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This study explores whether amount of exposure to entertainment television violence, local newspapers, and local television news relates to reactions to reading news stories that recount violent events. Survey results from three regions in the United States show bivariate connections between average media exposure levels and each of three indicators of desensitization. Multivariate results provide partial support for the idea that heavy local news consumption-presumably due to the presence of violent content-can contribute to a blunted response to news stories regarding real-life violent events when individuals have low trait empathy.
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(The games are) training for aggression," said [Jack Thompson], who has achieved national prominence for suing video game makers. "You actually grow neural pathways called dendrites that enable you to perform more easily the physical acts of violence. Plus, from a psychological perspective, to act out of virtual violence, in a virtual setting, is more damaging than just viewing it. You enter into the violence, you become the protagonist. Reports show that the average boy spends about 13 hours a week playing video games. Public health professionals, private physicians and educators agree that parents must play a major role in the battle to maximize the "good" of educational video games while guarding against the "bad" of too much time spent playing video games and against the menacing ...
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REYNOSA, Mexico - A car explodes outside a police station, another outside a television station. A gang is suspected of massacring 72 migrants. A prosecutor investigating those deaths suddenly disappears. Mexico's drug cartels seem to be adopting the tactics of war zones half a world away.
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Framing Abuse: Media Influence and Public Understanding of Sexual Violence Against Children. Jenny Kitzinger. London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2004. 236 pp. $70.00 hbk. $22.95 pbk. Violence in the Media: A Reference Handbook. Nancy Signorielli. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. 263 pp. $50.00 hbk. Both of these books address one of the difficult social challenges of our time-protecting children. While Signorielli uses the era of dime novels to mark the beginning of concerns about the effect of violent media depictions on children, Kitzinger maintains that the awareness of sexual abuse against children only became part of the public's media agenda in the 1980s. And each author surmises that these threats (media violence, child sexual abuse) are often portrayed by the media as elus...
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Between seventh and 12th grade, the average student attends 11,000 hours of classes, but they listen to 12,000 hours of music, said Danny Holland. Holland was the keynote speaker at the 17th annual Utah Gang Conference that kicked off Thursday at the South Towne Expo Center. He is the president and founder of the group Parent & Teen Universities Inc. The Virginia resident gives talks to juveniles and parents around the nation on youth culture, media influence, teen violence and drugs.
