After reading through the ''THE TEN THINGS WRONG WITH THE MEDIA EFFECTS MODEL ''by David Gauntlett 1995a, it is obvious to take side with him by agreeing in the following ways;
It is true that the effects model tackles social problems backwards as in the case where criminologist try to explain crime and violence from the point of the media as in most cases the offenders of such crimes and violence have less interest in watching the media hence the deviation from looking at this mistakes from individuals instead of that of the media.
The effect clearly deal with children as inadequate as in psychology children turn to learn faster than adults and hence are ignored from the content of programmes they watch.The media considered it's self as suprior to the audience and try to dictate to them.Without mincing words Gauntlett is right when he says there are ten things wrong with the media
What do you mean by saying Gauntlet is right,you just talked on 2 things thus the backward way it tackles issues and the viewing of children as inadequate. just two examples.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't even talk of the hope of the media which he stated in his criticisms. He also stated ways by which the media effects model can be improved.
ok may be i should have copy the whole text back as if i was not summary huh!!
ReplyDeleteWhat interesting observation and comments from Queen. This is how blogs are supposed to be, sharing and exchange of ideas. You manage well to explain clearly the Gauntlet's point about the backward nature of the explanation for the theory.But how can you agree so totally with the 10 things wrong with Gautlett's ideas. Anyway, I acknowledge two paragraphs is not enough to explain much.
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