Dr Tanya Byron

Dr Tanya Byron is working alongside the government to find out more information into how things on the internet etc are harmful to children. She will be reporting her findings back in March 2008.

K.C

Government views on violence on games

The government believes that parents are under educated when it comes video game violence, and in turn a website has been created for parents, advising them on what games their children shouldnt have.

www.Askaboutgames.com

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Back

I got back friday morning.

I got the primary data and shall show it to you when i get back

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Goin away

I shall be away from thursday till the thursday after

K.C

More on my primary research

I wanted to know, would i have to get parental consent to carry out my research?

K.C

More secondary data

More views and research to do with power rangers etc and how they have had bad effects on children.

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My Primary research plans

When on my holidays i will be with many young relatives. With them i'll get them to watch a certain video (probably power rangers), then before and after i will monitor their behaviours.

I expect to see some sort of agressive change e.g. they start trying out moves they just saw from tv. But time will tell.

KC

Research into violence in the mass media

This link shows some research that has been done into the influence of violence in the mass media on chlidren

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Research methods

My main type of research will be seconday data, and also there will be a mix between qualative and quantative data. I may do some primary research as in interview people on there views but there will be no where near as much as secondary (but this could change)

K.C

My hypothsis

I've decided my hypothesis to be
Violence in media (TV, Video games, Movies, music) will influence children

Q. Does violence in the media influence our children to act violent themselves?

Sub questions wil be :-
In what ways does the violence influence children?
Why is violence in games not monitored better?

K.C

Violence in games

A 'documentry' or sorts into how violence in games is teaching children to be 'killers'.

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Other research into media influences on children

Other have looked into how violence and bad lyrics in the media maybe influencing children

The link takes you to these others view.

K.C

The virginia tech massacre - was a movie to blame?

Many people believe that the killer based his killings on the film from South Korea, what do you think?

Kieran.C

More banning ....

A few years ago, when GTA:San Andreas first came out, it was also banned in many countries including Australia

Rap musics influence

The link below leads to a article talking about how many people feel rap music is changing youngsters in a bad way.

My choice

I first considered doing world cinema, but now i'm starting to turn to 'Children and media'. For this i'm planning on looking at how violence in game, and lyrics from music are influencing youung children these days. ManHunt 2 is an example of this where it has been banned from much of the EU due to its excess gore.
WARNING-PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT DUE TO THE NATURE OF MEDIA/FILM STUDIES SOME CLIPS USED MAY CONTAIN SWEAR WORDS. DO NOT WATCH THESE CLIPS IF YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE OFFENDED BY SUCH LANGUAGE.-WARNING