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The relationship between media and violence
The relationship between media and violence

Author(s): Georgiana Popescu, Delia Duminică
Subject(s): Media studies, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: violence; television; behavior; aggressive language;

Summary/Abstract: The upwards trending of violence in various countries, including Romania, especially in the last decades of the last millennium. This is a social reality whose negative and destructive effects and consequences cannot be ignored by lawyers, criminologists or sociologists or institutions with a role in prevention and social control. The recrudescence of violence, the increase of the intensity and the extent of crimes against persons and properties, multiplication of facts of corruption, bribery, fraud and organized murder in Romania have aggravated the social problems existing in the sphere of our society. To analyze the televisual discourse in order to see if it includes a violent language, on what period of time, on what kind of TV programs. To see if TV spectators were warned about the violent content of one programe.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 421-428
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English