Article Summaries - Madeleine Peebler

Article 1:

Parents may be trying to keep their children from seeing violence that happens on the street or at school, but they have been lacking in also protecting their children from the violence they see on the media. Multiple studies have been done to show that when children are exposed to the violence on the media, it leads to an increase in the chance of them being more angry and hostile. Violent video games are still here to this day, due to the fact that games had a higher selling rate depending on the level of violence they had. When video games became "first person shooter", having the player see the game as if they were actually in it, made these violent games even more addicting, allowing the player to have a closer look at what it was to shoot someone or be shot. This is when the government began to look and see whether or not these games were taking it a little bit too far; these meetings are what led to the creation of The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB). While this rating system has helped buyers know how violent the video games they are purchasing are, it has not slowed down the production of violent video games at all. There were three studies done, to see how children were impacted by the violent video games. The studies showed that the violent video games do impact children, but also that other video games have proven to help children with their achievement. It all comes down to having the children have the right education about how they can be effected when exposed to media violence. Just because there are ratings that tell how much violence in each game, does not mean that there is less exposure to those games. There needs to be some decisions made on if and how children are to be limited to how much violence they are allowed to see.

Article 2:

Weinstein is a movie director who said he wouldn't made any more excessively violent movies, but in the end does because of how passionate he gets about the movies he makes. Although he has been questioned on whether he made violence "trendy", it is safe to say that if he wasn't the man to do that, someone else would have. Weinstein has realized that he can't make movies and love them, but then say that is it what he wants for his children. Other people do not understand the relationship of media violence, when the only answer is: "We really don't know." We do know that violent movies, TV shows, and video games wouldn't be made if there wasn't always a positive reaction to it, people loving it. Most of us think that as long as we get the media violence in small doses, we'll be fine. People are either totally against media violence, or they realize that violence has been around for so long.

 

Article 3:

This article starts out by talking about how we take the criminals, and make them out be the good guys. He also talks about how some people do not have the right reasons for their actions, being murders. He also talks about how when songs are written, often the lyrics are taken in the wrong way, like the song was written about the lunchbox. Movies and music are what can help us get through things, and they often talk about the emotions that we are going through. And when artists make a song that gets people, usually critics, riled up, they don't want to go on interviews and defend themselves because they know it's not worth it.