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1
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How many screen murders had American’s aged 18 seen?

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40,000

2
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The effects approach

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  • The audience is passive

- Hypodermic syringe

3
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The Bandura experiment

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The study found that the children exposed to the aggressive models were more likely to act in physically aggressive ways than those not exposed

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How can the Bandura experiment be critisised?

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  • Lab experiment

- Unethical

5
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James Bulger and Bandura

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  • Links to the HSM as people see something on screen and then copy the behaviour
  • The two watched child’s play and copied the film when murdering James
6
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Alternative explanation for the murderers of James Bulger?

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Poor socialisation - violent parents = violence was a norm

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Elizabeth Newson

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  • James Bulger investigator-
    Concluded that sadistic images were too easily available and young people are becoming desensitised, socialised to accept it as a norm
  • Cultural effects
8
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McCabe and Martin

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Concluded that media violence has a disinhabilition effect, convincing children that in some situations ‘normal rules’ can be suspended

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Evaluation of effects approach

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:) shows power of media and watershed suggests there must be an element of truth
X Assumes audiences are passive
X Ignores role of socialisation
X Scapegoats the media by blaming video games

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Peak and Fisher

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Argue TV is not to blame for violence and crime, tv is used as a scapegoat for deep rooted problems
- The HDS model focuses entirely on media content as the scapegoat for societies ills e.g. antisocial behaviour

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Sees the audience as = active and diverse

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  • Uses and gratifications = Blumer and McQuail
    Thrill = violence can be cathartic
  • SFM = Klapper
    We can reject, don’t remember the same thing
  • Structured interpretation = Morley
    We can disagree wit the message
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Jock Young

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Argues seeing the effects of violence (e.g. suffering of victims families) make us more aware of it\s consequences = less violent acts

13
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Catharsis

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Can be argued that screen violence can provide a safe outlet for people’s aggressive tendencies

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Example of Catharsis - Fesbach and Sanger

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  • 2 groups of 16 year olds - one exposed to violent films for 6 weeks, the other non0violent
  • The ones who saw violence actually had less violent tendencies = media can be cathartic and can release aggression in a virtual world
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Cumberbatch

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  • Looked over 3,500 research studies

- Concluded that there is no conclusive evidence that violence shown in the media changes people’s behaviour