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Michael Morgan
Male
- mmorgan@comm.umass.edu
- Telephone
- 413-545-4314
- Personal website
- http://www.umass.edu/communication/faculty_and_staff/faculty/michael_morgan.shtml
- Interests
- Television, Media Effects, Cultivation theory
- Role(s)
- Researcher
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts -- AmherstAmherst , MA, United States
Discipline(s)
- Communications
Biography
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1980
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
B.A., New College, 1974
Television, socialization, and enculturation; international and intercultural effects of mass media; effects and functions of new media technology; social and familial contexts of media exposure.
Author or co-author of Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research; Democracy Tango: Television, Adolescents, and Authoritarian Tensions in Argentina; "Television and the Erosion of Regional Diversity"; "Television and 'Family Values': Was Dan Quayle Right?"; "Adolescents, VCRs, and the Family Environment"; co-editor, Mainstream(s) and Margins: Cultural Politics in the 90s, and Cultivation Analysis: New Directions in Media Effects Research. Current research includes studies on mass media and attitudes towards immigration, television and cultural participation, television and adolescents in Argentina, and metaanalysis of cultivation.
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
B.A., New College, 1974
Television, socialization, and enculturation; international and intercultural effects of mass media; effects and functions of new media technology; social and familial contexts of media exposure.
Author or co-author of Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research; Democracy Tango: Television, Adolescents, and Authoritarian Tensions in Argentina; "Television and the Erosion of Regional Diversity"; "Television and 'Family Values': Was Dan Quayle Right?"; "Adolescents, VCRs, and the Family Environment"; co-editor, Mainstream(s) and Margins: Cultural Politics in the 90s, and Cultivation Analysis: New Directions in Media Effects Research. Current research includes studies on mass media and attitudes towards immigration, television and cultural participation, television and adolescents in Argentina, and metaanalysis of cultivation.
Publications and Resources
Journal Articles
- Michael Morgan. Television and the erosion of regional diversity. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.