Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Cultivation Theory
After watching the video, the Cultivation theory created by George Gerbner shows how Americans believe what they see and hear about torture because TV represents it that way. John Oliver tells us that torture represents a dramatic action to move the plot along and 57% of people are confident that torture works. He also says that we believe torture works because it does on TV, which goes along with the Cultivation Theory idea, and there is no proof in real life that torture actually does work. Oliver gives the example of Obama's 9/11 speech where he said, "we tortured some folks," making people believe in what he said because of the fact that he said it on TV so it must be true. Another example that makes us think that torture works in in the Mel Gibson movies where there is tons and tons of torture going on.
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I think a lot of people take out of context things on TV may portray. My mom always tells me "don't believe everything you see/read on the internet," and I believe that applies to TV as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Talia how so many people are believing what they see and hear on the internet or on TV. Do you think that over time people will start not believing news they hear or see on TV or the internet.?
ReplyDeletePeople who watch TV and movies involving torture believe it works since it always seems to work in the Tv and movie. It's an easy thing to believe when that's all people are seeing nowadays.
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