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    "pk": 60202,
    "title": "Social Science, Media Effects & The Supreme Court: Is Communication Research Relevant After \nBrown v. Entertainment Merchants Association\n?",
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    "abstract": "This article examines the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's\n \n2011 ruling in \nBrown v. Entertainment Merchants Association \nfor the\n \nfuture use of social science evidence and communication research to\n \nsupply legislative facts supporting laws that target harms allegedly\n \ncaused by media artifacts. The Brown majority set the bar for the\n \nrelevance of social science evidence exceedingly high - perhaps too\n \nhigh, the article suggests - while Justice Stephen Breyer, in contrast,\n \nadopted a much more deferential approach in a dissent that embraced\n \nthe evidence proffered by California. The article also reveals an\n \napparent inconsistency in Justice Antonin Scalia's approach to social\n \nevidence when comparing his majority opinion in Brown against his\n \nopinion just two years earlier in \nFederal Communications Commission\n \nv. Fox Television Stations, Inc. Ultimately, the article asserts that\n \ncommunication scientists hoping to influence both legislative bodies\n \nand jurists should view Brown as a wake-up call to do two things: 1)\n \neducate lawmakers and jurists about whether and when social science\n \nresearch can adequately resolve complex questions about media-caused\n \nharms; and 2) jettison research that lacks real-world generalizability\n \nand legal relevance.",
    "language": "en",
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            "first_name": "Clay",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Calvert",
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        {
            "first_name": "Matthew",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Bunker",
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    "date_submitted": "2015-04-25T17:57:23+02:00",
    "date_accepted": "2015-04-25T17:57:23+02:00",
    "date_published": "2012-01-01T01:00:00+01:00",
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