Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id IAA11000 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 13 Apr 2002 08:29:54 +0100 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20020413031731.00a88670@mail.clarityconnect.com> X-Sender: rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 03:18:49 -0400 To: Memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Ray Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com> Subject: media violence report in Science Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Just something that caught my eye
>Science - 29 March 2002
>
>The effect of Media Violence on Society (excerpted)
>Craig A. Anderson and Brad J. Johnson
>
> Concerns about the negative effects of prolonged exposure to
> violent television programming emerged shortly after broadcasting began
> in 1946. By 1972 sufficient empirical evidence had accumulated for the
> U.S. Surgeon General to comment that ...televised violence, indeed, does
> have an adverse effect on certain members of our society. Other
> scientific bodies have come to similar conclusions. Six
> major professional societies in the United States -- the American
> Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the
> American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Medical
> Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American
> Psychiatric Association - recently concluded that "the data point
> overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and
> aggressive behavior in some children". In a report on page 2468 of this
> issue, Johnson and colleagues present important evidence showing that
> extensive TV viewing among adolescents and young adults is associated
> with subsequent aggressive acts.
> Despite the consensus among the experts, lay people do not seem
> to be getting the message from the popular press that media violence
> contributes to a more violent society. We recently demonstrated that
> even as the scientific evidence linking media violence to aggression has
> accumulated, news reports about the effects of media violence have
> shifted to weaker statements, implying that there is little evidence for
> such effects. This inaccurate reporting in the popular press may account
> for continuing controversy long aster the debate should have been over,
> much as the cigarette smoking/cancer controversy persisted long after the
> scientific community know that smoking causes cancer.
Ray Recchia
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