Contents: Larry Gross: Foreword: George Gerbner and Cultivation Analysis – Michael Morgan/James Shanahan/Nancy Signorielli: The Stories We Tell: Cultivation Theory and Research – Mary Beth Oliver/Keunmin Bae/Erin Ash/Mun-Young Chung: New Developments in Analyses of Crime and Fear – Dana Mastro/Riva Tukachinsky – Cultivation of Perceptions of Marginalized Groups – Erik C. Nisbet/Teresa A. Myers: Cultivating Tolerance of Homosexuals – Erica Scharrer: Television and Gender Roles: Cultivating Conceptions of Self and Others – Bruce W. Hardy: Cultivation of Political Attitudes in the New Media Environment – Dominique Brossard/Anthony Dudo: Cultivation of Attitudes Toward Science – L. J. Shrum/Jaehoon Lee: Multiple Processes Underlying Cultivation Effects: How Cultivation Works Depends on the Types of Beliefs Being Cultivated – Rick Busselle/Helena Bilandzic: Cultivation and the Perceived Realism of Stories – David R. Ewoldsen/Nancy Rhodes: Cultural Models and the Media: Exploring the Interplay between Culture and the Individual – Samuel D. Bradley/Curtis B. Matthews: Temporal and Narrative Bases of Cultivation: Insight from Neural Networks – Jan Van den Bulck: International Cultivation – Helena Bilandzic/Rick Busselle: A Narrative Perspective on Genre-Specific Cultivation – Karyn Riddle: Developing a Lifetime Television Exposure Scale: The Importance of Television Viewing Habits During Childhood – Amir Hetsroni/Hila Lowenstein: Cultivation and Agenda-Setting: Conceptual and Empirical Intersections – Donald L. Diefenbach/Mark D. West: Cultivation and the Third-Person Effect – James Shanahan/Dietram Scheufele: Cultivation and the Spiral of Silence: Theoretical and Empirical Intersections – Andy Ruddock: Cultivation Analysis and Cultural Studies: Ritual, Performance, and Media Influence – Michael Morgan/James Shanahan/Nancy Signorielli: Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Ten Questions about Cultivation.
Michael Morgan (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor in
the Department of Communication at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst. His research interests include cultivation
analysis and media effects, technology, and policy.
James Shanahan (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is
Professor in the College of Communication at Boston University. His
research interests
focus on cultural indicators, cultivation theory, media effects,
and public opinion. Special areas of focus are communication in
relation to science and the environment.
Nancy Signorielli (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of
Communication and Director of the MA program in communication at
the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on images in the
media, specifically on gender role images, television violence and
health-related images, and how these images are related to people’s
conceptions of social reality.
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