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Can it be that this murder was an effect of the video games? Did video games alter the 15 years old's reality and perception?

"Parents use screens as electronic babysitters. "

-Dr. Aric Sigman

So, what does media teach the children who follow it so often?

Real World

Application to

knowledge

IMAGES OF PERFECTION

GENDER ROLES

With the change of the preferred body type and image,

the dolls have changed. Fulla (right) is a doll that has been

replacing the very common Barbie dolls (left) in the Islamic world to show a Dubai lifestyle for the doll that suits the girls playing with it.

Producing an image for the girls playing with them,

dolls are very effective in planting the seeds of teen

obsession with certain body types. This often leads to eating disorders such as bulimia.

Sanders and Bazalgette (1993)

analyzed the body types of the 3 most

popular dolls of the time. The shapes

were found to be impossible for the

average woman.

The perfect body image is always shown in movies shown to children. However, it is better shown in dolls and their advertisements.

In 1972, the Surgeon General issued the following warning on violent TV programs: "It is clear to me that the causal relationship between televised violence and antisocial behavior is sufficient to warrant appropriate and immediate remedial action. … There comes a time when the data are sufficient to justify action. That time has come."" (Steinfeld, 1972).

Shootings across the United States have

shown multiple relations to media. Most

notably the TDKR shooting in Colorado.

VIOLENCE

Violence is most common in television and video games:

Violence has been frequently discussed and seen as a factor of video games and television by parents and child psychologists around the globe.

Personal connection!

STEREOTYPES

Neuromarketing is a new form of marketing and advertisement that depends on delivering the messages in a way that is most effective to the viewers through stimulating certain parts of the brain.

Reasoning is not as developed in children

so, their response to TV will be based on

emotions to an extent. This will lead to a

distortion in their logic and knowledge perception.

Plato's two horses drawn by chariot

philosophy

Neuromarketing

Hitler's children was a

program that the Nazi

dictator started to

brainwash

children.

Propaganda

The claims made by Dr. Aric Sigman and Pete Etchelles were recorded in the Archives for Child Disorders. This notably shows how media and TV can be a leading source for the toddler to children population to develop various mental disorders such as depression and neurosis. Media is not only changing the mentality of children in the negative ways described, but sometimes for the better, and others, for business.

Connections

Media may be causing some mental disorders.

Many people have reported their being

influenced by TV.

Video games have been reported to cause or

influence crimes.

Media has already proved to be successful in

brainwashing people in the form of propaganda

Media and the technology associated with it

manipulate the thinking and cognition of children.

This causes a shift and an alteration in the children's

usage of the Ways of Knowledge. Because reasoning

is connected to all the other WoKs, it is essential to

keep it intact. Media allows for emotional complications and a shift in perception, and sometimes, plays a role in defining the language of the generation.

That is more

time spent on

TV and other

devices than

that in school!

Referring to children in their study whose ages ranged from 6- to 12-years-old, Bob Hodge and David Tripp reported that 'calibrating television against reality is a major concern for children throughout this age group' (Hodge & Tripp, 1986, p. 126), and other studies (e.g. Flavell et al., 1990) suggest that this may well apply to even younger viewers.

Children spend 1 day a week

Looking

at screens

Real Life Situation:

Shooting in New Mexico conducted by a 15 years old boy who is a video game fanatic. The boy expressed love for the most violent video games and has interpreted the way the main characters kill in the game in his series of murders.

January, 2013

ToK

Presentation

How television and other media affect children's perception of reality .