Barker ,Martin.

Ill effects : the media/violence debate / edited by Martin Barker and Julian Petley. - London : Routledge, 1997. - x, 171p. ; 24 cm. - Communication and society. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Indhold: Introduction : from bad research to good : a guide for the perplexed / Martin Barker and Julian Petley ; The Newson Report : a case study in "common sense" / Martin Barker ; The worrying influence of "media effects" studies / David Gauntlett ; Electronic child abuse? : rethinking the media's effects on children / David Buckingham ; Living for libido, or, "Child's play IV" : the imagery of childhood and the call for censorship / Patricia Holland ; Just what the doctors ordered? : media regulation, education and the "problem" of media violence / Sara Bragg ; Once more with feeling : talking about the media violence debate in Australia / Sue Turnbull ; I was a teenage horror fan, or, "How I learned to stop worrying and love Linda Blair" / Mark Kermode ; "Looks like it hurts" : women's responses to shocking entertainment / Annette Hill ; Reservoirs of dogma : an archaeology of popular anxieties / Graham Murdock ; Us and them / Julian Petley ; Invasion of the Internet abusers : marketing fears about the information superhighway / Thomas Craig and Julian Petley ; On the problems of being a "trendy travesty" / Martin Barker (with Julian Petley).

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Mass media--Influence.
Mass media--Social aspects--Great Britain.
Violence in mass media--Great Britain.