There is a lower priority on our children's social development and I do not think kids are benefiting from playing video games, watching TV, and playing on the computer all day. I agree with the article that kids are consumed more with the technologies they own. I know that the marketing and media towards kids will only increase and the video made me feel as if there is no hope for the future generations to simply have fun playing outside or doing some other activity that does not involve watching a screen. I hope kids can be educated about what they watch earlier so they realize how this marketing is influencing them.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Children and the Media Video
The main idea of this video is that media influences the lives of children more than in the past and this is causing a larger problem for the society than people really understand. This video expressed a lot of bias because it only reinstated the bad effects that media is having on children. Even though there was evident bias, I still agreed with much of what the video said about the product placement because I do not think it is helping anyone to be surrounded with more media than is already out there. Kids have so much influence because they are the wave of the future, so they are being marketed to more. The goal of many companies is to insinuate their brands into the children's lives and turn them into lifelong consumers. They say a result is that there is going to be a health care crisis.
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This video was extremely biased, but I think it needed to be in order to get the point across. This is going to be a huge crisis for the next generations, I'm scared to see what these children's children are like. It is very scary, especially since I never have owned a video game, hardly any movies (I think I own 3), and I rarely watch TV, so I don't personally know the extent of the situation. I wonder if maketing company big-wigs have young children... they would be interesting to meet.
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