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

There is a large body of literature examining the media portrayals of white females as both
victims and offenders in crime news, but very little is known about how minority females …

This critical analysis of the" cultivation" literature reveals 3 conceptions of the term:(a)
George Gerbner's macrosystem explanation of mass media processes and effects,(b) a …

We wrote the first and second editions of this textbook at a prosperous time in the life of our
nation, when US media industries were undergoing rapid change. American corporations …

Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences, Fifth Edition, by David Croteau and
William Hoynes provides a framework for understanding the relationship between media …

Media permeate our lives and are so omnipresent that we take them for granted and
overlook their impact. Mobile communication devices, the internet, and social networking …

This article explores the continued applicability of cultivation theory in a new media
environment. Previous theoretical and empirical work on media that were “new” at the time …

This study compares the impact of multiple forms of crime-related media across white,
Latino, and African American respondents on their perception of crime risk in their …

This study approached cultivation from a feminist, ecological perspective that recognized
television at the macrosystem level as a purveyor of cultural norms embedded in a culture of …

Through this study, we shed new light on a key line of inquiry for criminologists: the way the
media influence the public's understanding of crime and justice. We argue for expanding the …