Unit 1: Media Products and Audiences

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_controversies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54594825 This articles discusses the idea of Instagram having to have held onto people’s information which means it is breaking the privacy law that is meant to be used which means that if it is found out that Instagram is doing this then all the platforms being Facebooks owner can be fined or further actions taken (19th October 2020). https://www.nme.com/news/peaky-blinders-glorifies-violence-toxic-masculinity-say-academics-2473859 This articles states the idea of toxic masculinity and that it is shown to be attractive and makes you a more powerful person. This is shown to be bad for it will have an negative impact on the audience if they want to recreate or be in some sort of gangster group or a mafia. This connotes violence and toxic traces to be acceptable (8th April 2019). https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/27/beach-body-ready-america-weight-loss-ad-instagram This articles co...

 Livingstone and Lund (2011) Livingstone and lint think the needs of a citizen (moral and ethical) are in the conflict with the needs of the consumer, because protection can limit freedom. They noticed that regulating media to protect citizens from harmful content can limit freedom of expression.  Key terms:  - Citizen - a subject of a democratic society that has the responsibility to uphold social norms, they also have a right to be protect from harm.  - Consumer - a person that interacts with media products and buys/purchases media products.  - Command and Control - the idea that those in power such as the government or the watchdog organisations dictating what the public can access, the government control what happens and when.  - Globalisation - the way in which industry has expanded on a global scale. - Public sphere - is where the public can have a place for debate and conversation.  - Technological convergence - the coming together of media tech...

 ASA - Advertising Standards Authority  They are there for people to complain to and used to know what to publish and what is shown  on television  BBFC- British Board Film Classification  Movies and what’s allowed  Ofcom- Office of communications  Regulate television content and radio broadcasts (anything broadcasted) IPSO- Independent Press Standard Organisation  Reform press regulations  PEGI- Pan European Gaming Information  Self regulation - personally we think about what we are posting or writing and if it will effect anyone. 

 Invasion of privacy  Causes conflict and issues for no reason Creates fake news Can destroy families  Image takes context out of boundaries  The public has a right to know if it can directly affect them, otherwise no Creates questions  Can effect the trust or respect for them  Public should know what is going on 

  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/joker-and-the-long-history-of-movie-moral-panics  (Joker) https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/challenging-social-media-moral-panic-preserving-free-expression-under  (Social media)  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50543213  (Blue story) https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/does-a-relationship-between-video-games-and-violent-behaviour-exist  (Video games -  In 2004, a young teenager called Stefan Pakeerah met a friend in a Leicester park, where that same friend bludgeoned Stefan to death with a claw hammer. The case hit the headlines, not just for its shocking violence, but because the 17-year-old killer had apparently been inspired by a video game called Manhunt.)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holmes_(mass_murderer)  ( James Eagan Holmes  (born December 13, 1987) is an American  mass murderer  responsible for the  2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting  i...

 According to the Sun article - why was the Blue Story banned in Vue and showcase cinemas?  A boy in a camouflage jacket brought a machete to the seeing to recreate the events. The police collected 2 machetes and a knife from 5:30 pm. There was multiple issues occurring because of the screening of the movie meaning it got banned for police was having to be on sight in case of any violence and violent weapons. Film had gang violence in it influencing teens to do the same.  What type of issues did police say the film cause? What effects does the article say the film ha on teenagers?  Teenagers where becoming violent and vicious. Harm to others (kids wanting to watch frozen 2 waiting in line with families).  According to the BBC article - what are the arguments against Blue Water being banned as part of a national moral panic about the content of the film? Racist if the film is banned. International film and targets a very specific audience. Does not have the same ...

 

 What media effects theory is Stuart Hall?  Encoding and decoding  What media effects theory is by Henry Jenkins? Fandom What type of products in the digital age cause moral panic?  Violent video games (Call Of Duty),  films (Child’s Play 3) , newspapers, magazines, social media’s. 

 There are many different media effects created via the use of media products. For example there is the effect from different media products, there are many theories that have been thought off for example there is the active audience theory, this is when people use media for escapism, surveillance, building personal relationships and also building personal identity. These methods that the human race use in media is for their own person reasons meaning they are able to recognise the difference between reality and a fantasy, this theory was discovered in 1972 by Denis McQuail. There is also the theory that Stuart Hall discovered in 1980, his theory was the encoding/ decoding model, this was then broken down to preferred reading, negotiated reading and also the oppositional reading. These are all examples of the active audience theory, there is also the the passive audience theory, this includes the hypodermic syringe discovered by Adorno and Horkheimer in 1947. I personally do not be...

Fandom - (Henry Jenkins, 2012)  Capital - anything that provides us with wealth or worth Sub-culture - culture within a culture    These are some personal experiences on giving the creator my opinion and interacting with them. 

  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0031-7 This article discusses the idea of different video games taking different effects on certain age ranges and the theory of why these occur. There are examples from GTA and The Sims 3, this article supports the idea of the passive audience theory and also the cultivation theory. Another article that expresses this theory is  https://www.healthline.com/health-news/video-games-saints-or-psychopaths-082814#A-Daily-Dose-of-Violence  this article shows a violent impact on players and shows them to influence people to commit crimes due to seeing it in video games.

 What media effects theory is by Adorno and Horkheimer? Passive audience theory What media effects theory is by Gross and Gerbner? Cultivation theory  What type of media products have created ‘moral panic’?  Games, social media, movies.