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U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Available online.
The report responds to a request from the U.S House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce that the FCC undertake an inquiry on television violence. The FCC found that research indicates exposure to violence in the media can increase aggressive behavior in children, at least in the short term.
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Southern Illinois University Law Review, Winter 2007.
Available online. (Use links near bottom page.)
"Focusing on the Duke rape case as a case study, this article analyzes magazine coverage using a labeling system from a previous study of media coverage of high profile rapes to determine whether race and class shape rape narratives... The article concludes by comparing the past studies of rape media coverage with this new data to provide insights and conclusions about media rape coverage today."
This article will be available in this database.
Pew Reseaerch Center for the People and the Press.
Available online.
"Since the late 1980s, the emergence of 24-hour cable news as a dominant news source and the explosive growth of the internet have led to major changes in the American public’s news habits. But a new nationwide survey finds that the coaxial and digital revolutions and attendant changes in news audience behaviors have had little impact on how much Americans know about national and international affairs. On average, today’s citizens are about as able to name their leaders, and are about as aware of major news events, as was the public nearly 20 years ago."
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International Center for Media and the Public Agenda.
Available online.
Report from this University of Maryland center "found patterns of coverage in major U.S. newspapers in the year following September 11, 2001 and five years later in 2006 that may still be contributing to public confusion over the need for a global “War on Terror” and the public’s perception of the global terrorist risk."
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Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Available online.
"Past research shows that violent video game exposure increases aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, physiological arousal, aggressive behaviors, and decreases helpful behaviors. However, no research has experimentally examined violent video game effects on physiological desensitization, defined as showing less physiological arousal to violence in the real world after exposure to video game violence in the virtual world. This experiment attempts to fill this gap."
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