War Of The Worlds Case Study

also affirms that,“mass media were pictured as sending forth messages to atomised masses waiting to receive them, with nothing intervening” (Starker, 2012, p.12). They are affected by media imagery and acquire the messages without questioning the premise. The way it is relevant to the acceptance of media is that these recipients are passive receptors and in turn these values being infused into the user concludes in specific behaviour.
The following is a case study of the War of the Worlds, a radio broadcast about a Martian invasion on Earth in October 1938 that turned out to be a hoax. The production of sound effects and mass panic within the nation that followed, was fundamental to the exercise of the capacity of the media. The relation to this theory was that the broadcast managed to mislead and startle a majority of the listeners into believing the newscast to be authentic;
The images or persuasive voices that are being fed and placed in their heads are those who control the media. This argues that, “effect is direct and powerful and alters the audience perception of things by either creating a change of attitude” (Edwards, 2003, p.158). From this, it’s surmised that the audience’s behaviour becomes erratic. It also shows the potential dangers of being tabula rasa. Media mediums such as television act as a gateway for people to use how characters are rendered as a symbol to pledge the identities of people with and about whom they interact. This concludes that the reactions governed by the portrayal are dictated by mass media. Thus, causing the audience to use whatever the media has provided as a guide when associating themselves outside. The following theory, the Frankfurt School of Thought, will also demonstrate the vulnerability of the audiences and their possible nonresistance to the