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Who is to blame? Is it the responsibility of the parents to manage how their teenage kid responds to music? Depending on how parents develop the foundation for their children to learn, grow, and function in the world will help determine how they interpret things as a teenage kid. Family values are developing for the whole family to live by almost like if they were a set of rules. Parents educating their teenage kid on media literacy will automatically give the responsibility and accountability to them; it will also minimize negative consequences. For those people that desire to have proficient knowledge on today’s media means they want to excel on being an excellent student, employee, and a parent. For a parent to be literate on the media that he or she can no longer hide from their children is a very important issue. Since a parent has no control over today’s media but if they have knowledge of it they can at least control what their kids are reading, listening to on the radio, watching on television and more importantly how they use the biggest tool in the media the ‘internet’. Like everything else in life television has its good and bad. The biggest downfall that comes with television is violence. The reason why violence is such huge part of television is because violence it is vital to action. Seventy percent of televised programs consist of action based programs such as Law and Order, CSI Miami, WWF, COPS and then theirs channels that promote nothing but action/violence movies like the Spike, TNT, FX, and USA channel. The best thing a parent can do is simply block the channels that he or she considers to be violent for teenagers.
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This method still does not guarantee that the young impressionable teens will not find access to other channel or programs that promote violence. Nothing gets the attention of a reader like a title that states a violent
Who is to blame?
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Who is to blame? Is it the responsibility of the parents to manage how their teenage kid responds to music? Depending on how parents develop the foundation for their children to learn, grow, and function in the world will help determine how they interpret things as a teenage kid. Family values are developing for the whole family to live by almost like if they were a set of rules. Parents educating their teenage kid on media literacy will automatically give the responsibility and accountability to them; it will also minimize negative consequences. For those people that desire to have proficient knowledge on today’s media means they want to excel on being an excellent student, employee, and a parent. For a parent to be literate on the media that he or she can no longer hide from their children is a very important issue. Since a parent has no control over today’s media but if they have knowledge of it they can at least control what their kids are reading, listening to on the radio, watching on television and more importantly how they use the biggest tool in the media the ‘internet’. Like everything else in life television has its good and bad. The biggest downfall that comes with television is violence. The reason why violence is such huge part of television is because violence it is vital to action. Seventy percent of televised programs consist of action based programs such as Law and Order, CSI Miami, WWF, COPS and then theirs channels that promote nothing but action/violence movies like the Spike, TNT, FX, and USA channel. The best thing a parent can do is simply block the channels that he or she considers to be violent for teenagers.
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Who is to blame?
This method still does not guarantee that the young impressionable teens will not find access to other channel or programs that promote violence. Nothing gets the attention of a reader like a title that states a violent
References: 1. Len Masterman, the acclaimed author of Teaching the Media. www.medialit.org/reading_room/article675.html 2. University of Phoenix. (2009). Week five overview. Retrieved September 2, 2009, from University of Phoenix, Week five, and Resource. SOC105-Mass Media/Mass Culture, 5e 3. Susie Duffy, M.F.T. www.familyiq,com/news/DefiningYourFamilyValues.asp