Description:
Ill Effects argues that the question of media influence needs to be debated by those with a clearer understanding of how audiences and media interact with one another.
Review Quotes: "A refreshing guide to what has often been a stale, circular argument, batted between different shades of moral opportunism in the papers-most of whose pundits have never seen the "immorality" in question."
-Tom Dewe Mathews, "Independent on Sunday
""Ill Effects.shows how easy it is to demolish the arguments of the pro-censorship lobby, and the media's dishonest pandering to it."
-Roger Clarke, "Independent
"a cogent, lucid refutation of the prevailing 'wisdom' on film and TV censorship."
-"Time Out
"The authors assert that there is an urgent need for an informed and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the media."
-Barbara Bloom, "Censored