LO6:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11570090

The main point of this article is that violent games are having a negative impact on kids


mediation - the media manipulating the product so the public see what the creators want them to see
passive theory - allowing the media to adapt someones behaviour.

The hypodermic syringe theory - implies the media has a negative impact. we believe what we see and hear.

Vance Packard - He believed the media are making people to want products - 1957
Craig Anderson - exposure of negative products thus dampening emotional responses - 2007
desensitisation
Chris Ferguson - found no link long term 2012

copycat crime  - james Bulger crime

George Gerbner and Larry Gross - Cultivation theory: the more time people watch tv the more time they believe its real. - 1979

mean world syndrome - the world more violent on tv, then it should be.

Moral Panic

when the mass media demonise groups, people or products that they believe become a threat to society values and interests it is called 'moral panic'(Stanley Cohen, 1972)

The group/products are referred to as 'folk devils'

people like:

• religion
• foreigners
• extremists
• youth - gangs
• bad behaviour
• white chavs

media bias - media only shown in one representation
sensationalist - top stories exaggerated to make money

All representations are mediated(Hall, 1980)

this man is represented as rude and trashy as he is putting his middle finger up