Risk and Culture of Health Portrayal in a U.S. Cross-Cultural TV Adaptation, a Pilot Study

Because media portrayal can influence adolescents’ health, we assessed the health-related content of a popular telenovela—a Spanish-language TV soap opera genre—and its widely watched English adaptation. To test our “culture of corruption” hypothesis, which predicts that the English-language adaptat...

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Main Authors: Darien Perez Ryan, Patrick E. Jamieson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cogitatio 2019-02-01
Series:Media and Communication
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Online Access:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1489