Article review on “Violence exposure in real-life, video games, television, movies, and the internet: is there desensitization?”
This article is examining the relationship between the much of exposure to violence from electronic devices and the degree of desensitization to their real life value. In other words, today’s children expose too much violence from many sources such as video games, television, movies, and the internet.
The test sample for this research is composed of 150 students from elementary and day care centers, the author recognized the sample size may have been too small to detect a small effect though.
The excessive exposure could have been desensitizing them to the true consequences of violence and aggression. The goal of this study was to determine if there are relationships between real-life and media violence exposure. Some researcher believed that this kind of exposure will indeed desensitize the students toward violence in their real life.
Especially, the younger who are still developing their moral cognition expose too much in the media violence will desensitize their real life consequences of violence.
Thoughts about “An update on the effects of playing violent video games”
While examining the connection between the violent video games and the real life violence, the experimental studies reveal this linkage to be casual. Some studies show more recent violence criminals have been linked to violent video games such as two school shootings, five homicides, and beating deaths happened in our country. Even in other countries like German and Japan have some similar reports too.
Some Thoughts on “Linking obesity and activity level with children’s television and video game use
This is a very interesting article. It examines the relationship between the children’s weight and the time amount they spend in television and video game use. This article shows many researches have been done to find the linking between the children’s obesity and the time they sit in the front of TV and computers.
Because the more they spend in media, the less they spend in physical activities, as well as the children intend to eat fast food while they are watching TV or playing computer games. They intake more high caloric food than those children who spend less time in watching TV or playing video games because the food commercial in TV or computers emphasize on high calorie and high fat foods without nutritional concerns.
I think it is true for these hypotheses; after all, the children seem to have more overweight problems nowadays. Although the research is still weak to show the connection between the obesity and the TV watching and video game playing, we can’t still ignore the truth: New generation tends to be obesity while they are living in the new technology age.
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I think the important thing to take away, across all of these studies, is that the relationship between new media and the lives of users is more complex than we realize. Obese kids may choose to play games, rather than become obese from playing them. Kids may be desensitized to violence from playing games as well as through exposure to other forms of violent media, but how do we mediate that -- or can we at all? These are interactions we have to look more closely at and think deeply about before we make quick judgments, because new media are intertwined into nearly every facet of our lives.
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Thank you, Dr. Wilber,
ReplyDeleteNowaday kids are explored too much to new media which include TV, Movie, and computer. Obese kids usually don’t like to do exercise, so they tend to sit in one spot playing computer games or watching movie whenever they have spare time. They also tend to eat junk food during those time. At this case, obese kids gain more weight. This is just like a “vicious circle”.
I think parents need to take this as their responsibility because they did not pay enough attention to their kids. They need to care more about their childrens, for example, assign some sports or club activities for them as well as spend more time with them.
Kids explore themselves too much time in violence from TV or computers will desensitize themselves with violence or lose their passion for family relationship which in turn become the social problem. Therefore I think family play an important role in order to prevent this. Children are allowed to play video game but parents need to concern what they play. Movies are given different rates, but not video games because no authority can supervise the video games for them. Everyone can access all different kinds of video game at home if they have internet access. Then who is going to watch them? Only the grown-up at home. Home education is even more important than school education. Parent can't just ignore this truth.