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Ill effects : the media/violence debate / edited by Martin Barker and Julian Petley

Contributor(s): Barker, Martin [(ed.)] | Petley, Julian [(j.ed.)].
Series: Communication and society. Publisher: London ; N. Y. : Routledge, 2001Edition: 2nd ed.Description: ix, 229 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415225124.Subject(s): Mass media -- Influence | Mass media -- Social aspects | Violence in mass mediaDDC classification: 303.6
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Main Collection Taylor's Library-TU
303.6 ILL (Browse shelf) 1 Available SOMAC,09030,03,GR 5000027996

First published 1997

List of contributors. - Introduction: from bad research to good - a guide for the perplexed / Martin Barker And Julian Petley. - 1. The Newson Report : a case study in 'common sense' / Martin Barker. - 2. The worrying influence of 'media effects' studies / David Gauntlett. - 3. Electronic child abuse? Rethinking the media's effects on children / David Buckingham. - 4. Living for libido; or, 'Child's Play IV': the imagery of childhood and the call for censorship / Patricia Holland. - 5. Just what the doctors ordered? Media regulation, education and the 'problem' of media violence / Sara Bragg. - 6. Once more with feeling : talking about the media violence debate in Australia / Sue Turnbull. - 7. I was a teenage horror fan : or, 'How I learned to stop worrying and love Linda Blair' / Mark Kermode. - 8. 'Looks like it hurts' : women's responses to shocking entertainment / Annette Hill. - 9. Reservoirs of dogma: an archaeology of popular anxieties / Graham Murdock. - 10. Us and them / Julian Petley. - 11. Invasion of the Internet abusers: marketing fears about the information superhighway / Thomas Craig And Julian Petley. - 12. On the problems of being a 'trendy travesty' / Martin Barker (With Julian Petley). - Index.