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Jewkes (2011) observes that crime is newsworthy for several reasons, which are? |
1) Negative news sells more. 2) It has a human interest element as we are all at risk of crime. 3) Crime is dramatic 4) Violent crimes against women and children gain more media attention |
There are 4 reasons |
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What are the two reasons explaining why the news coverage creates problems? |
1) Moral panics - could lead to certain groups being discriminated 2) Unfound fear of crime |
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What does Felsom (2002) claim about the fallacies of crime? |
He claims that the media reports crime and that reinforces myths or fallacies about crime. |
Myths / Fallacies |
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Functionalist like Reiner (2007) claim what, about representive advertising? |
They claim that the media and advertising representations are responsible of material success and are particularly responsible for crime because they have created anomie among power sections of society. |
Advertising representations / money / anomie / powerful people |
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What does Reiner believe? |
He believes that the media falsely raises people expectations with regards to success and consumer goods. |
Expectations |
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What do left realists argue about media representations? |
They argue that media representations serve to highlight the sense of relative deprivation and social exclusions felt by poorer groups who cannot afford the 'good life.' |
Social exclusions |
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What do Marxists believe that mass-media influences? |
They believe that mass media reports crime which is influenced by the ruling-class ideology in order to give the impression that working class crime is more costly. |
Ruling-class ideology |
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Some sociologists think that the link between media content and crime is too simplistic because: |
1) The link doesn't take some factors into account like age, social class, intelligence etc. 2) Richard Sparks (1992) notes that many media effects studies ignore the meanings that viewers give to media violence. 3) David Buckinghams (1993) research into how children use media suggests that younger children see media different to older children |
David Buckinghams / Richards Sparks |
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What did Elizabeth Newsome (1994) claim about the media being a secondary agent of socialisation? |
She claims that impressionable audiences such as children or teenagers may be negatively influenced by violent or immoral social media content. |
Impressionable / Violent content |
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Elizabeth's approach is known as the hypodermic syringe model, why is this? |
This is because the media content can be compared too a drug aka a syringe which results in copycat behaviour as children imitate deviant media role models |
Deviant Media Role Models |
