Grounded in theoretical principle, Media Effects and Society help students make the
connection between mass media and the impact it has on society as a whole. The text also …

Applying the theory of planned behavior and media dependency theory, this study examines
the effects of attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control (PBC), media …

Since the late 1970s, communication scholars have been playing a significant role in
LGBTQ scholarship. To understand the state-of-the-art LGBTQ studies within the …

This study uses the cognitive mediation model as the theoretical framework to examine the
influence of motivations, communication, and news elaboration on public knowledge of the …

Extending the influence of presumed media influence model, this study examined direct and
indirect media influences on pro-environmental behavioral intentions. We empirically tested …

This research uses a mixed quantitative and descriptive approach to analyze the
representation of LGBTQ+ people in YouTube fiction produced by Singaporean filmmakers …

Science communicators are increasingly recognizing the potential of narratives to reach and
influence audiences. However, do audiences recognize and consider this tactic when …

People generally believe they are less susceptible than others to influences of media, and a
growing body of research implicates such biased processing, or third-person perception, in …

This study compares public attitudes toward nanotechnology in the United States and
Singapore, using large-scale survey data in both countries. Results indicate that …

Explicating the third-person perception (TPP) as a cognitive fallacy in the process of
comparative social judgment of media effects, we propose that not all self–other perceptual …