The Scary World in Your Living Room and Neighborhood: Using Local Broadcast News, Neighborhood Crime Rates, and Personal Experience to Test Agenda Setting and Cultivation

By K. Gross, Sean Aday. 2003

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Virtual Cultivation: Online Worlds, Offline Perceptions (2006, methodology): “…hypotheses were tested with four separate crime measures taken from Anderson and Dill’s (2000) video game study, rather than a single crime variable found in some prior studies (Romer et al., 2003) or broad categories such as ‘‘violent crime’’ versus ‘‘property crime’’ (Gross & Aday, 2003).”
Does Watching the News Affect Fear of Terrorism? The Importance of Media Exposure on Terrorism Fear (2012, background): “Victimization is used as an indicator of the resonance perspective and is included because some research suggests that victims experience heightened fear (Chiricos et al., 1997; Gross & Aday, 2003).”
Agenda-Setting and Priming in Prime Time Television: Crime Dramas as Political Cues (2005, background): “E-mail: holbrook.61@osu.edu those issues given more prominent attention by media outlets (Gross & Aday, 2003).”
Crime Cultivation: Comparisons Across Media Genres and Channels (2007, background): “The idea to distinguish between first- and second-order estimates originates from theoretical discussions by Hawkins and Pingree (1982) and further explication and testing by several scholars (e.g., Gross & Aday, 2003; Potter, 1991; Shrum, 2004; Shrum & Bischak, 2001).”