Research

There have been two main cases that do questions whether media texts do effect the audience watching them.

The first case study is:- Murder of Stefan Pakeerah- Game : Manhunt- Game linked to murdered by friendNew Zeland game banned and in Great Britain it was given an 18 certificateThe game was dramatically effected and was witheld from being sold.

The second case study is James Bulger:- His killers were Venebals and Thompson, however there is research to suggest they were neglected.- However the film Child Play 3 was blamed for the actions of these two boys, although there was no evidence that even suggests they had even seen the film.- Politicians banned the film

Also... Bandora made a study involving a BoBo Doll.
He tried to prove children copied the behaviour that they see and the children did act violently towards the doll after watching the adults hit the BoBo doll.However, there were parts of the study which contributed to why the children were violent to the BoBo doll. It turns out that the children weren't allowed to play with any of the other toys. This is retention process occurred. This would have made children angry. They were then lead to another room with toys in. This is the motivation stage.

From this is stated 88% children imitated the behaviour they had seen, then 8 months later 40% of the same children repeated behaviour.

However in all these cases it has never been clear whether it is due to media or if it was down to people wanting to put the blame somewhere. Also, in the BoBo doll experiment the children would have felt very angry that there was toys they couldn't play with.