Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-90).

This study focuses on the role of media portrayal and coverage in serial killing. The first objective of the study is to develop a conceptual structure that aids in the understanding of the cyclical relationship between media, serial killer, and audience. The media acts as a catalyst in this relationship, providing the stage on which serial killer and audience form a fatal relationship in which celebrity status forms the ultimate motivation. Media sensationalism of serial killing and the extreme glamorization in fictional representations has obviously negative consequences. In developing such a structure I hope to demonstrate that there is an alternative to the sensationalizing and glamorizing of serial killers in the media. This alternative will take the form education and a more documentary-style approach to films about serial murder. The study focuses mainly on developing a theoretical framework that emphasizes each of the three elements of the cyclical relationship mentioned above separately. The second chapter is devoted to the media and its role. The third chapter focuses on serial killers and the motivations involved. The fourth chapter deals with the audience attracted to serial killing as a source of identification. A number of thinkers’ work is used in coming to grips with this relationship, including both American and South African authors. The fifth and final chapter takes into consideration the moment of application by addressing the South African situation. I conclude by discussing the repercussions of media glamorization and possible documentary-style alternatives.

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Snapped, a documentary style show profiling female killers, is one of Oxygens longest running hit franchises. This thesis analyzes, through both the frames of feminist theory and rhetoric, the way the show perpetuates and plays upon the myth of feminine evil as well as the stereotype of women as weak, hysterical agents in need of control. Snapped showcases women who start out as seemingly normal but then enact horrendous crimes. The use of women that the audience can identify with but then later fear creates a cathartic experience in which female audience members can be vicariously cleansed of any dangerous animosity they may possess. The show portrays the many extreme examples as the norm for lethal female violence, but this disregards the fact that a majority of women killers act in self defense. The show distorts the reality of violence against women and supports a stereotype of inherent female criminality. / by Megan Tomei. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Šiame magistro darbe nagrinėjama smurto žiniasklaidoje poveikio nepilnamečiams ir jo prevencijos priemonės. Darbo tikslas - išanalizuoti žiniasklaidos daromą poveikį nepilnamečių delinkventinei elgsenai bei socialinių darbuotojų prevencijos priemones. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. išanalizuoti žiniasklaidos ir paauglių delinkventinio elgesio sampratas socialiniame kontekste. 2. apibūdint socialinių darbuotojų vaidmenis sprendžiant paauglių delinkventinio elgesio problemas. 3. nustatyti nepilnamečių vaikų naudojimąsi žiniasklaidos priemonėmis. 4. atskleisti socialinio darbuotojo prevencijos formas pasitelkiant žiniasklaida. Tyrimo medodai. Duomenų rinkimo metodai – klausimynas (kiekybinis tyrimas) ir apklausa žodžiu (kokybinis tyrimas). Pasirinktas kiekybinis netikimybės atrankos tipas – tikslinė atranka. Metodas – klausimynas. Apklausta 250 moksleivių iš Alytaus, Kauno ir Ukmergės mokyklų. Kokybinio tyrimo populiacija sudarė 1 socialinis pedagogas, 2 socialiniai darbuotojai ir 1 vyresnysis specialistas dirbantis mokykloje ir biudžetinėse įstaigose. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, jog nepilnamečiai vaikai yra speciali itin pažeidžiama informacijos vartotojų kategorija, kuriai visuomenės informavimo srityje turime skirti ypatingą dėmesį ir didesnę apsaugą. Suteikiant pagalbą vaikui ir jo šeimai, socialinis darbuotojas naudoja pagrindines socialinio darbo priemones bei taip veikdamas stengiasi nepažeisti ju orumą. Darbuotojas turėtų pamažu įtraukti vaiką ir šeimą į delinkventinio elgesio... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This master work analyzes the impact of the violence in mass media to under-age children and the prevention tools for this problem. The aim of this paper: to analyze the impact that is done by mass media to the inadequate behavior of children and the ways that social workers solve this problem. Main goals of this paper: 1. To analyze mass media and under-age children’s conceptions of the behavior in social context. 2. To describe social workers part in solving the problem of inadequate behavior. 3. To estimate the use of mass media by under-aged children. 4. To unfold forms of prevention by social workers by invoking mass media. Methods of investigation. Fact- finding methods: questions ( quantitative investigation) and interviews (qualitative investigation). Chosen type of quantitative undenominational selection – objective selection. Method – questions. 250 schoolchildren were questioned from Alytus, Kaunas and Ukmergė schools. This qualitative investigation involves: 1 social educator, 2 social workers and 1 superordinater who works in school or in budgetary agency. The results of investigation have shown that under-aged children - special vulnerable group. This group has to receive more attention and protection. Social worker uses main parts of social work. This gives help to the child and to his family. Furthermore, mass media of Lithuania should give more information about the violence in it. The effect that violence in mass media causes. Prevention against this... [to full text]

Despite extensive research into memory and violence, relatively little is known about the relationship between violent media and memory of advertised products. Research has yielded contradictory evidence ; some scholars have found a negative relationship, others a nonexistent one... This research investigated the role of emotion in the relationship between violent media and product placement memory. This study creates insight into inconclusive previous findings by providing evidence that violence influences product memory. Specifically, participants were significantly worse at remembering products placed within violent clips (e.g., free recall, cued recall, recognition. Participants' emotional responses to the violent clips also appeared to influence their memory for embedded products ; product recognition was significantly correlated with disgust, avoidance, and interest ratings.... Interestingly, stronger negative responses to the violent clips were correlated with decreased preference for the embedded products. Furthermore, the pattern of differences for product preference between target and non-target violent products varied according to negative emotional reaction. Therefore, this dissertation provides insight into the role emotion plays in the relationship between viewing violent media and product placement memory. / by Johanna D. Berger. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

Šiame magistro darbe nagrinėjama smurto žiniasklaidoje poveikio nepilnamečiams prevencijos problema. Aptartos žiniasklaidos, smurto, agresijos sampratos. Nagrinėtos aiškinančios smurto žiniasklaidoje įtaką žiūrovų agresyvumui ir nusikalstamumui teorijos. Atliktas kriminologinis tyrimas. Aptartos Lietuvos ir kai kurių(JAV, Danijos, Nyderlandų) užsienio šalių smurto žiniasklaidoje poveikio nepilnamečiams prevencijos priemonės. / In this research work the problem of influence of violence over mass-media on a minor audienceand prevention of this influence is considered. In this work the numerous theories explaining influenceof violenceover a degreeof aggression and a crime rate of televiewers were considered. Theauthor counts five theories as the main. Research consistedof two stages. The topic of negative effects prevention isdivided into two parts and dealing with a problem of macro social (at national level) and micro social level (family or school).

When It comes to the basic perspectives on personal and social reality, it is commonly assumed that these perspectives are learned within the parent-child relafionship. As a result, the family has been typically accorded a place of primary importance the explanation of socialisation. But another influence has been lurking in the background- the mass media . Media influence upon ~hildren has generally been assumed to be significant, with powerful, long lasting consequences. However, traditional explanatory attempts have predominantly dealt with the effects of media violence on juvenile behaviour. The result has been a relative neglect of empirical analysis of media socialisation as it relates to detinquent behaviour. a matter that the present study attempted to rectify. The present study proposes that the media's commitment to conformity varies in degree of congruence with societal expectations and this variation is directly "transmitted to the child influencing the child's behaviour. / Criminology / M.A.

This investigation deals with a change of congressional attitude concerning violence in entertainment media, from noninterference to investigation to initiation of research. The data are primarily from official government records. This study first examines a period of congressional reluctance to interfere with the violent content of movies and radio in 1929-45. Next examined is the period 1945-68, when Congress actively investigated media violence,, focusing on television. Finally, the study examines congressional activity concerning television violence in 1968-74 and the Surgeon General's report on television violence. This report concludes that, by 1955, the pattern of congressional interest in media violence had turned from reluctance to activity, -and discusses the likelihood of future control of television program content.

This research is premised on the understanding that media texts are discourses and that all discourses are functional, that is, they refer to things, issues and events, in meaningful and goal oriented ways. Nine articles are analysed to explicate the sorts of discourses that were promoted by The Chronicle during the Gukurahundi conflict in Zimbabwe between 1982 and 1986. It is argued that discourses in the news media are shaped by the role(s), the type(s) of journalism assumed by such media, and by the political environment in which the news media operate. The interplay between the roles, types of journalism practised, and the effect the political environment has on news discourses is assessed within the context of conflictual situations. This is done using insights from the theoretical position of peace journalism and its critique of professional or mainstream journalism as promoting war/violence journalism. Using the case of The Chronicle's reportage of the Gukurahundi conflict in Zimbabwe, it is concluded that, in performing the collaborative role, state owned/controlled media assume characteristics of war/violence journalism. On the other hand, it is concluded that The Chronicle developed practices consistent with peace journalism when it both espoused the facilitative role and journalistic objectivity. These findings undermine the conventional view among proponents of peace journalism that in times of conflict, the news media should be interventionist in favour of peace and that they should abandon the journalistic norm of objectivity which they argue, promotes war/violence journalism.