...42 (1998): 250-264.
The author emphasizes and argues that it is the type of violence that really matters when determining how a viewer will respond to media violence. The study discussed in this article demonstrates that the process of effects resulting from television viewing is complex one in which viewers encode, interpret, and compute what they see. After that process, they either show attitudinal and behavioral effects or they don’t. There are also other factors that affect that process such as family communication factors.
“Media Violence in Children’s Lives.” National Association for the Education of Young Children. 16 March 2005 .
This article discusses the fact that violence in the media is a small problem among the larger issue of society’s fascination with violence. Although the article argues this point, it also states that media violence is a contributor to our current violent society. The role the government plays in solving these problems is also discussed in the article.
Muscari, Mary. “Media Violence: Advice for Parents.” Pediatric Nursing 28 (2002): 585-591.
This article produces some realistic statistics and some medical related opinions regarding children’s exposure to violent media. The author discusses the casual connection found in studies conducted by six medical organizations. These studies show a connection between media violence and aggressive attitudes, values, and behaviors in some children. The article discusses these connections in detail, but also provides information and advice for parents and pediatric nurses to use to better educate children.
Nathanson, Amy I. “Factual and Evaluative Approaches to Modifying Children’s Responses to Violent Television.” Journal of Communication 54 (2004): 321-336.
The author discusses research and an experiment with children that compared the factual and evaluate approaches to modifying children’s responses to violent television. Nathanson compared two approaches. Factual mediation gave children facts about a violent program’s production techniques, and evaluative mediation gave negative evaluations of the program’s characters. The study compared the effects of the two. One approach emphasized facts and one approach targeted audiences. The study showed that the evaluative approach in most cases was more successful than factual mediation.
Perry, April M. “Guilt by Saturation: Media Liability for Third-party Violence and the Availability Heuristic.” Northwestern University Law Review 97 (2003): 1045-1073.
This article acknowledges the frequency of troubled teenagers committing suicide or vicious acts of violence because of violent media, but the article focuses on a cognitive that psychologists call availability heuristic. The author argues that the widely held views of violent media causing violent acts by teenagers is caused by the overabundance of publicity that surrounds such cases of media inspired violence. The author poses a strong argument that people overestimate the frequency of violent acts caused by the media, which results in inaccurate judgments and a decrease in the amount of evidence needed to prove such cases. The article also offers ways to counteract the availability heuristic.
Tompkins, Aimee. “The Psychological Effects of Violent Media on Children.” AllPsych Online. 14 Dec. 2003. 16 March 2005 .
This article discusses the short-term effects of violent media and compares video game violence and television violence. The research in this article concludes that there are neither negative nor positive long-term outcomes of violent media. The author does not believe that violent media causes children to be violent.
Trend, David. “Merchants of Death:...