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.