This week, two media researchers from Western New Mexico University presented a paper that looked at whether the incidence of gun massacres may be affected by what they call a "media contagion." ...

National Radio Day, celebrated on Aug. 20 in the United States, acknowledges the invention of the radio as an essential form of mass media communication. To mark the occasion, here are seven facts ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science" reporting reveals topical and regional disparities, including an apparent ...

Yes, according to a growing body of research the press do make mass shootings worse, says criminologist Adam Lankford.

The mass media are diversified media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place varies. Broadcast ...

If the mass media had pushed back against the false claims of weapons of mass destruction, we might have avoided the Iraq war, which killed hundreds of thousands and cost trillions of dollars.

How Does the Mass Media Influence People?. How mass media influences people is far different in the 21st century than it was for most of the 20th century. The term mass media itself may no longer ...

We rank shootings to provide historical significance. Research says those rankings are treated like video game scoreboards by potential shooters.

Major mainstream news media outlets published just a handful of articles on Bitcoin in Q2, which market intelligence firm ...

The majority of mass media research investigates the latter two parts of the news process, news content and news audiences, which can be studied singly or collectively. Research that analyses how ...