Media Violence and Abuse Issues

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• - An in-class essay on Media Violence asking the question: Does Media cause violence in our society?
  
• - Includes articles on media violence and video games.
  
• - Detailed articles for teens and children about issues and ways to handle problems on the internet.
  
• - A Personal media violence page, dedicated to bringing together various resources which can be used to study media violence.
  
• - Materials about the mass media and its relationship to people's identities, gender, sexuality and behaviour.
  
• - Offers a number of resources including movie, television and video game content ratings, media awareness programs and helpful hints for parents to evaluate their media use.
  
• - Federal Trade Commission report regarding the marketing of violent materials to children by the industries of motion picture, recording, and electronic games.
  
• - National grassroots initiative providing information about the effects of violent entertainment, toys and games on children's behavior.
  
• - Topics: The Problem of Violence, Media and the Social Agenda, From Public Opinion to Public Judgment, Understanding the Problem, The Search for Solutions, The Media as Part of the Solution, Conclusion, and Endnotes. Source: Margaret Gerteis,Annenberg Wash
  
• - The site includes the research, policy and opinion documents to inform users about social, economic and policy factors around media's influence in the lives of children and families.
  
• - About-Face questions and satirizes negative and demeaning images of women in society.
  
• - Explores how newspapers can more effectively address the issue of violence. From the Nieman Foundation.
  
• - Reviews studies on the affect of TV violence on children.
  
• - Chapter of a book, written by Dr David Gauntlett of the University of Leeds, criticising studies of media effects. [Legally reproduced on the Web by the author].
  
• - Resources from Reason magazine countering the attacks on violence in popular culture.
  
• - Introduces government of whether producers of violent or adult music, movies and video games are targeting kids in their advertisements.
  
• - Debates whether violent media creates a violent culture or whether society avoids its real problems by blaming the media.
  
• - Information at this site about membership in MediaWatch, using the media effectively to promote issues of interest, talking to children about violence and sexism in the media, and a wealth of other useful resources.
  
• - Examines the role television news plays in an increasingly violent society. From Rocky Mountain Media Watch.
  
• - Author Gerard Jones argues that violence in videogames and other media give children a tool to master their rage.
  
• - Explains how to analyze for violence in TV, movies and videos.
  
• - This CLN menu page provides links to Media Studies curricular resources and instructional materials (lesson plans) in the specific topic of violence in the media
  
• - An article from the American Academy of Pediatrics: Some Things You Should Know About Media Violence and Media Literacy.
  
• - Research data tracking television viewing habits and behavior patterns, population/homicide rate data, cartoon violence, video games, internet, music, lyrics and potential adverse effects of excessive exposure to media.
  
• - The divergent scenes in society's seemingly random patchwork quilt of senseless youth violence contain a common thread.