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Blumer aimed to use qualitative measurements to investigate the effects of movies on the behaviour of children and adolescents, particularly looking at how films create "conceptions of the self" which challenge traditional influences from the home, family and community. Blumer collected "movie autobiographies" where he asked teenage and young ...
Current research is discovering that individuals suffering from social isolation can employ television to create what is termed a parasocial or faux relationship with characters from their favorite television shows and movies as a way of deflecting feelings of loneliness and social deprivation. [1]
Image credits: salydra #2. I love many movies that Ryan Gosling is in, but in The Notebook (2004), the character threatening s***ide (or at least a broken neck and bones) if Rachel McAdams won't ...
Researchers have identified a strong relationship between prior film experience and conscious awareness of visual manipulations, especially for people with practical experience in production. [22] One study compared the participants’ ability to understand narrative in Hollywood versus experimental film, by measuring interpretational awareness.
Gaslighting has become quite the popular buzzword. We see it in headlines, and we hear it in everyday conversations. Heck, there’s even a miniseries that explores this dangerous form of ...
THE COUNTDOWN: Sometimes three’s company... sometimes it can be so much more. Louis Chilton picks nine of the best films and TV shows centring on three-person polyamorous relationships
This theory suggests that viewers are selective media messages in accordance with their existing worldviews. The use of mass media simply reinforce these concepts without easily changing their opinion, or with negligible effects because well-informed people are heavily leaned on personal experience and prior knowledge.
The documentary uses a fictional dramatized narrative to illustrate the issues discussed, centering around "a middle-class, average American family" [2] whose members each interface with the internet differently: Ben, a teenage high school student who falls deeper into social media addiction and online radicalization; Isla, an adolescent who develops depression and low self-esteem from social ...