Issue Paper-final draft

Taiwan’s televised news violence: the lurking inciter of school bullying should be prevented by the audience
    In recent years, school bullying becomes the hot issue in Taiwan. The public starts to care about this issue because they often see the reports about school bullying on television. Even the government begins to value the seriousness of school bullying. We might think that it is Taiwan’s televised news that arouse the society’s attention to the already-existed problem and call on the public to prevent the recurrence of school bullying, but is it as such a good contributor as what we think? The truth is, Taiwan’s televised news does not just a propeller of concerning about school bullying, but also a potential inciter of school bullying.
    In fact, school bullying results from multiple elements: cultural factor, social issue, family reason, and personal element, etc. Yet I only want to explore the influence of the televised news on school bullying in Taiwan because what makes the problem into the issue is Taiwan’s news, and the televised news are the primary force. In the process of discussing the relationship between Taiwan’s televised news and school bullying, some think that Taiwan’s extravagant and biased televised news have effects on the aggressiveness among the young; while others protest that argument and disbelieve that the televised news violence will lead school bullying. Thus, another issue pops out: does Taiwan’s televised news really incite the occurrence of school bullying? If it does, what sorts of the way does we the audience take to prevent the problem?
    As I express my views in the first paragraph, I think that Taiwan’s televised news is the potential stimulator of school bullying due to the media violence and its reporting way. The media violence means the violent scenes and behaviors appearing in the media content. Taiwan’s televised news often presents this kind of events and reports them with the overstated title and unjust story. On account of that, the young viewers may not be able to treat the news violence appropriately but be induced to imitate the violent behaviors, and school bullying happens as a result. So, that should surely be prevented. However, the preventive measure cannot be so plain like constraining the televised news directly. The better and effective way is that the audience actively supervises the televised news to prompt them to improve their reporting quality and instruct the young viewers about the news literacy education concretely. With the viewers’ stress and evaluation of the news literacy, Taiwan’s news violence will lessen, and so does its potential risk bringing about school bullying.

Reflection 2

    So far, I am gradually clear about what thesis I want to write and being able to find out the annotations which can support my discourse appropriately. I feel uplifted at this improvement, but I know that there is still room to progress my writing and thinking. As the teacher's advice, the solution of news literacy education mentioned in my annotation 4 should be more concrete to become more convincing. Likewise, my previous annotations also need revised in this way. As for my issue topic, I will rethink it and relate it to the relation between Taiwan's televised news violence and school bullying. Firstly, I would like to prove the influence of news violence on school bullying in the annotation 1, taking the annotation 2 and 3 for examples, and then make my annotation 4 for defending my argument to resolve the issue. To do my research paper efficiently and progressively, I make the working plan as follows:

Step 1: Review and Organize my previous compositions

Step 2: Read over teacher's handouts and Revise my previous compositions

Step 3: Integrate my compositions into the research paper and qualify it in APA Style

Step 4: Finish my research paper and review it

    With achieving four steps, I hope that my research paper can communicate not only with the readers but also with myself.

Annotation 4-draft 2

Enhancement of Young Students' News Literacy Education: The Feasible Way to Improve Taiwan's Worse News Quality
According to Yu-ling Lin, the author of the essay, it is possible that the cultivation of the young students’ critical thinking through enhancing news literacy education is able to urge the improvement of present Taiwan’s news quality. He thinks that the currently over-sensational and overstating news reports resulting in the worse quality of news need to be changed by the audience supervision. And the appropriate supervision has to have the enhancement of news literacy education which is better to start with the young students. In the investigation to prove his discourse, he takes seven young students as subjects to be encouraged and instructed not only to criticize the objectivity of the news but also to reflect themselves what influence of the news on them after watching the news animation about school bullying. The result is that they admit that they have had the experience of bullying and find out the effect of the news on the way they think one thing or event. After receiving the news literacy education, they even post the instruction of that on Facebook Page to let more people enable to learn it. With this experiment, the essay advocates that the teaching and practice of news literacy education on young students seems to be the feasible way to improve Taiwan’s worse news quality.
Indeed, Taiwan’s news is often filled with the exaggerated and biased reporting context to appeal more Taiwan’s viewers who solely accept the information the news provides but lack the deep thinking on the reports. When we watch the televised news, we often bear the curiosity and amusement for the report instead of doubting its objectivity with the critical thinking, and let alone young students. Like the students watching the news animation about school bullying in the essay, if they were not taught the right news literacy, they might have thought the report entertaining due to the exaggerated simulate animation. Furthermore, they might have deemed that the young bullying behaviors is not serious and has not to be restrained because the news animation lacks the properly condemnation on the violence of the bullying ones. Even if the National Communications Commission (NCC) regulates the news and promotes the supervision of the news by the audience, most of the present televised news about violence is still without self-control and moderate quality. Thus, we need to supervise the news more actively to propel the change of the news, and teachers as well as parents should teach the young about the proper news literacy education by being good models. In this way, the enhancement of news literacy education in the young students is achievable and the improvement of the news quality is realizable.

Yu-ling Lin (2011).  News Literacy Education in the Digital Age: A Model of Critical News Literacy, Retrieved January, 2012, from National Chiao Tung University, Journal of Cyber Culture and Information Society Website: http://ccis.nctu.edu.tw/issueArticle.asp?P_No=27&CA_ID=336

Peer Comments and Revision List

Peer comments:
How does the young audience have the proper news literacy education?
How about the NCC(National Communications Commission)? Can NCC do something to benefit news literacy education?

Revision list:
Think about the above questions and find out the answers to support my argument

Annotation 4-draft 1

Enhancement of Young Students' News Literacy Education: The Feasible Way to Improve Taiwan's Worse News Quality


    According to Yu-ling Lin, the author of the essay, it is possible that the cultivation of the young students’ critical thinking through enhancing news literacy education is able to urge the improvement of present Taiwan’s news quality. He thinks that the currently over-sensational and overstating news reports resulting in the worse quality of news need to be changed by the audience supervision. And the appropriate supervision has to have the enhancement of news literacy education which is better to start with the young students. In the investigation to prove his discourse, he takes seven young students as subjects to be encouraged and instructed not only to criticize the objectivity of the news but also to reflect themselves what influence of the news on them after watching the news animation about school bullying. The result is that they admit that they have had the experience of bullying and find out the effect of the news on the way they think one thing or event. After receiving the news literacy education, they even post the instruction of that on Facebook Page to let more people enable to learn it. With this experiment, the essay advocates that the teaching and practice of news literacy education on young students seems to be the feasible way to improve Taiwan’s worse news quality.
Indeed, Taiwan’s news is often filled with the exaggerated and biased reporting context to appeal more Taiwan’s viewers who solely accept the information the news provides but lack the deep thinking on the reports. When we watch the televised news, we often bear the curiosity and amusement for the report instead of doubting its objectivity with the critical thinking, and let alone young students. Like the students watching the news animation about school bullying in the essay, if they were not taught the right news literacy, they might have thought the report entertaining due to the exaggerated simulate animation. Furthermore, they might have deemed that the young bullying behaviors is not serious and has not to be restrained because the news animation lacks the properly condemnation on the violence of the bullying ones. For the most of the present televised news about violence without self-control and moderate quality, we, the audience, need to supervise it properly with the right news literacy education, and so do the young students. In this way, the young students will not be influenced by the violent news on the negative side and think about the violence on the critical attitude. Thus, the news literacy education is a feasible way to lessen the potential aggressiveness in school of the young affected by the violent news on TV.

Annotation 3 -draft 2

Taiwan's Televised Reports on Teenage Crimes Can Distort Both Viewer's Perception and Mind 
    In the essay, the author, Dr. 蘇蘅, explores how Taiwan's televised news on teenage crimes and the effects of their ways to represent teenage crimes. With statistics from different television news stations, he finds out two primary factors that bring about the way of their reports on teenage crimes. First factor is the intense competition among Taiwan's televised news. Due to the competitive market, the televised news mostly adopts the serious teenage crime with the live-action and dramatic effect to appeal more viewers. Secondly, the televised news characterizes the sound and the image and has the limit of the reporting time, so  the news values the immediate and striking impression on the spot and tends to represent the partial events to the audience. Consisting in the two factors, the televised news usually reports the teenage crimes like violent harm or murder and  uses the stirring but superficial expressions in the reports. In this way, the broadcast news will possibly distort the perception of the audience.
    Apart from making the prejudiced perception of the audience, the televised news may also inflict the audience's imitation of the crimes. Without the deep examination and the reports on the process of the trial of the crime, the news on the teenage crimes can just bring somewhat entertaining effect to the audience. The viewers are possibly  distorted not only their perceptions but also their mind by the televised news on teenage crimes. With the mind incited by the violence in the report, their behavior can be influenced. That is, when the teenage who cannot properly judge the news see the report, they may think it exciting and funny and imitate it in school, and their doings becomes school bullying consequently. It is common that we are able to watch lots of cases on our televised news reporting teenage crimes.Thus, the discourse o this essay can be an interpretation of the televised violence news' effect on the potential school bullying in Taiwan.

蘇蘅 (2002).  新聞裡的罪與罰--報紙與電視新聞如何再現青少年犯罪 Retrieved January 9, 2009, from NCCU Institutional  Repository Website: http://dspace2.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/28089

Peer Comments and My Respond to Annotation 3

Susie:
i think that it is good generally because you give us the evidence that how the media affect teenager on school bullying

Pearl:
i think you spend too much time on describing the context
maybe it can be shorter and it is also easy for readers catch the point
and it is good that you to mark first secondly...

Lisa:
because i think there are the attributions of causing the news to influence the teenagers. so u think my description is not concise enough?
if it is i'll revise it thank u

Pearl:
i still can know what you write
i means if you can do it
it can be better
because half of your annotation is other's thing

Lisa:
OK

Julia:
so will u come up with a solution? or u just want to discuss about the phenomenon?

Pearl:
it is not really like yours

Lisa:
next annotation i'll come up with a solution

Pearl:
yes yes the annotation is like only phenomenon. your next annotation can do something different

Annotation 3

The Distortion of Televised Reports on Teenage Crimes in Taiwan

    In the essay, the author, Dr. 蘇蘅, explores how Taiwan's televised news and newspapers report teenage crimes and the effects of their ways to represent teenage crimes. With statistics from different television news stations and newspapers, he finds out a couple of characteristics in their reports of  teenage crimes: Firstly, both of them prefer to report the teenage violence crime which is not the highest ration of teenage criminal types according to the statistics from Ministry of Justice because they think that the violence crime can appeal to the viewers. Secondly,  the televised reports does not trace the  further development of the case although they value the occurrence of the teenage crime and the moment of arresting than the newspapers does. Thirdly, their sources of the teenage crimes highly depend on the police and the authorities. In conclusion, he points out that the televised reports is especially able to distort the viewers' perception about teenage crimes  because of not only the prejudiced information of the teenage crimes from the police but also the use of the dramatic and exaggerated explanation in the reports for attracting the audience.
    That discourse can be an interpretation of the televised violence news' effect on the potential school bullying in Taiwan. It goes without saying that Taiwan's TV news like to report the criminal news. To appeal more viewers in the short broadcasting time, it tends to choose the more severe cases such as murder or injury and overstate the context of the teenage crimes but lacks the profound reports. With that representative way, the teenage viewers who watch those reports can possibly think the reports entertaining even imitate those behaviors in school like threatening  or harming other weak classmates which result in the happening of bullying. Thus, the way of Taiwan's televised news representing the teenage crimes can make the effect of inciting school bullying instead of  transmit the viewers the positive message of admonishing the similar circumstances to reoccur.

蘇蘅 (2002).  新聞裡的罪與罰--報紙與電視新聞如何再現青少年犯罪 Retrieved January 9, 2009, from NCCU Institutional  Repository Website: http://dspace2.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/28089

Reflection 1

    In the beginning, I set my title ‘the media violence-the potential inciter of school bullying in Taiwan’ too widely. The media has many representative means such as TV, movies, music, books and the Internet. It is difficult to discuss so many media tools aptly at the same time, so afterwards I decide to narrow down my issue into the televised news violence.
    However, there are lots of problems and confusion I need to tackle with and clear. Even if I change my title, the primary problem still results from my issue. In my annotation 1, I suggest that the televised violence makes children imitate the heroine violence and possibly leads to school bullying because of the excess of the televised violence exposure to the children with the lack of parental supervision. I also emphasize the importance of parents on the precaution of the youth aggressiveness. But in my annotation 2, I take the effect of the popular Taiwan’s violent movie Monga on the school bullying for example to aim to draw out the problem of our televised news that it which reports the violence effect from a movie actually has its violence effect too. From that inference, it seems that the televised news should take the responsibility of the risks of school bullying. And that is the point where the problem and the confusion emerge.
    With peers’ comments and teacher’s suggestions, I find that I am confused which is responsible for school bullying from the televised violence. Is it only the televised news’ problem or other TV programs are also involved in this violence effect? Should the parents also have responsibilities for that? Or both of them need to think about the suitable ways of preventing school bullying? Besides, the occurrence of school bullying is not solely attributed to the televised violence; it consists of many complicated factors. The problem of the school bullying has existed for a long time, and why I choose the televised news for the inciter of the school bullying? Is it the primary cause of school bullying?
    I know that it is impossible to clear my mind with the problems and the confusion completely, but I try to refigure out my thesis and argument as hard as I can. I still want to explore the relation between the televised news violence and the school bullying because the appearance of the issue of school bullying owes to the televised news expansive broadcasts which arise the public attention. Due to the televised news, we appeal for and promote the anti-bullying activities. Nevertheless, we seem to ignore the problem of our televised news that often likes to present and even exaggerate the violent scenes to the viewers for their rating or of the viewers, ourselves. I think that the possibilities of school bullying may lessen with not only the control of the televised news violence but also our audience’s efforts of improving the news literacy. Thus, I will write and revise my paper with my present idea later.

Annotation 2 - draft 2

Monga’s Effect? The Problem of School Bullying is only because of the Violent Movie?

    According to the reporter from TVBS, Yi Shen He’s report, a gang fight between two student’s groups occurred in a junior high school in Kaohsiung County. Because of the misunderstanding on the phone which proceeded into a collision, two student’s groups from two different schools assembled on the campus and engaged in the gang fight. This fight caused four students wounded and the other students sent into the Police Officer. One of the participant students confessed that they imitated the ‘brotherhood’ in Taiwanese gangster film, Monga, to fight for their friends as the characters did in the movie and even called themselves ‘Gang of Temple’ simulating ‘ Gang of Princes’ in Monga.
    That report proves the discourse that the televised violence could beget the youth imitation in the previous article. Although the movie, Monga, intends to emphasize the spirit of the brotherhood and the friendship through the Taiwan’s gangster culture, the negative values are possibly produced in the youth minds, such as gang fights, and criminal behavior for the brotherhood. Due to the immaturity of the judgment during the adolescence, the youth might sill distort the right meaning of the film’s violent expression and imitate it as the heroine behavior for fighting with his friend’s ‘foes’. Thus, the problem of Monga’s negative effect evokes the dispute whether we should limit the violent movies like Monga to broadcast to the children lest the possibility of school bullying.
    However, is the negative effect of the youth imitation all the movie’s fault? We cannot totally blame it on Monga. Some school bullying news or other violent-related ones are often linked to Monga’s effect by the reporters after Monga becomes a hit movie and gains high popularity; but do those news are related to Monga truly? Are those reports possibly the televised news plot that the reports exploit Monga’s popularity for grabbing the viewer’s more attention on that news? So do we not be influenced by the reports of the news and have responsibility of that? All in all, the problem of school bullying is not only mainly from the violent movie but also from Taiwan’s televised news; and perhaps, we viewers are also involved in it.

Yi Shen He (2010). Monga's Effect? Junior High's Gang Fight. Retrieved March 1, 2010, from TVBS: TVBS News Website: http://www.tvbs.com.tw/news/news_list.asp?no=blue20100301120610

Peer Comments and My Responds on My Annotation 2

Richard: I think it is parents’ responsibilities that decide or control what his or her children are watching, because if you give the problem to the society or the government it still cannot solve the problem. Problem is everywhere. We cannot deal with them but we could do is close some doors which is not necessary to the children and open other doors that is suitable for the children’s watching. It is about choice.

Templar: I think maybe it is about human nature because there is something in our mind we want to do but we don’t know how to release it such as anger or something. Maybe the movie provides us a solution like the actors in Monga deal with the problem by violence. And some immature children will think it an appropriate way to release their anger. I think it is their parents’ duty how to teach children to deal with their emotions. I think most important thing is to teach the children to tell right from wrong. After knowing what is right and wrong, the children may watch everything.

Lisa: I agree with Templar.

Corinne: Do you think the question lies in the movie itself or the parents or the viewers? Do you think this movie or the program as you mentioned has its own value?
Lisa: I think the responsibility of causing school violence is the televised media violence.

Tina: I think the movie or Apple news has no problem in it because their contexts are violent and we have the rights to choose whether we watch or not. So do you think something wrong in the movie or news? So you think we should not have so many violent programs?

Lisa: I think there is something wrong in Taiwan’s media, especially the televised news. I think they exaggerate the events or expose too much violence to get high viewing rate

Annotation 2-draft 1

Monga’s Effect? The Problem of Youth Aggressive Imitation on the Violent Movie

        According to the reporter from TVBS, Yi Shen He’s report, a gang fight between two student’s groups occurred in a junior high school in Kaohsiung County. Because of the misunderstanding on the phone which proceeded into a collision, two student’s groups from two different schools assembled on the campus and engaged in the gang fight. This fight caused four students wounded and the other students sent into the Police Officer. One of the participant students confessed that they imitated the ‘brotherhood’ in Taiwanese gangster film, Monga, to fight for their friends as the characters did in the movie and even called themselves ‘Gang of Temple’ simulating ‘ Gang of Princes’ in Monga.

        That report proves the discourse that the televised violence could beget the youth imitation in the previous article. Although the movie, Monga, intends to emphasize the spirit of the brotherhood and the friendship through the Taiwan’s gangster culture, the negative values are possibly produced in the youth minds, such as gang fights, and criminal behavior for the brotherhood. Due to the immaturity of the judgment during the adolescence, the youth might distort the right meaning of the film’s violent expression and imitate it as the heroine behavior for fighting with his friend’s ‘foes’. Besides, the problem of Monga’s negative effect reflects the importance that the adults need to discuss and clarify the wrong values in the violent movie with their children timely. However, the hit movie, Monga is not only the televised violence which may lead to the potential youth aggressiveness that some parents worry about. In fact, our TV daily news and programs also have lots of violent scenes. We cannot just target the single movie on account of its popularity but ignore other televised violence which is actually exposed to the audience more frequently. 

Yi Shen He (2010). Monga's Effect? Junior High's Gang Fight. Retrieved March 1, 2010, from TVBS: TVBS News Website: http://www.tvbs.com.tw/news/news_list.asp?no=blue20100301120610

     

Annotation 1-Draft 2

     Eugene V Beresin, M.D.,the director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, points out the correlation between the media violence exposure and youth aggressiveness and considers that the physicians can help lessen those violent occurrences. He uses the televised violence for the primary example to explain the effect of the media violence on the youth. With 99% of homes have television and over half of all children have a television in their rooms, the opportunities that the youth contacts the violence on TV or in movies are growing without parental supervision and become the risks of leading the youth violence. According to the study, American children will watch more than 200,000 acts of violence, even including cartoons presenting up to 20 violent acts hourly. And the youth will imitate the violent heroes on TV or movies and be inserted a thought that aggressive behavior is a way to solve the conflict because of being exposed to the excessive televised violent. Besides, Eugene also refers to the music videos, video games, and the Internet as the violent exposure and the cultivators of violent models.
    Consequently, Eugene advocates that the child and adolescent physicians should not only advice parents to limit the amount of the violent televised exposure to children and explain the violent content to them properly, but also promote the media to provide appropriate warnings on the violent programs to the audience or consumers. Media violence has potential influence on the youth violence indeed, but by doing in this way just mentioned before; its risk of causing youth aggressive behaviors may enable to be controlled and declined.
    In my opinion, I think that the writer’s discourse about the correlation between televised violence and the youth aggressive behaviours can apply to the condition in Taiwan even if the target he talks is American youth. The fact is, in Taiwan, that television has also been popularized in almost every household and that we too have the problem of lacking the parental supervision on children’s TV watching. Therefore, the universal phenomenon can cause the youth violence in both of American’s case and Taiwan’s possibly. However, the precaution of televised violence exposure to the youth does rely on not only the assistance of physicians but also other more powerful groups, such like the government and the non-profit organizations. More importantly, parents need to really heed their children’s amount of viewing televised violence and tell them the right way to deal with the televised violence. In this way, we may succeed in decreasing the happenings of youth violence which includes the school bullying.

Eugene V Beresin, M.D. The Impact of Media Violence on Children and Adolescents: Opportunities for Clinical Interventions  Retrieved October 21, 2012, from the AACAP: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Web Site: http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/developmentor/the_impact_of_media_violence_on_children_and_adolescents_opportunities_for_clinical_interventions

Peer Comments and My Respond to My Annotation 1

Lisa:thank you guys~

i want to say something at first: i forgot to write my critical analysis

but the first annotation you can see it for support my argument.

Susie:what are thosse key words?? why list them out@@?

Pearl:these keywords are the source of points?

Lisa:because i read MY's syllabus about the annotation she says you will note down keywords in sentences so i did that but i think i will delete them on my revised annotation

Pearl:i think you should to take out the proof that the bullying is more serious than before

Lisa:sorry i don't understand what you're saying

Pearl:because some says bully has existed for a long time but we ignore it before.

Lisa:can you point out which part i write about what you're saying?

Julia:show us the ''number'' or "rate" to prove it

Pearl:because you mean as the media influence, bullying in school is more serious

Lisa:to J: you mean the part i summarize the televised violence should be provided with statistics?

Pearl:is it your meaning?

Julia:yes, to make it more convinced

or u can just put it into ur revised paper

Lisa:to P:no, the writer of the source just focus on the media violence, and it does not mean the media is the reason of increasing school bully but just one of the factors

to J: Ok, i will do this on my revised annotation, thanks

Susie:Maybe u could talk about this phenomenon in Taiwan?? we will feel more related to it

Pearl:ohoh~because i read you issue paper at the same time

Lisa:to S:ya i will relate it to Taiwan on my revised annotation. Because i forgot to write my critical analysis, i want to link the source to it in my critical analysis.

Pearl:ok when you finish your critical analysis
you can inform us and we will give you another advise

Lisa:to P: i will read my issue paper again and i think my view is that media violence is one of the factors inciting school bully

Pearl:oh i see

Lisa:to S: ok! Thanks

does anyone else still have other problems or comment on my annotation?

Julia:i think u should take out some clear evidence to prove that they are really related

Eventually or it would be only your opinion

Lisa:i'll summarize the writer's statistics on my revised annotation

Julia:u know there are a lot of factors can influence kids

Lisa:ya but i just focus on the media violence as my issue paper

Julia:yes

Annotation 1-draft 1

Source: http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/developmentor/the_impact_of_media_violence_on_children_and_adolescents_opportunities_for_clinical_interventions

Keywords 1: While it is difficult to determine which children who have experienced televised violence are at greatest risk, there appears to be a strong correlation between media violence and aggressive behavior within vulnerable "at risk" segments of youth.

Keywords 2: I will briefly review the impact of media violence on children and adolescents, and indicate the vital role physicians can play in helping to diminish this powerful cause of violent behavior.

Keywords 3: How does televised violence result in aggressive behavior? Some researchers have demonstrated that very young children will imitate aggressive acts on TV in their play with peers.

Keywords 4: In general, violence on television and in movies often conveys a model of conflict resolution.

Keywords 5: In one recent study, it was demonstrated that 15% of music videos contain interpersonal violence. Still another new source of violent exposure is access to the Internet and video games.

Keywords 6: Parents should limit television to 1-2 hours daily and watch programs with their children, enabling them to address any objectionable material seen.

Keywords 7: We should be speaking up to the networks, cable vendors, local stations, federal agencies, and our political officials to help insure that programming decisions are made with an eye open to the potential consequences to the viewing audience, and that when violence is present, there are adequate warnings provided to the public.

Summary:

Eugene V Beresin, M.D.,the director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training
Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital takes the school shooting by a youth and the increasing youth bullying in America as the introduction of the variable causes of youth violence and stands the media violence exposure out among other factors. Here he points out that the media violence surely relates to aggressive behaviors among youth and focuses on its impact on the children and teenagers. Eugene also considers the physicians can help lessen those violent occurrences. He uses the televised violence for the major case to explain the effect of the media violence on the youth in detail. With televisions in public household more and more common, the opportunities that the youth contacts the violence presented on TV or in movies are growing and become the risks of leading the youth violence. He adopts the interpretation of some studies on this subject that the youth will imitate the violent heroes on TV or movies and be inserted a thought that aggressive behavior is a way to solve the conflict. Besides, he refers to the music videos, video games, and the Internet as other violent exposure and the cultivators of violent models like TV and movies. In conclusion, Eugene advocates that the child and adolescent physicians should not only advice parents to limit the amount of the violent televised exposure to children and explain the violent content to them properly but also promote the media to provide appropriate warnings on the violence to the audience or consumers. Media violence has great potential influence on the youth violence indeed, but by doing in this way just mentioned before, its risk of causing youth aggressive behaviors may be controlled and declined.

Issue Paper-draft 2

Media Violence-The Potential Inciter of School Bullying in Taiwan

        Media violence should not be exposed to the students too much and need to be restricted properly to prevent the potential school bullying occur. In recent years, school bullying becomes a popular issue in Taiwan. Due to the mass media, we are able to see many school violent cases through the news reports and the papers. The government and the public also 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 major 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 report 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 incentive is born from the over violent pictures for attracting the audience's more attention in some TV news, newspapers like Apple Daily and magazines like NextMedia. Further, in the pop music, teenagers  also learn the verbal violence from the lyrics, especially in the rap such as the American singer, 50 cent, whose songs often appears the violent and dirty words. And it is no need to say that the violent video games or online games may be possible to make the students who play the games produce the violence in school for being unable to tell the visual world from the real world. In addition, the Internet community is another stimulus. We can have the freedom of expressing our opinions and views on the Internet community, but when the freedom is misused, it may cause the conflicts as quarreling and even insulting on the Internet community like blogs or facebook. If a student collides with another student in the same school strictly on the blog or facebook 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 will explore deeply 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? It is the question that I want to figure out and do deep research in. And through searching for the answer to this question, I will subsequently prove my argument that the students should not contact too much media violence  for fear of being an aggressive person in school.

Issue Paper-draft 1

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.