Task 2 - Books research

MEDIA VIOLENCE

MOTION: PEOPLE NEED PROTECTING FROM VIOLENT LYRICS, FILMS AND VIDEO GAMES'
JAMES GLEDHILL
APRIL 2008

'Gordan Brown [Ref:Sun] and David Cameron [Ref: Independan] referred to violent video games in calling for greater social responsibility.' page 1 of 7


'less able to empathise with the suffering of others, and therefore more likely to act violently towards them'- players take the 'role of a an agressor' in video games page 2 of 7


'lyrics encourage, reinforce and legitimise' Page 2 of 7 - violence, homophobic violence etc.


'much of the debate revolves around how we should treat things that some people find offensive: as a potential danger to society' Page 3 of 7 - eminem ft rihanna love the way you lie - domestic violence issue.




SEPTEMBER 2010: THE CREATIVITY ISSUE
MEDIA MAGAZINE
"CAPTURE
THE
OBJECTIVE
POSTMODERNISM, CREATIVITY AND CALL OF DUTY" Lisa Fortescue-Poole- Page 47


'The very act of studying a videogane is a postmodern one.'


'There is something ultimately intellectually compelling about the creative process gaming, known as ludology; and the elemnt of immersion into the world of the game is absed on many postmodernism features


ILL EFFECTS- The media/violence debate
THE NEWSON REPORT - a case study in 'common sense'
Martin Barker
publisher: Routledge- taylor & francis group


'television has no influence at all? if that was the case, then advertisers wouldn't be willing to spend all that money, would they? isn't that sufficient proof that tv must have some effect? Given that, what is the problem with admitting that Tv violence might cause people to go out and commit real-life violence?' page 36


'Is there a consistent and overwhelming body of evidence in favour of the proposition that 'media violence causes violence'? It more than 70 percent of published studies support this conclusion'.


'The concensus among the psychologist, media theorists, sociologist and educators presented is that there is a direct, casual link between the excessive viewing of violence, or the playing of video games, to becoming stimulated to acting violently or to becoming desensitised to violence.'


'And whenever the phrase 'media violence ' is used it conjures up one image above all else: an image of motiveless mayhem.'


THE WORRYING INFLUENCE OF 'MEDIA EFFECTS' STUDIES- David Gauntlett


'Daily express, a menacing piece headed 'The Rmabo culture' revealed in its sub-head that 'Violent videos are linked to real-life brutality'. it then went on to say that 'A disturbing report. . .shows that screen violence reinforces violent behaviour'.


'Brown 'violent action films', we are told, are designed 'to excite and stimulate the viewer rather than concentrate on the story being told.' The examples given are Rambo (1987) The film, in fact, have a clear story and contain some scenes of vioelence, scenes in which the audience is clearly called upon to support one or more of the characters who are trying to stop another character from committing cruel acts of violence.'


'Hollywood action movies producers..could easily argue that ' the violence portrayed is necessary to tell the story'


'In most cases it would be difficult to decide whether a film is story - led 'violent drama' or a 'violent action film' centrally concerned with excitement.'


Media studies
Theories and approaches
Dan Laughey
publisher: 2009 by camera books


'Since the media are more or less omnipresent in all of our lives, this means we are all influenced to some extent by what we view, listen to, browse, play and read. This direct-effects approach requires a stimulus and a response- an external stimulus exerts itself on an object an causes an internal response, like fire on wood or a tap on the kneecap.'


'less benignly , if we we play a video game, we may respond by becoming more violent and aggresive in real life situations.'


MASS MEDIA IN A MASS SOCIETY
-MYTH AND REALITY
RICHARD HOGGART


'one supposes that the old excuse of 'living in the real world' is hiding the background there.' p22


'It is almost always easier to sing along with the crowd' p23


THE MEDIA BOOK
The Analysis of popular culture - main areas of cultural studies today- John Lough
'Post-modernism is evident everywhere, from car design and Tv Shows, to film and scientific theory.' p238
publisher: Arnold

'we only accept reality through TV and other simulacra' p.239

'we are allegedly more reliant on televison experience over reality, which is fundamentaly altered' p40

Critica readings: Moral Panics and the Media
publisher: Open university Press
FEAR OF CRIME: Read all about it? The relationship between newspaper crime reporting and fear of crime
Paul Williams and Julie Dickinson (1993)

'Moore and Trojanowicz (1988) argue that reasonable fears concerning crime can be harnessed to fight the threat of crime, but when these fears become unreasonable they amount to a counterproductive response and become a a social problem' p212

'crime in the media has been a focus of concern because of the assumption that the salience given to certain types of crime, notably those involving sex or violence, creates a distorted picture of reality.'


Media Gender and Identity: David Gauntlett
'In modern societies, people typically consume many hours of television each week, look at magazines and other publications, surf the internet, pass billboards, go to the movies, and are generally unable to avoid popular culture and advertising. It seems obvious and inevitable, then, that we will be affected by these experiences somehow.'


Media Violence and its effect on aggresion: assessing the scientific evidence by Jonathan L. Freedman
'and if we do not deal with media violence our society will continue to experience increased violence and crime'