1. How would you change Gerbner’s deinition of dramatic violence so that his
index of TV violence would measure what you think is important?
2. What types of people are underrepresented in television drama? What types
of people are overrepresented? Who are the victims of symbolic violence on the
screen?
3. How do your political and social values differ from, or coincide with, the
mainstream attitudes of Gerbner’s television type?
4. The meta-analysis inding of a 10.09 relationship between TV exposure and
worldview can be seen as signiicant, small, and/or important. How do these inter-
pretations differ? Which do you regard as most important?
