A Content Analysis of Violence in Music Videos
Description:
This content analysis study of music videos answered questions concerning the amount and severity of violence content during different time periods of the day. A system of classifying violence content as nonviolent, mostly light, neither light nor serious, mostly serious, and extremely serious was used to evaluate music videos from MTV. One hour from each day was randomly selected for evaluation for a period of thirty days. During this time, there were 313 occurrences of music videos which were…
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Date:
August 1985
Creator:
Paxton, Sue
Partner:
UNT Libraries