Comment 4 - www.gorillabull.blogspot.com
(Kartik Joshi)
(Kartik Joshi)
Kartik Joshi's blog:
"From action man to action games and from action in cartoons to action packed films. The media has definitely added to the contribution of kids and teenagers living 'action packed' lives. Kids nowadays act a lot more grown up then what the previous generations have done and their are strikingly shocking correlations between how technology influences our society to how the future generations are turning out. It is often difficult to find a culprit for this rise in adolescent violence. As much as parents would like to blame the games industry for providing such violent games the games industry would much prefer if the blame went on to the parenting. As the games are coded with age restrictions but some parents don't seem to adhere to them. Or moreover maybe its the case that kids are more persuasive and parents are a lot more lenient."
My comment:
I completely agree with you as I made similar comments on my gun crime blog, however, it's not fair to say that parents are being lenient as it's almost impossible to adhere to age restrictions because of the point you made earlier 'kids nowadays act a lot more grown up', and this is not just because of video games but music and fashion industries which portray it to be 'cool'. Parents are humans to and drawn in by this. This is the aim of the media, to use parents are a scapegoat! In my opinion, its parents buy them violent video game (which is just seen as normal, parents don't really know, its different generation) - kids are stubborn if they want something they will try anything even stealing- or its they run wild on the streets smoking 'pot' and drinking alcohol (not to say all kids do).
Many games i.e. Nintendo DS have been proven to improve concentration amongst youngsters...so it has its up points! I think films has a much higher correlation, remember Jon Venables and Robert Thompson who murder James Bulger after watching Child's Play?
"From action man to action games and from action in cartoons to action packed films. The media has definitely added to the contribution of kids and teenagers living 'action packed' lives. Kids nowadays act a lot more grown up then what the previous generations have done and their are strikingly shocking correlations between how technology influences our society to how the future generations are turning out. It is often difficult to find a culprit for this rise in adolescent violence. As much as parents would like to blame the games industry for providing such violent games the games industry would much prefer if the blame went on to the parenting. As the games are coded with age restrictions but some parents don't seem to adhere to them. Or moreover maybe its the case that kids are more persuasive and parents are a lot more lenient."
My comment:
I completely agree with you as I made similar comments on my gun crime blog, however, it's not fair to say that parents are being lenient as it's almost impossible to adhere to age restrictions because of the point you made earlier 'kids nowadays act a lot more grown up', and this is not just because of video games but music and fashion industries which portray it to be 'cool'. Parents are humans to and drawn in by this. This is the aim of the media, to use parents are a scapegoat! In my opinion, its parents buy them violent video game (which is just seen as normal, parents don't really know, its different generation) - kids are stubborn if they want something they will try anything even stealing- or its they run wild on the streets smoking 'pot' and drinking alcohol (not to say all kids do).
Many games i.e. Nintendo DS have been proven to improve concentration amongst youngsters...so it has its up points! I think films has a much higher correlation, remember Jon Venables and Robert Thompson who murder James Bulger after watching Child's Play?
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