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2 Transforming Violence Prevention Through New Communications
Pages 9-16

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... VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA Speaker and planning committee member Vish Viswanath of the Harvard School of Public Health discussed the relationship between exposure 9
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... There is less research on the impact of violent video games than there is on the effect of violent TV, but there is enough to say there is a correlation between aggression and playing violent video games. A recently published meta-analysis of the effects of video games found that when the games are violent, exposure to them can increase aggression and decrease empathic behaviors.
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... For example, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has created a game to get Kenyan youth engaged in HIV prevention. Speaker and planning committee member Jody Ranck of the Public Health Institute mentioned another game, Owning Asthma, which enables youth with high rates of asthma to figure out where they are when they encounter their triggers.
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... Social media are affecting societies and lowering barriers and, in the process, disrupting the status quo of hierarchical structures. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline was presented by speaker Ashley Womble as an example of a violence prevention initiative that is utilizing ICT to carry out its work.
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... The appearance of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, brought about a change in response in managing a rapidly spreading epidemic, and more such changes are needed. Reporting information rapidly and acting on it quickly, whether the information concerns post-election violence, rape, sexual harassment, or disease, requires huge shifts in the ways institutions do their business.
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... These data can help people discover various actionable areas or "hot spots to act in." COLLABORATION AND CONNECTION Connections through today's large networks can link those who deal with specific types of violence, helping break down the barriers between disciplines and different approaches to violence. Successful violence prevention depends upon effective collaboration between public health agencies, members of law enforcement, social services providers, educators, and other actors.
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... Huge institutional shifts might be required to form such connections and trust. Law enforcement is beginning to make this shift through the combination of social media, citizen reporting, and police practice.
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... Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. http://www.unicef-irc.org/ publications/pdf/ict_eng.pdf (accessed March 30, 2012)
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