Digital Media Unit 1

  Example 1 - Film - Blue Story Ban, The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/shortcuts/2019/nov/25/blue-story-film Active Audience Theory - the audience can think for themselves and they should know that they shouldn't go join a gang or cause violence or start fights to hurt other people.  Summary - 100 thugs armed with machetes and knives crashed its opening evening on Friday, November 22nd.  Example 2 - TV Program - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ' romanticizing suicide', The Sun:  https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13655506/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-slammed-romanticising-suicide-netflix-warning/ Active Audience Theory - the Twitter extracts show how people completely disagree with the TV show's ending and feel that it was unnecessary to show especially during a global pandemic.  Summary - Sabrina's boyfriend kills himself to be with her after she sacrifices herself to save the world, we only learn of this in the last few seconds of the scene when th...

   Article:  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10416107/blue-story-banned-uk-movie-theatres/ The Sun says Blue Story was banned in Vue and Showcase cinemas because 100 thugs armed with machetes and knives crashed its opening evening on Friday, November 22nd. The film showed gang warfare and therefore showed the audience such violent behaviour.  The police said that the film causes issues such as harming others.  The article says the film has a negative effect on teenagers because it encouraged gang culture and violence to the general public.  Article:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50543213 .  The arguments against Blue Story being banned as part of national moral panic about the content of the film were the attacks only happened in some areas but they banned it everywhere and in hundreds of cinemas.  Our own POV: I don't think the film should have been banned just the people who brought weapons to the cinemas should be arrested for ru...

  The Sun Article and Embedded Video: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/13657270/youtube-banned-talkradio-covid-lockdown/   Summary - citizens are questioning whether YouTube is free speech when they banned talkRADIO for debating the Covid lockdown, Google claimed it violated community guidelines and axed the video, consumers would be worried and question whether other videos they watch will be banned or filtered like this, proves that command and control is true and people in power dictate what users can see, Cabinet Minister Michael Gove told talkRadio that he believes government critics should be heard, the channel was temporarily suspended and reinstated,  Grassroots Youtube Commentary on FoS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCTSZv9EuI8 Metro Article:  https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/05/talkradio-youtube-channel-removed-over-guideline-violation-13853619/ Summary - YouTube removed flagged content that violates community guidelines including Covid-19 content which e...

  Three case studies of media products where regulation based on age or content has been brought to the attention of wider news media:  https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/2020-12-24/soul-age-rating-pixar/   Summary - December 24th, 2020 - why BBFC rated Disney Pixar's new movie Soul a PG. Infrequent mild bad language, mild fantasy threats, characters in a realm controlling life and death, deals with heavy and deep topics but lightheartedly with comic value. The citizen upholds the social norms of morals such as mourning death and celebrating life and the consumer could watch if they have access to Disney+  https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/online-games-gambling-loot-boxes-legislation-regulation-test-a9600371.html Summary - July 3rd, 2020 - discussing how video games such as Overwatch and Apex is promoting to children through using and opening loot boxes in the game can lead to gambling in real life, people believe the age rating should be ...

  Roles of a regulator:  ASA - Advertising Standards Authority  Advertising BBFC - British board Film Classification  Film Music Videos  Ofcom - Office of Communications  Regulate broadcasting products  IPSO - Independent press standards organisation  Print - posters, leaflets PEGI - Pan European Game Information  Website content Video Games Self-regulation is when you personally think about the content you are posting.  Livingstone and Lund Theory: The needs of the citizen are in conflict with the needs of the consumer.  Protection can limit the freedom of expression  Keyword definitions: Citizen - Subject of a democratic society that has the responsibility to uphold social norms. They also have the right to be protected from harm.  Consumer - A person that interacts with products and purchases the product. In our case being media products.  Command and control - the idea that those in power (e.g government or watchd...

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 The media effects theory by Adorno and Horkheimer is Hypodermic syringe theory. The media effects theory by Gross and Gerbner is mean world syndrome. Some media products that have created moral panics are violent video games and social media. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6230901/Teenagers-play-Grand-Theft-Auto-likely-fights.html In the article it says that researchers claim that video games cause violence in children. It says that ther was a correlation between games such as GTA and physical aggression . Personally I see where they are coming from because they used research to Bach it up however I don’t agree with it as I think it depends on the person because I believe that to be violent like they are saying there must also be something else going on as I don’t think that just anyone would look at the video games and think about acting like that in real life. Most people are good people and I don’t think a video game would change that.