LO6 - Media effects and regulations.

Media effects - Refers to the influence of media exposure on people, and these effects can be positive or negative. 

Media regulation - rules enforced by law across a variety of media platforms to protect audience and manage the rights of media content. 

Hypodermic syringe - implies that media has a negative impact. Mass audiences believe everything that they see/hear as part of the 'culture industry'.                              

Joker (2019) 

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/movies/a29341399/joker-movie-controversy-explained/

I think that the Joker wasn't as a offence as people make it out to be. In my opinion people are taking it too far and it is clear that the producers were trying to show someone who is struggling in the real world and how that contrasts to the diegetic world.

Social media effecting young teens 

https://childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers/

I think that there is a problem on social media however it isn't as big as it used to be. 

Marilyn Manson 

I think that the lyrics are rather strange and so people are right to have opinions on it being very cannibalistic. 

Cultivation theory 

Clockwork Orange 1970s R rated 

Halloween 1970s R rated and modern day 15

Texas Chainsaw Massacare 

Cultivation theory - by repetitive viewing of violent images the audience may become immune towards negative and/or violent representations, as per ideas about desensitisation (becoming used to graphic/violent images owing to saturation in the media. 

The more we get told that the world is bad in the news is called 'mean world syndrome' 

For 

Attempted assignation on the former President Ronald Reagan based off the Film Taxi Driver. 

https://www.newsweek.com/nine-horrible-real-life-crimes-were-inspired-movie-or-novel-583828

Against 

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-violence/horror-movies-dont-cause-violence-director-idUSN2738075520070427

Moral Panic Theory - an instance that of public/mass media concern or 'panic' in response to a media product that is regarded  threatening to certain groups or debasing agreed moral standards with society. (Stanley Cohen 1972)