Summary
Contents
Subject index
This definitive examination of a contemporary social issue asks questions such as: How much media violence is there? What are the meanings conveyed in the way violence is portrayed? What effect does it have on viewers? Divided into four parts, the book reviews research on media violence; re-examines existing theories of media violence; considers methodological tools used to assess media, and introduces the concept of Lineation Theory, a perspective and new theoretical approach explaining media violence.
Propositions
Propositions
In this final chapter, I present a large set of propositions that attempt to provide a systematic explanation for media violence in its widest sense. These propositions (summarized in Table 15.1) seek to explain violence across all media by focusing attention on the media violence narrative line. Furthermore, they seek to explain more than one facet of media violence by examining not only effects but also media industries, content, process patterns, and general influence.
TABLE 15.1 Outline of Propositions
Some media scholars, particularly those most focused on psychological experimentation, might have a tighter view of what a theory is and object to my characterizing what follows as a theory. Empirical researchers who are used to encountering theories that have a single proposition (or small set of ...
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