Sherry Turkle: Online Age
Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology. Focuses
her research on human technology interaction.
She talks about how the use of technology not only changes
what we do but how we think.
“It's one of the
things that I argue gives it a kind of excitement as a place to live out your
fantasies and experiment with aspects of yourself”
Martin Barker: Effects theory
He argues
that watching films, even those with violence, in provide practices of pleasure which include:
- Physical
satisfaction
- Being
part of a crowd
- Creating
imaginative worlds
- Game-playing
and role-playing
- Taking
risks
- Rule-breaking
and defying convention
- Confirming
membership of communities of response
- Critical appreciation.
A key point about these practices of
pleasure is that they all
involve some kind of preparation.
David Morrison: 3 types of Violence
What his research showed was that it is
not particular acts which make a programme seem violent, but the context in
which they occur.
- Playful
violence is clearly acted violence, and is seen as
unreal. The violence looks staged, and has little significance beyond its
entertainment value. It is invariably seen as violence that cannot assault
the senses.
- Depicted
violence is violence that is characterised by 'realism'.
It attempts to depict violence as it would appear in real life. It often
includes close-up shots of injury, and is very graphic. This can indeed
assault the sensibilities.
- Authentic violence is violence set in a world that the viewer can recognise. A
classic case would be domestic violence. Violence in a pub or shopping
precinct might be other examples. It is closer to the life of the viewer
than other forms of violence. It has the possibility of assaulting the
senses very strongly indeed.
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