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NJAINE, Kathie. The significance of violence or senseless
violence: the adolescents’ perspective vis-à-vis the media.
Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.20, pp. 381-392.
ISSN 1807-5762.  This is a qualitative study that seeks to
identify the significance attributed by adolescents to violence
disseminated by the media, especially on television, and how
this group interacts with this media. The study hopes to
increase understanding on how the phenomenon of violence
divulged by television is interpreted, incorporated, or not by
adolescents in their day to day. Focus groups with seventh and
eighth