Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA19961 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:26:50 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745D09@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Fwd: Survey connects graphic TV fare, child behavior Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:23:42 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Yes, I think media literacy is a key factor to deal with some of the worst
responses to media content.
I think Paul Marsden's line is similar to what you're suggesting here, in
that media coverage of some issues, in some ways both legitimates and
reinforces peoples' tendencies to behave in certain ways- your road rage
example might be a good one here. I'm still not sure about this myself, but
something's going on.
Vincent
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> From: Chris Taylor
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:18 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Survey connects graphic TV fare, child behavior
>
> > most readers of women's magazines criticise them for their
> mis-representation > of "ideals" of femininity, and yet they still
> routinely buy them. What's going on
> > there?
>
> I think its the "I hate this but what can I do" thing - i.e. they have
> to keep up because it isn't as bad as not keeping up, but is worse than
> if there was no issue at all. Also, as well as passing peer muster,
> there's the aspirational thing (which is much more sophisticated and
> insidious for women - 'be a bit like her' - as opposed to the men's
> which tends to be more just 'be like him' [and get a shag]).
>
> As for the media thing with violence / antisocial behaviour / general
> views of reality, I'm not of the opinion that these robots soak up memes
> and rush off to express them (and I know that wasn't your precis of what
> I wrote), but neither do I think that it has no role. This whole thing
> is bloody complicated (sage, sage). There's a nice example of a meme
> taking the direct route though - US freeway carjacking crimes were
> reported on the British news, then there was a few of them over the next
> few weeks here (although I'm not saying the news report bred criminals,
> it added to their stock of memes). Road rage is another bad one - it
> gives people an easy way to legitimise an illegitimate behaviour (sort
> of like the French plea of Crime Passionale, or however the hell you
> write that). I wouldn't ban the news, I wouldn't censor (much), but we
> should be concerned - immunise immunise immunise (to go for the
> Blairism). That way, just as with live vaccines, the resistance will
> actually spread. Actually that is not so much immunisation as biological
> control!
>
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