Transportation and Selective Interest in Advertising: The Cultivation of Consumerist Values through Genre-Specific Media Use

  • Fan Hu
  • , Ning Wang

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Abstract

This research delineates what media use influences values judgments and what values judgments are influenced by media use. The specific media genre of beauty and fashion magazines is examined for spreading consumerist values of materialism and beauty-and-thin ideal. Two media variables—transportation and interest in advertisements—are used to gain new insights into cultivation processes. Traditional cultivation survey is employed. Young women, both college students and non-students are included in the sample (n = 413).
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2009
Event92nd Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2009 - Sheraton Boston, Boston, United States
Duration: 5 Aug 20098 Aug 2009

Conference

Conference92nd Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period5/08/098/08/09

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