Unit 6: P3 Understand how media audiences respond to media products
Task 1:
- Most people are male.
- Most people are 17 years old.
- Most people play more than 21 hours of video games a week.
- Most people often play violent video games.
- Most people wouldn't describe themselves as violent gamers.
- Most people don't take the age ratings into account.
- Most people played their first 18+ video games at age 11 to 14 years old.
- Most people's opinions aren't changed by violence in video games.
- Most people are desensitised to violence due to violence video games.
- Most people have no been distressed by violence in video games
The fact that most people are desensitised to violence and the fact that most people played their first 18+ video games at a fairly young age means that the longer that someone plays violent video games the more desensitised to violence in real-life.
The fact that most people play more than 21 hours of video games and the fact that most people say that they are desensitised to violence means that the longer that you play video games the more likely you are desensitised to violence in real-life.
Audience Theory:
Hypodermic Needle Model:
The Hypodermic Needle Model is when media affects an individual to the point where they reproduce the actions they see in real life. This rarely happens, the fact is that it has happened before but in those instances it was due to a mental health issue, an example being how someone has murdered another person after playing Manhunt, but only that one person and not the other thousands of players who have also played the game, and the courts and police dispelled the accusation of the video game being responsible.
The fact that most people don't describe themselves as violent gamer and the fact that most people played their first 18+ game at age 11 to 14 means that violent video games do not make people violent and any case of violence due to video games is because of mental health issues.
Uses and Gratification Theory:
The "Uses and Gratification Theory" is used to why someone is interested in media, whether it in simulation for beating a game, usually a challenging objective is completed. There is no way that this would result in violence because: committing violent crimes won't offer the same reward as simulation would do in killing someone in real life. They won't find the same challenge in murdering someone as beating a hard challenge in a game.
Passive or Active Consumption:
The "Passive or Active Consumption is when someone listens to a media outlet that takes everything at subconsciously absorbing it without realising its happening. This could be a problematic if the person has no sense of morale, or this could be attribute to some sort of mental disorder that could effect the person's action. These are most likely situation when a person should turn violent.
Debate on Effects:
Exposure to explicit sexual or violent content:
The gaming industry uses a age rating system; most common one is called "PEGI" rating. PEGI rating duty is too rate a game placing it into category, depending on which category it is in, it will raceive rating what age its best suggested to play at. This helps parents and gamer in generally will get the idea on what kind of content the game will contain within it.
Censorship:
Video games are often stated to be violent enough that they should be censored or worse banned, however most people object to this because anything that has been said against violent video games can be applied to violent Tv shows and movies and yet they aren't banned, the reason is because video games are free speech and are literally impossible to ban
Health Concerns:
Audience Theory:
Hypodermic Needle Model:
The Hypodermic Needle Model is when media affects an individual to the point where they reproduce the actions they see in real life. This rarely happens, the fact is that it has happened before but in those instances it was due to a mental health issue, an example being how someone has murdered another person after playing Manhunt, but only that one person and not the other thousands of players who have also played the game, and the courts and police dispelled the accusation of the video game being responsible.
The fact that most people don't describe themselves as violent gamer and the fact that most people played their first 18+ game at age 11 to 14 means that violent video games do not make people violent and any case of violence due to video games is because of mental health issues.
The "Uses and Gratification Theory" is used to why someone is interested in media, whether it in simulation for beating a game, usually a challenging objective is completed. There is no way that this would result in violence because: committing violent crimes won't offer the same reward as simulation would do in killing someone in real life. They won't find the same challenge in murdering someone as beating a hard challenge in a game.
Passive or Active Consumption:
The "Passive or Active Consumption is when someone listens to a media outlet that takes everything at subconsciously absorbing it without realising its happening. This could be a problematic if the person has no sense of morale, or this could be attribute to some sort of mental disorder that could effect the person's action. These are most likely situation when a person should turn violent.
Debate on Effects:
Exposure to explicit sexual or violent content:
The gaming industry uses a age rating system; most common one is called "PEGI" rating. PEGI rating duty is too rate a game placing it into category, depending on which category it is in, it will raceive rating what age its best suggested to play at. This helps parents and gamer in generally will get the idea on what kind of content the game will contain within it.
Effects of Advertising:
The Effects of Advertising is how an advert is used to make people want to play it, an example being how the Dead Space 2 advert was a mother watching gameplay and her being disgusted and appalled by it, which children took as a game that looks 'cool' to play because my mom won't like it, which appeals to the rebellious side to kids and teens.
Censorship:
Video games are often stated to be violent enough that they should be censored or worse banned, however most people object to this because anything that has been said against violent video games can be applied to violent Tv shows and movies and yet they aren't banned, the reason is because video games are free speech and are literally impossible to ban
Health Concerns:
Video game have had issues linked to game like seizures that could be triggered from flickering lights. Video game has links to aggressive behaviours or fearful behaviours, however; studies are inconsistent at best. Video game have been accused of damaging people's eyes. However studies show that it actually improves their eyesight.
Responses:
Negotiation:
There are several different responses a person can have about violent video games, there are people who would; be disgusted by violence in video games, think it is 'cool' and 'mature', don't care about the violence.
Preference:
The Preferred reading is where someone plays a video game and agrees with it, this is not an issue because most video games, while showing violence, do not glorify it as a way to solve real life issues or say that it is acceptable in society.
Opposition:
The Opposition reading is where someone plays a video game and disagrees with it, this has never caused issues since people even if they disagree with the message or characters of a story their common sense will never kill or assault another person.
Participatory:
Being able to participate is a key reason of the video game that separates it from the movies and the TV shows. However this participation has lead people to believe that gamers commit more violent crimes because of violent video games, this has happened before an example being how on 25 June 2003, teenage stepbrothers William and Josh Buckner shot and killed Aaron Hamel and Kimberly Bede, the game GTA 3 was blamed for putting the suggestion in their mind, but if this was true then why weren't there a thousand more killings? That is because the issue lies with the stepbrothers and not the game.
Cultural Competence:
Culture Competence is how a game needs to adapt to different culture whether it be as basic as changing language or something more complex like translating names into other names that different cultures can understand. There are several things that cannot be transferred into different cultures.
Fan Culture:
"Fan Culture" in video games is everywhere from mods (modifications) to existing games. Altering the game's appearance or the functionality programming to give it another duty to do. Most of the time that a video game has 'supposedly' been the reason that people have been killed is a lie an example being that at the Columbine Shooting they say that people who did the killings were inspired by and trained by Doom however one of them was bullied and the other was mentally unwell and there were no levels that had the schools layout in the game like news officials said there were, the reason this is said is because it would make bigger news than saying "they were insane", this has happened to both music and movies being blamed for crimes people have committed with little to no evidence.
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