audience effects of media Flashcards

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direct effects

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immediate and seamless inflictions on societies

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hypodermic society - Packard (1957)

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media is like a syringe that injects messages into the audience

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role of the hypodermic syringe

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  • directed toward advertising
  • the audience is passive and unable to resist the media messages
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Newson (1984)

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children exposed to media violence has desensitizing effect where they see is as a norm or desirable behavior
EG james bulger

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desensitisation

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exposure to violence created by a drip drip effect amongst young people

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bandura - children imitation (1961)

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bobo doll experiment: children shown clip of an adult hitting a large inflated doll - children taken to lab with the same doll and those who had seen the clip imitated the adults violent behavior

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anderson (2003) - music

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violent song lyrics on attitudes and emotions of 500 college students
- increased aggressive thoughts of hostility following exposure to violent music

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hall (2011) - sexualisation

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content from 1959-2009 increased in sexual content
- teaches men to be sexually aggressive and women provide sexual pleasure
- lead to poor body image, depression, ed and substance abuse

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Becker (2002)

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TV content in Fiji
- girls living in homes with tv are 3x more likely to show symptoms of EDs
- 69% state that they had gone on diets

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feminism and direct theories

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link between pornography and real life sexual violence
- it trivializes rape and makes men increasingly callous to cruelty, infliction of pain to violence against people and abuse

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evaluation - feshbach and singer (1971)

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group that viewed non violent imaged displayed more aggression than the other group
- viewing violence can be a safe means of release

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evaluation - young (2003)

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effects of media violence depends on the narrative within which violence is permissible
- sensitizing effects as it provides awareness it is wrong

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indirect effects

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they dont infiltrate as fast into audiences

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two step flow

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effect of the media comes through interaction between people, they are influenced by someone else to reject, modify or accept a message

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katz and lazarfeld (1955)

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opinion leader takes in a message and transmits them onto their social connections

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cultural effects theory

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media effects the attitudes and behavior of different social groups depending on cultural background

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drip drip theory

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media influence on audience isn’t immediate but occurs over a long period of time

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evaluation of indirect theories

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  • it is difficult to measure the effect of media alone in norms, values and attitudes and is difficult to isolate impacts of media
  • the analysis tends to look ore at the issue from the pov of the media impacting on the audience, research has since shifted to the way in which the audience receives media messages
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uses and gratifications

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what audiences do with the media
- they have more choices in the using the media to satisy their needs

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zillmann (1987)

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shoes influence of mood on media choice
- boredom will provoke exciting content but stress encourages calming content
- different needs are associated with individual personalities, stages of maturation, backgrounds and social roles

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Mcquail (1987) - uses for media content

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information: news, seeking advice, satisfying curiosity
personal identity: reinforcement of personal values, identifying with valued others
integration and social interaction: finding a basis for conversation, substitute for real life companionship
entertainment: escaping or being diverted from problems, relaxing

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use and gratification evaluation

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not enough research on how media audience gratify themselves by using media content
- different social groups may use media content in different ways

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uses and gratifications - postmodernism

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individuals have specific needs and the function of media is to provide plurality of media choices in order to meet taste

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hall (1973) - coding/decoding

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media messages such as news are coded in ways that support the power structure of society

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different ways of ‘reading’ messages

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hegemonic reading: believing the message
negotiated reading: mixture of alternative ideas
oppositional reading: constructs a meaning that is totally different

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klapper (1960) - selective filter model

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variety of ways of filtering content
- selective exposure: which products they are exposed to and how they perceive them
- selective retention: individuals will retain content that accord with their interests and beliefs

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evaluation of active audiences

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overly individualistic and ignore socio-cultural context, they de-emphasize sociological explanations
Marxists: needs are met by media content are created by the media

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deviancy amplification sprial

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  1. deviant act committed
  2. reports of deviant behavior
  3. public attention
  4. social exclusion
  5. demands for action to be made
  6. greater police action and more arrests
  7. deviant behavior is no longer big news
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cohen - folk devils

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media exaggerate behavior of certain subcultures and catch the attention of the public in order to put pressure on authority

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folk devils example

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mods and rockers
- two subcultures in conflict which was dramatized by the media
- led to fines and arrests
- labelled as deviant and ‘vermin’

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goode and yehuda (1994)

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phenomena can incite intense worry in members of society when the threat is non-existent or less harmful than the reaction suggests

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marxism - deviancy amplification

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deviancy amplification are used as a form of social control to support capitalism, the effect is to distract people from real issues

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deviancy - interactionism

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labelling: when the media uses force to put a deviant label on specific social group, it leads to groups being victimized as criminals
self fulfilling