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About-Face is a media literacy organization focused on the impact mass media has on the physical, mental and emotional well being of women and girls. Through practical and activist methods we challenge our culture's overemphasis on physical appearance. By encouraging critical thinking about the media, and personal empowerment, About-Face works to engender positive body-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds. About-Face provides a place where all women count, from the tiniest amo

Provides research and education on media's effect on families. KidScore - Online content-based rating system that evaluates television & movies from a family-friendly perspective.

For Release: September 11, 2000 FTC Releases Report on the Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children Study Finds Companies in Motion Picture, Music Recording and Electronic Game Industries Routinely Target Children Under 17; Retailers Make Little Effort to Restrict Access to Violent Material Commission Calls for Additional Industry Steps to Improve Existing Rating Systems The Federal ...

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Document publicising the correlative relationships between violence and observing violence, with particular focus on visual fictional violence.

IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS homepage Essay on Media Violence by IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS (Composer, lyricist, guitar soloist, multi-instrumentalist) (BA Music & Media, University of Sussex - MA Digital Media, University of Sussex) Other works by IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS: CD ALBUM: BE A MASTER OF YOUR FATE! CD ALBUM: AREN'T YOU FED UP On line ESSAYS BY IOANNIDIS NIKOLAOS Lyrics by Ioannidis Nikolaos A reconstruction ...

A Freedom investigation shows that the divergent scenes in society s seemingly random patchwork quilt of senseless youth violence contain a common thread. More significantly, that common thread has been detectable but has been ignored or concealed by those who have a professional responsibility to reveal it to the public.

The primary focus of the Community Learning Network (CLN) is to help K-12 teachers integrate Information Technology into their classrooms. 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 ...

Continuing the Discussion Does TV Kill Aired January 10, 1995 Letter from David Fanning Educator's Primer Classroom Activities Letter from David Fanning, FRONTLINE Executive Producer Dear Educator: Before the age of eighteen, the average American teen will have witnessed eighteen thousand simulated murders on TV. While staggering in number, more disturbing is the effect this steady diet of ...

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. ...

A new report says television can affect violent behavior, even among adults.

Francais Contact Us Help Search Canada Site Today's Releases File or Register Decisions, Notices and Orders Home CISC Industries at a Glance Reference Centre Canadian Content Public Proceedings Statutes & Regulations Viewing Tools: Special software needed to read non-HTML documents Television Violence News Release -- Revised timetable for the implementation of V-chip and program classification ...

June 1996 By Jeff Mortimer W hen President Clinton approved legislation that requires TV sets to contain a v-chip that will enable adults to block violent programs from their screens, Leonard Eron was standing right behind him. A photo of the occasion hangs outside Eron's office in U-M's Institute for Social Research building, where he is an adjunct research scientist in the Research Center for ...

Rocky Mountain Media Watch Texts #6 Statement: 5/24/99 TV News and the Culture of Violence by Paul Klite In the aftermath of the Columbine High School tragedy in Colorado, a broad national debate has developed to intervene in the American culture of violence. Many fingerprints are on the proverbial trigger -- inadequate parenting; the availability of guns; alienation of youth; mental illness, ...

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