Media Violence-The Potential Inciter of School Bullying in Taiwan
In recent years, school bullying becomes a
popular issue in Taiwan. We are able to see many school violent cases through
the news reports and the papers. Due to the mass media, the government and the
public gradually take school bullying seriously and promote ‘Anti-Bullying’
activity. Although it seems that the media helps people be aware of the
importance of preventing school bullying, the media actually is one of causes
to school bullying.
School
bullying has existed all the time. The occurrence of school bullying results
from many elements, and it is very likely that the single school violent event
consists of some reasons leading to the bullying. According to lots of research
and investigative papers, school bullying may be concerned with cultural
factor, social issue, family reason, and personal element, etc. As for the
media, its influence can be thought as a currently possible element of causing
school bullying comparing with the factors mentioned before because it cannot
make the great effect on school bullying until it has been developed maturely
and common in the society. And the media which is attributed to increase school
bullying is so-called ‘media violence’.
The
media violence is that the media presents the violence to the audience or it
raises the violence happening to the public. Even if the media’s purpose of
demonstrating violent scene does not orient to growing school bullying, some
studies shows that the violence communicated by the media still has the impact
on children and teenagers. Take the hot movie made in Taiwan, Monga for
example, it involves school bullying and gangster culture in the early time in
Taiwan and has lots of the violent scenes for the plot’s need. Although the
director’s intention of making this movie is to represent his youth memory, the
plot about adolescent violence also impresses the audience, and even makes the
trend of imitating in schools. Some news reports that a few students think that
fighting back with other students who bully his friends is the expression of
brotherhood after seeing Monga. Movies are one of the means that the media uses
to show the violence, there are also a variety of communicative ways, including
TV, magazines, music, video games, and the Internet.
Apart
from that, the media can become the incentive which stirs the students bully
someone in school. The typical instance is the Internet. Owing to the Internet,
we can have the freedom of expressing our opinions and views, but when the
freedom is misused, it may cause the conflicts as quarreling and even insulting
on the Internet community. If a student collides with another student in the
same school strictly on the Internet and the situation is out of control, the
student may abet his or her friends to give another student on the inferior
side a ‘physical’ lesson; that is, they bully the student.
Thus, there is no denying
that the media violence has the impact on school bullying. I know that it is
explicit, but I want to explore why the media violence can make such a great
effect on school bullying and how it makes it. The media has lots of the
communicative ways, and how do those ways incite school bullying? This is the
question that I want to figure out and do deep research in. 
I think is well written and very coherent, :) but you only mentioned the movie "Monga" as example of media violence in Taiwan. You also mention the internet, magazines,etc but I think it would be better if you write concrete examples about that; for example the name of the magazines o some taiwanese websites that show violence, otherwhise it seems that you are only focusing on taiwanese TV. IF that is correct, meaby a narrower title would be enough.
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