The official blog of John Quinn's media effects research study! Ever wondered why some people bash each others brains out in the garden after watching wrestling?........if so read on...oh and its best to read this page from the bottom upwards!!


Tuesday 2 October 2007

So how is the study going to explore the topic?

The study is concerned with the consumption of WWE television texts, and at this early stage it is most likely that the study will concentrate on deliberate consumption as opposed to passive/unconscious consumption. As such the initial research focus will be on how we consume television texts, and who consumes WWE texts. From this information the study will look to categorise the WWE television audience into two main groups - the backyard wrestlers and the non-backyard wrestlers. The study will then look to analyse these groups in terms of demographics, psychographics, socioeconomics, location, biomedical conditions and so on, in order to expose a nexus of possible SCC's. This data will be used to evaluate whether or not certain conflations of antecedent conditions occurring in different individuals result in differing management of instinctual drives that derive from watching the same WWE texts. This phase of the study will use Darwinian evolutionary psychology as a model and look to suggest that backyard wrestling exists as a biological function.

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