![]() ![]() He knows ways around parental controls, or he can simply grab my brothers iPad and search whatever he wants on Youtube. My nephew has constant devices to access anything violent. ![]() If we were to limit the violence shown to us on our computers or televisions or video consoles, that would be considered downright unAmerican. Violence in media is something that will most likely never go away. When I was growing up, it was ghosts, witches and goblins who haunted my nightmares and inspired my costumes, but my nephew has entered into a new world of media that can deliberately show children just how horrible humans can be towards one another. Most researchers even define media violence as visual portrayals of acts of physical aggression by one human or human-like character against another (Huesmann, 2007) What shocked me the most about my nephew’s response (other than the fact that I was expecting him to say Ninja Turtle or a car from Transformers) was that he was genuinely excited to portray a violent horror movie character, who is a human, murdering other humans. ![]() He is a man with a terrifying mask on his face, who continuously stalks and murders other characters with a giant machete. This year, when I asked my seven-year-old nephew what he wanted to dress as for Halloween, he immediately perked up and exclaimed, “Jason!” If you’re unfamiliar with who “Jason” is, he is the main villain in the Friday the 13th series of films. ![]()
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