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Media violence : opposing viewpoints / by Gerdes, Louise I.,1953-(CARDINAL)273449;
Subjects: Violence in mass media.; Mass media and youth.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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How does violent media affect youth? / by Szumski, Bonnie,1958-(CARDINAL)176145; Karson, Jill.(CARDINAL)642200;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What is the history of the media violence debate? -- Does violent media cause violent behavior? -- Are violent video games harming youth? -- What is the impact of sexual violence in the media? -- How should the problem of media violence be addressed?.1340L
Subjects: Mass media and youth.; Youth and violence.; Aggressiveness in adolescence.; Violence in mass media.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Social media and digital stress / by Duling, Kaitlyn,author.(CARDINAL)623811; Ohrtman, Marguerite,1975-consultant.;
Includes source notes (pages 106-109) and index.This book explores the stress and pressure that are part of the digital world. The title examines the history of social media, the prevalence of digital stress in daily life, and its negative consequences, including cyberbullying. Features include a glossary, online resources, source notes, and an index.1210L
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Social interaction in adolescence.; Social media and society.; Social problems in mass media.; Stress in youth.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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A cycle of outrage : America's reaction to the juvenile delinquent in the 1950s / by Gilbert, James Burkhart.(CARDINAL)159966;
Bibliography: pages 219-249.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency; Deviant behavior in mass media; Youth in mass media; Youth; Public opinion; Youth.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Violent video games / by Espejo, Roman,1977-(CARDINAL)665611;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Violent video games can benefit children / Isabela Granic, Adam Lobel, and Rutger C.M.E. Engels -- Violent video games can desensitize players and increase aggression / George Drinka -- Violent video games do not cause violence / Eric Kain -- Shooting in the dark / Benedict Carey -- Violent video games promote antisocial behaviors / Jack Flanagan -- Video game culture does not promote antisocial behaviors / Andrew Leonard -- Video game makers have a moral obligation to limit game violence / Simon Parkin -- Violent video games are a form of free speech / Daniel Greenberg -- Barring sales of violent games to minors does not violate free speech / Joseph J. Horton -- The video games rating system is effective / Ilya Shapiro, Thomas S. Leatherbury, John P. Elwood, and Paul B. Spelman -- The video games rating system is not effective / Jason Dafnis.
Subjects: Video games and children.; Video games and teenagers.; Violence in video games.; Children and violence.; Youth and violence.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Twee : the gentle revolution in music, books, television, fashion, and film / by Spitz, Marc.(CARDINAL)665035;
Includes bibliographical references.New York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that's embraced internationally by teens, twenty and thirty-somethings and even some Baby Boomers; creating a hybrid generation known as Twee. Via exclusive interviews and years of research, Spitz traces Generation Twee's roots from the Post War 50s to its dominance in popular culture today.
Subjects: Mass media and teenagers.; Popular culture; Youth movements; Youth; Youth.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Disturbing the dark : a Maggie MacGowen mystery / by Hornsby, Wendy,author.(CARDINAL)758770;
Maggie MacGowen, an investigative filmmaker, is in Normandy with a film crew to document the agricultural four seasons on her ancestral family farm. An accidentally excavated skull causes a social media sensation, dredging up psychic scars left by the wartime German Occupation. In their youth, Grand-mere and other villagers had cut the throats of an entire brutal Nazi platoon. Now the grim discovery prompts tourists, the soldiers’ descendants, the mass media, and vulturelike war-memorabilia dealers to flock to the formerly quiet farm. Then a young woman is murdered…. --Amazon.com
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; MacGowen, Maggie (Fictitious character); Women motion picture producers and directors; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I wear the black hat : grappling with villains (real and imagined) / by Klosterman, Chuck,1972-author.(CARDINAL)344200;
What you say about his company is what you say about society -- Another thing that interests me about the Eagles is that I [am contractually obligated to] hate them -- Villains who are not villains -- Easier than typing -- Human clay -- Without a gun they can't get none -- Arrested for smoking -- Electric funeral -- "I am perplexed" [this is why, this is why, this is why they hate you] -- Crime and punishment (or lack thereof) -- Hitler is in the book -- The problem of overrated ideas.The cultural critic questions how modern people understand the concept of villainy, describing how his youthful idealism gave way to an adult sympathy with notorious cultural figures to offer insight into the appeal of anti-heroes.
Subjects: Villains in mass media.; Villains in popular culture.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 15
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Westward expansion / by Quay, Sara E.(CARDINAL)664727;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index.
Subjects: Pioneers; Pioneers; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier and pioneer life; Popular culture; Popular culture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The age of American unreason / by Jacoby, Susan,1945-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The way we live now : just us folks -- The way we lived then : intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- Blaming it on the sixties -- Legacies : youth culture and celebrity culture -- The new old-time religion -- Junk thought -- The culture of distraction -- Public life : defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation.An indictment of modern American culture examines the current disdain for logic and evidence fostered by the mass media, religious fundamentalism, poor public education, a lack of fair-minded intellectuals, and a lazy, credulous public.
Subjects: Mass media; Popular culture; Reason; Social values; Social psychology; National characteristics, American.;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 31
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