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A Content Analysis of Violence in Music Videos

This content analysis study of music videos answered questions concerning the amount and severity of violence content during different time periods of the day. A system of classifying violence content as nonviolent, mostly light, neither light nor serious, mostly serious, and extremely serious was used to evaluate music videos from MTV. One hour from each day was randomly selected for evaluation for a period of thirty days. During this time, there were 313 occurrences of music videos which were aired and subsequently evaluated. The results indicated the majority of these music videos contained mostly light or no violence content. This study also revealed that the most likely time of day a viewer would see videos with violence would be from midnight until eight in the morning.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc501107
Date08 1900
CreatorsPaxton, Sue
ContributorsBoemer, Marilyn Lawrence, 1933-, Gossett, John
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 64 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Paxton, Sue, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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