- What is Martin Barker’s approach to studying Audiences and how they view media texts?
Who you are matters (attitudes, preferences)
You bring your attitudes with you to the cinema
- What is the effects tradition?
- What is cultivation theory?
The idea that people spend more time living in the television world than real life.
- What is Martin Barker’s main criticisms of the effects tradition?
Lab experiments produce unrealistic behaviours
- What does Martin Barker think is the problem with most research and theory into the effects of screen violence?
Reading too far into things.
5) Why isn’t the screen violence in the Pulp Fiction scene with Jules and Vincent and Marvin the drug dealer shocking to a lot of people?
They are desensitised to the violence.
- Why do some people find it funny?
Because it's a combination of violence and non-violence.
6) What does Martin Barker state are the effects of the depiction of ‘real’ violence on screen?
It develops people as citizens and the can learn what kind of person they want to be.
- How do you think these differ from the effects of fictional screen violence?
Because people know it's not real they don't feel as strongly towards it.
7) According to Martin Barker, what are Moral Panics
When the media are blamed for doing something.
- What was the stated reason that the ‘‘Action’ comics were withdrawn from sale in the 1970s? And what was the reason Barker suggests it might have really been banned?
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