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George GerbnerBell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications |
Biography
Before being awarded the Bell Atlantic Chair, Dr.Gerbner was Professor and Dean of the The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania from 1964 through 1989; Visiting Lecturer, University of Athens, Greece; Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University, Washington, D.C.; Visiting Professor, University of Budapest, Hungary; Visiting Professor, Salesian University, Rome, Italy; and Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University, Cairo, Egypt.
He also taught at the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois; the University of Southern California; El Camino College, Torrance, Cal.; and John Muir College, Pasadena, Cal. His U.S. and international research projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Administration on Aging, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior, the Screen Actors Guild, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and other organizations.
He was executive editor of the quarterly Journal of Communication and chair of the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Communication. He has also served on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers. During World War II, he served in the 541st Parachute Infantry (101st Airborne) and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He received a field commission and the Bronze Star for service behind enemy lines. Born in Hungary, came to the U.S. in 1939.
Recent publications include: Telling All the Stories, collected essays. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. in press; "Who Is Shooting Whom?: The Content And Context Of Media Violence." In Murray Pomerance and John Sakeris (Eds), Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot.; Essays on Guns and Popular Culture. Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster, 1998. "Telling Stories, or How Do We Know What We Know? The Story of Cultural Indicators and the Cultural Environment Movement." Wide Angle , Vol. 20, No. 2, April, 1998. " Cultivation Analysis: An Overview." Mass Communication & Society, Vol. 1, Mo 3/4, "TV Violence and What to Do About It." Nieman Reports, Fall 1996; "Television Violence: The Power and the Peril, in Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Text-Reader.(Sage, 1995); "Instant History: the Case of the Moscow Coup" in Political Communication, 1993; "Casting And Fate; Women and Minorities on Television Drama, Game Shows, and News." In Communication, Culture, and Community (The Netherlands: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, 1995); The Global Media Debate: Its Rise, Fall and Renewal (Ablex, 1993); Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf. A Global Perspective (Westview, 1992); "Stories that Hurt: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs in the Mass Media" in Youth and Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages U.S. Government Printing Office. 1990);
Born in Hungary, Dr. Gerbner came to the United States in 1939, received his B.A. from the University of California and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Married in 1946 to Ilona K. Gerbner, they have two sons and five grandchildren.
Books
Telling All the Stories (collected essays) New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. in press, out in August, 2000.
Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Media Control Means for America and the World. With Hamid Mowlana and Herbert Schiller (eds.) Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
The Global Media Debate: Its Rise, Fall, and Renewal. With Hamid Mowlana and Kaarle Nordenstreng (Eds.) New York: Ablex, 1993.
Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf. An International Perspective. With Hamid Mowlana and Herbert Schiller (eds.) Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Beyond the Cold War: Soviet and American Media Images. With Everette E. Dennis and Yassen N. Zassoursky (Eds.) Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. 1991.
The Information Gap: How Computers and Other Communication Technologies Affect the Distribution of Power. With Marsha Siefert and Janice Fisher (Eds.) New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Violence and Terror in the Media: An Annotated Bibliography. With Nancy Signorielli. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.
International Encyclopedia of Communications. 4 volumes. (Chair, Editorial Board.) New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1988.
World Communications: A Handbook. With Marsha Siefert (Eds.) New York and London: Annenberg/Longman Communication Books, 1984.
Communications in the Twenty-First Century. With Robert W. Haigh and Richard B. Byrne (Eds.) New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981.
Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action. With Catherine J. Ross and Edward Zigler (Eds.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Mass Media Policies in Changing Cultures. (Ed.) New York: Wiley Interscience, 1977. Translated into Italian in De Donato (Editore) Le politiche dei mass media. Bari: S.P.A. 1980.
Communications Technology and Social Policy. With Larry P. Gross and William H. Melody (Eds.) New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1973.
The Analysis of Communications Content: Developments in Scientific Theories and Computer Techniques. With Ole R. Holsti, Klaus Krippendorff, William J. Paisley, and Phillip Stone (Eds.) New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1969.
Journals
"What Do We Know?" Foreword to James Shanahan and Michael Morgan, Television and Its Viewers; Cultivation Theory and Research. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
"How Media Affects Children and Youth." In Effects of Media on Children and Youth, Proceedings of an international conference held in Dobogoko, Hungary, October 16-17, 1998. 1999
"Mass Media and Dissent." Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict. Academic Press, 1999
"The "Construction' of Reality and the Mass Media." Address delivered at an international conference in April 1996 in Athens, Greece (in Greek, with English summary). Athens: Alexandria Publications, 1998.
"Who Is Shooting Whom?: The Content And Context Of Media Violence." In Murray Pomerance and John Sakeris (Eds), Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot.; Essays on Guns and Popular Culture. Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
"Telling Stories: How Television Skews Our View of Society, And Ourselves. An Interview With George Gerbner by Derrick Jensen. " The Sun (California) August 1998, pp. 13-17.
"Telling Stories, or How Do We Know What We Know? The Story of Cultural Indicators and the Cultural Environment Movement." Wide Angle , Vol. 20, No. 2, April, 1998.
"Cultivation Analysis: An Overview." Mass Communication & Society, Vol. 1, Mo 3/4, Summer/Fall 1998.
"On Bias." Nexus: A Journal of Opinion. Spring 1998
"The Best Kept Secret of November: Labor Day." Peace Review, November 1998.
"Gender and Age in Prime Time Television." In Diana Adele Krischner and Sam Kirschner (Eds.) Media Psychology, American Psychological Association, in press.
"Media, Violence and Health." New Jersey Medicine, In press.
"The Stories We Tell." Media Development, Fall (4) 1996.
"Invasion of the Story Sellers." Foreword to Roy F. Fox, Harvesting Minds; How TV Commercials Control Kids. Preager, 1996
"TV Violence and What to Do About It." Nieman Reports, Fall 1996, pp. 10-12.
"Fred Rogers and the Significance of Story." In Mark Collins and Margaret Mary Kimmel (Eds.) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Children, Television and Fred Rogers. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
"Why the Cultural Environment Movement?" Culturelink, Aug. 1996.
"Chairman Znaimer's 'Sensual Pagan Torrent.'" (Review-essay) Canadian Journal of Communication, 1996.
"Terrorism: a Word for All Seasons." Peace Review, Fall 1995. 7:/3/4, pp. 313-319.
"The Cultural Frontier: Repression, Violence, and the Liberating Alternative." In Philip Lee (ed.), The Democratization of Communication. The University of Wales Press, 1995.
"Cameras on Trial: The O.J. Simpson Show Turns the Tide." Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Fall 1995.
"Casting And Fate; Women and Minorities on Television Drama, Game Shows, and News." In Ed Hollander, Coen van der Linden, and Paul Rutten (Eds.), Communication, Culture, and Community. The Netherlands: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, 1995.
"Animal Issues in the Media." A Report to the Ark Trust, Inc., 1995
"Bringing the Nicotine Cartel to Justice." Adbusters Quarterly, Summer 1995.
"Alcohol in American Culture." In Susan E Martin, (ed.) Alcohol and the Mass Media: Issues, Approaches and Research Directions. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C., 1995.
"Marketing Global Mayhem." Javnost/The Public. (European Institute for Communication and Culture, Ljubljana, Slovenia) # 2:71-76, 1995.
"What's Wrong With This Picture?" Foreword to Yahya R. Kamalipour, The U.S. Media and the Middle East: Image and Perception. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.
"Television Violence: The Power and the Peril." In Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez (eds.) Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Text-Reader. Sage Publications, Inc.: 1995. French translation ("Pouvoir at Danger de la Violence Televisee") in Les Cahiers de la Securite Interieure, Paris, No. 20,2, 1995.
"The Hidden Message in Anti-Violence Public Service Announcements." Harvard Educational Review, 65:2, Summer 1995.
"The Story-Telling Animal." Foreword to Garth S. Jowett, Ian C. Jarvie and Kathryn H. Fuller, with Robert W. McChesney, Motion Pictures and Social Science: Media Influences and the Payne Fund Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1944.
"There is No Free Market on Television." Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 22:879-884, 1994.
"Instant History/Image History: Lessons from the Persian Gulf War." In Roy F. Fox (ed.) Images in Language, Media & Mind. National Council of Teachers of English, 1994. Another version is in The Velvet Light Trap, # 31, Spring 1993. Also, in Finnish translation, in tiedotustutkimus, 4/1992.
"Television Violence Profile No. 16: The Turning Point. From Research to Action." With Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli. The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, January, 1994.
"The Risk of Playing to the Cameras." Legal Times, July 25, 1994, pp. 21-22.
"Television Violence: the Art of Asking the Wrong Question." The World&I; a Chronicle of Our Changing Era. July, 1994, pp.385-397.
"Learning Productive Aging as a Social Role: The Lessons of Television." In Scott A. Bass, Francis G. Caro and Yung-Ping Chen, (eds.) Achieving a Productive Aging Society. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1994.
"Who Tells All the Stories?" Media Competency As A Challenge to Schools and Education. A German-North American Dialogue. Gutersloh: Bertelsman Foundation Publishers, 1993.
"Women and Minorities in Television: Casting and Fate." A Report to the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, June 1993.
"Brave New Cultural Environment." Adbusters Quarterly, Winter 1993.
"Challenging the Mythology of the Television Courtroom." Governing, June 1993.
"Growing Up with Television: The Cultivation Perspective" (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli). In Jennings Bryant and Dolf Zillmann (eds.) Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Inc., 1993.
"Violence in Cable-Originated Television Programs." Washington, D.C.: National Cable Television Association, January 1993.
"TV Violence in Context: Movies Produced for Television by the Turner Broadcasting System." University of Pennsylvania, March 1993.
"Instant History: the Case of the Moscow Coup." Political Communication, 10:185-194. Spring 1993.
"'Miracles' of Communication Technology: Powerful Audiences, Diverse Choices and Other Fairy Tales." In Janet Wasko (ed.) Illuminating the Blind Spots. New York: Ablex, 1993.
"The Politics of Media Violence: Some Reflections." In Mass Communication Research: On Problems and Policies. Cees Hamelink and Olga Linne (Eds.) Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1993.
"Violence and Drugs on Television; the Cultural Environment Approach to Prevention." A research report to the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., 1993.
"Persian Gulf War, The Movie." In Triumph of the Image, see Books, above. A previous version was delivered as the first Wayne A. Danielson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Communication Scholarship lecture at the University of Texas at Austin and published in Representative American Speeches 1991-92. H.W. Wilson Company, 1992.
"Violence and Terror In and By the Media." In Media, Crisis and Democracy. Marc Raboy and Bernard Dagenais (Eds.) London:Sage, 1992.
"The Image of Russians on American Media and 'The New Epoch.'" In Beyond the Cold War, see Books, above.
"Unesco in the U.S. Press." In The Global Media Debate, see Books, above.
"Violence in the Mass Media." In Lucien Sfez and Francis Balle (Eds.) Dictionnaire Critique de la Communication. Paris, France. 1992.
"Fuehrt Kanalfuelle zu mehr Programmvielfalt?" ("Does Channel Proliferation Promote Program Diversity?") Media Perspectiven (Frankfurt a. M.). January, 1991.
"The Second American Revolution." Adbusters Quarterly, Winter, 1990.
"Stories That Hurt: Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs in the Mass Media." In Youth and Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages. OSAP Prevention Monograph-6, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 1990.
"The Crack in the Tobacco Curtain, or the Bill of Rights Disinformation Campaign." In Free Speech. Speech Communications Association, Spring 1990.
"A New Environmental Movement in Communication and Culture." Media Development, April 1990.
"Epilogue: Advancing on the Path of Righteousness (Maybe)." In Nancy Signorielli and Michael J. Morgan (Eds.) Cultivation Analysis; New Directions in Media Effects Research. Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990.
"Violence Profile 1967 Through 1988-89: Enduring Patterns." With Nancy Signorielli. The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, January 1990.
"Communications, Study of." (With Wilbur Schramm). International Encyclopedia of Communications. New York: Oxford University Press, February 1989. Reprinted as "The icnternational development of communication studies." Communicatio, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1990.
"Media Coverage of the Declaration." In Hamid Mowlana, (ed.) Aspects of the Mass Media Declaration of Unesco. International Association for Mass Communication Research Occasional Papers No. 9. Budapest: Hungarian Institute for Public Opinion Research, 1989.
"Waiting for Prime Time: The Outlook for Women in TV News," New Choices 29(3). New York: Retirement Living Publishing Co., Inc., March 1989.
"Violence and Terror in the Mass Media," Reports and Papers in Mass Communication, No. 102. Paris: Unesco, 1988.
"Television's Cultural Mainstream: Which Way Does It Run?." Directions in Psychiatry, 8(9). New York: Hatherleigh Co., Ltd., Summer 1988.
"Symbolic Functions of Violence and Terror." The Terrorism and the News Media Research Project. Boston: Mass Communication and Society Div., AEJMC, Emerson College, July 1988.
"Ministry of Culture, the USA, and the Free Marketplace of Ideas." National Forum, Fall 1987.
"Telling Stories in the Information Age." In Brent D. Rubin (Ed.) Information and Behavior. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books. 1988.
"Cross-Cultural Communications Research in the Age of Telecommunications." In Continuity and Change in Communications in Post-Industrial Society. Volume 2 in The World Community in Post-Industrial Society. Edited by Christian Academy. Seoul, Korea: Wooseok Publishing Company, 1989.
"The Electronic Church in American Culture." In New Catholic World, May/June 1987. pp. 133 - 135.
"Science On Television: How It Affects Public Conceptions." Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 1987. pp. 109 - 115.
"Television's Populist Brew: The Three Bs." et cetera 1:44, Spring 1987. pp. 3 - 7.
"Televised Trials -- Historic Juncture for our Courts?" Introduction to Susanna Barber, News Cameras in the Courtroom, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1987.
"Television's Mean World: Violence Profile No. 14-15." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli). Philadelphia: The Annenberg School of Communications, September 1986.
"Living with Television: The Dynamics of the Cultivation Process." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli). In Jennings Bryant and Dolf Zillmann (eds.) Perspectives on Media Effects. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Inc., 1986. Reprinted in Amy G. Halberstadt and Steve L. Ellyson (eds.) Social Psychology Readings: A Century of Research. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1990.
"The Symbolic Context of Action and Communication." In Ralph L. Rosnow and Marianthi Georgoudi (Eds.) Contextualism and Understanding in Behavioral Science. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986.
"Children's Television: A National Disgrace." Pediatric Annals, December 1985. pp. 822-827. Reprinted in Peterson, Owen (Ed.) The Reference Shelf: Representative American Speeches, 1985-1986. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1986. pp. 142-148.
"Dreams That Hurt: Mental Illness in the Mass Media." Presented at the First Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta). November 15, 1985.
"Mass Media Discourse: Message System Analysis as a Component of Cultural Indicators." In Teun A. van Dijk (Ed.) Discourse and Communication. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Guyter & Co., 1985.
"Television Entertainment and Viewers' Conceptions of Science." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli.) A Research Report to the National Science Foundation, The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, July 1985.
"Le Colonialisme de la Television: Les Fonctions Symboliques de la Violence." In TViolence: Actes du Colloque. Montreal: Association Nationale des Telespectateurs. 1985.
"The Mainstreaming of America: Television Makes Strange Bedfellows." TV Guide, October 20, 1984. pp. 20 - 23.
"Gratuitous Violence and Exploitive Sex: What are the Lessons? (Including Violence Profile No. 13)." Statement prepared for the Study Committee of the Communications Commission of the National Council of Churches hearing (New York) September 21, 1984.
"Facts, Fantasies and Schools." With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli.) Society, September/October 1984.
"Defending the Indefensible." (With Steven H. Chaffee, Beatrix A. Hamburg, Chester M. Pierce, Eli A. Rubinstein, Alberta E. Siegel, and Jerome L. Singer). Society, September/October 1984.
"The Impact of the 'Electronic Church' on the Local Church." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli.) Ministries, Fall 1984. pp. 58 - 61.
"Defining the Field of Communication." ACA Bulletin, April 1984.
"Religion on Television." (With Harry E. Cotugno, Larry Gross, Stewart Hoover, Michael Morgan, Nancy Signorelli, and Robert Wuthnow.) A Research Report by The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania and the Gallup Organization, Inc., April 1984.
"Health, Medicine, and Violence on TV." Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians (Philadelphia). March, 1984.
"Political Correlates of Television Viewing." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli.) Public Opinion Quarterly Spring, 1984.
"Liberal Education in the Information Age." Current Issues in Higher Education. 1983-84.
"Political Functions of Television Viewing: A Cultivation Analysis." In Gabriele Melischek, Karl Erik Rosengren and James Stappers (Eds.) Cultural Indicators: An International Symposium. Vienna, Austria: Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1984.
"The Importance of Being Critical--In One's Own Fashion." Journal of Communication. Summer 1983.
"The American Press Coverage of The Fourth Extraordinary Session of the UNESCO General Conference, Paris 1982." (A study conducted under contract with UNESCO). The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania. August 1983.
"The World According to Television." American Demographics. (With Nancy Signorielli.) October l982.
"Television in the Courtroom." In Americana Annual/Encyclopedia Year Book. Danbury, CT.: Grolier, Inc., 1982.
"What Television Teaches About Doctors and Health." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). Mobius: A Journal for Continuing Education Professionals in Health Sciences, April, 1982.
"Charting the Mainstream: Television's Contributions to Political Orientations." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). Journal of Communication, Spring 1982, pp. 100-126.
"The Gospel of Instant Gratification." Business and Society Review. Spring 1982. (Symposium on advertising.)
"TV's Changing Our Lives." Presbyterian Survey, January 1982, pp.11-13.
"Programming Health Portrayals: What Viewers See, Say and Do." (With Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli). In David Pearl, Lorraine Bouthilet, and Joyce Lazar (Eds.) Television and Behavior: Ten Years of Scientific Progress and Implications for the 80's. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Resources Publication No. (ADM) 82-1196, 1982.
"TV Professions." (With Michael Morgan). In Meg Schwartz (Ed.) TV & Teens: Experts Look at the Issues. Reading, Mass.: Action for Children's Television, Addison-Wesley. 1982.
"Health and Medicine on Television." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). The New England Journal of Medicine, October 8, 1981.
"Television as Religion." Media & Values, Fall 1981, pp. 1-3. Reprinted as "Society's Story-Teller; How Television Creates the Myths by Which we Live" in the 15th Anniversary Issue, Fall 1992.
"Final Reply to Paul Hirsch." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). Communication Research, July 1981.
"A Curious Journey into the Scary World of Paul Hirsch." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli). Communication Research, January 1981, pp. 39-72.
"Aging With Television Commercials: Images on Television Commercials and Dramatic Programming, 1977-1979." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli). The Annenberg School of Communications University of Pennsylvania, June 1981.
"Scientists on the TV Screen." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). Society, May/June, 1981.
"Television: The American Schoolchild's National Curriculum Day in and Day Out." PTA Today, Chicago, IL., April 1981.
"Education for the Age of Television." In Milton E. Ploghoft and James A. Anderson (Eds.) Education for the Television Age. Athens, Ohio: The Cooperative Center for Social Science Education, College of Education, Ohio University, 1981.
"TV: The New Religion Controlling Us." Feature article in the Long Island Newsday, "Ideas," November 9, 1980. Also published in The Miami Herald, "Viewpoint" (as "TV As The New Religion"), November 30, 1980. Also published in the Free Press. London, Ontario, Canada, November 1980.
"Television's Contributions to Public Understanding of Science: A Pilot Project." (a report to the National Science Foundation with Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli). Philadelphia, Pa.: The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, October, 1980.
"The 'Mainstreaming' of America: Violence Profile No. 11." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). Journal of Communication, Summer 1980. Reprinted in Mass Communication Review Yearbook II. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, Inc., April 1981; also in Janice Hanson and David J. Maxcey (Eds.). Notable Selections in Mass Media. Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group/Brown and Benchmar Publishers, 1966.
"Television Violence, Victimization and Power." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). In American Behavioral Scientist, May 1980.
"Media Portrayal of the Elderly." Statement in Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Los Angeles, CA. April 26, 1980. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, Comm. Pub. No. 96-231.
"Media and the Family: Images and Impact." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). For the National Research Forum on Family Issues sponsored by the White House Conference on Families, Washington, D.C., April 11, 1980.
"Trial by Television: Are We at the Point of No Return?" Judicature, April 1980. Winner of the Media Award of the Philadelphia Bar Association, 1981. Reprinted in National Shorthand Reporter, June 1980. Also published in two parts in a somewhat different version in Louisville Law Examiner, "Brandeis Brief" series of "Emerging Legal Issues," Louisville, KY: University of Kentucky, March 6, 1980 and April 14, 1980.
"Violence Profile No. 11: Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality 1967-1979." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). Philadelphia, Pa.: The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, April 1980.
"Interpreting The TV World." Irish Broadcasting Review, Spring 1980.
"Sex on Television and What Viewers Learn From It." Prepared for the National Association of Television Program Executives Annual Conference. San Francisco, Ca., February 19, 1980.
"Death in Prime Time: Notes on the Symbolic Functions of Dying in the Mass Media." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 447, January 1980.
"Aging with Television: Images on Television Drama and Conceptions of Social Reality." (With Larry Gross, Nancy Signorielli, and Michael Morgan). Journal of Communication, Winter 1980.
"Children and Power on Television: The Other Side of the Picture." In Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action. (see above)
"Electronic Children: Will the New Generation Be Different?" In Al Klose (Ed.) Democracy---Technology...Collision! Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1980.
"Stigma: Social Functions of the Portrayal of Mental Illness in the Mass Media." In J. Rabkin, L. Gelb, and J.B. Lazar (Eds.) Attitudes Toward the Mentally Ill: Research Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980.
"The Violent Face of Television and Its Lessons." (With Larry Gross). In Edward L. Palmer and Aimee Dorr (Eds.) Children and the Faces of Television: Teaching, Violence Selling. New York: Academic Press, 1980.
"The Demonstration of Power: Violence Profile No. 10." (With Larry Gross, Nancy Signorielli, Michael Morgan, and Marilyn Jackson-Beeck). Journal of Communication, Summer 1979. Reprinted in Mass Communication Review Yearbook I. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, Inc., 1980.
"Editorial Response - A Reply to Newcomb's Humanistic Critique'." (With Larry Gross). Communication Research, April 1979, pp. 223-229.
Violence Profile No. 10: Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality 1967-1978." (With Larry Gross, Nancy Signorielli, Michael Morgan, and Marilyn Jackson-Beeck). Philadelphia, Pa.: The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, March 1979.
"On Wober's 'Televised Violence and Paranoid Perception: The View From Great Britain'." (With Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli). Public Opinion Quarterly, Spring, 1979.
"The Role of Media in Citizen Perception of Crime." In Crime and People: Fears and Realities. Forum Proceedings published by the Maryland Conference of Social Concern, (1301 Park Ave. Baltimore, MD 21217), 1979.
"The Image of the Elderly in Prime-Time Television Drama." (With Nancy Signorielli). Generations, Fall 1978, pp. 10-11.
"Uber die Angstlichkeit von Vielsehern." ("About the Anxiousness of Heavy Viewers.") Fernsehen und Bildung, 12:1/2, 1978.
"The World of Television News." (With Nancy Signorielli). In W. Adams and F. Schreibman (Eds.) Television News Archives: A Guide to Research. Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, 1978.
"Cultural Indicators. Violence Profile No. 9." (With Larry Gross, Marilyn Jackson-Beeck, Suzanne Jeffries-Fox, and Nancy Signorielli). Journal of Communication, Summer 1978.
"Deviance and Power: Symbolic Functions of 'Drug Abuse.'" In Charles Winick (Ed.) Deviance and Mass Media. Beverly Hills, Cal.: Sage, 1978. Also in Studiesin the Anthropology of Visual Communication, Fall 1974.
"Violence Profile No. 9: Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality 1967-1977." (With Larry Gross, Marilyn Jackson-Beeck, Suzanne Jeffries-Fox, and Nancy Signorielli). Philadelphia, Pa.: The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, March 1978.
"Television's Influence on Values and Behavior." Weekly Psychiatry Update Series. New York: Biomedia, Inc., 1978, Lesson 24, Vol. 2.
"Women in Public Broadcasting: A Progress Report." (With Nancy Signorielli), Philadelphia, Pa.: Institute for Applied Communication Sciences, The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 1978.
"The Dynamics of Cultural Resistance." In Gaye Tuchman, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, and James Benet (Eds.) Hearth and Home: Images of Women in Mass Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978, Chapter 1.
"Television as New Religion." (With Kathleen Connolly). New Catholic World. March/April 1978.
"Fernsehen und Familie." (With Suzanne Jeffries-Fox). Fernsehen und Bildung 11, Munich, Germany, pp. 222-234.
"Controller of Our Fears." In a symposium on "The War Against Television Violence." Business and Society Review, Fall 1977.
"Popular Culture: Who Pays?" Popular Culture ("Courses by Newspaper," University of California, San Diego, distributed by United Press International.) Del Mar, Cal.: Publishers, Inc., 1977.
"The Real Threat of Television Violence." In Judy Fireman (Ed.) TV Book: The Ultimate Television Book. New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1977.
"Proliferating Violence." Society, September/October 1977.
"The Gerbner Violence Profile'--An Analysis of the CBS Report" and "One More Time': An Analysis of the CBS 'Final Comments on the Violence Profile'." (With Larry Gross, Marilyn Jackson-Beeck, Suzanne Jeffries-Fox, and Nancy Signorielli). Journal of Broadcasting, Summer 1977.
"Television: The New State Religion?" et cetera, June 1977. Reprinted in Larry Hickman (Ed.) Philosophy, Technology, and Human Affairs. College Station, TX: Ibis Press, 1985.
"Comparative Cultural Indicators." In Mass Media Policies in Changing Cultures, Chapter 18. (See Books, above.)
"Institutional Forces and the Mass Media." In Mary B. Cassata and Molefi K. Asante (Eds.) The Social Uses of Mass Communication. State University of New York at Buffalo: Department of Communication, Communication Research Center, 1977.
"Violence Profile No. 8: Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality, 1967-1976." Testimony and Report printed in Sex and Violence on TV, hearing before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Serial No. 95-103. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977.
"TV Violence Profile No. 8: The Highlights." (With Larry Gross, Marilyn Jackson-Beeck, Suzanne Jeffries-Fox, and Nancy Signorielli). Journal of Communication, Spring 1977.
"The Many Worlds of the World's Press." (With George Marvanyi), Journal of Communication, Winter 1977. Reprinted in Jim Richstad and Michael H. Anderson (Eds.) Crisis in International News: Policies and Prospects. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
"Television Violence: Measuring the Climate of Fear." Impact, American Medical News, December 13, 1976.
"The Family Hour and Beyond." Human Behavior, November 1976.
"IAMCR Assembly." Intermedia, October 1976.
"Living with Television: The Violence Profile." (With Larry Gross). Journal of Communication. Spring 1976. Reprinted in Horace Newcomb (Ed.) Television: The Critical View, 2nd ed. New Oxford University Press, 1979.
"Violence Profile No. 7: Trends in Network Television Drama and Viewer Conceptions of Social Reality, 1967-1975." (With Larry Gross, Michael F. Eleey, Suzanne Fox, Marilyn Jackson-Beeck, and Nancy Signorielli). Philadelphia, Pa.: The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, April 1976.
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