2nd Edition

Ill Effects The Media Violence Debate

Edited By Martin Barker, Julian Petley Copyright 2001
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

The influence of the media remains a contentious issue. Every time a particularly high-profile crime of violence is committed, there are those who blame the effects of the media. The familiar culprits of cinema, television, video and rock music, have now been joined, particularly in the wake of the massacre at Columbine High, by the Internet and the World Wide Web. Yet, any real evidence that the... Read more
Introduction , Barker Martin, Petley Julian; Chapter 1 The Newson Report, Barker Martin; Chapter 2 The Worrying Influence of ‘Media Effects’ Studies, David Gauntlett; Chapter 3 Electronic Child Abuse?, David Buckingham; Chapter 4 Living for Libido; or, ‘Child's Play IV’, Patricia Holland; Chapter 5 Just what the Doctors Ordered?, Sara Bragg; Chapter 6 Once More with Feeling, Sue Turnbull; Chapter 7 I was a Teenage Horror Fan, Mark Kermode (Age 36); Chapter 8 ‘Looks Like it Hurts’, Annette Hill; Chapter 9 Reservoirs of Dogma, Graham Murdoch; Chapter 10 Us and Them, Julian Petley; Chapter 11 Invasion of the Internet Abusers, Thomas Craig, Julian Petley; Chapter 12 On the Problems of Being a ‘Trendy Travesty’, Martin Julian, Petley Julian;

Biography

Barker, Martin; Petley, Julian