Beyond Good & Evil: Children, Media & Violent Times

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The belief that ï¿½good triumphs over evilï¿½ resonates deeply in our psyche through religious, cultural, and political discourses. It is also a common theme in the entertainment media where the struggle between good and evil is frequently resolved through violence. The potential negative im
pact of media violence on children has long been a public concern. It is even more troubling when U.S. military violence, both in the news and in the entertainment, is often glorified as heroic and patriotic. Children's worlds of fantasy and reality collided when our political leaders, in response
to the September 11th tragedy, simplified the complex international relationships into a fight between good and evil. The Bush administration used the narrative strategicallyï¿½and the news media perpetuated it with enthusiasmï¿½pumping up patriotism and generating public support for the invas
ions of Afghanistan and Iraq. This video examines how the "good and evil" rhetoric, in both the entertainment and the news media, has helped children to dehumanize the enemies, justify their killing and treat the suffering of innocent civilians as necessary sacrifice. The interviews include media s
cholars (Robert Jenson, Robin Andersen), child psychologists (Diane Levin, Nancy Carlsson-Paige), teachers (Merrie Najimy, Brian Wright), educators (Eli Newberger and Betty Burkes), and the children themselves.

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Well, there's ... ( 1 year ago by Fudgaboutit)

Well, there's certainly nothing more inhuman than far left zealots like you people.

are you sure its ... ( 1 year ago by matternicuss)

are you sure its just America?? And didnt the videogame industry more or less begin in Japan? And havnt tales of violence and black and white good vs evil been told throughout human history(perhaps simplifying human nature to understand not to discriminate)? And honestly, looking back to Biblical times, do you really think Jerusalem of Jesus' time was cleaner, more civilized and less depraved than the America of today?

thus is the nature ... ( 1 year ago by matternicuss)

thus is the nature of propaganda, it is nothing new. and frankly, would people be eager to war with a nation that shares similar human tendencies as we do? but let us not forget what Edmund Burke said:'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.' So, we must ask what IS evil, is it an act or a person? Isnt it the act we must prevent? for arent we all evil, or have done evil things?

This is so retarded ... ( 1 year ago by 1337Batgirl)

This is so retarded. Murder, rape, conquest, dictatorship ... these are the definition of evil. Can different "messages" from TV and movies purge these desires out of the human psyche? Of course not. As long as these concepts exist, they need to be combated in order for society to thirve, hence the need for "good" forces to combat them.

i look or the game ... ( 1 year ago by james42519)

i look or the game and i get this crap.

Array ( 1 year ago by jackfuckingjevons)

thanks for this.
let's get reality back, k?

STOP BLAMING ... ( 1 year ago by soulcalibur33)

STOP BLAMING VIDEOGAMES!! look the real violence and sexual contents that are everywhere on tv o magazines around children!! and shoot in a videogames to save the world is not like teach cruel things. is just a game.

everygame have an ... ( 1 year ago by soulcalibur33)

everygame have an age to respect. Anyway if people are violent that up to their DNA. is not games's foult. if this society s@cks is because there's no real values anymore.. and people listen the devil's voice. and this is not for videogames's fault. is because people are EVIL in their veins.

i m 32 years old ... ( 1 year ago by soulcalibur33)

i m 32 years old and i play with videogames since i was 6. and i m not violent or bad... and i played with many games with 'blood'. but due to my GOOD sence and maturity i can see the IMMENSE difference beetween the REAL LIFE and a games or a movie. a games is like to read a book , it tell a story. good or evil is just ESCAPE. and in games WIN THE GOOD, NOT EVIL. Evil is inside certain mind. not in every person.

Most of you have ... ( 1 year ago by jonnyfroze)

Most of you have completely missed the point. You feel this way and are arguing so adamantly because this is how you've all been socialized. It's really sad.

damn, i've been ... ( 11 months ago by sesochan1)

damn, i've been playing and watching T.V. for a long time, and i havent gotten really violent. STOP BLAMMING VIDEO GAMES!!!!! The T.V. also shows violence.

ok, here is what i ... ( 11 months ago by Phantom00700)

ok, here is what i think. DON'T FRICKEN BLAME VIDEO GAMES james bond games and movies are rated T FOR TEEN and PG-13 FOR OBIVIOUS REASONS that stupid kid who is like i kill ppl cause they're bad doesn't get the story line of the game and realize why he is doing what he is doing in a game. and the fact of the matter is that a teenage would understand the concepts of the story a bit more than a 6 year old, cont'd on next comment.

and a teen would ... ( 11 months ago by Phantom00700)

and a teen would also understand that just because in the game ppl are russian (or whatever racial background james bond has fought in other games, oh and lets not forget that some of the ppl he's fought were white british and americans)doesn't mean that all russians are terrorists . plz say you understand what i'm trying to get at.

Phantom: James Bond ... ( 10 months ago by bapyou)

Phantom: James Bond fighting Russians....those images come from the Bond flicks of the 60s; from the era of the Cold War. And why did you write "plz say you understand what i'm trying to get at." It sounds as though you are pleading for someone not to take away your violent media from you. Would you go into withdrawal if someone did take it away?

HA HA. gth ( 10 months ago by AjkoKatekeshar)

HA HA. gth

I was not like that ... ( 10 months ago by AjkoKatekeshar)

I was not like that as a kid

they think that ... ( 9 months ago by ubentu)

they think that chirstians are the only one's who know good from bad XD
I feel the same way about my little sister playing violent games. My mom and dad sheltered me. and that helped me develop a world loving mindset. But in the end I was exposed to all of the bad in the world...and I think the sheltering really helped. now adays I can play anything I want, but I th
ink a good perspective is always good (there are infinite universes of all good and all bad if you think about it)

I play videogames, ... ( 9 months ago by ubentu)

I play videogames, and I an say they have deeply affected my life and mind, what could I have done in that time. who knows, it probably happened an infinite amount of times in the multiverse...so nothing I do matters....I sound really emo don't I XD

I think quite a few ... ( 8 months ago by babybunnyberry)

I think quite a few people here have missed the point: children are socialized into a dichotomy of good Vs evil, which polarizes the world and makes everything white or black. The *tools* that have been used for this have been TV, newspapers, games, etc. They're not the cause, and noone in this video is saying that they are.

this song is ... ( 7 months ago by Chiefs129)

this song is refering to a new world order! david icke knows the truth! Behind the illuminati and Disney!

dude thnx so much ... ( 3 months ago by adraven13241)

dude thnx so much i hav a media violence topic to do in my class and this just helped me out so much KEEP DOING MORE I SAY!!!!

More hype from the ... ( 1 month ago by Eceoes)

More hype from the MEF. What they fail to point out is there are people in this world who only wish to harm other people, including us, whether they have a reason or not. Its not that I approve of war, but why should entertainment be limited to excluding a good vs evil concept, because it is NOT affecting the youth's opinion. As for the racial issue, if I wanted to watch entertainment I would rather want an American to win over foreigner. People don't watch Rocky IV to cheer for Ivan Durgo.

It's not racism its ... ( 1 month ago by Eceoes)

It's not racism its just potraying what people want to see as a good person. Why should a couple of stuck up assholes say that "its racist". They go off bashing entertainment movies and blaming them for influencing people to be pro war racist ?!?!? Another absurd thing they did was picked one small child saying what he thought about James Bond while he didn't even know the theme of the game. This is VERY exaggerated and just a cheap and dirty way to blame the media.

Because too many ... ( 2 days ago by BeatBuddy)

Because too many parents see the media as a baby sitter, a way to get children off their hands for a period of time.

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