Ill effects : the media/violence debate /
[edited by] Martin Barker and Julian Petley.
- 2nd ed.
- ix, 229p. : ill. : 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: From bad research to good - a guide for the perplexed -- The Newson Report: a case study in 'commonsense' / The worrying influence of 'media effects' studies / Electronic child abuse? Rethinking the media's effects on children / Living for a libido; or, Child's Play IV: the imagery of childhood and the call for censorship / Just what the doctors ordered? - Media regulation, education and the 'problem' of media violence / Once more with feeling: talking about the media violence debate in Australia / I was a teenage horror fan: or, 'How I learned to stop worrying and love Linda Blair' / 'Looks Like it Hurts': Women's Responses to Shocking Entertainment / Reservoirs of dogma: an archaeology of popular anxieties / Us and them / Invasion of the Internet Abusers: Marketing Fears About the Information Superhighway / On the problems of being a 'trendy travesty' / Martin Barker -- David Gauntlett -- David Buckingham -- Patricia Holland -- Sara Bragg -- Sue Turnbull -- Mark Kermode -- Annette Hill -- Graham Murdock -- Julian Petley -- Thomas Craig and Julian Petley -- Martin Barker and Julian Petley. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"Ill Effects suggests new and productive ways in which we can understand the influences of the media and question why the effects paradigm still exerts a tenacious hold in some quarters. Refusing to adopt the absurd position that the media have no influence at all, Ill Effects rethinks the notion of media influence in ways which take into account how people actually use and interact with the media in their everyday lives."--BOOK JACKET.