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    ‘One Night of Prime Time’: An Explorative Study of Morality in One Night of Prime Time Television.Serena Daalmans, Ellen Hijmans & Fred Wester - 2014 - Journal of Mass Media Ethics 29 (3):184-199.
    Research into television's ethical value has mostly focused on scandal genres, such as Big Brother, Jersey Shore, and Jerry Springer. Only recently have researchers started to explore television's moral content with a broader focus. In this study we explore and describe the types of morality and moral content of a night of Dutch prime time television with an open and inductive approach through a qualitative content analysis. Our results revealed 13 types of morality and a basic differentiation between morals that (...)
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    An Action Theoretical Frame of Reference for the Study of TV News Use.Fred Wester & Karsten Renckstorf - 1999 - Communications 24 (1):39-60.
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    On the Use of Television News: Routines in Watching the News.Fred Wester, Karsten Renckstorf & Ruben Konig - 1998 - Communications 23 (4):505-526.
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    The ‘Media Use as Social Action’ Approach: Theory, Methodology, and Research Evidence So Far.Fred Wester & Karsten Renckstorf - 2001 - Communications 26 (4):389-420.
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    The situational and time-varying context of routines in television viewing: An event history analysis.Jan Lammers, Fred Wester, Karsten Renckstorf & Henk Westerik - 2005 - Communications 30 (2):155-182.
    Building on an action theoretical perspective, it is assumed that most television viewing is a routine response to frequently occurring situations, which together make up everyday life. This interplay between television viewing and everyday life was studied using data from a national survey among Dutch adults and their families. From this survey, data of 225 couples were analyzed using event history analysis. Results indicate that one cannot see television viewing as merely an alternative for other activities. For instance, participatory activities (...)
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    Measuring the complexity of viewers’ television news interpretation: Differentation.Fred Wester, Karsten Renckstorf, Ruben Konig & Gabi Schaap - 2005 - Communications 30 (4):459-475.
    If television news viewers are conceived as active audience members, their interpretations should be a crucial factor in the study of the ‘effects’ of television news. Here, viewers’ interpretations are understood as subjective constructions of a news item. In a previous contribution, we argued that interpretations can vary both within and between viewers in regard to the level of complexity. Complexity is the degree to which interpretations are a) differentiated, and b) integrated. In this contribution, we will operationalize the concept (...)
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    Exploring newspapers' portrayals: A logic for interpretive content analysis.Karsten Renckstorf, Alexander Pleijter & Fred Wester - 2004 - Communications 29 (4):495-513.
    As shown through an inventory of the procedures used in diverse forms of qualitative content analysis projects, the logic of qualitative procedures is in most cases not standardized. Often researchers pay little or no attention to the procedures which they apply. This contribution presents and discusses a procedure for interpretive content analysis which was applied in an empirical study into trans-border news coverage in the Dutch-German Euregion Rhine-Waal. First, we will describe the study on the portrayal of the Dutch and (...)
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    Using ‘new’ data sources for ‘old’ newspaper research: Developing guidelines for data collection.Peer Scheepers, Fred Wester & Pytrik Schafraad - 2006 - Communications 31 (4):455-467.
    This article discusses the benefits and limitations of collecting electronic data for large-scale thematic content analysis. We will discuss a number of methodological and technical issues. The first one is the construction of a list of relevant keywords that serves as the primary data collecting device. This is not only a technical necessity, but also secures a theoretically and empirically valid collection of data. The second concern is the quality of electronic archive information. Finally, source-specific data characteristics and coding difficulties (...)
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    Conceptualizing television news interpretation by its viewers: The concept of interpretive complexity.Fred Wester, Karsten Renckstorf & Gabi Schaap - 2005 - Communications 30 (3):269-291.
    In recent years many scholars seem to agree that viewers’ interpretations play a prominent role in the influence of television news. However, a clear concept of ‘interpretation’ is still missing. This article proposes to conceptualize interpretation as the ‘representation’ of a news item as constructed and reported by a news viewer. More specifically, we look at this representation in terms of its complexity. Two aspects are important: first, the fundamental elements viewers use in their interpretation, and second, how the viewer (...)
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    Die handlungstheoretische Perspektive empirischer (Massen-) Kommunikationsforschung. Theoretischer Ansatz, methodische Implikationen und forschungspraktische Konsequenzen.Fred Wester & Karsten Renckstorf - 1992 - Communications 17 (2):177-196.
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    Measuring the complexity of viewers' television news interpretation: Integration.Fred Wester, Karsten Renckstorf, Ruben Konig & Gabi Schaap - 2008 - Communications 33 (2):211-232.
    Although interpretation is often considered a vital factor in the effects of news, its conceptualization and operationalization have been problematic. In this study, interpretation is defined in terms of the structural attribute of complexity. In a previous contribution, one aspect of interpretive complexity, differentiation, was operationalized and measured to test the usefulness of the concept in news research. This follow-up study introduces a method for measuring and analyzing a second aspect of interpretive complexity: Integration. Whereas differentiation represents the broadness of (...)
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    Patterns in Television News Use.Fred Wester, Karsten Renckstorf & Ruben Konig - 2001 - Communications 26 (4):421-442.
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    The social character of parental and adolescent television viewing: An event history analysis.Fred Wester, Jan Lammers, Karsten Renckstorf & Henk Westerik - 2007 - Communications 32 (4):389-415.
    The amount of time that people spend on watching television is a matter of social concern. In the past, several approaches have been developed explaining why people expose themselves to television, most notably the Uses and Gratifications approach. Building on an action theoretical framework, it is argued that the influence of routinization and situational context of television viewing should receive more attention. This approach is then applied to media use in households, with an emphasis on how adolescents and parents influence (...)
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    (1 other version)Transcending Uses and Gratifications: Media use as social action and the use of event history analysis.Fred Wester, Jan Lammers, Karsten Renckstorf & Henk Westerik - 2006 - Communications 31 (2):139-153.
    It is argued that since its institutionalization in the 1970s, Uses and Gratifications research has been heavily influenced by applied economic theories about Expectancy Value and Subjective Expected Utility. Underlying these theories are assumptions about the acting individual having full mastery of situations. This idea is contrasted with the way in which action theory portrays action. Here, mastery of situations is not assumed at forehand, but depends on the situation and is something that has to be achieved. Action theories further (...)
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    Television viewing and the temporal organization of daily life in households: A multilevel analysis.Fred Wester, Karsten Renckstorf, Jan Lammers & Frank Huysmans - 2000 - Communications 25 (4):357-370.
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