Audience Responses to Real Media Violence (eBook)

The Knockout Game

Mary Grace Antony (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
197 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9612-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines audiences’ cognitive and affective responses to user-generated real media violence. Using Knockout Game videos, Antony examines the extent to which realism assessments interact with moral disengagement, and the (in)ability to empathize with victims of real media violence.

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Audience Responses to Real Media Violence: The Knockout Game considers an emerging and relatively overlooked area of media effects research: user-generated cellphone videos that feature real violence and its victims. Focusing specifically on a recent sinister media trend known as the Knockout Game, Mary Grace Antony explores how audiences respond to the victims in these videos. How do we assess the realism of this violence? And how do these evaluations of realism in turn influence our feelings of empathy and concern for the victims of violence? The burgeoning abundance and availability to real media violence online makes these questions more relevant today than ever before, and illustrates our complex responses to new and emerging media subgenres.

Autor

Mary Grace Antony is assistant professor of communication studies at the Schreiner University.

Inhalt

Part I – How We Respond to Media ViolenceChapter 1 – When violence is real (not reel) Chapter 2 – Emotional responses to media characters Chapter 3 – Moral disengagement and enjoying media violencePart II – How Audiences Respond to Real Media ViolenceChapter 4 – Measuring responses to real media violence Chapter 5 – Realism, rationalization, and rejection Chapter 6 – This feeling is based on actual events Chapter 7 – Boys don’t cry… but do girls?Part III – So What?Chapter 8 – Understanding how we watch real violence Chapter 9 – Why we should care

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.2.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 5 Illustrations including: - 5 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: coping mechanisms • Knockout Game • Media Violence • Moral disengagement • perceived realism
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9612-X / 073919612X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9612-0 / 9780739196120