Thomas E. Ruggiero

TL;DR: This paper argued that the emergence of computer-mediated communication has revived the significance of uses and gratifications, and any attempt to speculate on the future direction of mass communication theory must seriously include the uses-and-grasps approach.

TL;DR: The authors examined the extent sex and ethnicity play in perceptions that university students have of teacher credibility and found that teacher variables such as immediacy and expertise, as opposed to ethnicity and sex, were major contributors to perceived student learning.

TL;DR: The authors evaluate how journalists have perceived internet "news content" in the past decade through the lens of paradigm repair and conclude that concerted effort by journalists to repair the dominant news paradigm against incursion by the internet, while stronger a decade ago, has weakened over time.

TL;DR: This article found that verbal aggressive communication is generally perceived negatively by African American female athletes and suggests that female intercollegiate coaches, like their male counterparts, often believe they can arbitrarily use the power granted to them within the sport organization to perpetuate racial and gender stereotypes.

TL;DR: Analysis of historical listserv dialogue and traditional media dissection of a watershed debate suggests that negative journalistic perceptions of the Internet's news credibility were already solidifying by the mid-1990s, and have continued to do so since that time.