The programs Black Mirror, Total Drama, and Galavant were used to depict the amount of violence presented in a drama, animation, and comedy for this experiment. Black Mirror, an hour-long show, is a modern take on The Twilight Zone on how technology brings the worst in human nature. Total Drama is an animated half-hour spoof of reality television competition in the vein of Survivor, except the contents are teenagers and set at a summer camp but with all the same antics. Galavant, a half-hour musical comedy set in the Medieval Era, contains the humor styling of Monty Python. Due to the differences in genres, there should be a varying amount of aggression shown in each.
Describe what was discovered in this content analysis
In the drama series, it seemed to consist of a few violent acts as they lead to the deaths of three characters. The episode also contained a man who made his significant other rather terrified and uncomfortable that she eventually filed a restraining order (Brooker & Tibbetts, 2014). Total Drama contained more verbal threats as seen with two females throwing verbal jabs back and forth (Pertsch, McGills, & Kauffman, 2007). In Galavant, the force of physically violent acts was minimized because it was done through song that contains a happy melody. As the song, She’ll Be Mine depicts all the …show more content…
Explain how the experiment is reliable and or valid
The total amounts of aggressive acts in Black Mirror are seven, Total Drama has eleven, and Galavant has twenty-four. Reliability refers to the consistency, testability, and dependability of the test meaning these results should always be the same (Hansen & Myers, 2012). Theses scores are reliable and valid if these three particular episodes are evaluated by hundreds of different individuals the result will be close if not the same values. Therefore, with the same conditions present the measurements will be the same which enforces the reliability of the
Describe what was discovered in this content analysis
In the drama series, it seemed to consist of a few violent acts as they lead to the deaths of three characters. The episode also contained a man who made his significant other rather terrified and uncomfortable that she eventually filed a restraining order (Brooker & Tibbetts, 2014). Total Drama contained more verbal threats as seen with two females throwing verbal jabs back and forth (Pertsch, McGills, & Kauffman, 2007). In Galavant, the force of physically violent acts was minimized because it was done through song that contains a happy melody. As the song, She’ll Be Mine depicts all the …show more content…
Explain how the experiment is reliable and or valid
The total amounts of aggressive acts in Black Mirror are seven, Total Drama has eleven, and Galavant has twenty-four. Reliability refers to the consistency, testability, and dependability of the test meaning these results should always be the same (Hansen & Myers, 2012). Theses scores are reliable and valid if these three particular episodes are evaluated by hundreds of different individuals the result will be close if not the same values. Therefore, with the same conditions present the measurements will be the same which enforces the reliability of the