Media violence and aggression
Subtitle: science and ideology
By: Tom Grimes, James A. Anderson, Lori Bergen
Contributors: Anderson, James A. 1939-; Bergen, Lori A., 1958-
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781412914406; 9781412914413
Subjects: Violence in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage: why this book is needed; title: A short history of the concept of effects: the people who raised concerns about the media's putative effect on society; title: The epistemology of media effects: the way different scholars view the world in which they live often predicts the initial approach they take to doing research; title: The social scientific "theory" that never quite fit: why the media violence/social aggression theory isn't compatible with the rest of behavioral science theory (or with common sense); title: Is it just science? Or is it ideology as well?; title: The world according to causationists: what the world would be like if the causationists were right; title: The biggest cultural variable of all: the Child Careful! and watch out for the children; title: The role of psychopathology in the media violence/aggression equation: a return to psychological and cultural conditionals as boundaries for assessing media effects; title: The attempt to make an ideology a science: when well-meaning people try to "science-ize" an ideology, confusion and foggy thinking reign; title: To legislate or not to legislate against media violence: what policy makers need to know; title: References; title: Index