SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA

Claire Denton
LITERATURE REVIEW
 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• Violence and abuse directed at women, which serves to control women through
the exertion of patriarchal power.

Comments Sexual Assault

 MEDIA

• “Images and messages that are created and distributed by producers for later
consumption by the masses.”
 ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP

• Isolates you from others

• Uses power as control
• Physically threatening
• Uses verbally aggressive language
• Quick to place constant blame for conflict on you
 HEGEMONY

• “Higher social group secures the consent of the socially subordinated to the
system that suppresses or subordinates them.”
 IDEOLOGY

• “Ideas imposed on the masses by those representing the ‘hegemonic’ or the

higher social class”
 SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

• People learn from one another, through observation, imitation and modeling.

“Most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from

observing others, one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on
later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.”
ANALYSIS
 • Women are attention seeking.
THEMES PRESENT IN
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE • Domestic Violence is amusing.
REPRESENTATION IN MEDIA
• Victims are responsible to fix.
 • Social Learning Theory

WHY DOES THIS MATTER? • Modeling

• What is being taught?

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