>    I am interested in the uses and effects of media technologies
>on membership groups that have, for cultural or religious reasons,
>distanced themselves from such involvement.
 
One possibly useful reference comes to mind:
 
"Mennonites and Television:  Applications of Cultivation Analysis
to a Religious Subculture,"  in N. Signorielli and M. Morgan (eds.),
Cultivation Analysis:  New Directions in Media Effects Research.
(Sage, 1990).
 
Cheers,
Michael            [log in to unmask]