Showing papers by "Patti M. Valkenburg published in 2000"
TL;DR: The authors investigated the prevalence of five news frames identified in earlier studies on framing and framing effects: attribution of responsibility, conflict, human interest, economic consequences, and morality, and found that the use of news frames depended on both the type of outlet and the topic most significant differences were not between media (television vs the press) but between sensationalist vs serious types of news outlets.
Abstract: We investigated the prevalence of 5 news frames identified in earlier studies on framing and framing effects: attribution of responsibility, conflict, human interest, economic consequences, and morality We content analyzed 2,601 newspaper stories and 1,522 television news stories in the period surrounding the Amsterdam meetings of European heads of state in 1997 Our results showed that, overall, the attribution of responsibility frame was most commonly used in the news, followed by the conflict, economic consequences, human interest, and morality frames, respectively The use of news frames depended on both the type of outlet and the type of topic Most significant differences were not between media (television vs the press) but between sensationalist vs serious types of news outlets Sober and serious newspapers and television news programs more often used the responsibility and conflict frames in the presentation of news, whereas sensationalist outlets more often used the human interest frame
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TL;DR: This paper found that children's gender and age, as well as their level of exposure to the network that aired the most commercials, were significant predictors of their requests for advertised products.
Abstract: In December 1997,250 children were asked to list their Christmas wishes. These requests were then compared to the commercials that were broadcast at the time of data collection. Sixty-seven percent of the seven- and eight-year-olds, 49% of the 9- and 10-year-olds, and 40% of the 11-and 72-year-olds asked for at least one advertised product. Children's gender and age, as well as their level of exposure to the network that aired the most commercials, were significant predictors of their requests for advertised products.
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TL;DR: Research into types of effect is summarized and the literature on several other predictors of children's consumer behavior, including age gender, socioeconomic level, and parent-child communication is discussed.
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TL;DR: Both children's television-induced fears and their coping strategies to reduce such fears varied by age and gender.
Abstract: Using telephone interviews with a random sample of Dutch children between the ages of 7 and 12 years, the authors investigated (a) the prevalence of television-induced fright, (b) whether the fear-inducing capacity of different types of television content (interpersonal violence, fantasy characters, war and suffering, and fires and accidents) is associated with the child's age and gender, and (c) how boys and girls in different age groups cope with their television-induced fears. Thirty-one percent of the children reported having been frightened by television during the preceding year. Both children's television-induced fears and their coping strategies to reduce such fears varied by age and gender.
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