Media Representations of Drinking, Drug Use, and Smoking
Researchers study how drugs, alcohol, and tobacco are portrayed on television, in movies, in songs, and in other forms of media. According to ...
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Desensitization and Media Effects
Desensitization is a psychological process that has often been involved in explaining viewers' emotional reactions to media violence. Research on
emotional rea...
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News Effects
According to Harold Lasswell (1948), communication in society serves three essential functions:(1) the surveillance of the environment, (2) the correlation of adaptive responses to the en...
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Parental Mediation of Media Effects
There is much concern over the negative effects of television viewing on children. Children who watch more television are at a greater risk of experiencing a host o...
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Violence in the Media, History of Research On
Public controversy about violent content in the media has a long history that extends as far back as the first decade of the twentieth century in the Unit...
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Technology has taken our primary source of current events to flat screen digital television, digitally tuned radios, high definition newspapers, the World Wide Web with more than one million sites,...
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In the early years of the Internet, circa 1990-2000, budding entrepreneurs would stake out a category, fortress it and hope Web users would flock to the site."The metrics then were grab land and ey...
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Media Representations of Drinking, Drug Use, and Smoking
Desensitization and Media Effects
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