The article of “Media Violence Causes Real Violence” explains the use of video games and who they affect the decisions of teenagers. Video games are not just the cause of being overweight but also can be the cause for violence. If you look at the Columbine High School massacre was affiliated by the video game of Doom. In April of 1999 two boys entered the Columbine High School and before they finished the killing spree there were a total of 15 died. With video games so accessible to every one of all ages will not only interrupting young kids exercising their bodies along with their brains. They are saying that the reason for this was that these two boys that committed this crime because they did not fit into any of the cliques at high school.
The audience intended from these articles would be parents that their kids that play video games. The parents need to monitor what their kids are doing with their spare time so that this violent act will not happen again. The parents need to know more about what the kids are taking to school. If they were getting involved with their children’s lives they might have realized that these two boys were having problems with the kids not accepting them in high school. But since this has happening the schools have beefed up the security by putting in servalience cameras in all the halls and in the classrooms.
They also blamed this act because of the music that these two boys had listened to. The parents of these two boys should have had some clue that there was a problem with them just by the way that they were dressing and that they were always laying the video game of Doom and the music that they were listening to. To me the parents are as much fault as the boys were. It was mentioned in the article of Media Violence Causes Real Violence that the shooters at the school of Columbine probably used the video games to practice acting out their rage onto the other fellow students (pg. 92). There was a picture of the boys with a sawed-off shotgun that was pictured in the article of “Columbine Massacre” buy why wasn’t something pursued when they had taken a picture of the boys on March 6, 1999 when they were examining a sawed-off shotgun at a shooting range.
Like mentioned in the article of “Media Violence Causes Real Violence”, that the media is the scapegoat and the blame for social problems (page 80), this is true with the Columbine High School shooting. With the expansion of the media is causing the expansion of the minds of young kids. If the violence would not have been on TV or in the video games then possible this would not have happened at all. The parents would have gotten these boys involved with some sort of activity in maybe the theater or a non school sports group. These parents are as much to blame as the kids. The parent’s needs to keep up on what the kids are doing with their spare time and to what they are listening to for music. With the video games they need to limit them to only so many hours a day or they are not to play them every day all day long.
It had mentioned in the Media Violence Causes Real Violence that is not just they cannot figure out why young white boys would commit a violent crime. But what makes the difference if they are white, black, or any other nationality it is a crime and more than likely that have seen it on TV or some other type of media like a video game. Maybe the parents need to set aside a time every so often to sit down and talk to their kids about how school is going and if there was anything that they can help with. Also schools need to make it that all kids carry clear backpacks so that you can tell what is being carried into the school in them. You did not find the problem of weapons in school when the kids never carried backpacks to school.
With as busy as families are anymore maybe the parents need to get involved with the kids and maybe schedule a sit down dinner at least two to three times a week without the TV or any media games present. Have a nice quiet dinner and discuss what is happening in their children’s lives and if there was any problems at school so that the parents can get involve and help with the problems. It is important for the parents to get involve with what is happening with their children and what they are doing in school and after school. All families need to set a time aside so that they can catch up on what is going on before something like the Columbine School Massacre tragedy happens again.
Reference
Rosenberg, J., (April 20, 1999). Columbine Massacre. Retrieved November 1, 2010 from http://history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/columbine.htm
Sternheimer, K., (07/2009). Media Violence Causes Real Violence. Retrieved November 1, 2010 from http://olinkserver.franklin.edu/search~S0?/Xpopular+culture&SORT=D/Xpopular+culture&SORT=D&SUBKEY=popular%20culture/1,315,315,B/l9xx~b1224074&FF=Xpopular+culture&SORT=D&2,2,,1,0
Amanda Mcgraw
ReplyDeleteThere is so much research on this subject matter and i believe that corelation is significant. Violent movies and videogames have become a part of our popular culture (the Saw series and war videogames) and I think the research is correst on how it is affecting our children.
This article and your analysis was very interesting! Anymore, you see so much violence in movies, tv shows, and also video games. I know growing up there was not much violence within video games nor much on tv, now looking today almost everything you see has something to do with violence. For example the video game "Halo" has so much violence and so much negativity that there is many sterotypes to that game. And in my opinion, I don't honestly think that this game should be out there for kids to play.
ReplyDeleteGreat article to choose. This is always a hot topic when people blame video games and movies as the reason a kid committed the act.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on how parents should be involved in their children's lives as much as possible, but at the same time, Parents need to take responsibility for the actions of their children.
I can't stand how people blame video games for the reason that kids committ because they saw it on a video game. To be honest, the evening news is worse! Most of the lead stories are about a robbery, a shooting, or a murder and there is little to no positive stories on the evening news.
The most violent shows on television when I was growing up were the Looney Tunes cartoons shows! Wile E. Coyote trying to blow up the RoadRunner and Elmer Fudd trying to shoot Bugs Bunny. I haven't gone out and blown anyone up or shot anyone because I saw it on the cartoon.
Parents need to take responsibility for their children..