1. MEDIA EFFECTS – research task
1. Who was Mary Whitehouse and what was her moral campaign? [2]
2. What is a Penny dreadful? How did it get its name? [2]
3. What is the role of a moral entrepreneur? [2]
4. In what ways might a V chip alter viewing patterns? [2]
5. What does BBFC stand for and what are they? [3]
6. Go the BBFC website and identify the kind of people who sit on the examining
team [1]
7. What is the link between the game ‘Doom’ and the Columbine Massacre? [2]
8. What is meant by desensitisation? [3]

2. 9. What does ‘pre watershed’ mean? How did it come about [2]
10. Read the Daily mail account on the Jamie Bulger story and then find evidence to
support/dispute the claim that there is a link of Watching Child’s play videos and the
murder. Explain why the Daily Mail wrote the article in this way. [6]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211089/The-case-young-attackers-chilling-
echoes-James-Bulger-sadists.html
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