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Ogles, Robert M.; And Others – 1986
A questionnaire designed to measure respondents' weekly television viewing habits and their estimates of crime victimization was administered to 142 undergraduate students. Two measures of exposure to 94 prime-time television programs were compared on a program-by-program basis: (1) violent acts per hour in programs viewed weekly, and (2) amount…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Beliefs, Crime, Demography
PDF pending restorationAssociation for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1997
The Communication Theory and Methodology section of the Proceedings contains the following 17 papers: "Extra! Extra! Read All About It: Attention and Memory for Deviant and Imagistic Headlines" (Jennifer Borse and others); "Refining a Uses and Gratification Scale for Television Viewing" (Jennifer Greer, Cyndi Frisby, and David…
Descriptors: Blacks, Communication (Thought Transfer), Editing, Journalism
PDF pending restorationCunningham, Michelle Doucette – 1994
Recent surveys of Americans reveal that most think children are worse off today than they were 10 years ago. This report on child well-being in Connecticut reveals that such intuitions are correct: in the 10 years since the publication of "Growing Up at Risk in Connecticut," children in the state have become more likely to be victims or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Birth Weight, Child Abuse
