PART I. CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
1. A Retrospective and Prospective Look at Media Effects - Jennings Bryant, Dolf Zillmann
2. Conceptualizing the Audience - W. James Potter
3. Quantitative Methods and Causal Inference in Media Effects Research - Itzhak Yanovitzky, Kathryn Greene
4. Qualitative Methods - Thomas R. Lindlof
PART II. SOCIETY, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
5. Cultivation Analysis and Media Effects - Michael Morgan
6. Framing and Agenda Setting - Dhavan V. Shah, Douglas M. McLeod, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Nam-Jin Lee
7. The Influence of Presumed Media Influence: Origins and Implications of the Third-Person Perception - Nurit Tal Or, Yariv Tsfati, Albert C. Gunther
8. News and Poliltics - Vincent Price, Lauren Feldman
9. Media Effects and Cultural Studies: A Contentious Relationship - Toby Miller
PART III. MESSAGE SELECTION AND PROCESSING
10. Uses and Gratifications: An Evolving Perspective of Media Effects - Alan M. Rubin
11. Entertainment - Mary Beth Oliver
12. Current Research in Media Priming - David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen, Beverly Roskos-Ewoldsen
13. The Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing - Annie Lang
14. Emotion and Media Effects - Robin L. Nabi
15. Mediated Relationships and Media Effects: Parasocial Interaction and Identification - Jonathan Cohen
16. Individual Differences in Media Effects - Marina Krcmar
17. Media Use and the Social Environment - Daniel G. McDonald
PART IV. PERSUASION AND LEARNING
18. Theories of Persuasion - Daniel J. O'Keefe
19. Social Cognitive Theory and Media Effects - Frank Pajares, Abby Prestin, Jason Chen, Robin L. Nabi
20. Emerging Issue in Advertising Research - L.J. Shrum, Tina M. Lowrey, Yuping Liu
21. Media Effects and Population Health - K. Viswanath, Sherri Flynt Wallington, Kelly D. Blake
22. Educational Television - Marie-Louise Mares
23. Media Literacy - W. James Potter, Sahara Byrne
PART V. CONTENT AND AUDIENCES
24. Violent Media Effects - Brad J. Bushman, L. Rowell Huesmann, Jodi L. Whitaker
25. Racial/Ethnic Stereotyping and the Media - Dana E. Mastro
26. Media and the Body - Kristen Harrison
27. Media and Sexuality - Jane D. Brown
28. Perceptions of Media Realism and Reality TV - Alice E. Hall
29. The Effects of Viewing Televised Sports - Arthur A. Raney
30. Digital Games - Peter Vorderer, Ute Ritterfeld
31. Children and Adolescents: Distinctive Audiences of Media Content - Barbara J. Wilson, Kristin L. Drogos
PART VI. MEDIUM ISSUES
32. Diffusion of Innovations: Theoretical Extensions - Ronald E. Rice
33. Displacement Effects - Jennings Bryant, Wes Fondren
34. Medium Theory: An Alternative to the Dominant Paradigm of Media Effects - Joshua Meyrowitz
35. The Evolution of Media System Dependency Theory - Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Joo-Young Jung
36. Media Effects 2.0: Social and Psychological Effects of Communication Technologies - S. Shyam Sundar
37. The Study of Media Effects in the Era of Internet Communication - Miriam J. Metzger