(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…
Tag: cultivation 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…
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…
