CCT210H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cass Sunstein, Semiotics, Online Dating Service
29 Dec 2013
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The bystander and aggressor effects are both social psychological phenomenons. As for the bystander effect, the greater number of bystanders there is, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. The bystander effect describes the condition in which a person has become desensitized and less sympathetic to violence and its victims as a result of extended exposure to violence itself. However, the aggressor effect, states that a person exposed to a substantial amount of violent video game entertainment will become more aggressive, more violent, more irritable and meaner. (ex. Saussure defines syntagmatic as relations that have various ways in which elements within the same text relate to each other. However, paradigmatic is the relationship between a set of text that form mutually exclusive choices. The article by cass sunstein, daily me, explores how consumers are able to filter what we view in the online media.
