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Unit 6 Assignment 3

Violence is sometimes Gratuitous

Desensitisation: where things don't shock you anymore, finding violence joyable.

Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1S42ce9K8Y(3;15)

1) when i watched this i felt slightly on edge but at the same time i knew what was going to happen, its a horror film, you expect gorey stuff

2) my reaction was i laughed, something about a mans head being shut in a helmet full of spikes thats just slightly humorous

My Reaction Was the oppositional reading, i didnt find it gorey i just found it funny, doesnt mean i didnt enjoy it, just means i didnt find it bad.

Effects Model

What the Effects model?

• The Effects Model is a theory,  a theory is somebody's idea, this means a theory can be wrong. The effects model is all to do with how the media affects your behaviour. 

• Its also named The hypodermic needle/syringe. The metaphorical needle injecting you with bad ideas, if you see behaviour in the TV or a video game, you will copy it. I disagree with it slightly, if you have common sense then you wont do something stupid, but obviously some people who are emotionally challenged or children may be influenced by stuff they see. Moral Panic.

• I personally disagree with this theory because surely not EVERYONE that sees something on TV is going to go out and repeat what they have seen because most people have a certain level of common sense. On the other hand things that have been seen on TV and repeated in real life, they're usually dark and murderous things though. Possibly Kids could see certain things and pick up on them and could become indoctrinated to act like what they have seen. But personally on the whole i disagree with this Theory. 

Moral Panic

• Moral Panic means creating a panic about something that is seen to be damaging our society.
• Its a loop that essentially blames the media for any issues it possibly can and people are persuaded into thinking that the issue is a global thing therfor making everyone panic but not solving the apparent issue.
• its usally films and games with violence in are mostly blamed for moral panic.

The issue within Moral panic is that it just makes everything become an easy target to be blamed. For example if a 14 year old child gets hold of a 18 rated game, kills someone in the game then repeats that murder in real life the Game maker would be to blame. But is it their fault? or is it infact the parents fault? Theres no define proof for this theory its all just rumour and word of mouth.

Uses and gratification

What is uses and gratification?

• Its yet another theory that focuses on why people use media products.
• It trys to say that audiences are active and give reasons why people use the products 
• Reasons such as entertainment or to let people know whats going on in the world etc.