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Media as Agent

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Media socialize by supplying models of behavior, portrayals of groups, and a picture of what is normal, to audiences who selected none of it.

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A viewer forms expectations about occupations they have never encountered in person.

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How large media effects are is genuinely disputed in the discipline; treat any confident claim about media causing behavior with suspicion.