Mass Media

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Reality surgery"--a research ethics perspective on the live broadcast of surgical procedures. 
  • "The education-knowledge road to Health for All--strategy for the 1990's". 
  • A crisis in the marketplace: how food marketing contributes to childhood obesity and what can be done. 
  • A history of orthotopic heart transplantation. 
  • An accountability evaluation for the industry's responsible use of brand mascots and licensed media characters to market a healthy diet to American children. 
  • An internet-based weight loss intervention initiated by a newspaper. 
  • Association Between Public Knowledge About COVID-19, Trust in Information Sources, and Adherence to Social Distancing: Cross-Sectional Survey. 
  • Behavioral consequences of conflict-oriented health news coverage: the 2009 mammography guideline controversy and online information seeking. 
  • Case Studies of Pre-and Mid-trial Prejudice in Criminal and Civil Litigation 
  • Child care as an untapped setting for obesity prevention: state child care licensing regulations related to nutrition, physical activity, and media use for preschool-aged children in the United States. 
  • Communicating Research to Non-Researcher Audiences: A Panel Discussion From the National Cancer Institute's Future of Cancer Health Economics Research Conference. 
  • Credentials and colons. 
  • Do media portrayals of obesity influence support for weight-related medical policy? 
  • Editorial comment--Advertising strategies to increase the public knowledge of the warning signs of stroke. 
  • Effects of the Office of National Drug Control Policy's Marijuana Initiative Campaign on high-sensation-seeking adolescents. 
  • Evaluation of a Public Awareness Campaign to Prevent High School Dropout. 
  • Exposure to Violence During Ferguson Protests: Mental Health Effects for Law Enforcement and Community Members. 
  • Exposure to Weight-Stigmatizing Media: Effects on Exercise Intentions, Motivation, and Behavior. 
  • False hopes, unwarranted fears: the trouble with medical news stories. 
  • Food and beverage brands that market to children and adolescents on the internet: a content analysis of branded web sites. 
  • Food, class, and health: the role of the perceived body in the social reproduction of health. 
  • Framing public policy and prevention of chronic violence in American youths. 
  • Getting the message out about cognitive health: a cross-cultural comparison of older adults' media awareness and communication needs on how to maintain a healthy brain. 
  • Guidelines for quality assurance in multicenter trials: a position paper. 
  • Helping journalists get it right: a physicians's guide to improving health care reporting. 
  • Image Gently(SM): a national education and communication campaign in radiology using the science of social marketing. 
  • Images of illness: how causal claims and racial associations influence public preferences toward diabetes research spending. 
  • Impact of FDA Actions, DTCA, and Public Information on the Market for Pain Medication. 
  • Influence of food companies' brand mascots and entertainment companies' cartoon media characters on children's diet and health: a systematic review and research needs. 
  • Interactive media for parental education on managing children chronic condition: a systematic review of the literature. 
  • Internet food marketing strategies aimed at children and adolescents: a content analysis of food and beverage brand web sites. 
  • Interpersonal communication as an indirect pathway for the effect of antismoking media content on smoking cessation. 
  • Knowledge, beliefs, and prior screening behavior among blacks and whites reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Marketing child survival. 
  • Media coverage of medical journals: do the best articles make the news? 
  • Media coverage of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism controversy and its relationship to MMR immunization rates in the United States. 
  • Media multitasking and behavioral measures of sustained attention. 
  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy. 
  • Neural vulnerability and hurricane-related media are associated with post-traumatic stress in youth. 
  • News coverage about aspirin as a countervailing force against low-dose aspirin campaign promotion. 
  • On the meaning of meaning when being mean: commentary on Berkowitz's "on the consideration of automatic as well as controlled psychological processes in aggression". 
  • One cigarette is one too many: evaluating a light smoker-targeted media campaign. 
  • Participants and nonparticipants of a mass media self-help smoking cessation program. 
  • Penetrating trauma in children on the United States-Mexico border: Hispanic ethnicity is not a risk factor. 
  • Perceptions of Tobacco Control Media Campaigns Among Smokers With Lower Socioeconomic Status. 
  • Positive media portrayals of obese persons: impact on attitudes and image preferences. 
  • Predictors of exposure from an antimarijuana media campaign: outcome research assessing sensation seeking targeting. 
  • Racial/ethnic variation in perceptions of medical information sources in Durham County, North Carolina. 
  • Recruiting older women for screening mammography. 
  • Recruitment and retention of healthy minority women into community-based longitudinal research. 
  • Reducing sugary drink consumption: New York City's approach. 
  • Science priorities. Inappropriate use and portrayal of chimpanzees. 
  • State-Level Point-of-Sale Tobacco News Coverage and Policy Progression Over a 2-Year Period. 
  • Study of the media's potential influence on prospective research participants' understanding of and motivations for participation in a high-profile phase I trial. 
  • Television campaigns and adolescent marijuana use: tests of sensation seeking targeting. 
  • The 'Sydney Principles' for reducing the commercial promotion of foods and beverages to children. 
  • The Impact of Social Endorsement Cues and Manipulability Concerns on Perceptions of News Credibility. 
  • The President's gallbladder: a historical account of the cholecystectomy of Lyndon Baines Johnson. 
  • The polarizing effect of news media messages about the social determinants of health. 
  • Use of "entertainment" chimpanzees in commercials distorts public perception regarding their conservation status. 
  • Use of multiple media and breast cancer screening: an introduction. 
  • Welcome to ordinary? Marketing better boys. 
  • Why addressing the poor and underinsured is vexing. 
  • You can always pop a pill. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bail, Christopher Andrew, Professor of Sociology, Political Science
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Jiang, Linshan, Postdoctoral Associate, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
  • Napoli, Philip Michael, James R. Shepley Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Duke Science & Society
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine