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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

» About-Face!    About-Face questions and satirizes negative and demeaning images of women in society.    http://www.about-face.org/

» Children and TV Violence    Reviews studies on the affect of TV violence on children.    http://www.abelard.org/tv/tv.htm

» Essay on Media Violence    Includes articles on media violence and video games.    http://homoecumenicus.com/essay_ioannidis_media_violence.htm

» 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

» Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children    Federal Trade Commission report regarding the marketing of violent materials to children by the industries of motion picture, recording, and electronic games.    http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/09/youthviol.htm

» 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/

» National Institute on Media and the Family    Offers a number of resources including movie, television and video game content ratings, media awareness programs and helpful hints for parents to evaluate their media use.    http://www.mediafamily.org

» 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

» 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

» 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/

» 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

» The Lion and Lamb Project    National grassroots initiative providing information about the effects of violent entertainment, toys and games on children's behavior.    http://www.lionlamb.org/

» The Violence Formula    Explains how to analyze for violence in TV, movies and videos.    http://www.medialit.org/focus/viol_home.html

» 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

» Violence, Public Health, and the Media    Topics: The Problem of Violence, Media and the Social Agenda, From Public Opinion to Public Judgment, Understanding the Problem, The Search for Solutions, The Media as Part of the Solution, Conclusion, and Endnotes. Source: Margaret Gerteis,Annenberg Wash    http://www.annenberg.northwestern.edu/pubs/violence/

» Violent Media is Good for Kids    Author Gerard Jones argues that violence in video games and other media give children a tool to master their rage.    http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2000/06/violent_media.html