The article “Media and Risky Behavior,” written by both Soledad Liliana Escobar-Chaves and Craig A. Anderson talks about how kids these days are too involved in what the media feeds them. When kids watch these mind tainting movies and somewhat subliminal messages on TV, they are in a way triggered to hold bad habits, habits such as underage alcohol use, violence, sexual behavior, smoking, and obesity. The article gives some shocking results, some that make you shameful of what we have become as a nation. The tradition that we have created for our youth is in a way disgraceful. I thought it was interesting how the article states that watching an hour of MTV increases the likeliness of pre marital sex.
Heather Chaplin wrote the article entitled “Is That Just Some Game? No, It’s a Cultural Artifact”, which talks more about how video games are more than just a hobby, their more of a historic artifact.
I still have three questions pertaining to these articles:
1. How much have the statistics of youth obesity changed in the past few decades?
2. What were the authors of “Media and Risky Behavior” trying to accomplish by writing their article?
3. What was the author of “Is That Just Some Game? No, It’s a Cultural Artifact”,
trying to accomplish by writing his article? And what was the main message she was trying to send to the reader?
2 comments:
It first struck me what you mentioned about being shameful of what we have become as a nation. We have sadly come to live in a culture of complete overindulgence. I won’t say the media is not partially to blame, but shouldn’t kids, especially older teens, be encouraged upon taking initiative to filter some of what they watched and take responsibility for their choices? This negative media craze is always going to be out there, and it gets progressively worse with each decade. Which leads me into your first question, I don’t personally know the statistics on youth obesity but I only imagine that with negative media exposure on such a downward spiral, the figures are only increasing and will continue to do so. Great post, very comprehensive summary.
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I enjoyed reading your blog because we agreed on a lot of information in the readings. I like that you also brought up the media leading to alcohol, smoking, and sex because it is the most impacting information about the topic. It points out that the media really isn't a great thing to be tied to, especially if you are easily affected by input from an outside source.
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