Summary response of New Views on Video Violence

Ryo
AE2-B

In the article “New Views on Video Violence” by Dorothy and Jerome Singer, the authors state that watching violence on TV has more negative effects on children than reading violent stories. First, watching TV makes children feel scared by using various technologies like a camera. Second, children tend to spend much more time watching television, according to the statistics. Third, it is easier to understand what television says than reading a book for young children. Fourth, when the scary books are read by parents, they can express the stories more mildly to their children. Finally, when children read scary books, they can control the reading speed and reread the books whenever they want. In conclusion, the author suggests that watching violent TV make more serious effects on children than reading violent stories. I agree with this article, and I think watching violence on TV causes more serious problems than reading a book.
One of my reasons is that when you watch TV, you usually can see live people on the TV. In the killing scenes, TV can describe more grotesque by using live people. On the other hand, a book cannot describe the killing scenes vividly. When you read about the killing scene in the book, you always have to think and image about the scene in your brain. In addition to this, you can image the scene more mildly so that you don’t feel scary. Watching the live persons’ killing scenes impresses stronger impacts for children than reading a book.
Another my reason is that there are many murder games. Those games can sweep away children easily. Almost all boys usually like those games, so especially they tend to be more captivated by those games than girls do. Also those games sometimes teach them how to use a gun, or kill people. Therefore, it is ironic that those games can be good demonstration of murder for children.
All in all, there are many problems when you watch violence on TV. Then, the problems are more serious than reading a book for those reasons. If children continue to watch killing scenes, and also play killing games on TV, I think that they might be felonious murders someday. Therefore, I think watching violence on TV gives worse effects to children than reading a book.