Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers Violence is a constant on our screens whether it be an anvil falling on a cartoon character, a war zone on the news, a fight in an action movie or a pub brawl in a soap opera. But does this screen violence produce behavioural effects in the viewers? This is one of the most frequent and heatedly debated arguments in mass media. Is it the case that audiences are effected by what …

…Stooges'. The message of the maker of the text, the text itself and who the audiences are as individuals are all as equally important as each other, and so all have to be taken into consideration. One without the other two is not enough, as we have learnt since the Hypodermic Needle Effect was first proposed that it takes more than just screen violence and screen violence alone to produce behavioural effects on viewers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------