Saturday, February 12, 2011

Dr. Chul-joo Lee's research recognized by Miller-McCune article

We congratulate Professor Chul-joo Lee on having his research featured in an article on Miller-McCune regarding how watching local TV news leads to fatalistic beliefs regarding cancer. The article references a study conducted by Professor Lee and Jeff Niederdeppe that was published in Communication Research this past December entitled: Genre-Specific Cultivation Effects: Lagged Associations Between Overall TV Viewing, Local TV News Viewing, and Fatalistic Beliefs about Cancer Prevention. The results of their study find that watching local television news, but not national news, is positively associated with fatalistic views about cancer. The authors' propose that this may be due to TV-viewing generally cultivating a low sense of control over one's life.

Please refer to the following link for the article:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/media/local-tv-news-spreads-cancer-fatalism-27901/

Also, you may access Professor Lee's paper here:
http://crx.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/12/29/0093650210384990.abstract

Once again, congratulations Professor Lee!

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