A qualitative study of early adolescents’ critical thinking about the content and consequences of media violence
Erica Scharrer; Yuxi Zhou · DOAJ Open Access Articles
Research shows that young people are likely to encounter considerable amounts of violence in the media they use. Some of those depictions trivialize the severity of violence. Past studies show that media literacy education can spur critical thinking regarding violent portrayals in media texts. But rarely do prior studies employ qualitative methods to underst…