Directory of Media Resources

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• Television
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Resources in This Category

• About-Face!

  http://www.about-face.org/
  About-Face questions and satirizes negative and demeaning images of women in society.

• Children and TV Violence

  http://www.abelard.org/tv/tv.php
  Reviews studies on the effect of TV violence on children.

• Essay on Media Violence

  http://homoecumenicus.com/essay_ioannidis_media_violence.htm
  Includes articles on media violence and video games.

• Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children

  http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/09/youthviol.htm
  Federal Trade Commission report regarding the marketing of violent materials to children by the industries of motion picture, recording, and electronic games.

• The Hidden Hand of Violence {Freedom Magazine}

  http://violence.freedommag.org/page02.htm
  The divergent scenes in society's seemingly random patchwork quilt of senseless youth violence contain a common thread.

• TV News and the Culture of Violence

  http://www.bigmedia.org/texts6.html
  Examines the role television news plays in an increasingly violent society. From Rocky Mountain Media Watch.

• Violence In The Media (Community Learning Network)

  http://www.cln.org/themes/media_violence.html
  This CLN menu page provides links to Media Studies curricular resources and instructional materials (lesson plans) in the specific topic of violence in the media

• Violence, Public Health, and the Media

  http://www.annenberg.northwestern.edu/pubs/violence/
  Topics: The Problem of Violence, Media and the Social Agenda, From Public Opinion to Public Judgment, Understanding the Problem, The Search for Solutions, The Media as Part of the Solution, Conclusion, and Endnotes. Source: Margaret Gerteis,Annenberg Washington Program

• Violent Media is Good for Kids

  http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2000/06/violent_media.html
  Author Gerard Jones argues that violence in video games and other media give children a tool to master their rage.

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