the media should focus on good news about STDs contraception and other important health issues in order to make it newsworthy.