By S. Hoover
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Unintended and negative consequences of media exposure were also studied. 23 It is important to my argument here to see that a given medium and its presumed effects are assumed in most of this work. The focus is very much on the devices, their messages, and investigations of outcomes in audiences that are consonant with the intended effects of those devices and messages. The effects tradition is called the “dominant” tradition in part because of its breadth and its longevity. 25 The effects tradition has also been broadly influential due to the fact that it is so intuitively persuasive.
As an aspect of the self, the identity is the self’s description. 56 There is much anecdotal evidence that the media play an important role in identity. Popular music, film, and television all provide material that is relevant to identity. 57 Making identity the focus of inquiry is a refinement in direction that serves a number of purposes. I have been arguing that much is to be gained by a research project that looks at the where of the relationship between media and religion. Identity is an important location, though not the only location, where media and religion interact in human experience.
Popular music, film, and television all provide material that is relevant to identity. 57 Making identity the focus of inquiry is a refinement in direction that serves a number of purposes. I have been arguing that much is to be gained by a research project that looks at the where of the relationship between media and religion. Identity is an important location, though not the only location, where media and religion interact in human experience. But, as a kind of heuristic device for guiding our inquiry, identity presents itself as an important category.