ABS: Stephen,

[Gretchen Whitney]

timothy stephen   stephen at rpi.edu

PT J
AU Stephen, T
TI Computer-assisted concept analysis of HCR's first 25 years
SO HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
NR 13
C1 Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Dept Language Literature & Commun,
   Troy, NY 12180 USA.
   Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Dept Language Literature & Commun, Troy, NY
12180 USA.
ID COMMUNICATION JOURNALS
AB Human Communication Research's (HCR) silver anniversary
   provides an occasion for an examination of the journal's
   history of publication. This was accomplished using new
   procedures for computer-assisted content analysis of text.
   Titles of 634 HCR articles were normalized using linguistic
   reduction, elimination of common words and terms with
   indiscriminate meaning, and tokenization of phrases and
   compound concepts. The resulting 86 most frequently occurring
   tokens were submitted to hierarchical cluster analysis to study
   conceptual linkage. Concepts represented in HCR articles were
   found to group into five large clusters: media,family,
   conflict, and learning; culture, social organization, and self;
   gender and language; cognition, conversation, persuasion, and
   influence; and group decision making. Support and clarification
   are provided for findings that HCR serves as a liaison journal
   between mass and interpersonal communication. It is suggested
   that HCR's history of publication manifests a theory of
   communication that is rooted in social psychological
   traditions.
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BP 498
EP 513
PG 16
JI Hum. Commun. Res.
PY 1999
PD JUN
VL 25
IS 4
GA 196VL
RP Stephen T
   Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Dept Language Literature & Commun, Troy, NY
12180 USA.
J9 HUM COMMUN RES
UT ISI:000080328500004
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