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volume <1-3 > : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Violence in television programming overall: University of California, Santa Barbara study -- Background and overview of the study -- Foundations underlying the research -- The importance of context -- Nature of perpetrator -- Nature of target -- Reason for violence -- Presence of weapons -- Extent and graphicness of violence -- Realism of violence -- Rewards and punishments -- Consequences of violence -- Humor -- Developmental differences in the processing of television content -- Contextual patterns -- Overview of the content analysis framework -- Definition of violence -- Units of analysis -- Measures -- Coding of content -- Sample -- Description of methods -- Sample of programs -- Basic parameters of the sample -- Obtaining a representative sample of the program population -- Summary description of the sample -- Content measures -- Definition of violence -- Units of analysis -- Contextual measures -- Coding and reliability -- Checking the quality of data -- Check for fatigue in coder performance -- Summary of reliability -- Three year assessment of the methods -- The sample -- Checking the quality of data -- Reliability -- Summary of methods -- Results: Three year analysis -- The presence of violence: prevalence, saturation and rate -- Prevalence -- Saturation -- Rate -- Prevalence of programming with an anti-violence theme -- Adjusted presence -- Summary of presence -- Context: the meaning of the violence -- Nature of the perpetrator -- Summary of the perpetrators -- Nature of the target -- Summary of the targets -- Reasons for violence -- Justification -- Means/presence of weapons -- Extent of violence -- Graphicness of violence -- Realism -- Rewards and punishments -- Consequences of violence -- Humor -- Sexual violence -- Programming with an anti-violence theme -- Drama series -- Comedy series -- Reality programming -- Movies -- Children's programming -- Music video -- Analysis of primetime programming -- Summary of results -- Presence of violence -- Saturation of violence -- Rate of violence -- Protection from violence -- Context or nature of violent portrayals -- Assessing change in television violence -- Thresholds for detecting change -- Statistical significance -- Practical differences -- The pattern of differences -- Measurement error for the contextual variables -- Prevalence levels for violent programming -- Overall prevalence -- Prevalence by channel and genre -- Three year comparison of demographics and attributes of perpetrators and targets -- Assessing change on the major contextual variables in television programming overall -- Assessing change on the major contextual variables by channel type and genre -- Changes by channel type -- Changes by program genre -- Primetime analysis -- Prevalence of violence -- Major contextual variables -- Summary of primetime analyses -- Conclusions about the change in prevalence and contextual patterns of violent portrayals -- High risk portrayals that encourage learning of aggression -- Composite for learning: definitional issues -- Units of analysis: violent interactions rather than programs -- The need for two composites: developmental considerations -- Filters for high risk -- Results -- High risk for young children -- High risk for older children and adolescents -- Change in high risk patterns since 1995-96 -- Examples of high risk violent interactions -- Discussion -- What does violence on television look like? -- Has violence on television changed over the past three years? -- How is violence presented across different types of channels? -- How is violence presented across different types of program genres? -- What portrayals pose a high risk of children's learning of aggression? -- Recommendations -- For the television industry -- For the public policymakers -- For parents -- For the academic community -- Measuring violence in reality programs -- Violence defined -- Levels of analysis -- Sampling -- Methods -- Reliability -- Results -- Descriptions of sampled programs -- Presence of violence in reality programs -- Contextual factors in violent portrayals -- Additional context features in reality program visual violence -- Context features in reality program talk about violence -- Characters involved in violence -- Violence in reality genres -- Police shows -- Entertainment non-news -- Entertainment news and review -- Documentaries -- News and public affairs -- Tabloid shows -- Talk shows -- Ratings and advisories for television: University of Wisconsin- Madison study -- The use of 'TV Parental Guidelines' in the composite week of television -- Implementation of the new ratings system -- Distribution of the new ratings levels -- Distribution of the new ratings levels within genres -- Distribution of new ratings levels within channel -- The use of TV parental guidelines in programs with vs. without violence -- Distribution of the TV parental guidelines across dayparts -- Use of advisories, ratings and content codes in the composite week of television -- Use of advisories in the sample -- Presence of oral and written advisories -- Text of advisories -- Use of MPAA ratings and content codes in the sample -- MPAA ratings -- Content codes -- Relationship between MPAA ratings and content codes -- Scheduling of advisories, ratings and codes -- Discussion of the finding and implications -- Findings of the content analysis -- The use of the TV parental guidelines -- Use of advisories, MPAA ratings and content codes in the sample of programs -- Implications -- Testing effectiveness of public service announcements that depict immediate physical consequences of handgun violence -- Health communication campaigns -- Public service announcements -- Study objectives -- Theoretical perspectives -- Social cognitive theory of violence -- Outcome expectations -- Violence prevention theory -- Consequence severity -- Observer characteristics -- Experience with violence -- Exposure to violence -- Intervention model -- PSA development -- Background -- PSA content -- Methods -- Study participants -- Procedure -- Theater testing -- Pretest -- Randomization -- Experiment -- Posttest -- Secondary exposure and follow up measures -- Study variables and measures -- Cognitive outcome variables -- Individual characteristics -- PSA perception variables -- Foils -- Results and discussion -- Background -- Violence exposure and experience -- Group equivalence -- Recall -- Outcome expectations -- Message processing -- PSA comparisons -- Final recommendations -- Making PSAs more effective -- Target audience composition -- Findings from the NTVS -- Recommendation -- Public service announcement format -- Writing public service announcement messages -- Taking credit -- Television and violence prevention. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Subject |
Violence on television.
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Television programs -- United States.
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Violence on television -- Statistics.
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| Added Author |
Sage Publications.
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| ISBN |
0761908013 v. 1 hardcover |
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0761908021 v. 1 paperback |
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0761910875 v. 2 cloth |
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0761910883 v. 2 paper |
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0761916539 v. 3 cloth |
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0761916547 v. 3 paper |
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