Violence

Patrick Lee Plaisance

doi:10.4324/9781315545929-16

Violence

Patrick Lee Plaisance

Journalism

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Depictions of violence in the media-both its purposes and is effects-continue to raise important ethical questions. After providing a brief overview of the media psychology research that has sought to document the negative effects of violent media content over the last 40 years, this chapter discusses the merits of the various justifications for such content (aesthetic, journalistic, economic). It then offers a brief explication of harm and suggests how moral psychology factors influence the claims we might make about the harmful effects of media content. Finally, the chapter offers an ethics-based analysis of media violence that weighs the value of consequentialist and deontological frameworks.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	234-251
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781134792702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315545929-16
State	Published - Jan 1 2020

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General Social Sciences
General Arts and Humanities

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