Tahlilan is one of the ancestral traditions Indonesian nation which rich in social values. Apart from functioning as a religious ritual, it also meaningful medium for character education. Through field research method, this seeks to reveal values education contained tahlilan tradition, especially carried out by people Losari Village, District, Cirebon Regency. The results study found that there...

This essay explores the media frame-changing process in the news coverage of the 1999 Columbine shootings, clarifying the news discourse focus on Columbine’s national importance. The study applies the van Dijk/Bell scheme of media analysis to 683 news articles from print and broadcast media published within 30 days following the incident. Insight is offered into the thematic content of the Colu...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relative importance of media coverage and physician advice on the decision of women 40 years and older to obtain a mammogram. Five theoretical models, by which media coverage and physician advice may interact to affect individual health behavior, are presented. These models are tested with time-series regression analysis based on national-level data o...