Can TV Characters Pay Their Bills?
Bombarded by media images of glamorous jobs with big rewards and little or no effort, young people may conclude work...
اقرأ المزيدWhen I Grow Up: Children and the Work-World of Television
Television's portrayal of the work world may have changed over the years, but the message absorbed by many children and...
اقرأ المزيدThe Empire Strikes: Mergers in the Media World
If all major media in the United States - every daily newspaper, magazine, broadcasting station, book publishing house and motion...
اقرأ المزيدThe Culture of Capitalism
The late mythologist and philosopher Joseph Campbell once noted that in medieval times the approach to a city was dominated...
اقرأ المزيدSex on TV: Do All Kids See the Same Show?
On sex in soap operas compared to real life: "They don't ever seem to think ahead. They just decide that...
اقرأ المزيدVideo Visits Help Families Say ‘I Love You’
Like many nursing home patients, 90 year-old Trudy Smith resented being placed in The Center for the Aging in Washington...
اقرأ المزيدLifeline or Leisure?: TV’s Role in the Lives of the Elderly
In living rooms across the nation, we are told, listless seniors sit staring at TVs, trapped by loneliness and the...
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How to Watch Television with Your Grandchildren
To older people the world we thought we knew seems to be continually disappearing and electronic media are a large...
اقرأ المزيدDefining Media Violence: It’s Not so Easy!
Critics of television violence research note that media violence experts measure television violence quite differently. George Gerbner of the University...
اقرأ المزيدMedia Literacy Pioneer Challenges San Luis Obispo Area Teachers
The founder of the Center for Media Literacy told local educators Monday that there are many benefits to living in...
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