1 Developed by George Gerbner. 2  Central Claim: Persistent long term exposure to TV content has small but measurable effects on the perceptual worlds of audience members. 3  Heavy TV viewing creates an exaggerated belief in a mean and scary world.
Located in Oceania, Tonga is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, directly south of Western Samoa and about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.ocated in Oceania, Tonga is an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, directly south of Western Samoa and about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.
Tonga stretches over about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line â about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaii.y the 12th century, Tongans and the Tongan paramount chief, the TuÊ»i Tonga, had a reputation across the central Pacificâfrom Niue, Samoa, Rotuma, Wallis & Futuna, New Caledonia to Tikopia âleading some historians to speak of a TuÊ»i Tonga Empire.