Screen Savers. Case Histories of Social Reaction to Mass Media, Children and Violence

Historically the mass media have often been blamed for causing violent behaviour by children and young people. Two case studies of new media, film and video games, are compared in terms of their emergence, reactions to them and outcomes of the debate, mainly in the USA and Britain. Both cases are us...

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Main Author: Chas Critcher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2012-06-01
Series:Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rsa/841