Audience Responses to Real Media Violence

The Knockout Game

Mary Grace Antony (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

146 Seiten

2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9613-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Part I – How We Respond to Media Violence
Chapter 1 – When violence is real (not reel)
Chapter 2 – Emotional responses to media characters
Chapter 3 – Moral disengagement and enjoying media violence
Part II – How Audiences Respond to Real Media Violence
Chapter 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

Erscheinungsdatum	27.11.2016
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 231 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-9613-8 / 0739196138
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-9613-7 / 9780739196137
Zustand	Neuware