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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Media Violence"”.
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Human Aggression and Sports Media Violence
… perspective on human aggression and how sports media violence affects aggression levels. Anderson (1997) defined aggression as behavior that is intended to harm others or one's self. Anderson (2001) defined media violence as a portrayal of intentional harmful behavior directed at another person …
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Reconceptualizing Attraction to Media Violence: A Meta -Analysis and an Experiment
This dissertation addresses the attraction of media violence. A number of theoretical perspectives predict that increased violence should increase attraction for some viewers. Viewers' attraction to media violence is also often cited as a reason that violent content is so widely produced. However, …
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When the Movies Come to Life: Media Violence and Physiological Pain Response
<p>This study tested the hypothesis that lifetime media violence consumption, recent media violence consumption, and exposure to a violent video clip would increase physiological pain tolerance. Participants were asked to self-report their lifetime and recent media consumption and were then exposed …
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The Influence of Media Violence on the Neural Correlates of Empathic Emotional Response
<p>Decades of research on the effects of media violence have shown that exposure to violence in the media is related to increased aggression, decreased prosocial behavior, and decreased empathy. Video games, which contain some of the most graphic, realistic, justified, and rewarded aggression have …
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Impact of Television Violence on Young Minds in an Urban Setting; An Introspective Study
… listeners it serves. The increase in crime and violence and the fear of crime may actually help explain the popularity of TV violence. Media violence has been a topic of popular interest right from the fifties, when television was still being applauded as one more of those human marvels. …
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The Politics of Media Freedom
… theories assume that democracy and media freedom go hand in hand. However, in democracies, politicians and individuals who have a stake in political battles often attack journalists. How can political and electoral incentives that are at the heart of democracy create a minefield for …
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The three musketeers: social process theories, feminism and violence in the mass media
… theories tend to discount the importance of the media in the learning process. This paper attempts to expand social process theories in two ways: first, to use various facets of feminist theory to take these gender differences into account and second, to build on a large body of literature which …
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A Theoretical Study of the Interactive Communication Process in Video Game Playing: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
… Most researchers have relied on previous media violence research, assuming similarities between television viewing and video game playing. However, video games are interactive media allowing the player to participate in the game scenario, which may intensify the impact of video game …
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Twitter: An opportunity or a curse for South African female journalists?
The spread of cyberviolence around the globe and cyberbullying towards female journalists is growing (Mijatović, 2016); in fact, thanks to improved technology and the proliferation of bots and botnets (Barojan, 2018), it is becoming even more ubiquitous. The cruelty and frequency of the attacks …
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Where Was the Outrage? The Lack of Public Concern for the Increasing Sensationalism in Marvel Comics in a Conservative Era 1978-1993
… objectified women, taught children to engage in violence, promoted bigotry, and perhaps even encouraged homosexuality. The concerns caused outrage that was encouraged by the press. As a result, comic books adopted a form of self-censorship through the Comic Code Authority. The censorship combined …
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Mediengewalt und Aggression : eine längsschnittliche Betrachtung des Zusammenhangs am Beispiel des Konsums gewalthaltiger Bildschirmspiele
… vermittelt werden, konnte empirisch mittels Mediationsanalysen gestützt werden.
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Affektive und kognitive Desensibilisierung als Konsequenz von Mediengewaltkonsum : eine experimentelle Untersuchung auf Basis lerntheoretischer Überlegungen
NutzerInnen von gewalthaltigen Medien geben einerseits oftmals zu, dass sie fiktionale, gewalthaltige Medien konsumieren, behaupten jedoch gleichzeitig, dass dies nicht ihr Verhalten außerhalb des Medienkontexts beeinflusst. Sie argumentieren, dass sie leicht zwischen Dingen, die im fiktionalen …
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Do global legal frameworks hold social media platforms accountable for hosting content that incites violence?
… witnessed an unprecedented expansion in social media platforms' use, influence, and societal impact.1 Sixty percent of the global population uses social media, with the daily exchange of messages reaching into the billions.2 As of 2023, Facebook boasts 2.98 billion monthly active users,3 YouTube …