Critical Review on the Effets of Mass Media on Violent...

‘CRITICAL REVIEW ON THE EFFECTS OF MASS MEDIA ON VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR’ TABLE OF CONTENT Cover Page Pg 1 Table of Content Pg 2 Introduction Pg 3 Definitions Studies Aimed at Validating the Existence of a Correlation The Social Learning Theory The Narrative Theory Studies Aimed at Refuting Correlation Reciprocal Determinism Case Studies 4.1 Norway Massacre 4.2 Aurora Colorado Theatre Shooting 4.3 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Conclusion References INTRODUCTION With the invention of television sets (TV’s), came the invention of films and television programs to be shown on TV as well as the opportunity to broadcast live news stories. In modern day society,†¦show more content†¦The children in the first group displayed highly imitative behaviour (Artino 2006). The results of the ‘Bobo Doll Experiment’ created a surge of interest into the possible correlation between media violence and violent behaviour. Meyers (2002) conducted a study on the effects of violent video games and violent television (T.V) programs on primary school boys. The school boys were divided into non-violent and violent conditions; watching a violent or non-violent T.V program, playing a violent or non-violent video game or playing a game and watching a T.V program thereafter (Meyers 2002). The children then had to answer a questionnaire ,whereby they had to finish a sentence using a violent or non-violent word, for example; â€Å"I want to ___ the book (tear/read)† (Meyers 2002, p. 17). The second test of violent behaviour was the placement of the children in identical conditions to the ‘Bobo Doll Experiment’. According to Meyers (2002), the children in the violent conditions portrayed more aggressive behaviour patterns than the boys in the non-violent condition, the boys in the combined condition (playing a video game and watching a violent television program) had significantly higher aggression levels than those in any other condition. Research conducted by Saleem, Anderson and Gentile (2012), Bushman (1995) as well as Huesmann and Talyor (2006) focused on the effectShow MoreRelatedMetz Film Language a Semiotics of the Cinema PDF100902 Words   |  316 Pagesreferring to the narrow circles of the initiates of abstract painting, serial music, modern jazz, or the French nouveau roman—small groups of the enlightened which have little in common with even the cultivated layer of society (not to mention the mass) and which, furthermore, consist mostly of the creative artist s accomplices, whether known or unknown to him, his peers, and his real or potential colleagues? A following does not become an audience until there * Superscript numerals refer to the