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Article: Recent findings from Curtin University of Technology highlight research in addiction research.(Report)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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"A number of studies have looked at the incidence and nature of depictions of alcohol in various media, primarily in movies, television and magazines. However, there have been few studies of depictions of alcohol in comic strips in newspapers," scientists in Perth, Australia report (see also Addiction Research).
"This study analysed the content of the five comic strips in the 258 weekday editions of a metropolitan newspaper over a period of 1 year. Where alcohol was depicted, this was classified as either integral or incidental to the theme or story of that day's strip. As an indication of the nature of the depiction and in the absence of specific codes for the ...