为了更为深入地了解当前流行于青少年群体的动漫中存在的暴力内容特点,本研究通过提名法选取了初中生最为喜爱的三部动漫影片,并采用质性的内容分析法对其暴力特点进行分析,结果发现初中生最喜爱的三部动漫影片均为涉及较多暴力场景的动漫,且这些影片中的暴力特点主要表现为施暴者多为有魅力的英雄人物;暴力是正义的、非现实性的和缺乏幽默感的;对暴力场景进行较多的特写且较少出现血腥场景;很少描述受害者的痛苦和对受害者的态度;暴力往往会造成较大的身体伤害,却很少对施暴者进行惩罚。
The violence in the mass media has been a research focus in sociology and psychology.Many researchers paid more attention to the violence in movies and games,but neglected the violence in anime.This study examined the characteristics of violence that is perpetuating throughout popular teenage anime by the content analysis method.In order to produce a representative sample,596 middle school students were instructed to write down the names of 10 preferable anime,and the top three anime were chosen from the collected 98 anime based on the frequency of nomination.In consideration of so many episodes in each anime,an average of 14 episodes from each anime was equidistantly selected as the research sample.After developing the contextual features coding schedule about the violence scene(mainly including the basic information of a person involving in the violence,basic judgment about the cause and value of violence,relevant consequences of violence caused),three postgraduate students who were familiar with these three anime were trained as the research coder.They spent seven weeks,six episodes per week,to finish the coding- The results showed that the content analysis reliabilities,which included intercoder agreement and constant reliability,were almost larger than 0.8.And these anime contained a large proportion of violent scenes.Further analyses surfaced other defining characteristics of violence in the anime that appealed to middle school students,namely;1) many of the perpetrators of violence were teenagers,students and heroes,and they were mostly male and attractive;2) the causations of violence were mainly helpfulness,performance of official duties,and violence was always for the sake of justice and could be forgivable;3) violent scenes were usually depicted in close-up and they usually were not bloody;4 ) much of the violence was unrealistic and lacking in humor;5) there were inadequate descriptions highlighting the suffering of victims and a lack of sympathy shown towards victims as well;nevertheles