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About-Face!
About-Face questions and satirizes negative and demeaning images of women in society.
http://www.about-face.org/
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Violence In The Media (Community Learning Network)
This CLN menu page provides links to Media Studies curricular resources and instructional materials (lesson plans) in the specific topic of violence in the media
http://www.cln.org/themes/media_violence.html
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Facts About Media Violence and Effects on the American Family
Research data tracking television viewing habits and behavior patterns, population/homicide rate data, cartoon violence, video games, internet, music, lyrics and potential adverse effects of excessive exposure to media.
http://www.babybag.com/articles/amaviol.htm
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The Media Theory Site
Materials about the mass media and its relationship to people's identities, gender, sexuality and behaviour.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ics/theory/
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Ten Things Wrong With the Media 'Effects' Model
Chapter of a book, written by Dr David Gauntlett of the University of Leeds, criticising studies of media effects. [Legally reproduced on the Web by the author].
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ics/theory/effects.htm
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The Hidden Hand of Violence {Freedom Magazine}
The divergent scenes in society's seemingly random patchwork quilt of senseless youth violence contain a common thread.
http://violence.freedommag.org/page02.htm
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Children and TV Violence
Reviews studies on the affect of TV violence on children.
http://www.abelard.org/tv/tv.htm
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MediaChannel.org: Media Mayhem
Debates whether violent media creates a violent culture or whether society avoids its real problems by blaming the media.
http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/sample3/
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TV News and the Culture of Violence
Examines the role television news plays in an increasingly violent society. From Rocky Mountain Media Watch.
http://www.bigmedia.org/texts6.html
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A New Approach to Covering Crime
Explores how newspapers can more effectively address the issue of violence. From the Nieman Foundation.
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/98-4NRwint98/Stevens.html
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