Articles

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Have They Got a Deal For You: It's Suspiciously Cozy In the Cybermarket, Departmental Papers (ASC) (2005)

A couple of years ago, in an undergraduate seminar I taught called "Spam and Society,"...

 

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Open to Exploitation: America's Shoppers Online and Offline (with Lauren Feldman and Kimberly Meltzer), Departmental Papers (ASC) (2005)

Most Americans who use the Internet have little idea how vulnerable they are to abuse...

 

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Discussions of Health Web Sites in Medical and Popular Media (with Kara Coluccio, Alyssa Hersh, Lee Humphreys, Lela Jacobsohn, and Nadia Sawicki), Departmental Papers (ASC) (2003)

To what extent and how do medical and popular media discuss issues of quality when...

 

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Television entertainment and the US health-care debate, Departmental Papers (ASC) (1996)

Some experts on the media say that entertainment can be more successful than news at...

 

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Hidden Conflicts and Journalistic Norms: The Case of Self-coverage, Departmental Papers (ASC) (1994)

Because news and entertainment firms are increasingly under the same corporate umbrellas, it is likely...

 

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Curing Television's Ills: The Portrayal of Health Care (with Lisa Coe), Departmental Papers (ASC) (1985)

Content analysis of TV programming across day- and night-time genres shows drugs and machines as...

 

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The Effects of Television on Children: What the Experts Believe, Departmental Papers (ASC) (1985)

A national survey of mass media scholars was conducted to answer the question, "What impact...

 

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Local Television: Producing Soft News, Departmental Papers (ASC) (1983)

A reliance on prepackaged features and public relations sources, coupled with a desire for upbeat,...

 

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Producing TV's World: How Important is Community, An Essay Review, Departmental Papers (ASC) (1982)

Two views of the televisionl film business examine the media’s New York-California connection.
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Another View of 'Citizen Feedback' to the Mass Media, Departmental Papers (ASC) (1978)

Letter-writing has traditionally been an encouraged form of expressing opinion in the United States. The...

 

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Advising and Ordering: Daytime, Prime Time, Departmental Papers (ASC) (1974)

The patterns of advice-giving and receiving and order-giving and receiving among television's dramatic characters provide...

 

Contributions to Books

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A Major Transformation, Departmental Papers (ASC) (2006)

We argue strenuously, strenuously against the naive sentimentalism on the part of companies that insist...

 

Presentations

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The FTC and Consumer Privacy in the Coming Decade (with Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Nathaniel Good, and Jens Grossklags), Federal Trade Commission (2006)

Large majorities of consumers believe that the term "privacy policy" conveys a baseline level of...