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Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects » (Second Edition)

Authors: David Gauntlett
ISBN-13: 9780861966554, ISBN-10: 0861966554
Format: Paperback
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: Second Edition

A newly revised and expanded edition of the classic critique of media effects studies.

1	Introduction	1
2	The question of effects, and the effect of wrong questions	13
3	Screen media and violence	23
4	Other feared effects of screen media	49
5	Prosocial effects of screen media	55
6	Campaigns and advertising	81
7	Towards an understanding of influences? : other directions in effects research	115
8	The context : media panic versus media content	125
9	Conclusion of the research review	137
10	Ten things wrong with the media 'effects' model	143
11	Beyond 'effects' : new creative visual methods in media audience research	153
12	New creative visual research in action	169