Mass Media Violence the Impact Term Paper

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Phillips asserts that his study shows that prize fights provokes imitative, aggressor behavior which results in an increase in homicides.

However, Phillips does not appear to have proven a full-blown cause and effect relationship as claimed for a number of reasons. Perhaps people who watch or read about violent events are more inclined to violence than others, meaning that watching the prize fight wasn't what really caused the homicide. The research makes a huge leap of faith that the perpetrators of the homicides had actually been exposed to media coverage of the fights. This is perhaps the largest flaw of the study. and, even if the people committing homicides had been exposed to media coverage, there's absolutely no way of knowing what sequence of events the people committing the homicides were exposed to between the media coverage and the homicide and if these events were the real influencer of the homicide.

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Finally, though not a problem with the study itself, there's no reason give for the three day peak in homicides after boxing events.

Despite all of the study problems, it does appear that Phillips has shown that there is at least a small association between the prize fights and the homicides provided that there are no statistical issues with his time-series regression analysis. Certainly, the analysis involving real-world behavior represents groundbreaking research. However, real-world analysis can never completely control subjects or variables in the study and, for this reason, are limited to claims of association with the need for clear identification….....

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