Reading Quotes Week 1

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Dillon Just

Reading Quotes 1

1. “Media use may also have

the benefit of helping individuals expand their horizons. Transportation

creates an openness to new information. By leading individuals to appreciate

truths about themselves and their world, transportation can bring about

transformations that endure in some way once individuals return from the

narrative world to their everyday reality” (Green et al. 2004, pp. 317-318).

2. “Academic film studies

has been focused almost entirely on ideological studies of film, such that the

means by which films generate an audience experience colored with emotion and

affect is unimportant, unless it can be clearly shown to relate to ideology. To

my mind, such a view not only devalues the experience of movie viewing (as

important only in relation to class, gender, race, etc.) and fails to see the

centrality of emotion in the ideological work of movies, but also mischaracterizes

emotional experience as necessarily subjective and idiosyncratic, as though

emotions were not subject to causality” (Plantinga, 2009, pp. 4-5).

3. “However, through his

artificial relationship a transformation of self occurs. In his media consumption

and fantasy he sloughs off his own “inadequate” personality and turns into

James Bond. Here, in fantasy, the individual’s consciousness is “possessed” by

the media self; it colors perception, patterns decision making, and structures

social behavior” (Caughey, 1984, p. 59).

4. “Because media, and

movies in particular, may enable the development of new templates not only for

broader lived experience but also for hoped for or feared possible selves

(Markus & Nurius, 1986), they may be particularly relevant to the

developmental tasks of adolescence and emerging adulthood. As teens navigate

seemingly contradictory and extreme shifts in mood, relationships, and identity

(Harter, 2012), media models may function to inform and validate such shifts,

for better or worse.” (Greenwood & Long, 2014, p. 2).