Xmas Task 2

TASK 2

Laughey, D, “Media Studies – Theories + Approaches”. (Harpenden, Herts, 2009). Kamera Books.

“Media Studies of moral panics emphasise t he social and legal consequences of widespread public exposure (via the media) to crime, violence and other societal, ethical or medical ills.”

“Major moral panics in recent times have centred on fears about paedophilia, AIDS, drugs, knife and gun crime, Satanism, the MMK (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and effects of video games.”

Williams, K, “Understanding Media Theory”. Euston Road, London, 2003). Arnold.

Lippmann

“Stereotypes are thus neither neutral nor fair, presenting the examination of differences within groups”

Cohen

“Cohen defines a moral panic as follows, a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values + interests; its nature is presented in a stylised and stereotypical fashion by the mass media.”

James Halloran

“We must get away from the habit of thinking in terms of what media do to people and substitute it for the idea of what people do with the media.”

UNKNOWN BOOK AT THE MOMENT (page 110)

“If something is repeated often enough it will tend to be believed and remembered.”

Clark, V, Jones, P, Malyszko, B, Wharton, D, "Media + Film Studies Handbook", (Kirby Street, London, 2007). Arnold.

"Many narratvies have depended on violence and it is clear that violence in fictions gives pleasure to the audience"

"Some research, such as Bandura's experiments in the 1960s, suggests that violent media texts encourage violent behaviour in the audiences but this is by no means conclusive"

"It is equally possible that violent media images serve a valuable function by providing audience with a vicarious outlet for their violent impulses. Occassionally, media violence is the subject of a moral panic such as the video nasties scare of the early 1980s."