Gun violence is related to substantial morbidity and mortality with surrounding discussions framed and shaped by the media. This study's objective was to explore national news media's reporting of gun violence around a mass shooting. National news pieces were coded according to categories of gun violence, media frames, entities held responsible, responses, and reporting of the public heath appr...

Sexuality and violence in the media have received significant attention by the researchers in communication studies. Unlike the extant literature, this research considers these phenomena as marketing instruments used by the mass media and approaches them from business ethics perspective. It aims at determining whether the use of sexuality and violence by the media institutions is ethical accord...

There is an emerging understanding that there is no correlation or causation between exposure to violent media and aggressive behavior. Hal Hinson (1995) is one of the advocates of this emerging opinion, and in his article " In Defense of Violence " he claims that movie violence cannot cause anything other than enjoyment and catharsis as long as the morality of the viewer is not corrupted (p. 2...

OBJECTIVE This study analyzes the discourse of some members of the Spanish parliament (MPs) in the 2 years before the Gender Violence Act was passed in 2004 to examine how gender-based violence is construed when legal measures are proposed. METHODS Ten members of six different parties of the Spanish parliament were interviewed between November 2002 and March 2003. Each interview was recorded ...

creating crisis and attempting to solve it is an important function of the mass media. this is carried out using a range of modern tools. media can influence socio-political and cultural events employing strategies and meta-strategies to form the public thinking in the direction they aim. the media emperors and the press trusts manage to form some kind of information monopoly through influencin...

Research on violent television and films, video games, and music reveals unequivocal evidence that media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behavior in both immediate and long-term contexts. The effects appear larger for milder than for more severe forms of aggression, but the effects on severe forms of violence are also substantial (r = .13 to .32) when compared with e...

Social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google+) and information and communication technologies (ICT) more generally has altered human interaction. This technology provides tools for instantaneous communication and facilitates social organization. The participants in the uprisings of the Arab Spring used cell phones, text messages, Twitter and Facebook to circumvent and, in Tunisia and Egypt, top...

Theory and research on media violence provides evidence that aggressive youth seek out media violence and that media violence prospectively predicts aggression in youth.The authors argue that both relationships,when modeled over time, should be mutually reinforcing, in what they call a downward spiral model. This study uses multilevel modeling to examine individual growth curves in aggressivene...

We investigated how exposure to media violence and family conflict affects adolescents’ subsequent aggressive behavior. We expected a double dose effect, meaning that high media violence exposure would lead to higher levels of aggression for adolescents in high conflict families compared to low conflict families. A total of 499 adolescents (aged 10 to 14, 48% girls) participated in a two-wave l...

Exposure to media violence has been associated with decreased empathy and increased aggressive behavior. One possible mediator for this relationship may be emotional face processing; however, little is known about how media violence may influence the neural correlates of emotional face processing. Twenty-six participants were shown violent and nonviolent movie clips during separate testing sess...