From Culture among Working Class Men to an Overall Leisure Industry by Mass Media

Theodor Adorno Culture Industry Reconsidered (from "the Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture"

The term culture industry was perhaps used for the first time in the book Dialectic of Enlightenment, which Horkheimer and I published in Amsterdam in 1947. In our drafts we spoke of 'mass culture'. We replaced that expression with 'culture industry' in order to exclude from the outset the interpretation agreeable to its advocates: that it is a matter of something like a culture that arises spo...

Lung, gastric and colorectal cancer mortality by occupation and industry among working-aged men in Japan

We examined occupational and industrial differences in lung, gastric, and colorectal cancer risk among Japanese men of working age (25-64 years) using the 2010 Japanese national survey data for occupation and industry-specific death rates. Poisson regression models were used to estimate the age-adjusted incident rate ratios by lung, gastric, and colorectal cancers, with manufacturing used as th...

Reputational Damage to Tourism Industry from Earthquakes – Impact and Analysis of Mass Media Information

Differences in stroke and ischemic heart disease mortality by occupation and industry among Japanese working-aged men

Occupation- and industry-based risks for stroke and ischemic heart disease may vary among Japanese working-aged men. We examined the differences in mortality rates between stroke and ischemic heart disease by occupation and industry among employed Japanese men aged 25-59 years. In 2010, we obtained occupation- and industry-specific vital statistics data from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Lab...

An exploratory review of HIV prevention mass media campaigns targeting men who have sex with men

BACKGROUND Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at increased risk of HIV infection in both high- and low-income settings. Mass media campaigns have been used as a means of communicating HIV health promotion messages to large audiences of MSM. There is no consensus on which designs are most appropriate to evaluate the process and outcomes of such interventions. METHODS An exploratory review was...