By Karen Boyle
Media and Violence can pay equivalent recognition to the creation, content material and reception all in favour of any illustration of violence. This publication bargains a framework for figuring out how violence is represented and consumed. It examines the connection of media, gender, and real-world violence; representations of violence in display leisure; the consequences of violent media on shoppers; the ethics and gender politics of the construction approaches of display violence; and the discussions are illustrated with topical and famous examples, permitting the reader to seriously interact with the debates.
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4 The main positions in the feminist pornography debates are outlined at the beginning of Chapter 2. Using the findings of effects research in feminist debate is a strategy I have been critical of elsewhere (Boyle, 2000). 5 For an illustration of how such ‘scientific’ discourse is used in the courtroom, see Ross (1997) and Fuller and Blackley (1995: 93–115). qxd 10/7/2004 10:29 AM Page 27 The Effects of Violence in the Media 27 6 The abstracts collected in Signorielli and Gerbner’s (1988) annotated bibliography of research on the effects of media violence provide ample evidence of this point.
8 Guy Cumberbatch’s 1987 study, The Portrayal of Violence on British Television, is one of the few studies that deals with verbal as well as physical violence. , 1998). 10 I am drawing on the following studies: Broadcasting Standards Council (1993) and Broadcasting Standards commission (2002), Gunter and Harrison (1998) and the various reports included in the National Television Violence Study (1997, 1998a, 1998b). Further reading Barker, M. and Petley, J. ) (2001) Ill Effects: The Media/Violence Debate, 2nd edn.
2002). It is telling, however, that researchers concerned with the putative effects of television on its ‘heaviest’ viewers have been less concerned with behavioural aggression as an effect than with the cultivation of a television worldview. Taken alongside the behavioural studies discussed in the previous section, there seems to be an assumption that male viewers act and female viewers are acted on. Cultivation theory – most associated with the work of George Gerbner in the US7 – posits that ‘heavy’ television viewing cultivates attitudes and beliefs in the viewer that are more consistent with the world of television programmes than with the real world.
