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
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