Altered States: How Television Changes Childhood
In your award-winning book No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, you deal with television's...
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Military-News Complex: What Determines What We See and Hear
Students of television have identified more than one way of viewing its role as a cultural force. Recognition of the...
اقرأ المزيدBabylon Revisited: How Violent Myths Resurface Today
Violence is the ethos of our times. It is the spirituality of the modern world. What is generally overlooked is...
اقرأ المزيدMedia&Values Quarterly Corners Common Sense
The heavenly hoopla continues. While the righteous religious right of presidential-minded Pat Robertson, Gospel-honking Jimmy Swaggart and TV-dancing Jerry Falwell...
اقرأ المزيدSports: Is It Just
It's an endless cycle. Football now begins in July, just after baseball's All-star Game. By November, basketball and hockey are...
اقرأ المزيدStarting Point: Issues in the Information Age
For most of us, getting information is still a matter of seeking out some expert or a "trusted friend." Or...
اقرأ المزيدRise of Group Media: an Historical View
For a number of years, Ibarra ("Nim") Gonzales directed the audio-visual service at the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila...
اقرأ المزيدWOMEN: Female Roles Still Distort Reality
Feminists have always recognized the power of the media to control women's lives. In the l880s Susan B. Anthony wrote,...
اقرأ المزيدWhen Creativity Isn’t Enough: What Makes Ads go Bad?
As the senior broadcast attorney for a company that owns several worldwide advertising agency systems, it's my job to make...
اقرأ المزيدStereotypes Mask Feelings of Fear
"They are unhappy with their lives and the system that controls them. They would leave readily if they could. They...
اقرأ المزيدYOUTH: Music Choices Shape Life Skills
For many youth today, rock music is a battlefield. This is not the decades-old war of the decibels but...
اقرأ المزيدPASTORING: ‘Cosby’ Preaches Loving Lessons
The word is now out officially and it has been delivered by no less a source than priest-sociologist Andrew Greeley...
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