Violence & Media

The Role of the ‘Islamic’ and the ‘External’ Factor in the Security Discourse of Putin’s Russia: Facing the Future

by Sotirios Karampampas

published in Research Program on Foreign Policy, Defence & Security, Center of Russia, Eurasia & Southern Europe (CERE), Institute of International Relations (IIR), vol. 4, pp. 21-25.

Violence and the Media

by Cynthia Carter

Critical readings: violence and the media

by Cynthia Carter

Everyday news of sexual violence

by Cynthia Carter

Killing for Girls: Predation Play and Female Empowerment

by Elena Bertozzi

Currently under review

Predation games--games in which the player is actively encouraged and often required to hunt and kill in order to... more Predation games--games in which the player is actively encouraged and often required to hunt and kill in order to survive—have historically been the purview of male players. Females, though now much more involved in digital games than before, are generally encouraged to play games that stress traditionally feminine values such as socializing with others, shopping and nurturing. This paper argues that playing games that virtually simulate predation (which is true of most violent videogames) has many benefits for female players. Predation play teaches participants how to survive and excel in stressful, competitive, aggressive environments. To remain in the game, players have to sharpen their wits, learn to face fear, accept challenges and come back from defeat to play again. Negative effects are also discussed.

New challenges to empower international norms and practices in preventing mass atrocities and crimes? An analysis about violence and hate speech through media.

by Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini

Co-authored by Prof. Cristiana Carletti (Professor of International Organization and Human Rights' Protection at the University "Roma Tre", Faculty of Political Sciences, Rome, Italy) and Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini (Associate at the Center for International Conflict Resolution, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in the City of New York), Submitted to IPRA global conference ‘COMMUNICATING PEACE’, University of Sydney, Australia 6-10 July 2010

The capacity to communicate hate and anger has contributed enormously to the deployment of massive violent measures... more The capacity to communicate hate and anger has contributed enormously to the deployment of massive violent measures during conflict that often leaded to genocide and mass atrocities. The memory of Radio Mille Collines in Rwanda contributes to the argument of experts of how media and communication does lead to social reaction and, in the specific case, to social anger, revenge and “willingness to kill” the “enemy”.
The necessity of international law mechanisms to deploy a concrete message for the prevention of such crimes has not yet come to force. The path for the construction of a preventive framework to avoid future genocide and mass atrocities requires the empowerment of international regulations for the enforcement of hate speeches, messages and signs. A research approach that visualize this problematic in the overall framework of the emerging norm of the Responsibility to Protect, and in particular with the evolution of a institutionalization of the preventive action pillar that empowers in particular the UN Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, will try to cope with an existing dilemma in the field of communication between the freedom of speech and the necessity to avoid hate and violence through the media. The result of the research, conducted through the international norms of communication and the acknowledgement of new characteristics of the global community in the field of media will contribute to the evolution of a preventing genocide and mass atrocities.

Griffiths, M.D. (2012). First person (Boy's murder fantasy became reality). Nottingham Post, February 10, p.5.

by Mark Griffiths

Teaching with Media Violence to Explore a Public Health Problem: A Qualitative Study

by Ann Swartz

Co-authored  with Karin Sprow, Proceedings of  48th Annual Adult Education Research Conference p.348

Abstract: This action research study engaged students in a collaborative examination of the construction of knowledge... more Abstract: This action research study engaged students in a collaborative examination of the construction of knowledge about violence, by introducing critical media literacy through viewing and analysis of a violent film in the context of a class considering multiple aspects of violence as a public health problem.

A construção da forma n'A Hora da Estrela, de Clarice Lispector.

by Daniela Spinelli

Playing with violence: An updated review on the effects of playing violent electronic games

by Patricia Arriaga

Arriaga, P., Gaspar, A., & Esteves, F. (2011). Playing with violence: An updated review on the effects of playing violent electronic games. In M. M. Cruz-Cunha, V. H. Carvalho, & P. Tavares (Eds), Business, Technological and Social Dimensions of Computer Games: Multidisciplinary Developments (pp. 271-292). Hershey, PA: ISI Global.

This chapter is intended to clarify the controversy surrounding the short-term effects of playing violent games. We... more This chapter is intended to clarify the controversy surrounding the short-term effects of playing violent games. We will present an updated review of research on the effects of playing violent electronic games and address some theoretical approaches as well as methodological concerns. We will briefly present the General Aggression Model, which have provided a powerful theoretical framework to explain the short and long-term effects of this form of entertainment and the generation of different outcomes. We will then review the existing literature by summarizing the research findings on the effects of playing VG on the main variables that have been under analysis, namely, aggressive or prosocial behavior, aggressive thoughts, aggressive feelings, and physiological measures. Finally, we will attempt to discuss questions that remain unanswered and suggest future areas of research.

Violence, sex, and TV: The adolescent view

by MAGDALENA ALBERO-ANDRÉS

Published in 'Quaderns del CAC'  22, pp. 77-85.

Globalisation of Violence: The Death Game of New Imperialism

by barış çoban

“Globalisation of Violence: The Death Game of New Imperialism”. Critique, The Journal of Socialist Theory, Routledge. Vol. 38, 309-320 (2010).

A World Made of Glass : Crime, Culture and Community in an Age of Hyper-media

by Sara Knox

Theory & Event vol. 4, no. 4 (2000)

The Productive Power of Confessions of Cruelty

by Sara Knox

Direct online access is available to this paper. Originally published in the journal Postmodern Culture, vol 11 n0 3 (2011)

Diagnóstico sobre la realidad social, económica y cultural de los entornos locales, para el diseño de intervenciones en materia de prevención y erradicación de la violencia: Zona metropolitana de Guadalajara (capítulo sobre medios de comunicación)

by Frida Rodelo

Report chapter co-authored with Gabriela Gomez.

Dataspill og vold

by Faltin Karlsen

Experimentelle Bild-Gewalt. Mystik und Medien im 20. Jahrhundert

by Artur R. Boelderl

In German.
Bibliographical reference:
In: Ingo Berensmeyer unter Mitarb. v. Martin Spies (ed.), Mystik und Medien. Erfahrung - Bild - Theorie, Munich: Fink 2008, pp. 193-209 (=Mystik und Moderne, Bd. 4)

Violent comic books and judgments of relational aggression

by Steven Kirsh

Cartoon violence and aggression in youth

by Steven Kirsh

Violent media consumption and the recognition of dynamic facial expressions

by Steven Kirsh