MAS105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frankfurt School, Video Nasty, Content Analysis

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Media and Communication Studies - International Communication/International Communication PACE
• Course: MAS105
• Professor: any

Document Summary

Reminder: short anon. survey on video glossary. Different methodology: why have researchers, policy makers and the public been concerned about vulnerable viewers , who are vulnerable viewers" and why we care. Who is (seen as) vulnerable : impressionable girls , recent headlines from daily mail: raunchy, hyper-sexualised popstars like. Couples making out in the background are carried away and withdraw their undisciplined ngers. Children wheezing with consumption quietly shake with the chills of evening fever; badly smelling workers with bulging. Mas105 eyes, women in musty clothes, heavily made-up prostitutes leaning forward, forgetting to adjust their scarves. Moral panic: societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. Foucault on discourse: [a] group of statements which provide a language for talking about a way of representing the knowledge about a particular topic at a particular historical moment. Discourse is about the production of knowledge through language.