Growing Up with Television: Cultivation Processes

By G. Gerbner, L. Gross, M. Morgan, Nancy Signorielli, J. Shanahan. 2002

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Television's Role in the Culture of Violence Toward Women: A Study of Television Viewing and the Cultivation of Rape Myth Acceptance in the United States (2011, background): “Second, these perceptions of reality are the result of the unified, homogenized view of reality that television presents—a reality that communicates mainstream values of society (Gerbner et al., 2002).”
A Content Analysis of Female Body Imagery in Video Games (2009, background): “Given that body dissatisfaction is related to media exposure to idealized media images, what are some theoretical explanations for this relationship? One possible mechanism is cultivation theory, which posits that people’s view of social reality is molded by the media (Gerbner et al. 2002).”
Depictions of Gender on Primetime Television: A Quantitative Content Analysis (2017, background): “, men and women) in terms of how and how often they are seen, the media shapes cultural perceptions and governs views about the composition of the social world (Gerbner et al., 2002) Accordingly, both the number and nature of media characterizations contribute to how consumers of media perceive the ”
How Media Contribute to Misperceptions of Social Norms About Sex (2006, background): “culture—it was the most pervasive cultural institution to provide social patterns and to cultivate those patterns (Gerbner et al., 2002).”
Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research (2014, background): “Bandura’s (2009) social cognitive theory, the mass communication-focused cultivation model (Morgan et al. 2009), and the sociocultural perspective on body image (Thompson et al. 1999; Tiggemann 2011) assign central importance to media, emphasizing that exposure to media messages can impart…”
Television's Cultivation of Material Values (2005, neutral): “(1998) is grounded in cultivation theory (Gerbner et al. 2002).”
Persuasive Effects of Fictional Narratives Increase Over Time (2007, neutral): “We report results from an experiment that provides a direct test of these competing predictions and, at the same time, of a central aspect of the transportation construct.”
Fictional Narratives Cultivate Just‐World Beliefs (2008, background): “In a similar vein, Gerbner et al. (2002) do not see cultivation as a one-direction ‘‘push’’ by the media but rather as an interactive gravitational process (Shanahan & Morgan, 1999).”
Sex on the Shore: Wishful Identification and Parasocial Relationships as Mediators in the Relationship Between Jersey Shore Exposure and Emerging Adults' Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors (2014, background): “The cultivation hypothesis traditionally predicts heavy viewers’ beliefs and attitudes are created, altered, or reinforced by overall television exposure rather than exposure to individual programs (Gerbner et al., 2002).”