The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

This study is focused on the influence of late-night TV comedy viewing on political talk. It is
posited that debate viewing serves as a mediator of this relationship, and age is argued to …

This article considers televised election debates from the perspective of Amartya Sen and
Martha C. Nussbaum's notion of capabilities and entitlements. In contrast to the kind of …

This study analyzes the effect of viewing a presidential campaign debate on political
polarization. The results of quasi-experimental debate studies of all presidential general …

This causal comparative study examined the consistency with which listeners from two
cultures (Germany and the USA) associate extra musical concepts with four popular music …

This paper investigates the problem of dynamic output feedback control for a class of genetic
regulatory network systems. A novel event-triggered mechanism is proposed for the genetic …

Just as fans of two opposing teams watching the same game reach opposite conclusions
about the quality of referees, citizens' assessments of the legitimacy of their democratic …

Televised presidential debates are moments of heightened focus in modern elections,
routinely drawing audiences in the tens of millions. Indeed, the first debate between Barack …

This study develops and illustrates the notion of dissonant political discourse. The discourse
of dissonance is to be found wherever there is public debate on controversial topics or on …

While many studies from analytical sociology apply agent-based modeling to analyze the
transformational mechanisms linking the micro to the macro level, we hold the view that both …