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Pathfinder: Television and Violence
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos
SCOPE: The debate over television and violence has ensued for decades. Parents question the negative effects that the media portrays in television, radio, and film. Studies such as the National Television Violence Study conclude that there are three major findings in television effects research; the learning effect where viewers learn aggressive attitudes and behaviors depicted in the programs they see, the
desensitization effect where prolonged viewing of media violence can lead to emotional desensitization toward real violence and victims, and the fear factor where viewing violence may increase the fear of being victimized, leading to
self-protective behavior and an increased mistrust of others. (Gottesman, Violence in America) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library, but as a selective sampling of some of the many types of resources in the library.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with television and violence are listed in the Baddour
Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:
Violence in
television law and legislation United States
Television programs for
children law and legislation United States
Television and children
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REFHM 585.W67 2001 World of Sociology
REF HN 90.V5 V5474 1999 Violence in America
CQ Researcher (online database also available in hardcopy in the Reference Section):
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Bok, Sissela. Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment. Reading, Mass: Perseus Book, 1999.
Levine, Madeline. Viewing Violence: How Media Violence Affects Your Childs and Adolescents Development. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Minow, Newton N. Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.
Sanders, Barry. A is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
Simpson, Brian.
Children and Television. New York: Continuum, 2004.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of television and violence.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
VIDEOS
PN 1992.8.M87 1995 Dreamworlds 2 Desire/sex/power in music video
P96.V5 K4 1994 The Killing Screens: Media and the Culture of Violence
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02/08/2007
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