Government social media has been integrated as part of the government administrative tools to improve public service and promote public goals. However, the current government …
Television is the source of the most broadly shared images and messages in history. It is the mainstream of the common symbolic environment into which our children are born and in …
Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences, Fifth Edition, by David Croteau and William Hoynes provides a framework for understanding the relationship between media …
J Intravia, KT Wolff, R Paez, BR Gibbs - Computers in Human Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Theories of media effects have long established a link between media consumption and fear of crime. To date, prior investigations have almost exclusively focused on traditional types of …
In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded,'law and order'interest groups have also grown--in numbers and political clout. In …
In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest community policing initiative. Wesley G. Skogan here provides the first comprehensive …
This study compares the impact of multiple forms of crime-related media across white, Latino, and African American respondents on their perception of crime risk in their …
The social construction of crime is often out of proportion to the threat posed. The media and advocacy groups shine a spotlight on some crimes and ignore others. Street crime is …
Many Americans report that they are fearful of crime. One frequently cited source of this fear is the mass media. The media, and local television news in particular, often report on …