Media Effects
by W. James PotterFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-01-03
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary
Media Effects provides students with an in-depth understanding of how the media constantly influences individuals and society. W. James Potter guides readers through the extensive body of research on the effects of mass media by organizing the book around two Media Effects Templates (1) media influences on individuals and (2) media influences on larger social structures and institutions. By foregrounding the different types of effects upon individuals, institutions, influences on behavior, attitudes, and beliefs, Potter helps students to understand what the effects of media are, how they manifest themselves, and the factors that that are likely to bring these effects into being. Throughout the book, Potter encourages students to analyze their own experiences to look for evidence of these effects in their own lives.
Table of Contents
| Organizing Thinking About Media Effects | |
| Why Study Media Effects? | |
| Defining Key Ideas | |
| What is a Media Effect? | |
| Media Influence | |
| Media Theories | |
| Types of Mass Media Effects on Individuals | |
| Physiological Effects | |
| Cognitive Effects | |
| Belief Effects | |
| Attitude Effects | |
| Affective Effects | |
| Behaviorial Effects | |
| Types of Macro-Level Effects | |
| Macro Level Effects on the Public | |
| Macro Level Effects - Institutions | |
| Macro Level Effects - Society, Culture, and Mass Media | |
| The Big Picture | |
| Big Picture | |
| Springboard | |
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