The media is regulated because it has a powerful effect on the way we think.
Today I would like you to use internet research to provide a written, 2 page response to the following questions.
Who regulates the media?
Why does the media needs regulating?
Should media texts be subject to censorship?
What are the key issues relating to media influence (Uses and Gratification Theory, Desensitisation, Cultural Regulation), and how might they have affected you?
Is the public protected or hindered by media regulation?
What is the moral responsibility of a media institution?
Each question should be answered in more than just one or two words. Talk to each other by all means, but I'd like to see evidence of independent research.
Hand in your two pages at the end of the lesson.
Hand in your two pages at the end of the lesson.
HOMEWORK - due Thursday:
Watch Mean World Syndrome by clicking this link, and take notes. Do this properly or I'll only give you written homework for as long as I know you.
Watch Mean World Syndrome by clicking this link, and take notes. Do this properly or I'll only give you written homework for as long as I know you.
Mean World Syndrome focuses specifically on Gerbner’s views about how pervasive exposure to media violence affects attitudes perceptions of, and attitudes, towards the real world. The documentary is based on his central idea—the “cultivation hypothesis”—that those who watch more television are more likely to regard the real world according to the themes and messages most recurrent in what they absorb from the world of television.
