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Recent Talks on Virality (part one)
The following posts are adapted from the notes of two recent Virality related talks. The first, a much longer effort, begins at the University of East London on the 22nd October. The second (the latte… more →
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Natural Born Killers?
wrote 1 month ago: Media images captivate us on a daily basis. There are movies, commercials, television shows and so o … more →
'Violence of the Man': Shooting the Media Messenger
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wrote 2 months ago: Credit: http://www.cartoonstock.com It is a debate as old as time itself: does our acclimatisation t … more →
Land of the Free, Home of the Aggrieved
wrote 2 months ago: I wrote this for an undergrad unit (University of Oklahoma, College of Liberal Studies) on “Mo … more →
Mean World Syndrome, The Buddha, and a cultural spiral of violence & paranoia
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wrote 3 months ago: From Wikipedia: “Mean world syndrome” is a term coined by George Gerbner to describe a p … more →
Reality Check
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wrote 3 months ago: In 1973, or 37 years after the first experimental U.S. television service popped up, America encount … more →
Gerbner conf on Comm, Conflict, Aggression
wrote 4 months ago: Call for Papers The George Gerbner Conference on Communication, Conflict, and Aggression June 14-15, … more →
How to Use Cultivation Theory to Defend Violent Video Games
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wrote 5 months ago: I’m not going to lie: I didn’t know the name of the Newtown killer before doing research … more →
Celebrity Sex - The Hunger Games
wrote 5 months ago: Hunger Games touches on many topics that can be related to our world today, and celebrity sex was a … more →
Recent Talks on Virality (part one)
wrote 6 months ago: The following posts are adapted from the notes of two recent Virality related talks. The first, a mu … more →
Will TV news make you a paranoid nut?
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wrote 10 months ago: Kamilla Berdin mentioned a study by Gerbner on how TV News impacts how people view the world. Well, … more →
School Shootings
wrote 1 year ago: School Shootings I’ve also got a piece on media and school shootings coming out in an edited c … more →
The Contagions of The Spam Book Revisited
wrote 1 year ago: For those visitors to Virality who haven’t yet read The Spam Book (Hampton Press, 2009) here i … more →
Lecturer in Journalism - Answer Key
wrote 1 year ago: 1. A mass medium is essentially a working group organized around some device for circulating the sam … more →
Is the Mean World Really So Mean In Real ??
wrote 1 year ago: Mean World Syndrome Mean World Syndrome is a phenomenon where the violence-related content of mass m … more →
George Gerbner
wrote 1 year ago: Biography Before being awarded the Bell Atlantic Chair, Dr.Gerbner was Professor and Dean of the The … more →
The Causes of Human Rights Violations (32): The Just World Fallacy
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wrote 1 year ago: Dr. Pangloss, who often uses the phrase "best of all possible worlds" (source) Here’ … more →
wrote 1 year ago: “ Mean World Syndrome is a phenomenon where the violence-related content of mass media convinc … more →
wrote 1 year ago: “ Mean World Syndrome is a phenomenon where the violence-related content of mass media convinc … more →
Good Ole Chicago
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wrote 2 years ago: Our Worst Fears... A Youth With a Gun With all the violence we see in television shows, movies, and … more →
