Lecture At Muhlenberg College Explores Media Imagery
Dr. Nancy Signorielli of the University of Delaware will present a lecture entitled “Mass Media and Health—Are the Messages Good for Us?” at Muhlenberg College on Tuesday October 5 at 7 p.m.Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:27 AM
Dr. Nancy Signorielli of the University of Delaware will present a lecture entitled “Mass Media and Health—Are the Messages Good for Us?” at Muhlenberg College on Tuesday October 5 at 7 p.m. in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall. This lecture, sponsored by Muhlenberg College’s Center for Ethics as part of its series, Disease: Representation, Research and Rights, is free and open to the public.
Signorielli will focus on how the media, as our nation’s common and constant storytellers, promotes inappropriate behaviors, such as underage drinking, smoking, violence and negative body images.
Signorielli received her Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning with her dissertation research, an in-depth methodological examination of television characters, she has concluded research on images in the media and how these images are related to people’s conceptions of social reality for the past 30 years. As an original member of the Cultural Indicators Research Team, she published one of the very first studies about characterizations on television. This study, “Patterns in Prime Time” which was published in The Journal of Communication in 1974, is frequently cited.
Signorielli is a member of both the National and International Communication Associations, and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
