Blog 15

Santiago Peralta
Dr. Louis Lucca
Mass Media and Society HUC 130
April 28, 2010
“How does media violence affects kids”
Media in this century has become another member of every family I the world. In every house there is a television, computer, video games etc. Children have access to all this devices, in television there are hundreds of channels and kids have access to all of them. In the computer thanks to the internet kids can access to anything you can imagine. Videos had become very violent in the last few years, in which you can see a lot of blood, stabbing, fighting, and stealing. Most of the parents don’t have total control over these items and they don’t realize that this kind of violence is damaging kid’s behavior in any kind of environment.
Children spend more of their time watching television or playing video games and parents don’t supervise what kind of show or if the video game is appropriate for the child. In the United States both parents work, the mother and the father and it’s impossible for them to check on their kids while they are on work. So the son watch watches whatever he wants on television