For and Against Censorship - Advantages and disadvantages table in A Level and IB Media Studies

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Created on: 24-05-13 15:16

For and Against Censorship

Advantages

Protects moral values, films influential viewers recieve messages which they sometimes need protecting from, especially the vulneralbe
Helps maintain cohesion of society and stops extremists from having a powerful voice
People of high moral standards should be able to judge what others see
Desensitisation as a worrying effect of viewing too many violent or extreme images

Disadvantages

Censorship imposes values of certain people
Assumes audience are passive
Supposes definite link between viewing and behaviour
Ignores freedom of individuals to choose and supposes that they are not capable of deciding for themselves
Viewer's awareness of the fictional nature of the cinema means that their responses to real life events are not impaired by film images

Evaluation

Use for following questions;'What are the arguments for and against specific forms of contemporary media regulation?''What are the wider social issues relating to media regulation?' - Also use NBK case studies

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