Making Sense of Violence: Perceived Meaningfulness as a Predictor of Audience Interest in Violent Media Content

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Journal Article Making Sense of Violence: Perceived Meaningfulness as a Predictor of Audience Interest in Violent Media Content Get access Anne Bartsch, Anne Bartsch 1Department of Communication Studies and Media Research, LMU Munich, Munich, 80538, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marie-Louise Mares Marie-Louise Mares 2Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 64, Issue 5, October 2014, Pages 956–976, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12112 Published: 09 September 2014