James M Shanahan

Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery: Introducing Cartesian Granule Features

Modelling With Words: Learning, Fusion, and Reasoning Within a Formal Linguistic Representation Framework

Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence: Ijcai'97 Workshop Nagoya, Japan, August 1997 Selected and Invited Papers

Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research

Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research

Economics of Cultural Decisions

Economic Policy for the Arts

Economic Policy for the Arts

Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery: Introducing Cartesian Granule Features (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

Knowledge discovery is an area of computer science that attempts to uncover interesting and useful patterns in data that permit a computer to perform a task autonomously or assist a human in performing a task more efficiently. Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery provides a self-contained and syst...

Living with Television Now: Advances in Cultivation Theory and Research

George Gerbner’s cultivation theory provides a framework for the analysis of relationships between television viewing and attitudes and beliefs about the world. Since the 1970s, cultivation analysis has been a lens through which to examine television’s contributions to conceptions of violence, sex r...

Computing Attitude and Affect in Text: Theory and Applications (The Information Retrieval Series)

Human Language Technology (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems have typically focused on the “factual” aspect of content analysis. Other aspects, including pragmatics, opinion, and style, have received much less attention. However, to achieve an adequate understanding of a text, these...

The Public, the Media and Agricultural Biotechnology

This book reviews the literature on communication about biotechnology. Other books deal with this topic, however this book with the use of case studies, looks at public opinion data, communication theory, and international examples; to provide a complementary overview of how the public sees this con...

Television and its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research

How does television influence people? "Cultivation" research examines the relationship between how much television people watch and what they believe: avid viewers' beliefs are very different from those of occasional viewers. James Shanahan and Michael Morgan, leading scholars in this field, explore...

Propaganda Without Propagandists?: Six Case Studies in U.S. Propaganda (The Hampton Press Communication Series)

This volume explores cases showing how propaganda has been deployed in a US context. The cases range from pre-war manipulations leading up to statehood for Hawaii, to more recent ups and downs in the stock market of the 1990s.

Nature Stories: Depictions of the Environment and Their Effects (The Hampton Press Communication Series)

This volume seeks to examine the role of the mass media - especially television - in the construction of the environment. It studies the effects from television's messages about the environment and how journalism deals with environmental issues.

From Rushville, With Love: The Autobiography of James A. Shanahan

This book is my autobiography to share my history with future generations of family members as I am not likely to be around much longer.