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When societies worry about media effects, why do they focus so much on young people? Is advertising to blame for binge drinking? Do films and video games inspire school shootings? Tackling these kinds of questions, <b>Youth and Media</b> explains why young people are central to understanding critical issues in media studies and media education.
Understanding Media Violence: School Shootings, Media Stories and the Framing of Social Reality
Understanding Media Violence: School Shootings, Media Stories and the Framing of Social Reality
Since 1999, debates on media violence and its impact have frequently centred on rampage murders that take place in schools. So common are these tragic events that they force us to ask why global audiences are exposed to so much violence. That is, before worrying about what this violence does to audiences, especially young ones, it is important to ask why that it is there to see in the first place. One of the most significant turns in media research came when scholars defined media violence as a recurring story. As a story, violence appeals because it is ...
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