ISRA News

Comments on the Connecticut School Shooting
Rowell Huesmann and Eric Dubow have written a document covering some psychological aspects related to the horrific Connecticut school shooting. The posting appears on the University of Michigan’s Aggression Research Program website.

Video and Audio from the XX ISRA World Meeting
A video gallery featuring keynote addresses and highlighted conference speeches is now available, as well as a download section featuring MP3 audio files of select speeches. To access this content, please follow the link below and click the button labelled "Login as a guest" located below the windows for Username and Password. Selections from this content may be available in the future on the ISRA page as well.

Video and Audio files

Report of the Media Violence Commission
In December 2011, the ISRA appointed a special commission to prepare a report on media violence. This commission was "charged with the task of producing a public statement on the known effects of exposure to media violence, based on the current state of scientific knowledge. If the Commission finds sufficient evidence of harmful effects, then the Commission's public statement may include public policy recommendations."

The full text document of this report is available currently in English, Greek, Romanian and German, and may be translated into additional languages in the near future.

Full Text Download - English, PDF (496KB)
Full Text Download - Greek, Word (239KB), PDF (366KB)
Full Text Download - Romanian, PDF (248KB)
Full Text Download - German, PDF (190KB)

Media Violence Commission in the news
Iowa State University press release (US) - English, HTML

Australian Council on Children and the Media press release (Australia) - English, PDF (74KB)

Herald Sun newspaper article (Australia) - English, PDF (193KB)

The Telegraph newspaper article (United Kingdom) - English, HTML

Examiner.com article (US) - English, HTML

Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (Australia) - English, HTML (The article is 3/4 the way down the page)

MedicalXpress.com article (US) - English, HTML

Happychild.com.au article (Australia) - English, HTML

Zenit.org article - English, HTML