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Television Phase

December 1, 2008

The CHAMP project is coding highly popular primetime network television shows including medical dramas, police dramas, legal dramas, and westerns since the 1950’s. Dramas were selected because they are a popular, consistent, and available genre across decades that may help the project better capture CHAMP health risk portrayals trends than…

The Changing Portrayal of Adolescents in the Media

August 13, 2008

Here are some dramatic U.S. movie trends from our CHAMP data. You can also purchase The Changing Portrayal of Adolescents in the Media since 1950 (Oxford, 2008).

Technical news

August 1, 2008

Technical news: This area of the site is designed for those interested in learning from our experience as they conduct their own content analyses. The project originally used MediaLab to code the movies. It took a great deal of skill, time, and effort to collect, clean, and merge the data so…

What lies ahead?

August 1, 2008

Phase 2 of the movie coding has been completed. This phase included coding movies that appeared on television, and one of the goals is finding out if there is a difference between health risk behaviors in top box office films verses movies that aired on television. The project is now…

Book background

August 1, 2008

The Changing Portrayal of Adolescents in the Media Since 1950 (Oxford, 2008) came out of a scholarly conference held in March 2007 in Rancho Mirage, California. The volume includes chapters on American and British youth since World War II focusing on the creation of the teenager as a marketing target…

Considerations and Recommendations

November 2, 2006

Download Reliability Recommendation By Kimberly A. Neuendorf, Ph.D. [here]  

The Annenberg Media Health Coding Project: Rationale and Plans

August 13, 2006

Download the Media Coding Review [here]

Establishing Validity in Content Analyses

October 1, 2005

Download On Validity by W. Jamps Potter [here]