Mary Grace Antony

Audience Responses to Real Media Violence

The Knockout Game

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines audiences' cognitive and affective responses to user-generated real media violence. Using Knockout Game videos, Antony examines the extent to which realism assessments interact with moral disengagement, and the (in)ability to empathize with victims of real media violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 223g
• ISBN-13: 9780739196137
• ISBN-10: 0739196138
• Artikelnr.: 46764323

Autorenporträt

By Mary Grace Antony

Inhaltsangabe

Part I
How We Respond to Media Violence Chapter 1
When violence is real (not reel) Chapter 2
Emotional responses to media characters Chapter 3
Moral disengagement and enjoying media violence Part II
How Audiences Respond to Real Media Violence Chapter 4
Measuring responses to real media violence Chapter 5
Realism, rationalization, and rejection Chapter 6
This feeling is based on actual events Chapter 7
Boys don't cry... but do girls? Part III
So What? Chapter 8
Understanding how we watch real violence Chapter 9
Why we should care