Violence in the Media
Notre Dame Football Players Rape Cover-up – What’s in the News and What Isn’t
Fem2.0 January 9, 2013. The media has extensively covered the college championship football game between Notre Dame and Alabama, but few Americans aware of Notre Dame’s cover-up of rapes by Notre Dame football players. Monday’s football game is an opportunity to acknowledge that raping women is a terrible crime that needs to be taken seriously by the police, the public, and the media. Read More
Online Predators: What Do We Know, and What Can We Do?
Are online predators a real threat to children and teenagers? A psychology professor at UCLA, studied chat rooms for teens and found explicit sexual exchanges, joking about physical violence and assaults, aggression, and disturbing exchange involving racial prejudice. Read More
Violence in G-Rated Animated Films
Today, children are constantly being exposed to television shows and movies that contain explicit material such as increased violence, as well as inappropriate language and sexual content. With increased availability of these materials, many parents find it hard to monitor what their children are exposed to on a daily basis. Read More
What Not To Do: Watch TV Wrestling
There are plenty of studies showing a link between violent TV and children’s aggressive behavior. Watching one particular sport on TV – wrestling – has even been linked to dating violence. Read More
Media, Kids, and Violence
Violent media can have negative effects on children. Read More
Violent Video Games Can Increase Aggression
Playing violent video games can increase aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in real life. Violent video games may be more harmful than violent television and movies because they are interactive and engrossing, requiring the player to identify with the aggressor. Read More
Copy Cats that Kill
The media gives a lot of attention to school violence, and that attention can encourage more threats of violence. Researchers focus on the implications for the media, suggesting that they not give so much attention to these violent incidents and that they avoid portraying perpetrators as counterculture heroes. Read More
Violent Songs
Previous studies have found that enjoying or listening to music with violent messages correlates with hostile attitudes, negative attitudes toward women, lower academic performance, behavior problems in school, drug use and arrests. Read More