There was also a major study done in 1995 by the UCLA Communication Department, called "The Television Violence Monitoring Project." It's on the Net via any good search engine. If you can't find it, contact "[log in to unmask]" -- he was the director. This was the one Congress and the networks used to reach a temporary decision *not* to get into a major fight. I think it's an excellent study. At 10:13 AM 2/9/96 -0600, you wrote: >Dear Mr. Dalquist, > The authors of the TV violence study include three Universities--The >University of Texas at Austin (members from the College of Communication), >the University of California--Santa Barbara, and the University of North >Carolina. I will provide you addresses of a couple of the lead researchers >from Texas below. > However, the way you report the reports of the study is not accurate >as I understand them. The study counts in context acts of violence, >comparing them across genre and location (network broadcast television, >cable broadcast, public broadcast, etc.). It makes no claims about effects >except to reference earlier theories about possible effects. > Contact: Wayne Danielson: [log in to unmask] > Charles Whitney: [log in to unmask] > > > >>There's been some news coverage over here of a new U.S. study that 'proves' >that >>TV violence breeds real-life violence. Judging from the reports in the Swedish >>media the study in questin is a content-analysis of some 2.500 hours of TV. >>Since this is my line of research (researching the media researchers) I'd be >>extremely happy if anyone could provide author(s) and publisher of this study. >> >>Cheers, >> >>Ulf >> >>Ulf Dalquist Phone: 46-46-2224266 >>Department of Sociology Fax: 46-46-104794 >>Lund University SWEDEN E-mail: [log in to unmask] >> > Howard Suber Chair UCLA Independent Film and Television Producers Program [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]