The Mass Media & Social Problems

(partial) The Historical and Theoretical Background to the Debate on the Mass Media and Social Problems: Introduction. Three models of mass communications research. Important concepts in mass communications theory. Psychological theory in mass communications research. The Mass Media and Conflict in Society: The mass media and crises. The Mass Media and the Treatment of Minority Groups: Race and the mass media. Sexism and the mass media. Sex, Violence, Crime and Justice: Violence and the mass media. Sex, eroticism and pornography. Crime and the mass media. The courts and the newsmedia. The Mass Media and the Social Services: Education, Health and Welfare: Education and the mass media: compensating for the educational disadvantaged. Health, ill health and mass media. The mass media and welfare.