Week Twenty Four - Academic Study of the Media Flashcards
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Academic Study of the Media…
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Whether mass media (esp TV) can be proven to be a major causal/contributory factor in criminal/deviant behaviour
Whether mass media (esp Press) present a distorted reality of the world (stereotypes, ‘outsiders’)
Whether mass media create/sustain ‘moral panics’ and cause fear by promoting sensation over accuracy
Whether real crime and fictional crime impact the viewer in the same way (Kidd-Hewitt, 1995)
