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The Tower of Babble:
What is media violence? |
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| Stories, books, art, news, cartoons, computer games, movies, TV, music, sports, religious texts, talk |
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| Consumers (adults, kids, parents), producers, advocates, experts, politicians, reporters |
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VIDEO: The Mean World Syndrome - George Gerbner
“Happy violence”
“Mean world syndrome”
‘Cultivation theory” |
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Happy Violence - the way television depicts episodes of physical aggression. "It's swift, it's thrilling, it's cool, it's effective, it's painless, and it always leads to a happy ending because you have to deliver the audience to the next commercial in a receptive mood"
"Mean world syndrome" is a term coined by George Gerbner to describe a phenomenon whereby violence-related content of mass media makes viewers believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is. Mean world syndrome is one of the main conclusions of cultivation theory. Gerbner, a pioneer researcher on the effects of television on society, argued that people who watched a large amount of television tended to think of the world as an intimidating and unforgiving place.
Cultivation theory is when viewers become acclimated to ever more potent forms of violent representation that raises their thresholds for such material and heighten the level of intensity of programs they seek. |
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Historical perceptions of word & image
Symbol making makes us human
Images preceded words |
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From Rene Descartes to Al Gore
Reason and the printed word
Individualism
Democracy
Capitalism |
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| MEDIA VIOLENCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE |
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Fear, violence, and storytelling
Violence and death imagery
Video from 4/10: How Art Made the World: To Death and Back |
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Worries that violent media harm society
Despite lack of evidence
Payne Fund Studies (1929-1932)
Production Code (1930-1968) |
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| VIDEOS: Psycho (1960), Psycho (1999) |
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| Alfred Hitchcock, Gus Van Sant |
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| MEDIA AND THE CULTURE OF FEAR |
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Short-term hysteria
School shootings as example
Disproportionality |
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Underlying concern
Triggering episode (s)
Communication/media
Advocates and experts
Politicians
Action/resolution |
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| REGULATION EFFORTS, cont’d |
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1960s Movie ratings G, PG,R, X
1980s Meese Commission/ music ratings
1990s TV and video game ratings
2000s AAP etc Statement, V-Chip, 9/11
2011 Brown vs Ent Merchants Assn |
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School shootings, bullying, general behavior, myths vs statistics
Violent crime, property crime rates |
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Media hysteria cycle
Usually short-term
Single issue, clearly defined
Norms threatened and thus confirmed
Interaction of “Five Ps” |
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| WATCHING DOESN’T MAKE US VIOLENT |
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Academic subculture
“The Case for Television Violence”
Biology of violence – mainstream beliefs
Thomas Malthus, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud
Psychology of violence
Cognition, emotion, mental illness, substance abuse, catharsis, death |
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| Researching media violence effects |
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Laboratory and field research
Long-term research |
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