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    • Media
      how media portrays addictive behaviour may influence addictive behaviour
      may glamourize addictive behaviour and frequently show people engaging, which influences others to be attracted to it
    • Media
      Gnasekera et al ('05)
      analysed 87 of the top 200 movies in the last 20 years using content analysis
      addiction portrayed positively and without negative consequences
      tobacco, alcohol and drug use
    • Media
      drug references in rap, 11% in 1979 to 69% in 1997, by Herd 08
      movie - Oceans 13, glamourised gambling
    • Media - Social Learning Theory
      applied to explain how media influences people
      new behaviours learnt through observation and imitation
      TV/ film/ music, people they look up to
      watch them engage in behaviour > more likely to imitate for similar result
      if person rewarded for behaviour, more likely to imitate, vr
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