Elmira Ilyasova – Subcultural Cosmopolite http://subculturalcosmopolite.wordpress.com/ A blog dedicated to the issue of subcultures, social trends, music and philosophies that surely affect society and vice versa. Interesting discourse on how the original messages of certain subcultures are turning against them and how many of the formerly extreme trends and subcultures are [...]
Websites Related to the Topic of Media and Violence
MEDIA AWARENESS NETWORK http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/violence/effects_media_violence.cfm A web portal which could be described as one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources. The issue of media violence is being looked at and addressed from various angles, thus divided into more sections such as: Violence in Media Entertainment, The Business of Media [...]
A MUST-SEE!!!
“Bowling for Columbine” – documentary by Michael Moore (2002) The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humour, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing [...]
Last Words To Speak (A Short Academic Essay)
Media, theoretically, should be regarded as a source of information. These days, however, media is mostly used as a source of entertainment. When it comes to the issue of violence in entertainment in general, first evidence of this notion can be found way back in history. The Great Roman Empire overtook this idea of violent [...]
Is Media Violence a Free Speech? – George Gerbner vs. Todd Gitlin
link: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/articles/violence/violence_speech.cfm George Gerbner, former dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and a founder of Cultural Environment Movement (CEM), and Todd Gitlin, a high-profile veteran of the 1960s peace movement and a leading U.S. commentator and author on media and culture issues, are expressing their opinions on the issue. [...]
Caution: Children at Play.The Truth about Violent Youth and Violence in Video Games (by Duke Ferris)
link: http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/violence_and_videogames An article by Duke Ferris, an ordinary fan of video gaming and a registered member of the ‘Game Revolution’ online community, is a response to “the current media frenzy and barrage of lawsuits surrounding violent video games.” Using the official statistical evidence obtained from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Statistics, the [...]
High-School Shooting, Tuusula – Finland (07/11/2007)
On Wednesday, November 7, 2007 eight people have been killed and at least ten others injured in a shooting incident at Jokela High-School in the town of Tuusula in south of Finland. The gunman has been identified as Pekka-Eric Auvinen; an 18-year-old student at the Jokela High-School. The actual massacre had been preceded by a [...]
Teenage Gang Kills in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ style (30/10/2004)
On Sunday, October 30, 2004 a gay barman named David Morley, 37, a survivor of the Admiral Duncan pub bombing in Soho six years ago, had been beaten to death by a teenage gang from Kennington, south London. He had been a victim of a practice called “happy slapping” which involved beating, kicking and stamping. [...]
