CMN 140 Lecture 14: Media Violence
3 Apr 2017
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Key idea: the public has been complaining about violence in the mass media as long as we have had mass media, but the media continue to present a great deal of violence in their stories. Media violence: people complaining ever since storytellers used the media, criticism increases and decreases in cycles, currently quiet, but could heat up again quickly, the public and producers of media messages hold many faulty beliefs about media violence. Judgement of violence related more to degree of graphicness than number of acts: producers sanitize violence to avoid offending audience/interrupting flow, humor appears to remove threat of violence, not concerned with fantastical settings, not concerned with non-physical harm. If violence presented in different context, repetitive exposure could be positive. Blame others, not producers: high profile acts of violence: many people blame media, media producers try to shift blame, not one source: blame must be shared.
