2nd International Colloquium on Action Theoretical Approaches in European Communication Research, Date: 2001/01/01, Location: Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS
Action Theory and Communication Research: Recent Developments in Europe
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Keywords:
construction, crime, cultivation, direct experience, fear, film preferences, hierarchy of experiences, information, integration, social-reality, television, tv effects, victimization experience, Social Sciences, Communication, TV effects, SOCIAL-REALITY, VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCE, FILM PREFERENCES, TELEVISION, CONSTRUCTION, CULTIVATION, CRIME, FEAR, INTEGRATION, INFORMATION
Abstract:
A number of authors have struggled with the interaction between direct experience and TV effects. Some went as far as to say that the effect of TV on, for instance, fear of crime is in fact an artifact of the viewer's actual experience with crime. Such authors assume that a clear hierarchy of experiences exists in which direct experience (the 'highest' form of experience) always takes precedence over mediated experience (the 'lowest' form of experience).