CMN 140 Chapter 15: CMN 140 section VII issue 4
4 Dec 2016
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Equating violence with graphicness: violence criticisms are attributed to the one or few instances where media violence has gone too graphic, also depends on if the violence was offensive, humor acts as camouflage for violence. Ignoring context: reducing the amount of violence won"t matter as much as the context, frequency is secondary to context. Violence is necessary to storytelling: violence is useful to place characters in trivial situations, helping develop personalities, and create conflict/action, violence can be part of selective exposure. Violent acts: the source to be blamed is a variety of factors, not just one source. Violence that is not complained about or perceived is the one doing the most harm. Sanitized violence makes people believe violence is not a problem in media. The focus of people"s complaints on violence are the types that aren"t easy to imitate (which is less likely to happen in the real world) and is limited to physical violence.
