George Gerbner
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American writer, freelancer and sociologist
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George Gerbner's Degrees
- PhD Communication University of Southern California
- Masters Communication University of Southern California
- Bachelors Journalism University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Gerbner was a professor of communication and the founder of cultivation theory. He taught at Temple University, Villanova University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Personal life Early life and education Gerbner was born on August 8, 1919, in Budapest, Hungary.
George Gerbner's Published Works
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Published Works
- Living with television: the violence profile. (1976) (2000)
- The “Mainstreaming” of America: Violence Profile No. 11 (1980) (1126)
- Growing Up with Television: Cultivation Processes (2002) (1091)
- Growing up with television: The cultivation perspective. (1994) (857)
- Cultivation Analysis: An Overview (1998) (703)
- Cultural indicators: violence profile no. 9. (1978) (354)
- Toward “Cultural Indicators”: The analysis of mass mediated public message systems (1969) (342)
- Aging with television: images on television drama and conceptions of social reality. (1980) (336)
- The demonstration of power: violence profile no. 10. (1979) (317)
- Charting the Mainstream: Television's Contributions to Political Orientations (1982) (237)
- TV Violence Profile No. 8: The Highlights (1977) (193)
- Health and medicine on television. (1981) (175)
- Cultural Indicators: The Case of Violence in Television Drama (1970) (162)
- Toward a general model of communication (1956) (147)
- The Many Worlds of the World's Press. (1977) (136)
- Political Correlates of Television Viewing (1984) (116)
- The Analysis of Communication Content: Developments in Scientific Theories and Computer Techniques (1969) (108)
- Science on Television: How It Affects Public Conceptions. (1987) (88)
- Violence on television: The Cultural Indicators Project. (1995) (86)
- Scientists on the TV screen (1981) (82)
- Communication and Social Environment (1972) (77)
- The Global Media Debate: Its Rise, Fall and Renewal (1993) (74)
- Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action (1980) (73)
- On content analysis and critical research in mass communication (1958) (72)
- Women and minorities in television drama, 1969-1978 (1979) (69)
- Television Violence, Victimization, and Power (1980) (69)
- The Importance of Being Critical—In One's Own Fashion (1983) (69)
- A Curious Journey into the Scary World of Paul Hirsch (1981) (66)
- Mass media policies in changing cultures (1977) (57)
- The stories we tell (1999) (52)
- Ideological Perspectives and Political Tendencies in News Reporting (1964) (48)
- Violence And Terror In The Mass Media (1988) (47)
- Communications technology and social policy : understanding the new "cultural revolution," (1973) (38)
- On defining communication: still another view. (1966) (37)
- Some Additional Comments on Cultivation Analysis (1980) (33)
- Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control of Media Means for America and the World (1996) (32)
- Death in Prime Time: Notes on the Symbolic Functions of Dying in the Mass Media (1980) (29)
- Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography (1988) (29)
- Religion and Television. (1984) (27)
- Violence Profile No. 10: Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality 1967-1978 (1979) (24)
- Against the mainstream : the selected works of George Gerbner (2002) (24)
- Mass Media Discourse: Message System Analysis as a Component of Cultural Indicators (1985) (24)
- Final Reply to hirsch (1981) (23)
- The Social Role of the Confession Magazine (1958) (23)
- Images across Cultures: Teachers in Mass Media Fiction and Drama (1966) (20)
- News cameras in the courtroom : a free press-fair trial debate (1987) (19)
- Television: The New State Religion?. (1977) (19)
- The information gap : how computers and other new communication technologies affect the social distribution of power (1989) (18)
- The Television World of Violence (1969) (16)
- Television Entertainment and Viewers' Conceptions of Science. (1985) (16)
- Ferment in the Field: Communications Scholars Address Critical Issues and Research Tasks of the Discipline. (1986) (16)
- Gender and age in prime-time television. (1997) (15)
- Highlights of violence profile, no. 11 : trends in network television drama and viewer conceptions of social reality, 1967-1979 (1980) (15)
- World Communications: A Handbook (1985) (15)
- Mental illness on television: A study of censorship (1959) (15)
- What television teaches about physicians and health. (1982) (15)
- Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality, 1967-1973. Violence Profile Number 6. (1974) (14)
- One More Time: An Analysis of the CBS "Final Comments on the Violence Profile.". (1977) (13)
- Telling Stories, or How Do We Know What We Know? The Story of Cultural Indicators and the Cultural Environment Movement (1998) (13)
- Media and the Family: Images and Impact. (1980) (13)
- Communications in the twenty-first century (1981) (13)
- Standpoint: Cameras on trial: The “O. J. Show”; turns the tide (1995) (12)
- TELEVISION VIOLENCE At a Time of Turmoil and Terror (2010) (12)
- Newsmen and Schoolmen: The State and Problems of Education Reporting (1967) (11)
- Cultural Indicators: The Social Reality of Television Drama. (1973) (11)
- Crecer en la televisión: perspectiva de aculturación (1996) (11)
- Beyond the Cold War : Soviet and American media images (1992) (11)
- Institutional Pressures upon Mass Communicators (1965) (11)
- Teacher Image and the Hidden Curriculum. (1972) (11)
- Teacher Image in Mass Culture: Symbolic Functions of the “Hidden Curriculum” (1974) (11)
- Television Violence Profile: The Turning Point -- From Research to Action (1993) (10)
- Press Perspectives in World Communication: A Pilot Study (1961) (10)
- Dr. George Gerbner in the killing screens : media and the culture of violence (2002) (9)
- Testimony of George Gerbner before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. - October 21, 1981 (1981) (9)
- Children's television: a national disgrace. (1985) (9)
- Editorial Response (1979) (9)
- Use of Alcohol, Illicit Drugs, and Tobacco Among Characters on Prime-Time Television (2002) (9)
- Apples, oranges, and the kitchen sink: An analysis and guide to the comparison of “violence ratings” (1972) (9)
- The electronic storyteller : television and the cultivation of values (2002) (9)
- The Violence Profile Number Five. Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality. (1973) (8)
- Regulation of Mental Illness Content in Motion Pictures and Television (1960) (8)
- The stories we tell and the stories we sell (1998) (8)
- Living with Television : The Dynamics of the Cu Itivation Process (2007) (8)
- The Social Anatomy of the Romance-Confession Cover Girl (1958) (8)
- On the Limits of “The Limits of Advocacy Research”: Response to Hirsch (1981) (7)
- Defending the indefensible (1984) (7)
- Use of alcohol, illicit drugs, and tobacco among characters on prime‐time television (2002) (7)
- Instant history: The case of the Moscow coup (1993) (6)
- On Wober's "Televised Violence and Paranoid Perception: The View from Great Britain (1979) (6)
- Education and the challenge of mass culture (1959) (5)
- Science or Ritual Dance? A Revisionist View of Television Violence Effects Research (1984) (5)
- Facts, fantasies and schools (1984) (5)
- Introduction Why the Cultural Environment Movement (1998) (4)
- The Cultural Arms of the Corporate Establishment: Reflections on the Work of Herb Schiller (2001) (4)
- Essay Reviews: The Hidden Message in Anti-Violence Public Service Announcements (1995) (4)
- There is No Free Market in Television (1994) (4)
- The Viewers' Declaration of Independence. A manifesto of the Cultural Environment Movement A commentary (1997) (3)
- Violencia y televisión: nuestro medio ambiente cultural. Entrevista con George Gerbner (2002) (3)
- Animal Issues in the Media: A Groundbreaking Report (1995) (3)
- Violence Profile No. 14-15 (1986) (3)
- Education About Education by Mass Media (1966) (2)
- Marketing Global Mayhem (1995) (2)
- Introduction (1998) (2)
- Religion on Television and in the Lives of Viewers (1984) (2)
- Education and the challenge of mass culture (1959) (2)
- Let’s put the human element back in (1960) (2)
- Proliferating violence (1977) (2)
- The Role of Television Entertainment in Public Understanding of Science (1985) (1)
- 75th Anniversary Reprint Television: The New State Religion? (2013) (1)
- El mundo del teleadicto (1978) (1)
- Telling All the Stories: Children and Television (2010) (1)
- Mass Media and Dissent (2008) (1)
- Symbolic Functions of "Drug Abuse": A Mass Communication Approach (1974) (1)
- Global Media Mayhem (2002) (1)
- More questions raised than answered (1962) (1)
- Aging with Television: The Final Report (1980) (1)
- WILBUR SCHRAMM. Mass Media and National Development: The Role of Information in the Developing Countries. Pp. xiv, 333. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964. $7.50 (1965) (1)
- The crisis of the cultural environment : media & democracy in the 21st century (2002) (1)
- Book reviews (1968) (0)
- Health, medicine, and violence on TV. (1984) (0)
- Notes and comment (1927) (0)
- Notes and comments (1960) (0)
- Notes and comment (1929) (0)
- Teacher vs. the machine: The headline battle of Atlantic City (1963) (0)
- Book reviews (1968) (0)
- Book reviews (1961) (0)
- Beyond the Cold War (1991) (0)
- Introduction and Greetings (1993) (0)
- In Defense of “A Natural Formation” Or the “Procedure” (1969) (0)
- Passages (2005) (0)
- Book reviews (1966) (0)
- Sociology (1993) (0)
- Gratuitous Violence and Exploitative Sex: What are the Lessons? (Including Violence Profile No. 13) (1984) (0)
- Book review (1957) (0)
- Book Review: Defence and the Media in Time of Limited War (1993) (0)
- Book reviews (1958) (0)
- Aging with Television: What Viewers See and What They Say (1980) (0)
- Notes and comment (1930) (0)
- Aging with Television Commercials (1981) (0)
- Explosión de violencia en los Medios Globales (Global Media Mayhem) (2005) (0)
- The New Violence Profile (1997) (0)
- Sally Sedelow Archive - Complete (1964) (0)
- The international development of communication studies (1990) (0)
- Responses to "Star Wars of a Different Kind: Reflections on the Politics of the Religion and Television Research Project," by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Razelle Frankl (1989) (0)
- Book review (1967) (0)
- Book reviews (1957) (0)
- Book reviews (1967) (0)
- Media in Developing Nations (1977) (0)
- As Moscow Sees Us: American Politics and Society in the Soviet Mindset. By Richard M. Mills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xi, 308 pp. Index. Hard bound. (1992) (0)
- Notes and comment (1931) (0)
- Book reviews (1967) (0)
- Chairman Znaimer's "Sensual Pagan Torrent" (1996) (0)
- Books of the Month: The Future (1982) (0)
- Notes and comments (1930) (0)
- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD (2001) (0)
- Book reviews (1966) (0)
- Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect@@@Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action@@@Parents and Protectors: A Study in Child Abuse and Neglect (1981) (0)
- Notes and comment (1930) (0)
- A word for all seasons (1995) (0)
- Volume Information (1982) (0)
- Television's Effects in the Soviet Union: Highlights (1990) (0)
- Book reviews (1968) (0)
- Notes and comments (1930) (0)
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