What is it about?
Results suggest that, consistent with college students and emerging adults in general, Black college students are heavy users of violent media and that violent media is related to aggression.
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Why is it important?
This study makes an important contribution to the research literature by illuminating violent media consumption and the relationship between violent media consumption and aggression in a population that has been overlooked or understudied by previous media violence-aggression research.
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Jamie Williams, the first author, did a fantastic job identifying a real gap in the literature on the relationship between media violence and aggression. Working with Jamie on her research and collaborating with her and our other co-authors in writing this publication removed any doubts I had that there is a relationship between exposure to (or consumption of) media violence and aggression. Working on this article also gave me a chance to communicate with Sarah Coyne, a leading scholar in this area. She's not only a first-rate scholar, but a very nice person as well.
Dr. Tommy Phillips
Mississippi State University
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This page is a summary of: An Exploratory Study of Violent Media Consumption and Aggression in Black College Students, Journal of Black Studies, July 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0021934717717980.
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