Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Violent Media not the cause of Violent People
Chris Ferguson, a professor of psychology and criminal justice at Texas A&M University, has written a piece for Time Magazine's website about politicians' use of violent media like video games as the cause of violent people and the continued lack of evidence to support this theory despite numerous studies.
Labels:
Media,
Politicians,
Time Magazine,
Video Games,
Violence
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Don't Make Killers Sound like Anti-Heroes
A psychiatrists and Charlie Brooker's perspective on news coverage's perpetuation of mass shootings in schools.
The full version of this program is currently viewable in the UK via BBC iPlayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jf3hx/Newswipe_Episode_1/
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