The fully revised and updated version of this classic text examines the link between three
key obsessions of the 21st century: the media, sport and popular culture. Gathering new …

A paradox exists at the heart of sports journalism. On one hand, it has over the years often
been viewed as the poor relation within journalism, lacking the integrity that journalists often …

… In this essay, Raymond Boyle reflects on how the study of sport within media and … Here,
Boyle comments on the most influential scholars and works on communication and …

… However as we have argued elsewhere (Boyle and Haynes, 2002) there are also clearly
areas that this current stage of media evolution has transformed. For example in the digital …

Background: Although self-monitoring is a central tenet of behavioral approaches to changing
health behavior, clinical and public health recommendations for better controlling body …

Objective E-cigarette use has rapidly increased. Recent studies define prevalence using a
variety of measures; competing definitions challenge cross-study comparison. We sought to …

Background Health information systems such as electronic health records (EHR),
computerized decision support systems, and electronic prescribing are potentially valuable …

Objective To learn whether patients who smoke and who receive smoking cessation information
during medical office visits were less likely to be satisfied with the smoking cessation …

Two scales based on the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire were developed to measure
dependence in smokeless tobacco users. The total score for both scales correlated …

Over two decades ago, Barbie Zelizer argued that journalists should be approached as an “interpretive
community” in order to understand the processes through which journalists …