Cultivation analysis investigates television's contributions to viewers' conceptions of social
reality. Developed by George Gerbner in the 1960s, cultivation research continues to …

This is a meta-analysis of 460 effect sizes, from 66 independent samples, comparing social
media usage to a variety of attitudes and beliefs, from the perspective of cultivation theory …

Information environments have the power to affect people's perceptions and behaviors. In
this paper, we present the results of studies in which we characterize the gender bias …

Television is the source of the most broadly shared images and messages in history. It is the
mainstream of the common symbolic environment into which our children are born and in …

Television and its Viewers reviews' cultivation'research, which investigates the relationship
between exposure to television and beliefs about the world. James Shanahan and Michael …

Cultivation is a sociocultural theory regarding the role of television in sha** viewers'
perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, and values (Gerbner & Gross, 1976). In its original …

We investigated framing effects of television news coverage of an anarchist protest. Three
treatment stories differed in their level of status quo support. Status quo support had …

A resurgence of research and policy efforts on stigma both facilitates and forces a
reconsideration of the levels and types of factors that shape reactions to persons with …

I opened this chapter in the second edition of Bryant and Zillmann's Media Effects series with
the same quote. I retained it for this updated volume because it still rings true, despite some …

This article introduces a dual entertainment path model that integrates insights from media
entertainment and transportation theory to show how links between entertainment motives …