Impact of the Media

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Impact of the Media
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TV

• 1. Why do you watch TV?
• 2. How much TV do you watch a day? A week? A
  year?
• I watch approximately 13 hours per week gt thats
  520 hours per year which is 22 days. Pathetic I
  know ?
• How does that compare to how much TV you watch?
• 3. What are viable alternatives to watching TV?
• (i.e. instead of watching TV, you could)

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Media Babies

• 4. What do you think is an appropriate age for
  children to begin watching TV?
• 5. At what age if any should children have
  their own TVs?
• Two view points on infants/toddlers TV
• No TV under age 2
• Mozart effect stimulates brain development
  (music the arts foster brain development)
• http//www.babycenter.com/2_is-it-okay-for-a-baby-
  or-toddler-to-watch-tv_10367148.bc
• With which viewpoint do you agree? Why?

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TV Children

• Discuss What are popular TV shows for children?
• Most 10-11 year olds are addicted to TV
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vuLOxCHSefzg
• 6. How does this addiction affect our lives
  overall?
• In the last 12 years of teaching, technological
  advances in video, hand-held Gameboys, cable
  TV, video/computer games have enveloped my
  students lives with such an intensity that I
  have no alternative but to incorporate media
  within the curriculum

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Statistics

• Statistics
• According to A.C. Nielsen Inc., children watch an
  average of 24-28 hours of TV per week.
• Avg. 5 year old will have spent 5,000 hours in
  front of the TV before kindergarten (more time
  than s/he will spend in conversation with her/his
  parents for the rest of their lives longer than
  it takes to get a college degree)

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• 65 of 3rd, 4th 5th graders have TVs in their
  bedroom
• ½ of those have cable TV

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Media Concerns

• Major concerns include
• Violence
• Sexual explicitness
• Equating happiness to hyper-consumerism devoid of
  any concern for ecological or social consequences
• 7. Which of these do you think is the biggest
  concern? Why?

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Media Violence

• A. A person injured or killed by gun
• B. A person injured or killed by knife
• C. Persons engaged in hand-to-hand combat
• D. An alien or imaginary creature killed
• E. A plastic human figurine destroyed

• 8. Rate how comfortable you feel seeing the
  following content in news entertainment on a
  scale of 1 5 (1 being it doesnt bother you at
  all 5 being you cant watch or have to turn it
  off)

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Questions continued

• 9. In your opinion, members of which gender
  likely feel more comfortable with violence in
  general?
• What about concrete (actual or realistic)
  violence?
• Are one or both genders likely to feel
  significantly more comfortable with abstract
  than concrete violence?

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Questions continued

• 10. Are you more comfortable with one gender as
  the perpetrator, as the victim of violence than
  the other? If so, which one?
• Does it depend on the crime?
• 11. Are people more comfortable with violence in
  video games than in the news?
• http//www.cbsnews.com/news/violent-video-games-ma
  y-make-kids-more-agressive/
• http//www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/17/dc-gunman-obs
  essed-with-violent-video-games-reports-say/

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Discuss

• Think of various cartoons, sit-coms, sporting
  events (WWF)
• How are problems solved on these programs?
• Who does most of the talking (consider gender,
  age, race, etc.)?
• What race, gender age are the characters in
  shows commercials?
• How many of these programs use put-downs
• How many of these programs use violence?
• In general, what is the attitude toward the
  earth/environment?