COMM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Payne Fund Studies, Disinhibition, Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media

• School: U of M
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 102
• Professor: Nojin Kwak

Document Summary

Every 3. 9 seconds: one property crime: adult correctional population, us adult population in 2016: 249 million. In 2016, over 6. 7 million people were under some form of correctional supervision. Easy access to guns: provocations and frustrations, poverty, gang involvement, parental neglect, drug and alcohol use. Intended to physically harm an animate being or group of things: certain depictions of physically harmful consequences against an animate being or group that occur as a result of unseen violent means, high risk contexts. Five key elements of context that make people susceptible to negative e ects: a perpetrator who is an attractive role model. Violence that goes unpunished: minimal consequences to the victims. Violence that seems realistic to the viewer: some myths about violence media. 1: the level of violence in the media mirrors the levels of violence in the real world: more recent content analyses also nds that violence crimes are reported more frequently in comparison to real world occurrences.