Media Studies A-Level
Cultivated assumptions about the real world
What Cultivated assumptions about the real world means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Cultivated assumptions about the real world
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Heavy viewers absorb the medium's repeated patterns of representation, so that its versions of crime, gender, authority or risk come to feel normal.
Topics that use Cultivated assumptions about the real world
- Cultivation theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Cultivation theory
- Cumulative exposure and cultivation
- Distinction between standardisation and mainstreaming
- Media influence
- Television as storyteller
- Cultural meanings and values
- Culture and norms
- Cumulative, long-term exposure
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