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Audience Responses to Real Media Violence
The Knockout Game
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2015
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Audience Responses to Real Media Violence: The Knockout Game considers an emerging and relatively overlooked area of media effects research: user-generated cellphone videos that feature real violence and its victims. Focusing specifically on a recent sinister media trend known as the Knockout Game, Mary Grace Antony explores how audiences respond to the victims in these videos. How do we assess the realism of this violence? And how do these evaluations of realism in turn influence our feelings of empathy and concern for the victims of violence? The burgeoning abundance and availability to real media violence online makes these questions more relevant today than ever before, and illustrates our complex responses to new and emerging media subgenres.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-9611-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-9612-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
137
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: When Violence is Real, Not Reel No access
Chapter Two: Emotional Responses to Media Characters No access
Chapter Three: Moral Disengagement and Enjoying Media Violence No access
Chapter Four: Measuring Responses to Real Media Violence No access
Chapter Five: Realism, Rationalization, and Rejection No access
Chapter Six: This Feeling is Based on Actual Events No access
Chapter Seven: Boys Don’t Cry . . . But Do Girls? No access
Chapter Eight: Understanding How We Watch Real Violence No access
