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Media Violence Research Needs to Look Ahead, Not Back: Commentary on Anderson, Bushman, Donnerstein, Hummer, and Warburton (2015)
Author(s) -
Gollwitzer Mario
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
analyses of social issues and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1530-2415
pISSN - 1529-7489
DOI - 10.1111/asap.12111
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , sociology , public relations , criminology , political science , psychology , engineering ethics , engineering , physics , optics
Given that media violence is still a heated debate (and that “motivated science reception” is likely to occur in such debates), reviews like the present one are very helpful. One noteworthy aspect of the present review is that it looks ahead and suggests useful pathways for parents, policy‐makers, and the media industry. In all of these pathways, researchers play a key role. Media researchers should now focus on the wealth of research questions that the evolution of (violent and nonviolent) media, especially video games, has opened up.