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.

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/