Albertson and Lawrence Annotated

Albertson, B., & Lawrence, A. (2009). After the Credits Roll:The Long term effects of Educational television on Public Knowledge and Attitudes. American Politics Research.

“This research design offers a particularly tough test of media effects, since it measures knowledge and attitudes long after exposure. Laboratory studies often demonstrate the immediate effects of exposure to media. A television program could shift perceptions of issue importance or change attitudes temporarily, but over time, as people encounter numerous other stimuli, these effects might diminish.”

“Although television is often held responsible for a less informed American public, empirical work has shown that television journalism can educate viewers.”

This source from the main article is trying to support the influence that TV has on the viewers. This support is the kind that brings my paper together with the ideas from this author. The main point of his television influence is in correlation to mine of how knowledge is gathered.

I plan on bringing it back to how knowledge is gathered and how it assimilates into society from various different media outlets. This is not only important but it is vital to the explanation of what knowledge is.

This is an important part of describing in full what knowledge is. It goes back to the idea of who, what, where, when, and how something is.

This information doesn’t only agree or connect with all of the others concerning its similar topic, but it is needed in the full description of what something is.