This book brings together a selection of influential readings on how the media portray violence in the twenty-first century. Sections examine how media violence and its 'effects' have been theorized; how media production contexts influence the reporting and representation of vio…
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This introduction to current thinking about media violence and its potential influence on audiences adopts a fresh perspective on the media effects debate. The authors argue that the daily repetition of media violence helps to normalise and legitimise the acts being portrayed.
This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal government should regulate media violence. In Violence as Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the assumption that violent material …
Ill effects: the media/violence debate
by ProQuest (Firm), Barker, Martin, Petley, Julian
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Ill Effects argues that the question of media influence needs to be debated by those with a clearer understanding of how audiences and media interact with one another.
Ill Effects argues that the question of media influence needs to be debated by those with a clearer understanding of how audiences and media interact with one another.
Ill Effects argues that the question of media influence needs to be debated by those with a clearer understanding of how audiences and media interact with one another.
School shootings have raised considerable interest among scholars as a global (media) cultural phenomenon and have increased specifically in the 1990s developing into a seeming cultural epidemic. This book contributes to the current academic discussion on school shootings by ana…