OBJECTIVE In this study, we explored the meaning attributed to the words "jungshinbunyeolbyung" (schizophrenia) and "jungshinbunyeol" (schizophrenic) in South Korean newspapers and news programs in the last 10 years. METHODS We screened the websites of three national newspapers and the broadcasts of three nationwide television news programs from January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2010. We class...

Media attention and the literature on lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth overwhelmingly focus on violence involving hate crimes and bullying, while ignoring the fact that vulnerable youth also may be at increased risk of violence in their dating relationships. In this study, we examine physical, psychological, sexual, and cyber dating violence experiences among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth--a...

crime in the media: subversion, social control, or mental chewing gum? Mass media representations of crime, deviance, and disorder have been a perennial cause of concern. Two competing anxieties can be discerned in public debate, and both are reflected in a large research literature. On the one hand the media are often seen as fundamentally subversive, on the other as a more or less subtle form...

The wave of new media technology is sweeping across the globe. Given its speed of information dissemination and retrieval, it is relevant to explore how it can be used to manage corporate-stakeholder relations, engagement, and communication. This is because communication is an effective medium for managing relations (and crisis). In the post-conflict era in Niger delta region of Nigeria that ha...

Preface This book reports the quantitative empirical research I have been engaged in over the past few years on the casual processes underlying differences across nations in levels of mass political violence during the post-World War II period. Since I have been concerned with domestic violence at the macropolitical level, the specificity and the richness of detail that characterize micropoliti...

have been posed about a wide range of behavior, including the effects of television on violence, on children’s education, on consumers’ choices of products and on voting behavior, among others. The evidence on the effectiveness of such communications is mixed,1 but the belief that there is some effect has persisted and is reflected in the emergence of a whole industry devoted to such activities...