Blog 5: Media Sex/Violence in Movies

    Media violence or sex effect people in different ways. Some people are desensitized and some people are sensitized towards sex and violence in the media. The effects include physiological effects, cognitive effect, behavioral effect, and attitudinal effect. Physiological shows mediated sexuality may arouse people. Cognitive shows people can learn about sexuality through the media. Behavioral shoe mediated sex may teach behavior. And attitudinal shows people exposed to mediated sex follow a pattern that includes rating their significant other was less satisfying rather the importance of marriage and monogamy lower and showing great acceptance of pre and extramarital sex.
     In this content analysis on media violence/sex, there were scenes of coerced and forced and many more as shown below. It is not surprising about the different graphics viewed in the movie "Saw". In my opinion, everyone should not have access to mediated violence/sex movies if they are sensitized about what they view. Especially children should not have access at all to violence/sex movies because of the different effects they may cause. Below is a content analysis on a violent/sex movie. These categories may set off some effects to certain people especially children.

Content Analysis: Media Sex/Violence- Saw
Number of scenes regarding mediated sex/violence
Help	3
Profanity	27
Obscenity	12
Dead	8
Fear	10
Coerced	5
Force/Give in	6
Weapons	12
Victims	6

Blog 3: Stereotypes

    Some ethnic groups are stereotyped because of the way they are viewed, covered, perceived in the media. Stereotype is when a race/ethnic group is portrayed or biased perception or conception of an reality by people or social group. According to Walter Lippman, he talks about stereotyping and how public opinion is structured. Basically Lippman was saying, what is reality vs. pictures in our heads.
    
     Also, there are some theories that covers stereotyping. Priming and cultivation theories are two major theories. Priming theory is when people construct mental schema they use to understand and give meaning to things in their world. Cultivation theory is when an individual encounters depictions of groups of people on television programming. Over time, they come to cultivate or think a belief that the population of real world resembles that of their television  world. Below is a content analysis on stereotyping of Arab/European culture in Home of the Brave.

Content Analysis on Stereotype of Arabs in “Home of the Brave”
Categories	Number of Scenes
Terrorist	25
Swarthy	50
Slurs/Arabs	5
Destruction	8
War Scene	5
Erotic Women	6

Blog 2: Coverage of Minorities in the Media

     In conclusion, I think the coverage of minorities are portrayed, sometimes, more in a negative way or sometimes Caucasian Americans receive more significant or important coverage rather than minorities. Some people are likely to believe the attitudes they see of minorities because that's how the media covers them repeatedly, but some perceptions of minorities are wrong. For example, According to Helium.com, most blacks are portrayed as criminals in the media studied by Van Dijk; black crime and violence dominates issues in ethnic coverage. But in this chart and graph below, there are more Caucasian Americans in crimes/violence than any minority.
     I think the news could offer more diversity as far as significantly material. This chart and graph below is an example of public perception of reality/ public agenda. Public agenda in the media is basically when the media bring attention to certain stories and topics with a headline, placement of story, size, use of photo or video, etc. That attention may influence the readers'/viewrs' awareness about those topics.

Here is a seven day coverage of minorities in the Florida Times-Union newspaper.

A-Section and Metro/B-Section Together	Coverage of Minorities in the Media Chart: September 20-26, 2010 of The Florida Times-Union Newspaper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Number of Photographs
Categories	Caucasian-American Men	African-American Men	Caucasian-American Women	African-American Women	Other minorities Men&Women
Sports	16	16	3		1
Political/Government	50	10	4	2	3
Crime/Violence	18	3	10	1	3
Media/communications	49		42	6	5
Professor/Teacher	3			1
Military	12	2	1		3
Obituaries/Memoriam	16	16	15	16	4
Celebrity/Entertainment	6	7	10	11	2
Civilian	9	5	35		2
Business /Regular Employee	13		4	2	3
Doctors/Nurse	12	1	4		1
Church/Pastor		1	2
Hero	1		1
Author	2
International					22
Musician	1		4
Police	17	4
Expert	1

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