Criticisms or the Hypodermic syringe model
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- Created on: 01-04-18 14:42
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- Critique of the Hypodermic Syringe Model
- Sensitisation
- Seeing the effects of violence and the suffering may make viewers more sensitive of the consequences
- This makes them less inclined to commit
- Seeing the effects of violence and the suffering may make viewers more sensitive of the consequences
- Catharsis
- Violence films and T.V shows helps the audience to relate their violence so they are less likely to in real life
- Feshbach & Sanger
- Methodological Problems
- Gauntlett
- Certain studies such as Banduras have been carried out in a lab
- this makes their findings questionable because people do not behave as naturally as they would do in their normal enviroment
- Hawthorne effect
- Makes the information not valid
- this makes their findings questionable because people do not behave as naturally as they would do in their normal enviroment
- Certain studies such as Banduras have been carried out in a lab
- The Hypodermic Syringe Studies are not clear about how violence should be defined
- It's unclear if all the different types of violence have the dame or different effects upon their audince
- Or whether they just react differently to different types and levels of violence
- cartoon violence, war and death, boxing, fictional
- It's unclear if all the different types of violence have the dame or different effects upon their audince
- It fails to put violence into context
- it views all violence as wrong and fails to see that audiences interpret it accordingly to narrative context
- In fiction shows etc it shows violence in a humorous light with spraying out blood etc
- Gauntlett
- Children as a smart audience
- Research shows that children can distinguish between fictional/ cartoon violence
- In addition, they can see and know that violence should not be imitated from and early age
- Ofcom
- Suggests that children may lack online understanding
- 1 in 10 children do not question what they see online and are likely to believe what they see on social media sites
- *********** Issues
- sexually explicit issues and pictures sent on phones is now apart of everyday life or 1/2 of teenagers
- In a survey half said there was nothing wrong with look at ***********
- teenagers ranked *********** sites higher than parents as a source of sex information and relationships
- sexually explicit issues and pictures sent on phones is now apart of everyday life or 1/2 of teenagers
- Scapegoat
- In April 1999 two students took guns and bombs into their schools and killed 13 people
- Many believed that the hypodermic syringe model was responsible for the boys actions
- It shows how the media are scapegoated for violence
- Sensitisation
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