Natural Experiments on the Effects of Mass Media Violence on Fatal Aggression: Strengths and Weaknesses of a New Approach

1986 ◽  
pp. 207-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
New Approach

scholarly journals La loi sur les jeunes contrevenants et les masse-médias

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Los
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Parens Patriae ◽  
Justice Model ◽  
Young Offenders Act ◽  
Powerful Interest

The recent enactment of the Young Offenders Act has ended a long period of the rule of the “parens patriae”, philosophy whereby the juvenile court's task was not to administer just punishment for the offence but to diagnose and treat the underlying problems. The new legislation, which follows the “justice model”, attempts to broaden legal rights of accused juveniles while simultaneously making juvenile law more punitive and more focused on specific criminal offences. The present article looks at the way the Canadian mass media reported on this major historical shift in the juvenile justice philosophy. The overt and hidden messages are analysed and the sources of the prevailing definitions explored. It has been found that the majority of informants represented powerful interest groups and organizations. Moreover, the investigated press reports created an image of fundamental consensus, and the new legislation was presented as being beneficial to the society as a whole. The inherent contradictions in the philosophy underlying the new Act were overlooked in favour of an image of a perfect balance whereby ambivalences of the new approach became transformed into virtues. The article tests a number of hypotheses and offers theoretical interpretations of the findings. The applicability of the consensual functionalist, critical functionalist and Marxist orientations is assessed.

Mass-media, violence and mental illness. Evidence from some Italian newspapers

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Carpiniello ◽  
Roberta Girau ◽  
Maria Germana Orrù
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Quantitative Parameters ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
Media Reports

SummaryAims – Media reports related to people suffering from mental illness appear to deal prevalently with acts of violence and crimes. The present study focused on all newspaper reports relating to homicides, suicide, and other acts of violence, in an attempt to ascertain whether a different pattern emerged in some Italian newspapers in describing deeds committed by the mentally ill. Materials and methods – All articles published over a six–month period in the two main national and two main regional newspapers relating to homicides, suicides, and other acts of violence were selected. A comparison of reports regarding events attributed to mentally ill people was performed according to quantitative parameters. Results – 2279 articles were considered; 54% regarded homicides, 8.2% suicides and attempted suicides, 2.1% homicides/suicides; the remaining 35.8% regarded other acts of violence. A significantly higher number of words, accompanying photos and a more stigmatizing language were used in reporting deeds when attributed to mentally ill people. Conclusion – An excessive emphasis on deeds related to a psychopathological condition still emerged in media reports, almost as though acts of violence committed by the mentally insane should be viewed in a different light. These findings support the hypothesis that media portrayal mirrors the enduring stereotype of “diversity” of the mentally ill.Declaration of Interest: no conflict of interest declared.

scholarly journals Patologi Kekerasan dalam Berita Televisi: antara Kontroversi dan Regulasi

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Santi Indra Astuti
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
Do So ◽  
Television Journalism

Indonesia television journalism is growing rapidly, yet, a close observation has revealed a domination of violence as reflected in its content. Violence even became a kind of appeal to seduce audience and influence them to watch the whole teather of media violence. Ignoring this circumstance will led to a huge sacrifice. Studies concerning mass media impact have showed range of influences between violence content and audience’s mental state of health. In order to control the violence on journalism television, a strict law enforcement must be perpetrated. But, to do so, several arguments often recited by media in order to prevent law enforcement efforts must be identified and be replied in most sophisticated fashion by preparing ellegant counter arguments.

Instead of laboratory: Analyzing data from natural experiments (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2021)

2022 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
K. I. Sonin
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Labor Economics ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Heterogeneous Reactions ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
New Approach

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens for advancing methodology to establish casual relationships in economics. Their approach brought the notion of the natural experiment, situations in which heterogeneous reactions of different groups of people to chance shocks or policy changes allows to elicit causal effects, to the forefront of empirical analysis, and spearheaded a revolution in development of statistical methods needed to analyze the data. After the initial contributions in labor economics and economics of education, the new approach has become a new standard in economic sciences.

scholarly journals THE METHOD OF COORDINATES IN TEACHING ESP

2019 ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Elena Solntseva
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Time Subject

The article introduces a new approach to English language teaching and learning at media and journalism departments. It is called “the method of coordinates” and its purpose is to teach reading media, looking for author's intention and writing mass media texts. The method regards a mass media text as a multidimensional structure possessing such coordinates as protagonist, place, time, subject, author’s intention, audience targeting, relevant external links, irrelevant external links etc. Here the step-by-step analysis is described how to determine them in the text and thus notice the composition of the text. Further, the collected data are used to develop own writings in media. As an example, the report “Dalia Stasevska joins BBC Symphony Orchestra as principal guest conductor” from The Guardian (25.01.2019, by Imogen Tilden) is chosen. The novelty of the approach is in a particular combination of several steps while reading and analysing the content of a newspaper article. The method can be used in ESP classes at media and journalism departments while teaching students to read news articles and to analyse them semantically, pragmatically and structurally. It contributes to the development of reading skills and understanding author’s intention as one of the most difficult tasks with the learners of English as a Second Language and prepares students to create personal writings in media.THE METHOD OF COORDINATES IN TEACHING ESP

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