Primary Texts:
Tom & Jerry
Due to how long it’s been around, I think it’d be interesting to study what kind of influence it has with its exaggerated physical violence, sometimes taking it to an extreme. (Get feedback from both older & younger generations)
Looney Tunes
Chosen as primary due to how wide its audience is, universally so, and because of its similar physical slapstick violence to Tom & Jerry, with a wider cast of characters and more narrative structure, does this help give violence a purpose and context?
SpongeBob Squarepants
A much more modern cartoon aimed at possibly a younger demographic but with intense and in some cases, extremely graphic cases.
Ben 10 (Primary Only)
Series directed specifically at boys, probably aged 8 – 12, that involves constant fighting and supernatural powers throughout. Seems to be the ‘in’ thing for Primary school boys at the minute.
Pokemon (Secondary Only)
Cartoon that created a craze in the late 90’s, thereby reaching wider audiences than maybe smaller cartoons would. Graphic fighting and violence prevalent throughout.
- The previous 2 are age specific due to how each age group can relate to them e.g. Secondary kids wouldn't be able to as easily relate to Ben 10 as Primary children due to how long its been out and its target group.
Saturday, 24 January 2009
To Do:
• Gather some initial findings from the Primary texts
• Finalise details with Ecclesfield Secondary School
• Chase up what’s happening with Ecclesfield Primary School
• Complete Focus Group plans i.e. Pull together a presentation?
• Draw up a written survey to include with Focus Group as a hand out and to give out to Parents/Teachers
• Gather Primary Text examples
• Continue updating the Media Blog
• Gather findings together in a concise form
• Finalise details with Ecclesfield Secondary School
• Chase up what’s happening with Ecclesfield Primary School
• Complete Focus Group plans i.e. Pull together a presentation?
• Draw up a written survey to include with Focus Group as a hand out and to give out to Parents/Teachers
• Gather Primary Text examples
• Continue updating the Media Blog
• Gather findings together in a concise form
Powerpoint Presentation 3
AUDIENCE & REASON
Kids (8 -12 year olds)
To form the basis of my research I’m looking at the very start of the timeline, with Primary school kids to get their basic impressions on why they watch these cartoons and what their opinions of these shows are.
Teens (13 – 15 year olds)
To further the above study, I’m also going to run a focus group with a Secondary school group to help develop what I learned from the Primary school kids and whether with age their impressions have changed and if they’re aware of what they watch yet.
Parents
To get some background knowledge on what they let their kids watch, hours of TV allowed and what their opinion on the whole debate is.
Teachers
Similar to the Parents research as I’d find it interesting to see authoritative figures POV on how, if at all, these shows influence kids on a day to day.
Kids (8 -12 year olds)
To form the basis of my research I’m looking at the very start of the timeline, with Primary school kids to get their basic impressions on why they watch these cartoons and what their opinions of these shows are.
Teens (13 – 15 year olds)
To further the above study, I’m also going to run a focus group with a Secondary school group to help develop what I learned from the Primary school kids and whether with age their impressions have changed and if they’re aware of what they watch yet.
Parents
To get some background knowledge on what they let their kids watch, hours of TV allowed and what their opinion on the whole debate is.
Teachers
Similar to the Parents research as I’d find it interesting to see authoritative figures POV on how, if at all, these shows influence kids on a day to day.
Question
Just to reiterate as I don't think I've actually posted the eventualm question I decided on up so it's:
To what extent does TV violence, in a fictional animated capacity, affect the youth of today?
To what extent does TV violence, in a fictional animated capacity, affect the youth of today?
Powerpoint Presentation 2
Internet Research Findings:
•Children, despite being banned from acting out ‘play’ violence, they still conduct it in a more private manner.
• Violence is the catharsis that kids need to avoid taking aggressions out in real-life on other people.
• Violent media aimed at children, both cartoons and video games, aim to provide a way for them to feel powerful in a controlled and safe environment.
• “A powerless child needs some way to feel powerful and dominant, even if it’s only make-believe.
• Is make-believe violence the solution to a lot of real-world violence?
Important to note is that the following findings come from a government controlled website.
(2 of my internet sites are Government pages – both heavily condemn violent media and the Canadian site even gives instructions on how to set a good TV viewing scheme up.)
• Even if watching a violent programme does increase aggressiveness, this may be only a short-term phenomenon. Due to the personalities of kids and they’re always taken by ‘the next big thing’.
• “By watching Looney Tunes you are teaching kids that violence is funny” - Dr. Dimitri Christakis
• Classified as Violent: Power Rangers, Star Wars, Space Jam and Spider-Man
• Classified as Non-Violent: Rugrats, The Flintstones, Toy Story.
- Based off several sources i.e. parents, government controlled sites, etc (See Internet References)
•Children, despite being banned from acting out ‘play’ violence, they still conduct it in a more private manner.
• Violence is the catharsis that kids need to avoid taking aggressions out in real-life on other people.
• Violent media aimed at children, both cartoons and video games, aim to provide a way for them to feel powerful in a controlled and safe environment.
• “A powerless child needs some way to feel powerful and dominant, even if it’s only make-believe.
• Is make-believe violence the solution to a lot of real-world violence?
Important to note is that the following findings come from a government controlled website.
(2 of my internet sites are Government pages – both heavily condemn violent media and the Canadian site even gives instructions on how to set a good TV viewing scheme up.)
• Even if watching a violent programme does increase aggressiveness, this may be only a short-term phenomenon. Due to the personalities of kids and they’re always taken by ‘the next big thing’.
• “By watching Looney Tunes you are teaching kids that violence is funny” - Dr. Dimitri Christakis
• Classified as Violent: Power Rangers, Star Wars, Space Jam and Spider-Man
• Classified as Non-Violent: Rugrats, The Flintstones, Toy Story.
- Based off several sources i.e. parents, government controlled sites, etc (See Internet References)
Powerpoint Presentation 1
Book & Journal Research findings:
• The more violence there is, the greater its potential for influence.
• Subjective as to your personal ideology on what is violent and what’s not.
• Studies and moral panics are more ideological in the first place than scientific, due to lack of results from well over 3000 studies.
• The media is constantly used as a scapegoat to explain events that are too complicated or upsetting to take in.
• Media – a form of electronic child abuse?
• Proposals to combat & regulate violent media is less likely to encounter opposition than attempts to address more significant causes of violent crime such as poverty and family breakdowns due to it being more feasible and convenient.
• 3 kinds of effects: Behavioural – leading to aggression; Emotional – producing shock, disgust or excitement; Ideological – portraying socially acceptable, dominant ideas in a bid to encourage viewers to believe in what they’re seeing and it gains this reaction.
• Does media desensitise kids to violence?
• Children can distinguish between fact & fiction through media literacy which they gain through watching such things.
• After watching some form of violence TV, children are more likely to take on the role of a victim than the villain of the piece.
•Parents were more likely to express concern about the effects of violent cartoons on other people’s children than on their own.
- Based on the opinions of several critics (see Book references)
• The more violence there is, the greater its potential for influence.
• Subjective as to your personal ideology on what is violent and what’s not.
• Studies and moral panics are more ideological in the first place than scientific, due to lack of results from well over 3000 studies.
• The media is constantly used as a scapegoat to explain events that are too complicated or upsetting to take in.
• Media – a form of electronic child abuse?
• Proposals to combat & regulate violent media is less likely to encounter opposition than attempts to address more significant causes of violent crime such as poverty and family breakdowns due to it being more feasible and convenient.
• 3 kinds of effects: Behavioural – leading to aggression; Emotional – producing shock, disgust or excitement; Ideological – portraying socially acceptable, dominant ideas in a bid to encourage viewers to believe in what they’re seeing and it gains this reaction.
• Does media desensitise kids to violence?
• Children can distinguish between fact & fiction through media literacy which they gain through watching such things.
• After watching some form of violence TV, children are more likely to take on the role of a victim than the villain of the piece.
•Parents were more likely to express concern about the effects of violent cartoons on other people’s children than on their own.
- Based on the opinions of several critics (see Book references)
Thursday, 22 January 2009
My Questionnaire
Could anyone who visits the site please have a go at my Questionnaire please? (That includes you James)
Thanks,
Joe
To Do it, please go to my blog http://www.fishmonks.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Joe
To Do it, please go to my blog http://www.fishmonks.blogspot.com/
If it is not the first blog on the page, look in the media section.
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