Download or read book Perspectives on Media Effects written by Jennings Bryant and published by Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social, cultural, and psychological impacts of mass media communication are explored in this volume by top media effects researchers. These experts review traditional topics (agenda setting, violence, aggression), and offer new insights into questions largely left untapped -- television addiction, pornography, the social effects of new technologies, and the idea that entertainment is itself a media effect.