Media Violence

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Media Violence
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Well?

• Does violence in the media have an effect on
  wider society?
• If so, how far-reaching could this effect be?
• If not, why does it not have an effect?
• Part of the Media Influence unit is to look at
  arguments evidence that suggest that the media
  can have positive and/or negative effects on the
  audience, and we will be using case studies to
  help examine this.

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Heinemann Media activities

• Read pg 250 and answer qs 1-6

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Media Violence Influence

• Over the last 70 years, there have been many
  studies attempting to determine whether there is
  a link between violence in the media and
  aggressive behaviour.

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• At one end of the spectrum there are researchers
  like Craig Anderson who argue that violent video
  games make children more violent and aggressive.
• At the other end, academics like Henry Jenkins
  maintain that we should be examining what
  children do with the media, rather than what it
  is purported to do to them. "The key issue isn't
  what the media are doing to our children but
  rather what our children are doing with the
  media," he wrote in his article 'Professor
  Jenkins goes to Washington'.

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In this article, Jenkins says

• The vocabulary of 'media effectshas been
  challenged by numerous American and international
  scholars as an inadequate and simplistic
  representation of media consumption and popular
  culture."

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Comparison Evaluation of Arguments

• We are going to read and pick through a series of
  articles about media violence and the various
  arguments about the influence of media violence
  on audiences.
• We will read, evaluate and complete note-taking
  on the 1st article together, using the
  Supporting Main Ideas graphic organiser to
  record the information.
• You will then follow this example to complete
  further research and work.

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• You will be split into 4 groups
• Each group will be allocated 1-2 of the resource
  articles to read through pull arguments from
• You need to identify whether this article says
  that violence in the media has an effect on the
  audience or not
• You then need to write notes on what the
  arguments are to support this view
• You will use the Supporting Main Ideas graphic
  organiser to record your information
• Each group will fill in 1 graphic organiser, so
  pick someone to be scribe

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Reference materials

• http//www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/09/
  05/3310162.htm
• http//www.theage.com.au/digital-life/games/violen
  t-video-games-fun-hobby-or-mass-murder-training-to
  ol-20110822-1j5ya.html
• http//www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact
  /myths.html
• http//www.aic.gov.au/documents/1/F/E/1FE85F80-9E
  E3-4B40-97EC-986BE006E2A8ti55.pdf
• http//www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2011/07/
  25/3277688.htm
• http//www.ictcareer.com.au/archived-news/r18-rati
  ng-passes-parliament
• http//www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2003/10/ander
  son.aspx
• http//henryjenkins.org/2007/04/a_few_thoughts_on_
  media_violen.html