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Audience Responses to Real Media Violence : The Knockout Game.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (147 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739196120
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Audience Responses to Real Media ViolenceDDC classification:
  • 303.6
LOC classification:
  • P96.V5 -- .A58 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I: How We Respond to Media Violence -- Chapter One: When Violence is Real, Not Reel -- Chapter Two: Emotional Responses to Media Characters -- Chapter Three: Moral Disengagement and Enjoying Media Violence -- II: How Audiences Respond to Real Media Violence -- Chapter Four: Measuring Responses to Real Media Violence -- Chapter Five: Realism, Rationalization, and Rejection -- Chapter Six: This Feeling is Based on Actual Events -- Chapter Seven: Boys Don't Cry . . . But Do Girls? -- III: So What? -- Chapter Eight: Understanding How We Watch Real Violence -- Chapter Nine: Why We Should Care -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I: How We Respond to Media Violence -- Chapter One: When Violence is Real, Not Reel -- Chapter Two: Emotional Responses to Media Characters -- Chapter Three: Moral Disengagement and Enjoying Media Violence -- II: How Audiences Respond to Real Media Violence -- Chapter Four: Measuring Responses to Real Media Violence -- Chapter Five: Realism, Rationalization, and Rejection -- Chapter Six: This Feeling is Based on Actual Events -- Chapter Seven: Boys Don't Cry . . . But Do Girls? -- III: So What? -- Chapter Eight: Understanding How We Watch Real Violence -- Chapter Nine: Why We Should Care -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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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