ABSTRACT
The high school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, stimulated a new round of governmental and media scrutiny of the entertainment media’s role in the creation of violence in the United States (Oldenburg & Snider, 1999). The effects of mediated violence have been studied extensively since the rise of television in the early 1950s and continue to be the subject of much interest (Gunter, 1994; Rowland, 1983; Walker & Ferguson, 1998).
