2. We provide:
• Workshops and
presentations
• Events on campus
• Advocacy for violence
prevention, student
parents
• Academic
involvement
3. Formerly known as SAFE Team
Educators completed 18 hour training on
domestic violence and sexual assault
Provides UNLV campus with presentations on
specific topics in domestic violence, sexual
assault and stalking
Next training in Fall 2012!
4. Only about 42% of rapes/sexual assaults were reported to
law enforcement in 2007
1 out of 6 American women have been the victims of an
attempted or completed rape in their lifetime
About 3% of American men- a total of 2.78 million men –
have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their
lifetime
98% of males who raped boys were heterosexual
70% of female rape victims and 74% of male victims knew
their assailant
90% of college women of rape and sexual assault knew their
attacker prior to the assault
5. Media Literacy: The ability to access, analyze, evaluate
(think clearly), and create media in all forms (print, TV,
movies, internet, etc.).
Sexual Assault: Forcing a person to participate in
unwanted sexual activity using violence or threats.
Domestic Violence: is one person’s choice to use power to
systematically take control of another person’s life including:
emotional insults, economic deprivation, threats, coercion, &
physical and sexual violence.
6. Rape Culture is a widely used term describing a culture
in which rape and sexual violence are common, and
in which prevalent attitudes, norms, practices, and
media condone, normalize, excuse or encourage
sexualized violence.
Examples of behaviors that typify rape culture include:
sexist jokes, victim blaming, trivialization of sexual
violence, and sexual objectification.
7. • To explain the dynamics of sexual and gender-based
violence in the media
• To gain a better understanding of rape culture
• Analyzing the media with consideration to gender is
crucial to understanding the larger context in which
violence operates.
• To understand the need for media literacy education
• Media messages affect our thoughts and actions by
conveying ideological and value messages
• Media messages reflect the values and viewpoints of media
makers, and most media are controlled by commercial
interests
8. Always “connected”
o Television
o Cell phones
o Social Networking Sites
o Texting
o You Tube
Increases sources for violence
o Cyber bullying/Virtual Violence
o Harassment
o Sending pictures and video (Sexting)
o Representation of gender-based violence in the
media sustains a rape culture
9. Daily Exposure
o Music (downloading)
o TV (4 to 6 hours)
o Movies
o Video Games
Unhealthy Relationships
Pornographic Imagination
Promotes rape culture
10. Increasing violence
Overt and “in your face”
Sadistic/ Sexual Aggression
Gender Stereotypes
Catered to hetero-male fantasies
Promote male-dominance
Female Objectification
Normalization of violent behavior
15. Incidents of violence against women and
teenage girls are increasing on television at
rates that far exceed the overall increases in
violence on television.
Violence, irrespective of gender, on television
increased only 2% from 2004 to 2009, while
incidents of violence against women increased
120% during that same period
(Parents Television Council, 2009)
16. The most frequent type of violence against
women on television was beating (29%),
followed by credible threats of violence (18%),
shooting (11%), rape (8%), stabbing (6%), and
torture (2%). Violence against women
resulted in death 19% of the time
From 2004 to 2009 there was an 81% increase
in incidences of intimate partner violence on
television.
(Parents Television Council, 2009)
17. Fox stood out for using violence against women as a punch line in its
comedies -- in particular Family Guy and American Dad -- trivializing the
gravity of the issue of violence against women.
18. It is unreasonable to expect that people
will change their behavior easily when
so may forces in the social, cultural, and
physical environment conspire against
such change.
(Institute of Medicine, 2001, p.4)
19. Can’t control media, but can control what we
consume
Use media for teaching moments & education
Social Networking
You Tube
Webinars
Blogs
Podcasts
Utilize existing resources
(e.g.;www.preventconnect.org)
