Consuming history and memory through mass media products

Consuming history and memory through mass media products

Consuming Choice: Audiences and Added Value in Media Products

Technological innovation is transforming media markets, facilitating competition, multiplatform distribution of content, and time and media shifting. As such, media are increasingly unable to rely on the basic value of content to attract audiences or extract value [premiums. In effect, these changes are creating three highly valued sources of added value: choice (having a wider range of content...

Health Promotion Through Mass Media

People adopt behavioral patterns consistent with events observed in their environments, including television portrayals. Although television programs frequently portray unhealthy styles of living, a vast potential exists for people to learn healthy patterns of behavior from media presentations. The purpose of this article is to examine interactions between the person and television that capital...

An Overview of Challenges in Producing and Consuming Transgenic Products

The production and consumption of genetically modified (GM) products are highly controversial due to their environmental, health, and ethical impacts. Most of these disputes are caused by distrust of regulatory authorities, scientists, and technocratic decisions. Among all these concerns, health issues, allergenicity and antibiotic resistance are more important. Many of today's social developme...

Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology

Jordan Goodman, Paul E Lovejoy and Andrew Sherratt (eds), Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology, London and New York, Routledge, 1995, pp. xii, 244, £35.00 (0-415-09039-3). A persistent feature of human cultures is the use of substances that alter mental states, which are incorporated into rituals, social life, and patterns of trade. These substances have occupied a somewhat awkwa...