Media and Violence. Closing one Door: Opening Another

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Field
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Door Opening ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
Theoretical Developments

SummaryThis article sets the debate about the effects of media violence in the context of broader media research. A direct and simple ‘cause and effect’ model between media violence and violence in society does not stand up to scrutiny. It relies on an obsolete model of media influence which stands outside current, theoretical developments in mass communication research. It has diverted attention away from more relevant accounts which see the media as having ‘a primary function’ of ‘legitimation and maintenance of authority’. These suggest a no less powerful but infinitely more subtle model of media influence which finds wide support in other areas of mass communication research. Ironically, since popular debate about media violence has been – and still is – based almost exclusively upon experimental research, it too seems to serve this same legitimation process.

Depression in Women’s Magazines

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Borman
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Psychiatric Nurse ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
The Media

BACKGROUND: Mass communication research suggests that the media influence both what a population thinks about and how it thinks about an event or situation by controlling what is covered and how topics are framed. One medium, popular women’s magazines, has published depression-related articles for decades. However, little is known about the content and frame of these articles. OBJECTIVE: The research sought to determine what women’s magazines published about depression between 1980 and 2000. DESIGN: Articles published on depression in the top eight circulating women’s magazines, between 1980 to 1985 and 1995 to 2000 were retrieved and analyzed using qualitative media analysis methodology. RESULTS: Between the two periods, the magazines increased the number of published articles on depression and increasingly framed it as a treatable but stigmatized illness. CONCLUSION: Women’s magazines, which regularly publish information on depression, have high circulation rates, resulting in millions of exposures to their messages. Psychiatric nurse-authors have an opportunity to influence these messages.

scholarly journals Examining the Effects of Media-Generated Stereotypes on Receivers’ Trust and Attitude in Pakistan. Moderating Influence of Ethnicity and Gender

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Syed Hassan Raza ◽  
Umer Zaman ◽  
Moneeba Iftikhar
Keyword(s):  
Differential Susceptibility ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Trust ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

There is a long-standing debate about the effects of media-generated stereotypes on receivers’ trust and attitude. However, there is insufficient consensus about their influence on the media receiver’s ecological perspective in determining their extent of trust and attitudes. Drawing an analogy from Differential Susceptibility to Media Effect Model (hereafter DSMM) notion that media effects are conditional and are contingent on differential-susceptibility, this study examines the influence of dispositional and social susceptibility to media. To do so, the study validates the influence of media user’s gender (dispositional susceptibility) and ethnicity (social susceptibility) in determining the outcomes of media-generated stereotypes, media trust (MT), and attitude towards media organization (AO). The survey method has been employed to collect data through a self-administered questionnaire from 1061 university students in public sector institutions in Pakistan. The results provide empirical evidence that media-generated stereotypes are a substantially negative predictor of media trust and attitudes towards the media organization. The results also validate that the influence of the stereotyping manifested by the receiver’s ecological perspective such as ethnicity and gender are crucial determinants of the receiver’s trust and attitudes. Managerially, the study urges that journalistic practices must be more ethnoculturally inclusive, to cope with the contemporary media landscape.

The Effects of Media Effects

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 906-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Sherrick
Keyword(s):  
Media Effects ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Media ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
The Third Person

Prior research in the third-person effects domain has shown that people who believe in harmful media effects are more willing to engage in preventive or accommodative strategies, such as censorship. This research extends that supposition by testing a thus-far unstudied strategy: negative evaluations of media companies. Results show that an overall belief in harmful media effects is connected to negative evaluations of the media companies potentially responsible for those effects. The third-person perceptual gap is not related to these negative evaluations of media companies, suggesting important differences between third-person effects research and influence of presumed media influence research.

scholarly journals Media Sociology

Communication ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Waisbord
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Media Sociology ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research

This article offers a review of key works in media sociology and identifies key themes in sociological research that have contributed to media studies. Given the interdisciplinary nature of media/communication analysis, establishing what falls within media sociology and drawing clear-cut distinctions between sociological and other approaches are not easy tasks. Here, media sociology is understood as research that situates communication and media research within the dynamics of social forces and links them to questions about order, conflict, identity, institutions, stratification, authority, community, and power. The origins of mass communication/media research are grounded in sociology. Not only was it sociologists who charted key themes in the field of communication/media studies, particularly in the United States in the 1920s, but foundational research was concerned with core sociological questions, such as the integrative role of the media in the transition from traditional to modern societies and the community-building dimensions of the media. Around the time of World War II, US media sociology experienced two transitions. Geographically, the center of studies moved from the University of Chicago to Columbia and Harvard Universities, and the research foci changed from news and media to public opinion and mass communication. Analytically, the focus shifted from the relation between media and modern society to questions about war propaganda and persuasion. Given the focus on the dynamics of public opinion, sociological questions about personal and media influence moved to the forefront, and interest in issues related to media and community faded. With financial support from the US government and private foundations, public opinion attracted considerable attention from media and communication researchers in the 1950s. However, as questions embedded in social psychology and behavioral research gained currency, sociological approaches, particularly those focused on structural issues, gradually lost centrality. This shift indicated the beginning of the rift between sociology and media/communication studies in the United States. Sociological theories and questions increasingly became less relevant for mass communication research. The historical trajectory of media sociology has been different in Europe, however. It has not had the focus on public opinion research and media effects that it has in the United States. Instead, it has been grounded in different theoretical paradigms and research questions. Traditionally, it has been more concerned with questions about class, power, institutions, and social differentiation.

scholarly journals Media violance and how it`s impact on audience

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Irina Valerievna Nazarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Basic Functions ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Crime Reports

This article is devoted to the representation of violence in modern media, in particular — to the features that are inherent in such materials, and also examines the impact of violence in journalistic materials on the audience that consumes the content. The media, as an institution of mass communication, has several basic functions, which are both derived from the needs of society and based on the interests of a particular member of society. At the moment, the attention of many researchers is closely drawn to the influence of the content of various media on the audience, the formation of the perception of individual individuals. Scientists have proven that one of the things that attracts a person is violence, because the audience is interested in «bad» news, watches crime reports. But media violence is still one of the stumbling blocks in contemporary discourse. In the article, we will consider what features are inherent in materials covering cruelty in general and crimes in particular, identify the level of influence of consumed content on the formation of individual characteristics, and also analyze a number of aggressive behavior of the audience depending on the materials

scholarly journals Religion and the Media

Communication ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Buddenbaum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
Religion And Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

Churches and other religious organizations have always conducted or commissioned media research addressing their interests. Scholarly journals have always published occasional articles dealing with religion and media. However, as a distinct area for scholarly inquiry, religion and media owes its origin in the United States to a confluence of events during the late 1970s that made religion important in a way it had not been since the 1925 Scopes trial. Questions raised by the opening of television to paid religious programming as a result of changes in broadcast law and network policies led to a flurry of scholarship on the then-new electronic church by sociologists of religion and mass communication scholars. At about the same time, the election of the born-again Jimmy Carter as president, the Iranian hostage crisis, and the rise of the New Christian Right paved the way for scholarly interest in religion as news. Since then the continuing political influence of conservative Christians in the United States, an influx of Muslim immigrants in European nations, and the events of 9/11 have sustained interest in the field and broadened it to encompass both international scholarly attention and a new emphasis on the portrayal of religions beyond Christianity in news and entertainment media. In the 1990s international research conferences on religion and the media began to appear. The American Academy of Religion, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the International Communication Association all had units devoted to the subject. As a result, religion and media, although still closely identified in the United States with journalism and mass communication, developed into an eclectic, interdisciplinary field. Although European scholarly research in both the sociology of religion and communication predates that in America, the events that initially triggered the development of religion and media as an area for scholarly inquiry had little initial impact outside the United States. However, by the 1980s scholars from around the world with interest in the field had begun to find each other through organizations such as the International Association for Mass Communication Research, which scheduled a session on the subject at its 1994 conference in Seoul, South Korea, and the International Communication Association, which did the same at its Sydney, Australia, conference that year. However, the real impetus for international research came from a series of media–religion–culture conferences, the first of them in 1993 at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and from increasingly available funding for religion and media research from the European Science Foundation and similar organizations in individual countries. While the conferences moved audience-centered research from a culturist perspective to the forefront, the major funding promoted more traditional effects-oriented social science research in the wake of 9/11, European involvement in the US-led war in Iraq, and tensions between Muslim immigrants and traditionally Christian but increasingly secular host European nations.

scholarly journals Overview of Nordic Media Research on Immigration and Ethnic Relations

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Horsti
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Media And Communication

Abstract Nordic media and communication research had reacted to the ethnically/racially and culturally changing societies since the 1980s, and the multidisciplinary field of migration, ethnic relations and the media has been shaped. This overview draws upon existing body of research, particularly on recent literature since the early 2000s, and aims to sketch out the rough lines of Nordic media research by mapping and comparing developments in this area. In addition, it points out some major outcomes and, finally, suggests future developments. The longest line of research is based on text analysis, mostly quantitative and qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis of majority media’s texts on immigration and ethnic minorities. Later on, the research focus has widened to cover various dimensions of media output as well as production and reception. Although the field is intensively developing, comparative research among the Nordic countries, and between other European countries, is scarce.

A Content Analysis of Women's Published Mass Communication Research, 1965–1989

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 815-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Dupagne ◽  
W. James Potter ◽  
Roger Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Published Research

The purpose of this study is to investigate women's scholarship in mass communications from 1965 to 1989. A content analysis was conducted to examine the percentage of mass media research published by female scholars in eight leading communication journals. Additional research questions involve sex differences in research topics and methods in the published literature. The examination of 1, 391 articles reveals that the amount of published research attributable to females has grown dramatically over the past two decades. The findings also suggest few major differences between female and male scholars in research methods of published articles.

scholarly journals Effects of Media Violence on Mental Health of Viewers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madiha Kamal ◽  
Gulrukh Zahid
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
The Media ◽  
Effects Of Media

Abstract It has been evident that violence showing through media is creating numerous issues in youth as well as in younger children. In this study we have scrutinize the effect of violence exhibiting through the media, on the mental health of a viewer and as well as its effects on economics. By using a primary data methodology, a total of 100 respondents submitted their response to the database for this study. Majority of the participants in the survey were females aged between 18–24 years. The results have shown that by picturing violent content on media has an impact on mental health, both long term and short-term impacts depends on the content and its severity.

scholarly journals Psychological Information in the Content of a Modern Journal

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Grishanina Anastasia N. ◽  
◽  
Angel’cheva Valeria V. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Editorial Office ◽  
Leningrad Oblast ◽  
Psychological Techniques ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Current Psychological ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The article is the result of a study of the significance of expert psychological information, as well as information of a socio-psychological plan for journalistic materials; the work was carried out by the editorial office of Gatchinskaya Pravda newspaper (Leningrad Oblast). Psychological information in the media as an object of linguistic research has not been studied previously, the novelty of the work lies in the psycho-linguistic approach to the study of the question and to attempt correlation comparative studies of the authors with the study of peculiarities of perception of media texts of the contemporary audience. The article deals with verbal forms of social and psychological information presentation in the media, mainly in journal publications as a form of dialogue or monologue with the reader on a certain topic; the reasons for the audience’s access to psychological information in a modern magazine and the intent of the demand for texts containing such information are studied. To do this, we first studied the level of readers’ awareness of the types and forms of media information, as well as the degree of demand for knowledge of a socio-psychological orientation. The main object of research is language markers of psychological information. The relevance of the topic is explained by the great interest of magazine readers, as shown by media ratings, to psychological information. As part of the study of modern psychological techniques of media influence, the authors analyzed the results of research by psychologists and psychiatrists, who state an increase in the level of anxiety in the current psychological and emotional state of people. Doctors associate the causes of some anxiety disorders with the consumption of media information, the imposition of advice, recommendations, and lifestyle at the angle of presentation as psychological information. The article describes the results of media research; it is noted that information of a socio-psychological plan plays an important role in shaping the audience’s worldview and has a socio-psychological impact on it. The features and types of this influence are considered; the results of surveys of magazine readers are given, since the magazine is one of the mass media that publishes analytical and informative materials. The authors make an attempt to explain a certain degree of obsession with psychological information to the reader in the media; they indicate the reasons identified in the course of research for this communicative psychological strategy, bordering on and sometimes directly related to the manipulative actions of the author or publisher. Keywords: media text, mass communication media, personality, language tools, psycholinguistics, information, psychological information

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