TY - BOOK AU - Grimes,Tom AU - Anderson,James A. AU - Bergen,Lori A. TI - Media violence and aggression: science and ideology SN - 141291440X AV - P96.V5 G74 2008 U1 - 303.6 22 PY - 2008///] CY - Thousand Oaks PB - Sage Publications KW - Violence in mass media N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index; Setting the stage -- A short history of the concept of effects -- The epistemology of media effects -- The social scientific "theory" that never quite fit -- Is it just science? / James A. Anderson and Janet W. Colvin -- The world according to causationists -- The biggest cultural variable of all : the child -- The role of psychopathology in the media violence/aggression equation -- The attempt to make an ideology a science -- To legislate or not to legislate against media violence N2 - "Media Violence and Aggression: Science and Ideology provides a multimethod critique of the media violence/social aggression myth. It provides policy makers and students with information to understand why the media violence/social aggression hypothesis will not explain or predict how most people react to what they see and hear in the media. Authors Tom Grimes, James A. Anderson, and Lori Bergen take the reader through a history of media effects research, pointing out where that research has made claims that go beyond empirical evidence."--Jacket UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007014778-b.html ER -