October 2024
Beginner to intermediate
716 pages
28h 45m
English
From television crime dramas to true crime podcasts, crime and criminality are persistent elements of entertainment media in the US and beyond. In this chapter, we focus on past and present modes of crime entertainment media (CEM), with the intent of highlighting patterns and gaps within the current work in this subset of communication science. Much of this work has documented that exposure to CEM has the potential to shift both the world views and actions that viewers take on. Despite the robust literature on the effects of CEM, little work has been done to explore the antecedents of selection of ...
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