TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter One - Teachers Today - Who Are They?: Community Erosion and Countervailing Forces: Examining the Medium for the Message: The Broad Picture: Common Themes: Confusion over Educational Goals: Market-Place Values Invading the Classroom

Chapter Two - Media in Contemporary Capitalism: The Manufacture of Consent: Economic Trends Violent Underpinnings

Chapter Three - The LaMarsh Commission Mandate: Appointment of the Commission: Methods and Scope of the LaMarsh Commission Research: The Final Report: The LaMarsh Commission's Research Analysis: Content: Formularization: The Key to Television Programming: Effects of Media Violence: The Interwoven Pattern Industry and Policy: The LaMarsh Commission Conclusions: The LaMarsh Commission Recommendations: A New System Legislation: Financial Incentives: Research, Education, and Public Awareness: The Role of Parents

Chapter Four - Developments Since the LaMarsh Commission: The LaMarsh Centre Research on Pornography: New Initiatives Elsewhere: New Methodologies and Old Responses: Surveys and Polls: Psychiatric Approaches: Sociological and Other Related Approaches: The Concept of Ideological Child Abuse: Hegemony and the Mass Media: Cultural Studies Media Literacy: Courses in the Schools: AML Leadership

Chapter Five - The Ascendancy of Pornography: Another Subject of Controversy: Fraser Committee Ignores Research Findings: Industry Orchestrated Opposition to New Legislation: More Federal Initiatives: Renewed Public Debate over Definitions: Impact of New Child Pornography Legislation: More Manifestations of the Problem: Exploiting the Threat of Censorship for Profit

Chapter Six - Other Modest Gains: Legislation for the Protection of Children: Advertising Directed to Children: Landmark Court Precedents: Legal Trends in Other Jurisdictions: Converging Exploitation

Chapter Seven - Another Round of Public Protest: A New Code on Violence: The Canadian Broadcast Standards Classification of Films, Videos and Television Programming: The Bird Committee Report on Television Violence: Freedom with Responsibility: Can it Work?: News Med

Mind Abuse Media Violence in an Information Age Rose Andre Dyson Parents, teachers, religious instructors, aunts, uncles and grandparents are no longer the principal storytellers for our children. Increasingly, they are being replaced by media conglomerates with very little to tell but a great deal to sell. This book is the "first broad, comprehensive, critical history and analysis of the issue of media violence; it is both timely and urgent.