[Williams, 1976] In some circumstances, moral panics over popular culture and media can be justified as it is not certain that once someone is exposed to a particular text, how they are going to perceive it. However, it has been proven that being exposed to certain texts can change someone’s perspective and lead to violence, among other things. Then again, some moral panic might just be over-reactions to popular youth culture that the older generation has little or a different understanding of. This essay will discuss this, with various examples of moral panics from the Mods and Rockers of the sixties, to the popular culture of today through the music and electronic gaming industries. These subjects were chosen as they are perhaps the most significant as well as recent moral panics of the present day.
Would that reader feel animosity towards the hero now? Would they think the hero is a vigilante? Or would they still love the hero and think what was happening is something they feel was necessary for the hero to do? I feel there are many different feelings about the story being read by a person that may have make that particular reader feel one thing, but the next reader may feel something completely different. Like when I read about Margery Kempe, I had forgotten for a second that the character of the story was an actual person so I was intrigued by the story, but then I realized that the story was fictional and the character was a real person and my thoughts changed from somewhat excited about the story to something in between remorse and sorrow for what that poor lady had to endure all by herself pretty much.
While providing his overall purpose and what he hopes his reader do as result of reading Freakonomics. “It has to do with thinking sensibly about how people behave in the real world… You might become more skeptical of the conventional wisdom; you may begin looking for hints as to how things aren’t quite what they seem... You may find yourself asking a lot f questions” (209 -210). Here, Levitt simply want people to behave correctly with common sense. He also wants the reader to question things and to search for their own answers. Levitts’ purpose is to allow the reader to attack the world and their problems with smarts and their own ideas.
In this sense, the audience is able to connect with the characters through the dialogue and stage directions. When measured against, Whelan’s, Accrington pals, Whelan’s motive was also to portray a real representation but to distinguish the dramatic contrast between the men at the front and the women left behind outside the war; to face the social changes, deprivation and self reliance. It also differs as it is a surrealist drama combining fact with fantasy fiction. This has a different effect on the audiences interpretation as we are not entirely sure of the dramatists intentions of what we interpret.. Nevertheless, both dramatists incorporate the theme of comradeship and team work in their plays, again with stark differences.
One of the themes of the play that is resurfaced again here is the idea of appearance vs. reality. Macbeth struggles to grasp what is real and what is created by his mind, which inevitably plays against him, thus making him do something that he will later regret. This soliloquy is also used by the author to communicate to the audience that one’s actions and thoughts can be greatly influenced by situations and people when they are not in a clear state of mind, and that you could end up saying or doing something that you wouldn’t normally do, and that you will regret
By calling into question the truth of his stories, he disorients readers who are expecting to read a standard fiction, where the events are undoubtably false. He also shows readers why reinventing a story may be more important than telling the story just as it is remembered. Norman Bowker disapproves of O’Brien’s first attempt to describe a horrific battle, and, therefore, O’Brien feels the need to rewrite the story. Essentially, O’Brien must remember the event in a new way that makes the story more real for Bowker and other readers. Finally, O’Brien explains to readers why stories must be told, even with the risk telling the story the “wrong” way.
While most would argue that television actually enhances the human experience by bringing more information to the viewer, I would argue that it doesn’t. For one, by providing visual images of events occurring outside of one’s surroundings I contend it makes those events seem quite surreal. This surreal effect causes the viewer to become less attached to the events that occur daily in their own environment and thus, out of touch with their microcosm of the world. Also, this surreal effect causes the viewer to become desensitized to events and images that were once disturbing and outrageous. If we were to take a movie of today’s standards and show it to someone of the 1950s, they would exclaim in horror with the sexual content, grotesque images and extreme violent nature.
“Is talk Cheap” “Don’t believe everything you hear of read”, a common quote to help us pick truth out of information. Information is available to us in many forms, like television, internet, radio, newspapers, books and so on. But before accepting certain types of information we are constantly bombarded with, it comes down to the individuals’ beliefs and perception of processing that information. Humans like to be right, the feeling of being right, so anything that is in likeness to their beliefs distort factual thinking. Some humans don’t like to think thoroughly and the brain snaps to the more suggestive decision making process…information more suited to our liking.
● Competition barriers – occur whenever the audience members attempt to focus on two or more activities simultaneously, distracting their attention away from the message. ● Connotative meanings of words – are the meanings individuals assign to words based upon their own experiences. These meanings may or may not be commonly agreed upon between the sender of a message and the audience, possibly the message to be misinterpreted. ● Faulty level of technicality – is caused by a sender that provides a message in which the content is too technical or not technical enough for the intended audience or situation. ● Lack of clarity – is caused by either a lack of details or a conflict between the details, resulting in confusion or misunderstandings.
Current controversy regarding the role the media plays in today's world stems from biased propaganda and is retrogressive in essence. Here are the counter arguments to the basic problems identified with the increased exposure or of free media: 1. Stereotyping: It is argued that biased coverage of the media breeds one sided views which in turn leads to mis- or under-representation of certain other groups, leading to wrong image and perception formulation. The simple counter-argument is pluralism! The wide variety of information available, the different numbers of channels, various inter-community discussion forums ensure that no one is unrepresented.