SOC384H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 2014 Isla Vista Killings, Hypodermic Needle, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate
Document Summary
Washington post opinion article about mass murderer elliot rodgers. Video of person playing videogame: school shooting game is sensitive to people because of sandyhook school shooting. Violent cartoons such as batman: many people do not think these forms of media has an effect on society. People are not so concerned about themselves they themselves do not think they will get effected but they are concerned over the potential for people to get influenced. People have an inability to see that they are influcenced they say i have been watching violent media and have not done anything violent. In class the videogame was having the shooter killing little kids and in the batman, he was going after criminals. The videogame had graphic violence such as blood. In this case people are learning that shooting the kids is bad because they do not deserve it.
