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Violence has declined as media culture has expanded was an interesting part of chapter five for me. We all know media has drastically changed over the decades, but it’s interesting to read and put into perspective what Sternheimer’s discussing. She touches on how “traditional media like television has grown from a handful of channels to hundreds,” and are available through an array of online sites. Additionally, she discusses how media culture has expanded, and Jenna also mentioned it in her post how young teen crime rates in the United States have been declining.

Moreover, In the article Marketing Violence: The Special Toll on Young Children of Color was interesting and made me wonder about my video game usage when i was an adolescent. Additionally, i found it interesting when Diane mentioned “the regulation of children’s television, marketing violence to children through the media has become increasingly prevalent.” In addition, she elaborates on how the programs themselves, toys, video games, and other products are linked to violence, undermine play, and how they depict racial stereotypes. Moreover, Diane discusses how marketing violence to children has increased on television. For example, she uses GIJoe, TeenageMutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, and pro-wrestling. In addition, she continues to elaborate on how  “the number of acts of violence steadily increased in the most popular children’s shows.” For example, she cited Lisosky which stated that a Power Ranger show episode “averages about 100 acts of violence, twice as many acts as in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which was the previously most successful show.”

Lastly, in reading Sternheimer and Diane’s article, both are similarly intertwined. Both Sternheimer and Diane provoked thinking and led me to question the intentions of all the video games i played back when i was young. Additionally, i as i try and remember the television episodes, i can see the marketing violence throughout the media.

Good evening guys! Sorry for posting so late, I’ve been busy studying and reading for midterm stuff.

This week’s readings were really interesting. I really appreciated Sternheimer’s in-depth look as to why research on media violence is not that valuable or truthful. I also found the connections between media violence and real violence interesting. Both Sternheimer and the Levin article mentioned the environmental factors that contribute to violent behavior, such as poverty, community, and neighborhood violence.  Sternheimer also mentioned that racial inequality plays a part in violence. I did appreciate Sternheimer’s emphasis on the fact that violence has gone down and that media does not play a major role in violent acts. I wish the media (news and the like) would stop taking this angle and construing both research and actual crimes as though television and video games are to blame. It sends a bad message to the rest of society and makes everyone extremely paranoid, when in actuality, issues are really related to behavior and environment.

The Levin article was interesting to me as a future teacher. Although I want to teach high school, the section about how children play was fascinating. I never thought about the difference between types of play (imitative and restrictive) and how different types of toys can actually promote types of play.

Did these articles change your thinking about media and its relation to violence? Did you agree or disagree with the authors?

CI Computer Girls participating in “Players of the Light” event in La Reina HS on October 10, 2015

Marketing Violence: The Special Toll on Young Children of Color

~  Media Messages about race:

Children of color are sometimes judged by other children and adults, could this be because of what children watch on TV?  Many parents try to teach their children  not  to judge others based on the color of their skin. However, many children learn to judge others from television, school, and other adults. As an adult I don’t clearly understand why. Why are people of color automatically judged and not part of many great TV shows? For example,That 70 show Fez is the only teenager of color. Fez isn’t given a last name and never shares his ethnicity. I remember watching this show as a teenager and I would laugh at the jokes about Fez’s character not realizing the stereotype.

Today we see more people of color on TV and media but they usually portray a stereotype. It is rare to find a doctor, teacher, policeman, and other roles on TV played by people of color (there are many professionals of many ethnic backgrounds in real life). Children learn from what they see,  someone of color could potentially be dangerous because of a TV show where someone of color had that role. There are many dangers these stereotypes can lead to. Children may expect only violence form someone based on the color of their skin. Children may also ignore real dangers because the “bad guy/ girl” is usually an outcast not someone who appears the “good guy/girl.”

I have always thought that it was odd to connect video game violence with actual violence. It is just like the gun war going on right now, taking guns away from everyone is not the solution. Why dont we just teach our children that just because there is violence in a game doesn’t mean thats how real life is. Gosh that would be really hard to teach huh>? (sarcasm). October

I was surprised to see a decline in crime rates. Comparing the bodo doll to a video game, just makes no sense. It is a CARTOON, obviously if you watch a literal human being beat up another or shoot another a lot in your lifetime, yes you may do the same. If you watch a cartoon do it, what mode in your brain says it is okay for you to do it?

As far as Lionel, he was subjected to jail way to early in life and I BELIEVE THAT is why the path he took, was the one he chose. It is also interesting that when talking about the media we keep thinking were talking about children and teens but we keep being reminded that the vast majority of consumers for television is an older age than we thought and the average age for video gamers is 37 (122). We don’t know if they will make sense of the content (123). <<Here is another topic I will never understand. The human is watching this or listening to a song and they aren’t really WATCHING IT OT LISTENING TO IT, because they aren’t reading into it or thinking about it.. how in the world does that happen?

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Children definitely learn ALL stereotypes from television not just ones about race. That is why if we EVER want to change the perception and stereotypes of GENDER and race we have to start with media. It just boils down to good parenting and how much of an impact that has on how your child reads the world.