Cultivation revisited: Some genres have some effects on some viewers

Excellent gamer, excellent driver? The impact of adolescents’ video game playing on driving behavior: A two-wave panel study

“…Thus, in line with authors (e.g. Bilandzic and Rössler, 2004;Cohen and Weimann, 2000;Potter, 1993) looking at genre-specific cultivation effects of television viewing; the specific effects of the playing of racing and drive'em up games will be examined in the present study.…”

“…These assumptions of a uniform television 7 content and ritualistic viewing have been heavily criticized in later cultivation research. Potter (1993) as well as Cohen and Weimann (2000), and Bilandzic and Rössler (2004) have argued that different genres focus on different aspects of reality and therefore have different effects. This is also the case for video games.…”

Tourist Tragic News A Case of Its Effects on Tourism in Thailand

“…In addition, Cultivation theory which studied the long-term effects of consuming media news stated that the more time audiences spend living in the media world, the more likely they are to believe social reality portrayed on media is the real [18]. Therefore, when audiences consume bad news of the country, they may presume a bad icon of the country such as unsafe place, unfriendly people, unsecure of life are really the whole reality of the country.…”

The problem of causality in cultivation research

“…3. Numerous studies have addressed the theoretical and empirical implications of the selective viewer, establishing stronger cultivation effects from program-specific than Hawkins and Pingree, 1981;Potter and Chang, 1990;Potter, 1990;Cohen and Weimann, 2000). 4.…”