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Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that
threaten our democracy and existence more than the crises we know
about?or think we know about. These invisible crises include the
promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands
every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and
brutalize; the growing s
Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that
threaten our democracy and existence more than the crises we know
about--or think we know about. These invisible crises include the
promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands
every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and
brutalize; the growing siege mentality of our cities; widening
resource gaps and the most glaring inequalities in the industrial
world; the costly neglect of vital institutions such as public
education and the arts; and media-assisted make-believe image
politics corrupting the electoral process.Deprived of sustained
attention but bombarded by eruptions of surface consequences (often
presented as unique events stripped of historical context), people
ar bewildered, fearful, angry, and cynical.The contributors to this
volume--exploring such unattended crises, analyzing why they are
hidden, and focusing on the increasing concentration of
culture-power that keeps them from view--maintain that a profound
general crisis of social vision, public communication, and
representative government underlies all of the invisible crises.
For over forty years, George Gerbner has been one of the world's
most influential and prolific media scholars. His critical theories
and long-running research projects have changed the way we think
about media institutions, messages, and impacts. His work has
helped shape the academic discipline of communication and has
stimulated social movements to alter the cultural environment. This
book brings together for the first time a broad-based collection of
his writings on the role of media in terms of violence, eduction,
women and minorities, drugs and alcohol, science, religion, and
much more.
Originally a Unesco project, this annotate bibliography results
from more than 4,600 requests to media scholars and researchers for
research reports, publications, and other information relating to
violence and terrorism. Although there is an international cast to
the materials, most are from the U.S. Even though violence and
terrorism permeate our myths and legends, there is increasing
concern with their effect on viewers. This bibliography is
particularly timely, with entries through spring 1987. The sections
of the work (mass media content, mass media effects, pornography
and the media, terrorism and the media) give a better idea of the
work's scope than does the title. Choice [T]he annotations are
clearly written, succinctly descriptive of the original work's
research with test groups, and evaluative of research results.
Reference Books Bulletin This bibliography focuses on research and
scholarly works relating to violence and terror. Consisting
primarily of articles published in scholarly journals and books,
this comprehensive work examines major topics such as violence and
mass media content, violence and mass media effects, terrorism and
the mass media, and pornography. Also included are articles from
popular journals, reports published by the United States and other
governments, conference papers, and dissertations. Each entry
consists of the bibliographic citation and a short abstract; many
of the sources include studies from other countries where relevant
research has been conducted. The compilers' introduction provides a
clear definition of violence and terrorism as they are dealt with
in this volume and offers an interesting overview of various
aspects of the subject.
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