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Autore: | Kirsh Steven J |
Titolo: | Children, adolescents, and media violence [[electronic resource] ] : a critical look at the research / / Steven J. Kirsh |
Pubblicazione: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 409 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 302.23083 |
Soggetto topico: | Mass media and children |
Mass media and teenagers | |
Children and violence | |
Youth and violence | |
Violence in mass media | |
Aggressiveness in children | |
Aggressiveness in adolescence | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-379) and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I - Understanding Aggression; Chapter 1 - There and Back Again: A Media Violence Tale; Chapter 2 - Exposing the Beast Within: Aggressive Behavior Across Development; Chapter 3 - Understanding the Beast Within: Theories of Aggressive Behavior; Chapter 4 - Dining on Death and Destruction: The How Much and Why of Violent Media Consumption; Part II: Effects of Specific Forms of Violent Media on Youth; Chapter 5 - Violent Media and the Need to Feel Strong and Powerful; Chapter 6 - Watching the Playful Beast: Sports Violence and Aggression |
Chapter 7 - Violence-Laden Imagination: Comic Books, Fiction, and ToysChpater 8 - Animating the Beast: Cartoon Violence; Chapter 9 - Listening to the Beast: Violence in Music and Music Videos; Chapter 10 - Watching the Beast: Live-Action Television and Movie Violence; Chapter 11 - Playing With the Beast: Violent Video Games; Part III: Media Violence and the Concept of Risk; Chapter 12 - Aggressive Behavior: Risk and Protective Factors; Chapter 13 - The Threat of Media Violence: Assessing Its Magnitude and Reducing Its Effects; Chapter 14 - Policy, Violent Entertainment, and Youth | |
Part IV - Nonviolent Media and YouthChapter 15 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Effects of Nonviolent Media on Children and Adolescents; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Kirsh provides a review and critique of the literature related to media violence in all its forms during childhood and adolescence. Special attention is paid to evaluating the role of the development processes in media violence research and to stressing the importance of methodology in understanding that research. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Children, adolescents, and media violence |
ISBN: | 0-7619-2975-4 |
1-4522-3608-9 | |
1-322-28289-7 | |
1-4522-2216-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910154647003321 |
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