The Media and AntiSocial Behavior

Chapter 9

Media Agents Responsibility

• Goal

– Golden mean

• History of Concern

– The Sorrows of Young Werther

Professional Obligations

• General issues

– Practitioner’s actions

• Breaking the law for a story

– Media influence on antisocial behavior

• News, Entertainment, and Advertising

News

• Suicide:

– Teen bullied to death: CBS News

– Australia Channel 7

• Violence

• Infotainment

Journalists and evidence

cutcaster.comuniversityvisitorsnetwork.com

Deontology Consequentialist Aristotle

Entertainment Research

• Participants: 430 Students 3rd to 5th grade

• Findings: MVE significantly positively correlated with verbal and physical aggression & significantly negatively associated with prosocial behavior

Gentile, Coyne, & Walsh (2011)

• Participants: 641 students from 3rd to 5th grade

• Findings: Significant positive relationship between MVE and overall physical and relational aggression

• Relation stronger for RA with girls than for boys

Gentile, Mathieson, & Crick (2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xppPqaFf0&list=FLFTVUz1YDEdH4ILgYUuySLg&index=24&feature=plpp_video

Media and Civility

• Hate Speech: “attacking an

individual or group on the basis of

who they are”

• Dirty Tricks: used by television and

radio hosts to blind side their guests

Image Source

• John Stuart Mill:

http://www.wpclipart.com/

• Kant: extremeintellect.com

• Aristotle: greece.phillipmartin.info