Journal article
Violence in Children's Television Programming: Assessing the Risks
Journal of communication, Vol.52(1), pp.5-35
01/2002
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02531.x
Abstract
This study investigates the nature and extent of violence contained in television programming that targets children aged 12 and younger. The measures employed in this content analysis are grounded in previous experimental research that bas identified contextual features that either diminish or enhance the risk of harmful effects associated with viewing violent portrayals. This report uses the database from the National Television Violence Study (Wilson et al., 1998), which involved an unusually large and representative sample of programming. Results indicate that programs targeted to children contain more violence than do other types of programming, the violence itself is just as likely to be glamorized in children's as in nonchildren's shows, but it is even more sanitized and more likely to be trivialized. These patterns heighten the risk of viewers learning aggression and becoming desensitized from such portrayals. Finally, this study documents 5 subgenres of children's programming that differ dramatically in violent content.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Violence in Children's Television Programming: Assessing the Risks
- Creators
- Barbara J Wilson - University of Wisconsin-Madison is a professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignStacy L Smith - University of California, Santa Barbara) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State UniversityW. James Potter - Indiana UniversityDale Kunkel - University of Southern CaliforniaDaniel Linz - University of Wisconsin-MadisonCarolyn M Colvin - MA, University of California, Santa Barbara now resides in Kent, WashingtonEdward Donnerstein - Florida State University are all professors in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of communication, Vol.52(1), pp.5-35
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02531.x
- ISSN
- 0021-9916
- eISSN
- 1460-2466
- Number of pages
- 31
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2002
- Academic Unit
- President; Teaching and Learning; Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984105800602771
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