Violent Video Research Articles

Meslek Lisesi Öğrencilerinde Sosyal Medya ve Bilgisayar Oyunları ile Şiddet Eğilimi Arasındaki İlişki / The Relationship Between Social Media and Computer Games and Violence Tendency in Vocational High School Students

Bu araştırma sosyal medya ve bilgisayar oyunları kullanımı ile meslek lisesi öğrencilerinin şiddet eğilimleri arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma kapsamında ayrıca öğrencilerin cinsiyetleri, okudukları bölümleri, sınıf düzeyleri ve aile içi şiddete maruz kalma durumları değişkenlerinin şiddet eğilimleriyle ilişkisi de ele alınmıştır. Araştırmanın örneklemini 2022-2023 eğitim öğretim yılında ………’de bir meslek lisesinde öğrenimine devam eden 9, 10 ve 11. sınıf olmak üzere toplam 181 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. İlişkisel tarama modelinin kullanıldığı araştırmada veri toplama araçları olarak Haskan ve Yıldırım (2012) tarafından geliştirilen “Şiddet Eğilimi Ölçeği” ile katılımcıların demografik özellikleri, bilgisayar ve sosyal medya kullanımları hakkında bilgi almak amacıyla araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlanan “Kişisel Bilgi Formu” kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada iki bağımsız grup arasındaki fark için Bağımsız Örneklem t Testi, ikiden fazla bağımsız grup karşılaştırılmasında ise Tek Yönlü Varyans Analizi (ANOVA) uygulanmış ve fark bulunduğu durumda fark yaratan grubu bulmak için Bonferroni kullanılmıştır. Analiz sonucunda öğrencilerin aile içinde şiddet varlığı durumlarına, sosyal medyada geçirdikleri sürelere, bilgisayar oyunu oynama durumlarına, bilgisayar oyunlarında geçirdikleri süre ve oynadıkları oyun türlerine göre Şiddet Eğilimi Ölçeği puanları arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark olduğu görülmüştür.

New Wine in an Old Bottle? Exposure to Bullying-Related Media and Bullying Perpetration Behavior in Daily Life Among Adolescents.

Although the effect of media violence on aggression has garnered major attention, little is known about the link between bullying-related media exposure and bullying behaviors. Across three studies, we examined this association among Chinese adolescents. Study 1 used a large sample of adolescents (n=10,391, 51.4% boys) to investigate the link between bullying-related media exposure and bullying perpetration. Using another adolescent sample (n=3,125, 49.5% boys), Study 2 replicated the findings from Study 1 and extended the investigation from traditional bullying to cyberbullying perpetration. Study 3 examined the longitudinal associations between bullying-related media exposure and (cyber)bullying perpetration 6 months later (n = 2,744, 47.0% boys). The results suggested a positive, albeit small, association between exposure to bullying-related media and (cyber)bullying perpetration. Importantly, personal anti-bullying attitudes moderated this link, with a significant association observed among adolescents holding weak anti-bullying attitudes. Findings are discussed with respect to the media's effect on bullying behaviors.

Excessive usage of social media: A potential threat to mental health in Pakistan.

Madam, Social media is an interactive technology that has been used for decades across the globe and Pakistan has millions of active users as well. Social media platforms have experienced rapid growth in Pakistan, with approximately 53 active million users in 2021, reflecting a 9.2% increase from the previous year [1]. While these platforms provide numerous benefits such as connectivity, information dissemination, and social support, they also pose risks to mental health and wellbeing. Studies have linked excessive social media use with increased levels of anxiety, depression and sleep disturbances [2]. The alarming increase in social media usage is a potential threat to the mental health and our population, particularly among young people. A study conducted on Pakistani university students revealed that excessive use of social media was significantly associated with increased stress, anxiety, and depression [3]. Furthermore, the prevalence of cyber bullying in Pakistan has now become a valid concern. One study estimating that most of Pakistani internet users, especially youth have experienced some form of cyberbullying [4]. Cyberbullying is a significant risk factor for mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. Addiction to social media ultimately leads to exposure to a lot of harmful content; a study also showed that memes, cyber mobs and pranks are a common source of cyber-bullying causing more damage to the mental health of Pakistani students [5]. An extensive study also suggested the negative relationship between addiction of social media and mental health; users tend to have low self-esteem and confidence. Another disadvantage of excessive usage of social media is media violence; there is a lot of anger on media that can impact the mental health [6]. Given the potential impact of social media on mental health of Pakistani youth, the government should implement public awareness campaigns highlighting the potential risks of excessive social media usage and promoting healthy online behaviours. People who have already been diagnosed with any kind of mental illness due to excessive usage of social media should be properly treated and provided with therapies. More research on the impact of social media on mental health and well-being in Pakistan, this will help identify specific risk factors, protective factors and intervention strategies relevant to the Pakistani context.

Visual Violence Against Women in Hollywood

Slashers, a subdivision of horror peaked during the 1900s, had a lasting impact in the cinematic world as a wide range of audience continues to watch them today. Often centered around a masked killer that targeted their audience against female victims, an explosion of cinematic violence against women prevailed. Though young white males were initially the targeted audience, females craved slashers as well due to the genres features of enabling them to acquire masculine traits, such as anger, frustrations and violence by overturning stereotypical gender roles propelled by womens movement during the period. Through diving into various elements of slashers, including motives of killers, reasons behind the audiences crave for slashers, characteristics of the survivors and the symbolic utilizations of pre-technological weapons in the genre, this paper examines this violence through contrasting typical female victims with the Final Girl, who becomes the only one that survived the seeming impossible. Aspects of film and literary theories, gender studies, and psychoanalysis were examined throughout research.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIA PEDAGOGY AS A COMPONENT OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND (First Quarter of the XXI Century)

The publication analyzes the development of media pedagogy in Poland during the first quarter of the twentyfirst century and its role in the country's media education system. The article examines the strategy of state policy for the development of media education, studies initiatives and programs aimed at increasing the level of media literacy and forming critical thinking about media. It also examines the achievements, problems and prospects of media pedagogy in Poland, taking into account the challenges of the modern information society. The study of media pedagogy in Poland in the first quarter of the twenty-first century is important in view of the current challenges and opportunities in this field. This study aims to identify achievements and problems, as well as to identify future prospects. Understanding the strategies implemented by Poland in the field of media pedagogy can contribute to further research and offer practical recommendations for improving media education in Poland and other countries. There are contradictions in the development of media pedagogy in Poland. On the one hand, the accessibility of information through the media contributes to education and conscious consumption of news. On the other hand, the abundance of information can lead to information overload and mixing of facts with fake news, which emphasizes the need to improve media literacy. In addition, the rapid development of media technologies can lead to the loss of traditional cultural values, which also necessitates the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage. Media platforms provide an opportunity for personal expression, but at the same time can contribute to the spread of negative content, which requires effective protection against media violence and discrimination. This study is relevant given the complexity of the modern media environment and the need for a balanced approach to media education and pedagogy.

MEDIA EDUCATION AS A FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS' CRITICAL THINKING IN THE LESSONS OF FOREIGN LITERATURE IN SENIOR CLASSES

The article examines the process of implementing media education for the development of students' critical thinking in foreign literature lessons in high school. It is noted that media education helps students develop critical thinking skills about the information they consume in the media, helps them analyze, evaluate and perceive various media formats, making them less vulnerable to manipulation and inaccurate information. The article notes that media education is a component of modern education, which is aimed at developing students' media literacy and covers various aspects of media work. It is emphasized that the appropriate use of media education, the ability to analyze, understand, critically perceive and use various media formats will contribute to the development of students' critical thinking. It has been proven that the use of informational teaching aids in foreign literature lessons will contribute to the use of multimedia resources to improve the understanding of texts, create content for literary analysis, and more actively study the material. Internet resources are offered that will help effectively plan lessons and extracurricular activities in educational institutions. It is emphasized that in high school foreign literature classes, it is appropriate to use a variety of media sources: films, videos, websites, etc., related to the works studied and offered for additional reading. We emphasized that media literacy consists in the ability to critically evaluate these sources and their correspondence to the original text. A comparison of the theoretical concepts of media education of research scientists is carried out, which proves the need to explore not only the theoretical possibilities of media resources, but also to emphasize the practical importance of media literacy, not forgetting the problems of media violence, the consequences of its influence on a minor audience. It was found that in the process of media education, the student's information competence is purposefully formed and developed. This involves the ability to work with various information, create and interpret media text, and possess skills.

NONPHYSICAL VIOLENCE IN KUNG FU FILM: “黄飞鸿之英雄有梦”

Chinese Kungfu films, which are famous for their physical violence, can also be seen from their non-physical violence. It will not be possible for a fight to be fought without verbal contact between the previous conflicts. This will be an additional perspective that Kungfu films can not only be enjoyed in terms of physical violence but also non-physical violence. Analysis of the film “黄飞鸿之英雄有梦” which uses a descriptive qualitative approach combined with interdisciplinary studies of cognitive linguistic and cultural studies yielded fifteen data that have proven that non-physical violence in Kungfu films has its own beauty. Negative diction, the selection of linguistic components, to the use of idioms as a characteristic of Chinese culture are some of the non-physical violent of the media found. In the end, theoretically and practically this research can be used in many opportunities such as linguistic learning, cultural introduction, or become the basis of future research.

P082 At the movies: the changing face of interpersonal violence in cinema

P082 At the movies: the changing face of interpersonal violence in cinema

Influence of Nigerian Home Movies on the Behaviourial Disposition of Nigerian Youths

The study examines the impact of Nigerian home moves on Nigerian youth behavior, emphasizing the need for government intervention to restore order and preserve cultural values through education, mobilization, and entertainment. Negative attitudes because of violent movies Therefore, it is recommended that the abundance of local films undergo careful examination prior to production and distribution in order to have a positive influence on Nigerian society as a whole. The proliferation of local films is problematic. we used 200 respondents as our sample size drawn from our research production amuwo-Odofin Local Government Areas (Lagos) to test the variety of interest. Also the survey research method of data collection was employed to generate information on the impact of Nigerian home movies on the youth. Three hypotheses in chapter four, two of The impact of Nigerian home movies on youth was investigated using the survey research method of data collection. In chapter four, there were three hypotheses; two of them passed the test, and one failed due to the violence connected to certain house moves. Tables, straightforward percentages, etc. were used to present the analysisThe study explores the impact of Nigerian home movies on the behavioral patterns of young people in secondary schools and tertiary institutions in Amumo Odofin and Lagos.

Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film, edited by Naomi Nkealah and Obioma Nnaemeka

Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film, edited by Naomi Nkealah and Obioma Nnaemeka

Study on Deep Learning Techniques for Finding Suspicious Violence Detection in a Video Surveillance

Detecting suspicious visual objects is essential to applying automatic violence detection (AVD) in video surveillance. Continuous monitoring of objects or any unusual things is a tedious task. Learning about video surveillance is an emerging research problem in AVD applications. Deep learning is an intelligent and trustworthy technique for detecting or classifying suspicious data objects. It classifies suspicious video frames by modeling specific categories of videos. The current deep models convolutional neural network (CNN), convolutional long-term and short-term memory (ConvLSTM), AlexNet, VGG-16, MobileNet, and GoogleNet, are wildly succeeded in real-time violence detection with the input of video clips. This paper presents the findings of experimental studies for deep models using classification measures to demonstrate the models' efficacy for our AVD application. Benchmarked violence (V), non-violence (NV), and weapon violence (WV) video datasets are used in the experiment to describe the model's performance while classifying suspicious videos for public safety.

Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study

ABSTRACTThis Event-Related Potential (ERP) study aimed to test how habitual and short-term violent video game exposure (VVGE) may affect empathy for pain responses in adolescents. In a within-subjects design, boys (N = 56; aged 12–16 years) performed a pain judgment task before and immediately after playing a violent video game. In this task, participants judged whether photos of hands depicted on their screen were in a painful situation or not. While both the P3 and the LPP components were not related to habitual violent video game exposure, general exposure to antisocial media content predicted lower P3 amplitudes to painful pictures. Further, 40 min of violent gameplay did not affect the P3 responses; however, it temporarily decreased LPP responses to painful pictures, suggesting a modest short-term desensitization effect. However, this latter interpretation is limited by a strong LPP pain effect – a significant amplitude difference between painful and non-painful pictures – that remained present in the post-game condition. Such persistent LPP effect may relate to the notion that adolescents are still learning how to properly regulate their emotional reactions. This study contributes to the limited literature on violent video games’ desensitization in adolescents’ brains, opening new avenues for media violence research.

Analysis of South Korean Class Conflict Revealed by Elements of Lies and Violence in Cinema - Parasite as an Example

Since the implementation of neoliberal economic policies in South Korea in the 1990s, the huge gap between the rich and the poor has become a phenomenon, an acute social issue, and a frequent topic of film and television series, which has stimulated a series of topics and discussions critical of capitalism and anti-neoliberalism. This paper examines the class conflicts that exist in South Korean society in the context of the neoliberal economic system. It explores the representation of class conflict and the gap between rich and poor in South Korean film and television productions. This paper applies a case study approach to the film Parasite, through reviewing its narratives and the analysis of mise-en-scne, it deals with the elements of lies and violence to illustrate the class conflicts in South Korean society. The findings of this study highlight the presence of a severe class conflict in South Korean society, which is reflected in the immoral behavior of the lower-class characters in Parasite, as well as in the violent declaration of war within the lower class and towards the upper class.

An empirical study of various detection based techniques with divergent learning’s

The prevalence of violence against women and children is concerning, and the initial step is to raise awareness of this issue. Certain forms of detection based techniques are not frequently regarded both socially and culturally permissible. Designing and implementing effective approaches in secondary and supplementary avoidance simultaneously depends on the characterization and assessment. Given the greater incidence of instances and mortalities resulting developing an early detection system is essential. Consequently, violence against women and children is a problem of human health of pandemic proportions. As a result, the focus of this survey is to analyze the existing methods used to identify violence in photos or films. Here, 50 research papers are reviewed and their techniques employed, dataset, evaluation metrics, and publication year are analyzed. The study reviews the potential future research areas by examining the difficulties in identifying violence against women and children in literary works for researchers to overcome in order to produce better results.

At the movies: The changing face of interpersonal violence in cinema

IntroductionThe negative effects of media exposure to interpersonal violence (IPV) have been a controversial topic for decades. Our aims were to identify the prevalence and trend of maxillofacialrelated IPV in top grossing movies 50 years apart to look for changing patterns of portrayal in mainstream cinema. MethodsThe 20 highest-grossing movies from 1970 to 2020 were identified. Each instance of maxillofacial-related IPV was identified and the following data points were analyzed: type of IPV (blunt/penetrating), the injury sustained, gender of the assailant and the victim as well as their relationship, the use of drugs and/or alcohol, any physical and/or legal consequences and if hospitalisation was required. ResultsFrom the movies examined, 13/20 in 1970 and 14/20 in 2020 showed episodes of maxillofacial-related IPV. There was a higher number overall of maxillofacial-related IPV in 2020 (n=54) compared to 1970 (n=30). In 1970s movies, assailants were more frequently known to their victims (96.7 % vs 66.7 %, p=0.01) and maxillofacial-related IPV was more likely to involve alcohol and/or drugs (16.7 % vs 1.9 %, p=0.01). Victims were rarely hospitalized in either 1970 or 2020 cinema (0 % and 3.7 % respectively), assailants rarely suffered legal consequences (13.3 % and 5.6 % respectively) and these differences were not significant. ConclusionLittle has changed in mainstream cinema concerning the prevalence of maxillofacial-related IPV between 1970 and 2020, but there are subtle differences in how this is portrayed. The overarching notion that such injuries do not culminate in either hospitalisation and/or legal ramifications remains.

Big Data Techniques to Study the Impact of Gender-Based Violence in the Spanish News Media

Despite being an underreported topic in the news media, gender-based violence (GBV) undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims. Research has studied many of the factors that generate or maintain this kind of violence. However, the influence of the media is still uncertain. This paper used Big Data techniques to explore how GBV is depicted and reported in digital news media. By feeding neural networks with news, the topic information associated with each article can be recovered. Our findings show a relationship between GBV news and public awareness, the effect of well-known GBV cases, and the intrinsic thematic relationship of GBV news with justice themes.

Fight detection with spatial and channel wise attention‐based ConvLSTM model

AbstractAn automated detection of aggressive and violent behaviour in videos has immense potential. It enables efficient online content filtering by restricting access to extreme content and also, when integrated with security systems, helps to monitor violence in surveillance videos. In this work, a convolutional neural network is combined with the proposed Spatial and Channel wise Attention‐based ConvLSTM encoder (SCan‐ConvLSTM). The proposed architecture performs an efficient spatiotemporal fusion of the features extracted from the video sequences containing fight scenes. In order to focus selectively on regions of utmost importance, this blended attention mechanism adjusts the weights of outputs in different locations and across different channels. This recurrent attention mechanism enhances the sequential refinement of activation maps and boosts the model performance. Finally, the experimental results have been presented that show the proposed architecture achieves superior results on the benchmark datasets (RWF‐2000, Violent‐flow, Hockey‐fights, and Movies).

Symbolic violence and discrimination in a social media comment section: A study on discriminatory discursive strategies targeting non-binary gender identity in the context of Indonesia

Symbolic violence and discrimination in a social media comment section: A study on discriminatory discursive strategies targeting non-binary gender identity in the context of Indonesia

Analysis of Social Media Involvement in Violent Injury

This cross-sectional study uses police agency–collected information to quantify the association among social media involvement, crime, and violence.

Mental health, violence, suicide, self-harm, and HIV in series and films of Netflix: content analysis and its possible impacts on society

The media entertainment we consume significantly affects our behavior, our relationships, and our identity. Thus, this study focuses on some of the main problems of society today and analyzes how these variables are represented on Netflix. Specifically, this study analyzes how content related to mental health, violence, suicide, self-harm, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) appears in the ten most-watched movies and ten most-watched series on Netflix. To this end, a conceptual analysis method based on a 5-min interval coding is used. Results posit that violence is shown in 38.7% of the movie sections and 37.3% of the series. Suicide and self-harm appear, respectively, in 0.9% and 0% of the movies and 1.3 and 0.2% of the series. Regarding mental health, 0.5% of the analyzed individuals had a mental health diagnosis. Finally, none of the 220 main characters analyzed stated that they had HIV. Among the conclusions, the need to regulate violence in the media or to mitigate the impact it generates should be highlighted. Likewise, mental health, suicide, self-harm, and HIV have been observed not to have a realistic representation in fiction, which generates stigmatization.