CML : Violence in the Media

Center for Media Literacy: Empowerment Through Education


For 40 years, we have been engaged in a circle of blame about media violence that has gotten us nowhere. Through media literacy, new questions can be raised, new dialogues established and new opportunities opened -- to break the circle of blame. A recognized leader in the field of violence and media, CML has worked since 1993 to change the public discourse on this complex topic.		"Television didn’t invent violence, it just put it on the assembly line."
		— George Gerbner

		Recommended Educational Resources CML MediaLit Kit™ / A Framework for Learning and Teaching in a Media Age Now all together in one place, the components of inquiry-based media literacy using the Five Core Concepts and CML’s Five Key Questions of Media Literacy. Covers media literacy: · Theory · Practice · Implementation Curriculum resources and lesson plans Media Literacy Works: Case Studies and Success Stories in Media Literacy Education

		Articles and Reports From our online Reading Room and Media&Values Archive we've selected pertinent studies, reflective articles, research reports and news items to help you explore this topic thoroughly.
		• "Everything We Needed was There" Georgia Team Builds Prevention on CML's Media Violence Kit • 20 Ways to Create a Caring Culture - Part I • 20 Ways to Create a Caring Culture - Part II • 8 Ways to Control Your Child’s Exposure to Media Violence • Babylon Revisited: How Violent Myths Resurface Today • Beyond Blame: Media Literacy as Violence Prevention • Challenging the Myths of Media Violence • Defining Media Violence: It's Not so Easy! • Gulf War: The More We Watched, the Less We Knew • How to Evaluate War Movies • Imagine: A Media of Meaning • Landmarks in the Media Violence Debate: Decade by Decade • Let’s Break the Circle of Blame! US Senate Testimony • Like Money in the Bank: Understanding Media's Investment in Violence • Making Connections: Media's Role in our Culture of Violence • Marketing the Military: Should Soldiering Be Sold Like Soap? • Measuring ‘Jolts Per Minute' • Media Images Pitch War for Profit • Media Literacy: Strengthening Democracy • Media Violence: Japan vs. America • Media Violence: We All Share In It • Media Violence: What if we Changed the Question? • Media's New Mood: Sexual Violence • Middle School Performance Group Challenges Media Violence • Military Doublespeak: How Jargon Turns Gore into Glory • Military-News Complex: What Determines What We See and Hear • New Heroes for a New Age • Pilot Program in Kansas City Keeps Kids "Coming Back" • Questions Help Evaluate War Films • Safeguarding our Youth: Media Literacy and Violence Prevention • Six Kinds of Screen Violence — and How Children Respond • Starting Point: The images still haunt me • STARTING POINT: Sexual Violence in the Media • Testimony Reveals Complexity of Sexual Violence Issue in Media • Trauma on the News: Should Children Watch? • TV Violence and the Art of Asking the Wrong Question • TV's New Ratings Game — What Parents Need to Know • TVs Dark Vision Can Be Frightening to Elders • Undercutting "Slashers": Evaluating Video Violence • Violence Formula: Analyzing TV, Video and Movies • War is Hell... Pass the Popcorn • What Parents Can Do about Media Violence • What we Know about Young Children, TV and Media Violence • Why Peace Isn't Covered • WOMEN: Enough is Enough! Why Sexual Violence in the Media? • YOUTH: Teens Need Better Rites of Passage

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