Passive Audience Flashcards
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How does Hypodermic syringe model work
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Media has direct and immediate effect on audience
- audience passively accept content and behaviour changes due to media messages
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Example of hypodermic syringe model
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Banduras BOBO DOLL- lab experiment - children mimicked violence after they saw adults perform it
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Criticisms of hypodermic model
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- too simple , assumes audience passive (pluralist)
- many people watch horror movies but do not perform acts
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How does the cultural affect (Marxist) model work
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Social background affects how interpret media
Marxist view - media transmit capitalist ideology
- audiences come to share views of the rich slowly
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Criticisms of cultural effects model
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- effects hard to measure due to long time period
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