Nancy Signorielli
Biographic Data
| ID | 258865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Signorielli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Signorielli |
| SIGNATURE | SIGNORIELLI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 216 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Violence Profile: Five Decades of Cultural Indicators Research
This study examines violence in prime-time broadcast network television programs aired between 1967 and 2015. The data show that violence has been a consistent and central part of programming, although levels vary by genre. Violence decreased in the 1990s, due mostly to the greater prominence of sitcoms and crime-related procedurals (such as Law & Order and CSI), which feature fewer explicit acts of violence. However, violence is making a serious…
Cultivation Theory
Cultivation theory is concerned with the most general consequences of long‐term exposure to centrally produced, commercially supported systems of stories. Cultivation analysis concentrates on the common consequences of living with television: the cultivation of stable, resistant, and widely shared assumptions and conceptions reflecting the institutional interests of the medium and the larger society. The range of topics examined by cultivation ha…
Social media cultivating perceptions of privacy: A 5-year analysis of privacy attitudes and self-disclosure behaviors among Facebook users
In light of the omnipresence of personal information exchange in the virtual world, this study examines the effects of Facebook use on privacy perceptions and self-disclosure behaviors across a 5-year period from 2010 to 2015. Findings at the global level support the socializing role of Facebook in cultivating more relaxed privacy attitudes, subsequently increasing self-disclosure in both offline and online contexts. However, longitudinal trends …
Yesterday's New Cultivation, Tomorrow
This article explores the continued applicability of cultivation theory in a new media environment. Previous theoretical and empirical work on media that were “new” at the time (such as cable TV and VCRs) is reviewed as context. Changes in the social and media conditions on which cultivation were premised are also discussed. Some ideas for new methodological approaches to cultivation measurement and study design are offered. Gerbner's thoughts on…
Gender Roles in Tween Television Programming: A Content Analysis of Two Genres
Violent Content on US Television: A Historical Overview of the Research
This essay examines the portrayal of violence on US television from both a historical and current perspective. It reviews the results of 40 years of content analysis research conducted as part of the Cultural Indicators Study as well as research conducted by the National Television Violence Study between 1993 and 1996. The essay focuses on violence in television programs as well as those characters who commit and/or are victimized by violence. Fi…
Gender‐Role Socialization in the Twenty‐First Century
Gender‐role socialization has been a critical element in the study of mass communication since the late 1960s. This chapter will review our knowledge of this topic looking specifically at gender‐role images on television, including broadcast programs and commercials, children's TV, and teen movies. The chapter focuses specifically on research conducted during the first decade of the twenty‐first century examining images related to age, race, and …
Science on Television in the 21st Century: Recent Trends in Portrayals and Their Contributions to Public Attitudes Toward Science
Twenty-five years after George Gerbner and colleagues’ seminal report on television and science attitudes, there is a need to update the data on television’s portrayals of science and to revisit the cultivation question. We address this need by analyzing 21st-century television depictions of science and examining the relationships between exposure to television and attitudes toward science with an analysis of 2006 General Social Survey data. Cont…
Race and Sex in Prime Time: A Look at Occupations and Occupational Prestige
A content analysis of 10 week-long samples of network prime time broadcast between the fall of 1997 and the fall of 2006 found that the leading characters in programs defined by racial diversity differ in terms of their distributions of men and women as well as racial groups. Occupations and occupational prestige also differ depending upon the racial diversity of the programs in which the characters are found. Programs with mostly minority casts,…
Age-Based Ratings, Content Designations, and Television Content: Is There a Problem
An analysis of 9 week-long samples of prime-time network programming broadcast between the fall of 1997 and the fall of 2003 found that more than 8 out of 10 programs were labeled with an age-based rating (TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, or TV-MA), whereas fewer than 4 in 10 programs were also labeled with content-based ratings (V, S, L, or D). Although programs with age- and content-based ratings accurately reflected sexual and violent content, a sizable nu…
Sex on prime‐time in the 90's
Although the proportion of network prime‐time programs with sexual images decreased somewhat during the 1990's, the overall message about sex did not change. Sex is often found in a humorous context—four often programs include humorous sexual references. Sex is most often found in dramas, followed closely by situation comedies. Moreover, one‐fifth of prime‐time programs have sexual content that is categorized as gratuitous (unwarranted) to the pl…
Recognition and Respect: A Content Analysis of Prime-Time Television Characters Across Three Decades
Actual and Perceived U.S. Public Opinion: The Spiral of Silence During the Persian Gulf War
This study analyzes actual and perceived support for the Persian Gulf War in the United States. Data were collected from 292 residents of New Castle County, Delaware, during the 1991 Gulf War. Results show that support for the war was not the strong consensus reported in mainstream media. In fact, 53.1 percent of the respondents fell within the neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree ranges of a support for the war scale. Only 6.6 percent of the …
Television and Adolescents' Perceptions about Work
Children, television, and conceptions about chores: Attitudes and behaviors
Adolescents and Ambivalence Toward Marriage: A Cultivation Analysis
Television and conceptions about sex roles: Maintaining conventionality and the status quo
"Responses to "Star Wars of a Different Kind: "Reflections on the Politics of the Religion and Television Research Project," by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Razelle Frankl
George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Stewart Hoover, Michael Morgan, Nancy Signorielli, Responses to "Star Wars of a Different Kind: Reflections on the Politics of the Religion and Television Research Project," by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Razelle Frankl, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Sep., 1989), pp. 94-102
Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography
Originally a Unesco project, this annotate bibliography results from more than 4,600 requests to media scholars and researchers for research reports, publications, and other information relating to violence and terrorism. Although there is an international cast to the materials, most are from the U.S. Even though violence and terrorism permeate our myths and legends, there is increasing concern with their effect on viewers. This bibliography is p…
Children and Adolescents on Television: A Consistent Pattern of Devaluation
This analysis of data collected on major and minor characters in annual week-long samples of prime-time and weekend-daytime network dramatic programs broadcast between 1969 and 1985 found that children are very underrepresented on television. Children under 10 make up less than 2 percent of the characters in prime-time programs and only 3.6 percent of the characters in weekend-daytime programs. Early, and especially late adolescents are seen more…
Selective Television Viewing: A Limited Possibility
Journal Article Selective Television Viewing: a Limited Possibility Get access Nancy Signorielli Nancy Signorielli 1Nancy Signorielli is Research Administrator at The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 1986, Pages 64–76, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1986.tb01438.x Published: 07 Februar…
Role Portrayal and Stereotyping on Television: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies Relating to Women, Minorities, Aging, Sexual Behavior, Health, and Handicaps
A Comparison of American and Dutch Programming
Political Correlates of Television Viewing
Political Correlates of Television Viewing
This study examines relationships between amount of daily television viewing and political self-designations. It is based on the assumption that television's impact on the political front is not limited to news and specifically “political” programming, but that the entire dramatic structure of network television may contribute to viewers' underlying political orientations. The analysis is based on nine independent data bases, yielding a combined …
Recognition and Respect: A Content Analysis of Prime-Time Television Characters Across Three Decades
Television and conceptions about sex roles: Maintaining conventionality and the status quo
Children, television, and conceptions about chores: Attitudes and behaviors
Yesterday's New Cultivation, Tomorrow
This article explores the continued applicability of cultivation theory in a new media environment. Previous theoretical and empirical work on media that were “new” at the time (such as cable TV and VCRs) is reviewed as context. Changes in the social and media conditions on which cultivation were premised are also discussed. Some ideas for new methodological approaches to cultivation measurement and study design are offered. Gerbner's thoughts on…
Gender Roles in Tween Television Programming: A Content Analysis of Two Genres
Social media cultivating perceptions of privacy: A 5-year analysis of privacy attitudes and self-disclosure behaviors among Facebook users
In light of the omnipresence of personal information exchange in the virtual world, this study examines the effects of Facebook use on privacy perceptions and self-disclosure behaviors across a 5-year period from 2010 to 2015. Findings at the global level support the socializing role of Facebook in cultivating more relaxed privacy attitudes, subsequently increasing self-disclosure in both offline and online contexts. However, longitudinal trends …
Some Additional Comments on Cultivation Analysis
Journal Article Some Additional Comments on Cultivation Analysis Get access GEORGE GERBNER, GEORGE GERBNER Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LARRY GROSS, LARRY GROSS Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL MORGAN, MICHAEL MORGAN Annenberg Schoo…
Actual and Perceived U.S. Public Opinion: The Spiral of Silence During the Persian Gulf War
This study analyzes actual and perceived support for the Persian Gulf War in the United States. Data were collected from 292 residents of New Castle County, Delaware, during the 1991 Gulf War. Results show that support for the war was not the strong consensus reported in mainstream media. In fact, 53.1 percent of the respondents fell within the neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree ranges of a support for the war scale. Only 6.6 percent of the …
Television Violence, Victimization, and Power
Race and Sex in Prime Time: A Look at Occupations and Occupational Prestige
A content analysis of 10 week-long samples of network prime time broadcast between the fall of 1997 and the fall of 2006 found that the leading characters in programs defined by racial diversity differ in terms of their distributions of men and women as well as racial groups. Occupations and occupational prestige also differ depending upon the racial diversity of the programs in which the characters are found. Programs with mostly minority casts,…
Sex on prime‐time in the 90's
Although the proportion of network prime‐time programs with sexual images decreased somewhat during the 1990's, the overall message about sex did not change. Sex is often found in a humorous context—four often programs include humorous sexual references. Sex is most often found in dramas, followed closely by situation comedies. Moreover, one‐fifth of prime‐time programs have sexual content that is categorized as gratuitous (unwarranted) to the pl…
Scientists on the TV screen
The Violence Profile: Five Decades of Cultural Indicators Research
This study examines violence in prime-time broadcast network television programs aired between 1967 and 2015. The data show that violence has been a consistent and central part of programming, although levels vary by genre. Violence decreased in the 1990s, due mostly to the greater prominence of sitcoms and crime-related procedurals (such as Law & Order and CSI), which feature fewer explicit acts of violence. However, violence is making a serious…
Adolescents and Ambivalence Toward Marriage: A Cultivation Analysis
Television and Adolescents' Perceptions about Work
Children and Adolescents on Television: A Consistent Pattern of Devaluation
This analysis of data collected on major and minor characters in annual week-long samples of prime-time and weekend-daytime network dramatic programs broadcast between 1969 and 1985 found that children are very underrepresented on television. Children under 10 make up less than 2 percent of the characters in prime-time programs and only 3.6 percent of the characters in weekend-daytime programs. Early, and especially late adolescents are seen more…
A Comparison of American and Dutch Programming
Facts, fantasies and schools
"On the Limits of "The Limits of Advocacy Research: Response to Hirsch
Journal Article On the Limits of “The Limits of Advocacy Research”: Response to Hirsch Get access GEORGE GERBNER, GEORGE GERBNER Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LARRY GROSS, LARRY GROSS Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL MORGAN, MICHAEL …
"On Wober's "Televised Violence and Paranoid Perception: The View From Great Britain
Journal Article On Wober's "Televised Violence and Paranoid Perception: The View from Great Britain" Get access GEORGE GERBNER, GEORGE GERBNER University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LARRY GROSS, LARRY GROSS University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL MORGAN, MICHAEL MORGAN University of Pennsylvania Search for other works b…
TV Violence Profile No. 8: The Highlights
George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Michael F. Eleey, Marilyn Jackson-Beeck, Suzanne Jeffries-Fox, Nancy Signorielli; Tv Violence Profile No. 8: The Highlights, J
Cultural Indicators: Violence Profile No. 9
Latest report stresses methodology, current findings on the distribution of power in television drama, and the behaviorial correlates of viewing
The Demonstration of Power: Violence Profile No. 10
Annual progress report sums up findings suggesting that fear and inequity may be television's most pervasive lessons; 1978 Index shows violence up in children's hours
"On Wober's "Televised Violence and Paranoid Perception: The View From Great Britain
Journal Article On Wober's "Televised Violence and Paranoid Perception: The View from Great Britain" Get access GEORGE GERBNER, GEORGE GERBNER University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LARRY GROSS, LARRY GROSS University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL MORGAN, MICHAEL MORGAN University of Pennsylvania Search for other works b…
Aging with Television: Images on Television Drama and Conceptions of Social Reality
George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Nancy Signorielli, Michael Morgan; Aging with Television: Images on Television Drama and Conceptions of Social Reality, Journa
The “Mainstreaming” of America: Violence Profile No. 11
Some Additional Comments on Cultivation Analysis
Journal Article Some Additional Comments on Cultivation Analysis Get access GEORGE GERBNER, GEORGE GERBNER Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LARRY GROSS, LARRY GROSS Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL MORGAN, MICHAEL MORGAN Annenberg Schoo…
Television Violence, Victimization, and Power
"On the Limits of "The Limits of Advocacy Research: Response to Hirsch
Journal Article On the Limits of “The Limits of Advocacy Research”: Response to Hirsch Get access GEORGE GERBNER, GEORGE GERBNER Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LARRY GROSS, LARRY GROSS Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL MORGAN, MICHAEL …
Scientists on the TV screen
Charting the Mainstream: Television's Contributions to Political Orientations
George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, Nancy Signorielli; Charting the Mainstream: Television's Contributions to Political Orientations, Journal of C
Political Correlates of Television Viewing
Political Correlates of Television Viewing
This study examines relationships between amount of daily television viewing and political self-designations. It is based on the assumption that television's impact on the political front is not limited to news and specifically “political” programming, but that the entire dramatic structure of network television may contribute to viewers' underlying political orientations. The analysis is based on nine independent data bases, yielding a combined …
Facts, fantasies and schools
A Comparison of American and Dutch Programming
Selective Television Viewing: A Limited Possibility
Journal Article Selective Television Viewing: a Limited Possibility Get access Nancy Signorielli Nancy Signorielli 1Nancy Signorielli is Research Administrator at The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 1986, Pages 64–76, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1986.tb01438.x Published: 07 Februar…
Role Portrayal and Stereotyping on Television: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies Relating to Women, Minorities, Aging, Sexual Behavior, Health, and Handicaps
Children and Adolescents on Television: A Consistent Pattern of Devaluation
This analysis of data collected on major and minor characters in annual week-long samples of prime-time and weekend-daytime network dramatic programs broadcast between 1969 and 1985 found that children are very underrepresented on television. Children under 10 make up less than 2 percent of the characters in prime-time programs and only 3.6 percent of the characters in weekend-daytime programs. Early, and especially late adolescents are seen more…
Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography
Originally a Unesco project, this annotate bibliography results from more than 4,600 requests to media scholars and researchers for research reports, publications, and other information relating to violence and terrorism. Although there is an international cast to the materials, most are from the U.S. Even though violence and terrorism permeate our myths and legends, there is increasing concern with their effect on viewers. This bibliography is p…
Television and conceptions about sex roles: Maintaining conventionality and the status quo
"Responses to "Star Wars of a Different Kind: "Reflections on the Politics of the Religion and Television Research Project," by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Razelle Frankl
George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Stewart Hoover, Michael Morgan, Nancy Signorielli, Responses to "Star Wars of a Different Kind: Reflections on the Politics of the Religion and Television Research Project," by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Razelle Frankl, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Sep., 1989), pp. 94-102
Adolescents and Ambivalence Toward Marriage: A Cultivation Analysis
Children, television, and conceptions about chores: Attitudes and behaviors
Television and Adolescents' Perceptions about Work
Actual and Perceived U.S. Public Opinion: The Spiral of Silence During the Persian Gulf War
This study analyzes actual and perceived support for the Persian Gulf War in the United States. Data were collected from 292 residents of New Castle County, Delaware, during the 1991 Gulf War. Results show that support for the war was not the strong consensus reported in mainstream media. In fact, 53.1 percent of the respondents fell within the neutral, disagree, or strongly disagree ranges of a support for the war scale. Only 6.6 percent of the …
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