Tag: cultivation theory

• Cultivation theory, media socialization and adolescents’ identity formation

  

  (Originally a class paper written in 2003, with the full paper, including references, found here.  Related thinking on this topic can be found here.) When a farmer plants a field of corn, he must provide several environmental conditions to ensure it grows. There must be ample sunlight, water, and fertilizer. The temperature should neither be […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 6, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies

  adolescents, cultivation theory, Culture, George Gerbner, identity, identity construction, mass media, media effects, Media use, peer networks, peers, social media, social networks, socialization, sociocultural, teenagers, Television, theory

• The Golem’s Creator: How Communication Influences Life

  Back in 1997, so seemingly long ago, I took a class at UW-Madison that turned me from a pre-med student into a double major of communication arts and psychology that would eventually lead me to become the scholar I am today.  For this class, we had to write a paper about the communication theories we […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 12, 2013

  Communication Studies

  Agenda-Setting Theory, communication, cultivation theory, desensitization, excitation transfer theory, Expectancy Violations Theory, Feminism, gendered communication, group communication, groupthink, leadership, mass communication, mean world syndrome, Media, non-verbal, norm of reciprocity, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, self-disclosure, social learning theory, Symbolic Interactionism

• Cultivated Learning Theory: Graduate school, year one

  In the theory class of the first semester of my first year as a graduate student, I was in a group with two other MA hopefuls, and we wrote a paper on how we would study the topic of how the media influences adolescents’ and young adults’ sexual behaviors.  Always the clever one, I termed […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 16, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  cultivated learning theory, cultivation theory, excitation transfer theory, media and sex, media effects, priming theory, sex, social learning theory, the birds and the bees, Uses and Gratifications