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The media effects debate has been happening for a while now, some people believe things such as music, films and video games are the main purpose of crimes like school shootings and other violent acts involving young people, where others believe these things have no effect and people must already have problems mentally before which is not influenced by the media. Hypodermic syringe implies the media has a negative and a great example of a media product which is often blamed for violence in young people is the video game  ‘Grand Theft Auto 5’ the game was released in 2013 and made 800 million dollars in the first day of its release. Although the game is rated 18, many children and teenagers own the game. There’s many factors which can be blamed for negative media effects such as the violence which can also be inflicted onto women, another factor is the strip club which you can visit in the game. Games like this and Call of Duty are instantly the first to blame after incidents like s...

Video game violence and media effects 1

  https://www.commonsensemedia.org/violence-in-the-media/does-exposure-to-violent-movies-or-video-games-make-kids-more-aggressive People believe the video games alone are not enough to make people copy violent behaviour, unless they’re at a very young impressionable age, they believe there had to be other reasons for example mental health of maybe a mental condition which makes the person unaware of right or wrong in the real world, in many games when you die, you usually re-spawn in a few seconds. People with mental issues might start seeing this and start thinking it applies to the real world 

starter thursday 26th november

 conglomerate company is a company that own many other companies for example disney / a subsidiary is the smaller company owned by a conglomerate company / an independent company is a company that isn't owned by any other business independent companies often work with larger companies or more established companies to get their product distributed an example is when hat trick productions worked as part of a joint venture with  channel 4 to get it on tv. when companies work as part of a joint venture it is because it is mutually beneficial for both companies. warp films produced the film 4 lions  synergy is when a company does cross production for example a movie soundtrack releases as well for example the avengers a public service company is a company funded by the public for example  TV license , which helps to pay company like bbc and other ones  differences between commercial and public service companies