Needles and Bullets: Media Theory, Medicine, and Propaganda, 1910–1940

Thibault, Ghislain

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“…Indeed, as media historian Ghislain Thibault notes, the ‘hypodermic model’ of mass communication (also known as the ‘sender > message > receiver’ model) has theoretical origins in early 20th-century US military rationales for production of ‘venereal disease’ prevention propaganda films (Thibault, 2016). While this model has been contested in the broad fields of media and communication studies, many public health practitioners still seem to assume that a ‘good’ sexual health message or campaign is one that provides an authoritative signal that is a prophylactic (or antidote) to the ‘noise’ of vernacular digital sexual cultures (Albury, 2019).…”

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Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health

Albury

Hendry

2022

Journal of Sociology

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This article draws on Epstein's theorisations of the ‘ideal’ of sexual health and wellbeing to argue that young people's access to digital sexual health content should not be understood primarily as a process of ‘information seeking’. Where digital practices are too narrowly viewed through a lens of information seeking and transmission, there may be an excessive focus on whether sexual health content is ‘factual’ – overlooking the question of whether it is meaningful in specific cultural contexts. We link contemporary digital sexual health cultures to the complex – and politicised – histories of popular mediated sexual health communication that underpin them. Exploring alternative theoretical frames – including pornographic vernaculars, influencer pedagogies, media as ritual, and situated peripheral learning in digital communities – we conclude that redefining and refocusing dominant understandings of ‘good’ sexual health content may generate new and productive strategies for engaging with marginal and disaffected digital sexual cultures.

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Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health

Albury

Hendry

2022

Journal of Sociology

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“… 4. The most detailed and substantive engagement can be found in the dissertations of Scott Curtis and Donald Fredericksen (Curtis, 1996; Fredericksen, 1973), both of whom laid the foundations for my own research by revealing invaluable primary sources. Other noteworthy discussions of Münsterberg and the Paramount Pictographs can be found in Griffith (1970); Langdale (2002); Marcus (2007); Pelster-Wiebe (2018); Thibault (2016); Winter (2012).…”

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Reanimating experimental psychology: Media archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the ‘Testing the Mind’ film series

Blatter

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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For historians of psychology, Hugo Münsterberg is best remembered as William James’ successor as director of the Harvard Psychological Laboratory and a pioneer of applied psychology. By contrast, for film and media studies scholars, Münsterberg is recognized less for his contributions to experimental psychology than for those to film theory, a field in which his penultimate book, The Photoplay: A Psychological Study (1916), is frequently claimed as an inaugural text. However, lost in the blind spots of both disciplinary perspectives has been a thorough examination of Münsterberg's collaboration with Paramount Pictures, translating psychological tests into experimental short films. Despite reaching millions of moviegoers in 1916, Münsterberg’s ‘Testing the Mind’ series has received little attention from historians of science and early cinema alike. One reason for this neglect is that, to date, not a single extant copy of a ‘Testing the Mind’ release has been located. This article is about the author's efforts, in collaboration with students, to reanimate these lost psychological tests for the screen through meticulous historical reconstruction based on the original scripts, journalistic accounts, and correspondence between Münsterberg and Paramount. This reconstructive process, I show, yields new insights into the relationship between psychology and early cinema and an opportunity for reflection on this promising new space for research at the intersection of media archaeology, the history of psychology, and experimental history of science. Film URL: https://archive.org/details/munsterberg_paramount.pictographs

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Evidence-Based Storytelling for a Strategic Roadmap to Promote Cancer Prevention via Adolescent HPV Vaccination in Northern New England

Dugan,

Stein,

Carney

et al. 2024

Crit Rev Eukaryot Gene Expr

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Vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV) among rural youth in northern New England lag those of more urbanized areas. Reasons include a lack of available medical offices, time constraints, perceptions of vaccines and HPV, and, to a smaller degree, delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a responsibility to increase vaccinations in these communities. To do so, vaccination experts recommend addressing the three C's of vaccination hesitation: confidence, complacency, and convenience. With this framework as our foundation, in this article we detail a plan to address these important elements, and we add several more C's: clinics, communication, collaboration, community, capacity, and commitment to the list as we discuss the essential pieces-human, infrastructural, and perceptual-needed to create and promote successful, community-supported, school-based HPV vaccination clinics to serve youths aged nine to 18. We then integrate research and storytelling science into an innovative <i>Persuasion Playbook</i>, a guide for local opinion leaders to use in creating evidence-based, pro-vaccine messages on the community level to promote the clinics via evidence-based, pro-vaccination messages.

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Needles and Bullets: Media Theory, Medicine, and Propaganda, 1910–1940

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health

Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health

Reanimating experimental psychology: Media archaeology, Hugo Münsterberg, and the ‘Testing the Mind’ film series

Evidence-Based Storytelling for a Strategic Roadmap to Promote Cancer Prevention via Adolescent HPV Vaccination in Northern New England

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