A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that violent speech in movies is increasing over time, even in non-crime films.
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A recent study from the Computational Social Science Lab at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Wharton School—published in JAMA Pediatrics—has analyzed a massive number of English-language films to examine if the portrayal of violence in movies has changed over time. The study analyzed dialogue from over 166,000 films over the last five decades and found that violent language has increased in movies over time. While other studies have shown increases in film violence, the value of this analysis is its huge dataset. Amir Tohidi, a postdoctoral researcher at the Computational Social Science Lab, says that “including less extreme forms of violence would result in a higher overall count of violence.”
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