Tag: socialization

• 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

• Adolescents, Media Use, and Identity Formation

  A long time ago, when I first started graduate school, one of my primary research interests was the role the media plays in forming people’s identities.  At the time, I researched everything I could on the psychological and sociological underpinnings of identity formation, to try to understand how the media could be involved in this […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 29, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  adolescence, adolescents, druggies, geeks, genetics, Identification, identify formation, identity, jocks, Media use, Sense-making, situation, social/cultural, socialization, teenagers, Uses and Gratifications