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Amy Best Audiences and Impacts Batar 2 Carole O'Reilly 3. "Violence on Television may have behavioural effects, emotional effects or ideological effects." (Buckingham in Barker and Petley(eds) 1997:39). Comment critically on the notion of television's effects under these three headings and demonstrate how the available evidence remains contradictory. Concern about violence within popular media has a long history. Plato proposed to ban poets from his ideal republic, because he feared that their stories about immoral behaviour would corrupt young minds. In modern times, moral pressure groups have tried to 'protect' people, especially children from television, the cinema, and 'video nasties'. It's important to see the issue of television violence and it's link with behaviour in a social, cultural and historical context, and to also know that the media is often used as a scapegoat. For example, tremendous violence is almost always seen in classic Shakespearean theatre and yet it is considered necessary and educational...

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