CMST 3CY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Meta-Analysis, Payne Fund Studies, Looney Tunes
24 Oct 2017
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Can youth become aggressive or even criminal from seeing violence on tv, movies, games: premise where most researchers start. Thomas edison"s the execution of mary, queen of scots (1995) Dead end kids, angels with dirty faces (1938) 1950s: first public concerns about media violence on youth. 1950"s: first congressional hearings need to outline a program of research on the issue of tv violence and children. Two correlational/surveys studies in the 1950"s: tv and the child: an empirical study (1958, tv in the lives of our children (1961) We did not find that the viewers were any more aggressive or maladjusted than the controls; television is unlikely to cause aggressive behaviour (himmelweit et. al. , 20) 1960s increasing media violence assassinations and wars. For jfk, can"t go back and watch it but the tv will replay it for you. 1968 - race riots on tv and in the streets. Saturday morning cartoons began popular for children"s programming.
