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Behaviour-Making Theories

08.23.2010  |  No Comments ››

Models of Behaviour Making Stimulus message -->  Individual Receiver  --> Reaction Social categories perspective, which holds that there are groups in the social world who tend to ...

Advertising and the Audience

08.16.2010  |  No Comments ››

Audiences are commodities to advertisers. Media are actively engaged in creating tastes and producing demand. Media have to cultivate a need for products—you likely won’t see an ...

Smoking and Drinking in Disney Cartoons

08.06.2010  |  3 Comments ››

Author(s): Erin Ryan, Keisha L. Hoerrner Title: Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide: Smoking and Drinking in Disney`s Animated Classics Source: Mass Communication and Society. Volume: 7 Number: ...

Public Sphere & Political Economy of Media

05.01.2010  |  No Comments ››

Culture vs. economy debates We should not reduce these two approaches to mutually exclusive focus on institutions (political economy) and interpretation of texts (cultural studies)—in a ...