Progress report for Monday 17th December 2012

Progress report for Monday 17th December 2012 This week I have researched vital information on OFCOM's protecting the pre-watershed audience and found that they seem to be implying that younger audiences are likely to copy what the media shows e.g. playing on railway tracks will make younger audiences feel fearless of them which is of course dangerous so they say "areas of concern include: certain locations such as railway lines; certain material which may lead children to recognise potentially dangerous play especially if there is no serious outcome" and this had led me to a relating piece of research which i had linked to with the OFCOM research. Alongside OFCOM research I had spoke about the "Bobo Doll Experiment". I was a Sociology student for a few weeks and I remember we once spoke about a famous Psychology experiment (bobo doll) which shows exactly what OFCOM seem to be implying, the research showed that young audiences copy almost exactly what they see from a piece of media if they are in a similar environment or surrounded by similar objects. It also showed that Males are dominantly more active with violence than females and that children as a whole will use what they see from the media and develop and adapt their own ways of violence.