We are living in the age of technology. With the latest iPhones and Tablets, its hard to keep up! Creating a huge range of easy access to media violence:
- Access through the internet: with so many websites and social networks its easy to come across blogs, video clips and images showing violence.
- Favourite television show's, such as Revenge or the Walking Dead.
- Talk shows such as Jeremy Kyle. According to the article Media and Violence Study, television is the most powerful source of information and entertainment besides face-to-face interaction.
- The latest Movies, such as the newest Iron Man 3. The New-Zealand Herald papers, with headlines such as 'BOSTON BOMBING'.
- The latest Call of Duty video game or World of War-craft Computer game. Music video clips such as 'I love the way you lie' performed by Rihanna and Eminem. Lyrics and sound can also encourage violence.
- Magazines, Comics and Books. Notice the examples I used are obviously violent but quite popular as well.
However there are media sources that encourage violence in subtle ways. For example, that reality show you all love watching, secretly or not 'Keeping up with the Kardashians'. They argue a lot, verbally abuse each other, that is violence in the slightest.
Hi Eden!
ReplyDeleteCan I just say LOL at that picture of Kim haha, poor thing. I love me some Kardashian shenanigans, I think they're so funny! But you are sooo right - they verbally abuse the heck out of each other - and that is not cool.
When I read the title of your research topic, I had an inkling that it was going to be a really interesting read, and voila - it was. I've always felt like there was desensitisation to violence in movies and video games etc.
One thing I did notice was a spelling error: "Notice the examples I used are obviously violent but quiet popular as well." Where you said quiet, it's spelt quite. I always get those two words mixed up too! Haha. Other than that, this was cool as and I think you've done an awesome job with your blog. I have only read this post, but I will take a look at the others :) Cool as!
Hay Davidda !
DeleteThanks for pointing out the spelling error! the blogs still in the process of editing so its a bit messy. lol. Thanks for reading my blog, I've always felt that too much exposure to violence can desensitize a person, so im glad you agree,
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Eden, interesting topic you got here hehe. I do believe that some televisions shows are violent and also in the new movies and video games aswel example iron man 3,fast and furious etc. Love the pics too :D
ReplyDeleteEden! I really like this particular post! Its so relevant and you have delivered a range of exceptionally current examples. I like that you have used examples from all range of media types such as News paper articles, music videos, movies and television shows. I definitely agree with you that we live in an age where young people are exposed to a little too much of the world in an interestingly second-hand manner. Something to keep in mind is that the children of war times were probably exposed to violence in an immediate state, yet without an obscene about of media coverage these visuals were not replayed over and over. Your choice of Kim Kardashian as your visual image is so interesting as when I think about it 'Keeping up with the Kardashian's' is a prime example of over-exposure, and desensitisation of violence. Thank-you Eden!
ReplyDeleteMight be worth double checking where your apostrophes are. You should have an apostrophe only in the case of an omission of numbers or letters (such as in "it's" for "it is" or "'09" for "2009") or to show possession (only for nouns, eg. "the cat's tail" or "Vanessa's bike"). You should not have an apostrophe in the case of pronouns (such as "hers", "yours", or "its"), or when you are using the plural form of a noun (such as "there were three apples").
ReplyDeleteI like your use of short sentences to create a staccato effect in the reader's mind. It makes clear sharp points, however some inconsistency in your use of minor sentences and major sentences is confusing and it is not clear that you have begun to list things. Perhaps you could fix this by more clearly indicating that you are using a list (you could do this by using bullet points, or by using a colon before the list, and a new paragraph when it ends).
With regards to the minor and major sentences:
Favourite television show's, such as Revenge or the Walking Dead. Talk shows such as Jeremy Kyle. According to the article Media and Violence Study, television is the most powerful source of information and entertainment besides face-to-face interaction. The latest Movies, such as the newest Iron Man 3. The New-Zealand Herald papers, with headlines such as 'BOSTON BOMBING'. The latest Call of Duty video game or World of War-craft Computer game. Music video clips such as 'I love the way you lie' performed by Rihanna and Eminem. Lyrics and sound can also encourage violence. Magazines, Comics and Books.
Here you've got two minor sentences (ie. lacking a finite verb), followed by a major sentence, followed by four minor sentences, another major sentence, and then a minor sentence again. There's usually not much of a problem with mixing minor and major sentences, however when you are listing things, it breaks the flow of reading, and in this case ruins the staccato effect. To fix this, I would consider either changing all of the sentences to major sentences, or all them to minor sentences. If you use minor sentences, I would suggest arranging them by length, so that you have a building staccato effect that comes to a short, sharp point and becomes increasingly easier to read.