Award Date
1-1-2000
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication Studies
First Committee Member
Lawrence Mullen
Number of Pages
60
Abstract
The author investigates the amount of violence contained within WB primetime programs in order to determine The WB's number of violent acts per program and per program hour as well as determine some of the possible effects of The WB's violence. The author sampled one week of WB primetime programming. A definition of violence similar to other violence studies was employed for comparability. The unit of analysis used for coding was the violent act. The author found all WB primetime programs to contain some violence. The most violent WB primetime program was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the highest number of violent acts aired was found on Tuesday night. The author concludes the majority of WB primetime programs contain a low amount of violence. The author suggests future violence studies employ a single accepted definition of violence and include The WB and UPN programming in their samples.
Keywords
Families; Targeting; Teens; Television; Violence
Controlled Subject
Mass media
File Format
File Size
1751.04 KB
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Marks, Rick Brian, "Targeting families and teens: Television violence on the WB" (2000). UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations. 1124.
http://dx.doi.org/10.25669/73sd-28rx
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