2nd International Colloquium on Action Theoretical Approaches in European Communication Research, Date: 2001/01/01, Location: Nijmegen, NETHERLANDS

Publication date: 2004-01-01
Pages: 217 - 230
ISSN: 3-11-018081-2, 9783110180800
Publisher: Walter de gruyter; Berlin

Action Theory and Communication Research: Recent Developments in Europe

Author:

Van den Bulck, Jan

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).