LO6 examples of contemporary case studies to support ideas / theory in the media effects debate

 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 in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others (62 directly and eight indirectly) at a Century 16 movie theater on July 20, 2012.[8] He had no known criminal background before the shooting occurred.[8] Holmes booby-trapped his apartment with explosives before the shooting, which were defused one day later by a bomb squad.)

https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Devin_Moore ( Devin Moore May 15th 1985 ) 


https://www.ibtimes.co.in/chicago-teen-stabs-older-brother-17-times-after-fight-over-flappy-bird-high-score-hoax-video-537936 https://www.ibtimes.co.in/chicago-teen-stabs-older-brother-17-times-after-fight-over-flappy-bird-high-score-hoax-video-537936 


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2115347/Teen-killed-Project-X-inspired-party.html (someone throws a copy of the project X party and shoots a teen Houston mansion ) 


https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7131800&page=1 (2 boys get influenced by watching Saw and kidnap people to torture them on the 20th March 2009)


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/18/filmnews.film (An American judge once described Scream, the 'ironic' cult horror film, as a 'very good source to learn how to kill someone'. Now the film has spawned yet another copycat killing - one so cold-blooded it has shocked a local community in French-speaking Belgium.)


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