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<p><i>Media Violence and Aggression: Science and Ideology</i> provides a multimethod critique of the media violence/social aggression myth. It provides policy makers and students with information to understand why the violence/media aggression hypothesis does not explain or predict how most people react to what they see and hear in the media. Authors Tom Grimes, James A. Anderson, and Lori Bergen take the reader through a history of media effects research, pointing out where that research has made claims that go beyond empirical evidence. <br><br> -Dispels the media violence/social aggression myth: Through a multiple method analysis of the myth, the authors provide empirical evidence for their decoupling of media violence from social aggression. Illustrates how much of the media violence/social aggression equation derives from ideology: Taking a different perspective from most other books on media violence, this text shows how very easy - how almost imperceptible - it is to adopt an ideological perspective.<br> -Shows how the media violence/social aggression hypothesis conflicts with a range of established social science theory: The book examines why theories generated by media vio

Author

Thomas Grimes, James A. Anderson, Lori Bergen, Tom Grimes

Publisher

SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781412914413

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Linguistics, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24