1945-84: over 10 million crime thrillers were sold worldwide, whilst 25% of prime time TV and 20% of films are crime shows or movies.
Mandel
2 of 8
Heavy users of TV (over four hours a day) had higher levels of fear of crime.
Gerbner et al
3 of 8
Found a correlation between media consumption and fear of crime, tabloid readers and heavy users of TV expressed greater fear of becoming a victim, especially of physical attack
Schlesinger and Tumber
4 of 8
'Media effects' research ignores the meanings that viewers give to media violence e.g. they may give different meanings to violence in cartoons, horror films and news bulletins.
Sparks
5 of 8
Examined media response to mods and rockers - media produce inventory of what happened that contains 3 elements, exaggeration and distortion, prediction and symbolisation. Medias portrayal produced deviance amplification spiral.
Cohen
6 of 8
Moral panics are now routine and have less impact. In late modern society there is little consensus about what is deviant.
McRobbie and Thornton
7 of 8
Idenitifed four types of cyber crime - Cyber trespass, cyber deception and theft, cyber *********** and cyber violence.
Wall
8 of 8
Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
1945-84: over 10 million crime thrillers were sold worldwide, whilst 25% of prime time TV and 20% of films are crime shows or movies.
Back
Mandel
Card 3
Front
Heavy users of TV (over four hours a day) had higher levels of fear of crime.
Back
Card 4
Front
Found a correlation between media consumption and fear of crime, tabloid readers and heavy users of TV expressed greater fear of becoming a victim, especially of physical attack
Back
Card 5
Front
'Media effects' research ignores the meanings that viewers give to media violence e.g. they may give different meanings to violence in cartoons, horror films and news bulletins.
Comments
No comments have yet been made