The unending stream of violence on news and entertainment programming can have a negative impact on kids of all ages.
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Children can’t handle watching livestreamed massacres – and adults shouldn’t have to.
Even Samuel Johnson found some of Shakespeare’s violent scenes unwatchable.
As a federal school safety commission searches for ways to lessen school violence, a psychology professor advises the commission that focusing on violence in entertainment media is a waste of time.
Could their affinity for a certain type of television drama help explain why they’re drawn to his rhetoric?
Does viewing violent television as a child increase aggression toward women later in life? We check the research.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has called its guideline of two hours per day of screen time outdated. So what about the decades of research that led to the original recommendation?
Parents could certainly do more to be aware of what their children are playing. But threatening letters are unlikely to help.
Those who experience a terrorist attack firsthand are prone to suffer from acute stress. That much is obvious. But does living that experience repeatedly through the media’s coverage of the event cause…
On September 23, Showtime audiences will bid adieu to television’s unlikeliest hero. Since 2007, they’ve really warmed to Dexter. The show’s eponymous anti-hero is a congenial blood-spatter analyst who…
The blockbuster videogame launch of Grand Theft Auto V was met with a fanfare of confusing messages. Gamers were promised the familiar diet of salacious content: players are free, so we are told, to drive…
Earlier this week on The Conversation, Morgan Tear wrote a terrific article calling into question the supposed negative effect of videogame violence on players’ behaviour. And I would argue we could use…
Popular culture magazine Rolling Stone has released the cover of its August 1 print edition on the internet. Most of the headlines promise the familiar mix of pop culture and news: a review of Jay-Z’s…
Even in a city with London’s savage history, the Woolwich murder is especially distressing. A man has been horrifically and wilfully murdered in public. Footage of this appalling crime has spread through…
The Connecticut town of Southington last week introduced a videogames return program, offering a $25 gift card to parents who wanted to rid their households of violent titles. The program comes in the…
A study of 22 James Bond films has found that the amount of violence depicted has doubled since the original Bond movie was released in 1962. The study’s authors have said the finding raises concerns but…
New guidelines for the classification of videogames have been released by Federal Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare and, despite being a step in the right direction, the revisions are largely disappointing…
The immediate information emerging in the aftermath of James Holmes’ murder rampage in Aurora, Colorado, makes a good case for the idea that media violence begets the real thing. A closer look, however…
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor of Psychology, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Risk and Terror, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Practice Communication Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Lecturer in English, Keele University
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Professor of Political Psychology, Liverpool Hope University
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Elizabeth Handsley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Western Sydney University
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Research Associate Professor, University of Otago
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Professor of Communication, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Communication Science, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Child Development, Texas Woman's University