TIME FRAME OF DISCUSSION:

12 November 2017 (2.30 - 4.30 p.m.): Delegation of article research duties

17 November 2017 (4 - 6 p.m.) : Sitting together for research for information

24 November 2017 (10 - 12 p.m.) : Sitting together for research for information

25 November 2017 (12 - 2 p.m.) : Discussion of outlining the forum discussion

3 November 2017 (2.30 - 4.30 p.m.) : Discussion of counter-arguments and flow of forum

discussion

7 November 2017 (8 - 10 p.m.) : Discussion of counter-arguments and flow of forum

discussion

8 November 2017 (10 -11p.m.) : Practice of forum discussion

9 November 2017 (4 - 7 p.m.) : Final practice of forum discussion

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OUTLINE FOR FORUM DISCUSSION (GROUP OUTLINE):

Title: Violence in the media causes violence in children

CLAIM PREMISES COUNTER-ARGUMENT

What is the definition of violence
Najmi in the media?
(Moderator) =Most researchers however,
have clear conceptions of what
they mean by media violence and
aggressive behavior.
Most researchers define media
violence as visual portrayals of
acts of physical aggression
By one human or human-like
character against another.

What is a media violence?

=The study of violence in mass
media analyzes the degree of
correlation between themes of
violence in media sources
(particularly violence in video
games, television and films) with
real-world aggression and
violence over time. Many social
scientists support the correlation.

- Without further ado, lets us

begin our forum by starting with
Mr. Farhan.

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Violence in the media causes
violence in children
(Farhan)
-Television has the
potential to generate
negative effects
(Farhan)
-The amount of violence on
television is on the rise
-The average teen will have
spent more time watching
television than in the classroom
(Johnson, 2002)
-Watching television frequently
will limits childrens time for
essential activities such as
playing, reading, learning to talk,
spending time with friends and
family and developing other
necessary physical, mental and
social skills (Paediatry Child Health,
2002)
-By exposing violence portrayed by
the television and other particularly
realistic violence may make the
children to believe that the world is
a dangerous and unsafe place to
live. They may begin to over-thinking
the possibility that they will be
victims of violence, leaving them
with full of anxiety and stress.
-Other factors that influence the
mediums impact on children
include the childs developmental
level, individual exposure and
whether children watch television
alone or with their parents.
Everything that children see or
hear in the media early on in their
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Violence in the media does not
cause violence in the children
(Muzammel)
- Targeting violence in the
media makes an easy target.
People always blame media
for any violence especially
violence in children. For
example, theres bullying in
schools, what should we do?
Make the media less violent!
and Rape and domestic
violence are at epidemic
levels, what should we do?
Make the media less violent! It
is an endless argument and
unending campaign against
the media. It is like people
are blaming media instead of
blaming themselves because
they dont pay much attention
to their children.
-I dont really agree with your
statement. If you say that TV
is the root of the violence, it is
actually depending on what
channel you watch. For
example, have you ever watch
Astro Ceria channel? It
dedicated for kids and have
lives will affects them in some
way. Children may be
more likely to behave in
aggressive
or harmful ways toward others.
-Watching television takes time
away from reading and doing
schoolwork. Daily unsupervised
television viewing by children has
a significant harmful effect on
their academic performance,
especially reading. Because they
will loss interest in reading book
and become addicted to watching
television. This is not a good
sign.
Fun Facts:
- One house have multiple TVs,
meaning children have greater
opportunity to view programs
without parental supervision.
-The average child witness
12,000 violent acts on television
annually, including many
depictions of murder and rape.
(Comstock, 1990).
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many educational and fun
shows for children.
-Another famous kidss show
is Sesame Street. It is an
example of how kids can learn
valuable lessons about racial
harmony, cooperation,
kindness, simple arithmetic
and the alphabet through an
educational television shows.
The educational value of
Sesame Street, has been
shown to improve the reading
and learning skills of its
viewers.
(Muzammel)
-Damaged genes from
pregnant women because of
smoking, drinking, poor
nutrition or exposure to
excessive stress can cause or
contribute to a fetus abnormal
genetic development plus
preventing a child from
learning skills for self-
expression, reducing his ability
to interact socially, and thus
make him prone to violence
(Richard Tremblay)
-What makes kids become
 -Lastly, The Academy of Pediatrics violent? Because of TV? No.
says This is because of lack of
What If children started to thought social skills.

that this type of violence is normal

situation? These thoughts are
harder later to change when they
already grow accustomed to it.
-We all born with violence
nature, but when we grow
older, we learn how to control
the anger. Those who dont or
cant learn are the ones who
become violent

Najmi Wow that is some fun facts you got

(Moderator) there Mr. Farhan. Thanks also to Mr.

Muzammel.
I agree and disagree. I dont think
anyone truly believes targeting
violence in media will solve the
problems. However, there great
reasons to believe that
responsible media and a large
reduction in media violence
would be an enormous help.
-Media is always used as a tool
of oppression and violence, but it
is not the source of it. To truly
heal our world, we must work to
change the society.
-Next let us hear from other panel,
Mr Faqrul. Mr Faqrul, do you think
that video games can really affect
the children behavior? Or it does
have good effect on children
development?

(Muzammel)

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(Faqrul Razi)
-Video Games affect the
children behaviour -Video games can make kids
unfeeling or heartless to violence
even more than TV
(Journal of Adolescence, 2004)
-In fact, one study found that 65% of
kids age 7-12 had played Grand
Theft Auto, the game promote
prostitution,
theft, and violent behavior.
Maybe it will not influence the
children about guns but what about
theft and porno ship inside the game
that can influence their clean and
innocence mind ?
- Violent video games should be
discouraged because they have
dangerous effects on childrens
mental development.
(Josephson, 1995) (American
Academy of Pediatrics, 1996).
Fun Facts:
-Approximately 40% of families with
pre-schoolers children own video
game equipment.
-50% played games yesterday.
(Pew Research Centre)
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-Some video games may aid
the development of fine motor
skills and coordination.
-When Grand Theft Auto
(GTA) was developed, only 58
murders from gun violence
last years out of 63 million
population in Australia.
-Children who played video
games for less than an hour
each day showed lower rates
of aggression than children
who did not play at all.
- I concluded that playing
video games can help boost
teenagers results in crucial
subjects such as maths and
science.
Students who love gaming
cumulatively achieve slightly
higher overall in international
tests and fared especially well
on digitally-based problem
solving tasks, according to
research published by the
Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development
(OECD).
Najmi
(Moderator)

-Thanks Mr. Faqrul and Mr.

Muzammel. Both of these points
have pros and cons. For the
audience, which would be more
effective at reducing violence in
our world, eliminating video
games with guns or eliminating
accountable assassinations by
military drones as done in the (Shafie)
US?
-Not all music videos contains
(Mahazan) negatives element on
delivering the message. Music
-Music videos may have a videos on health, education
significant behavioral impact and motivation can improve
childrens brain power.
-Music videos may have a significant Meredith Levande stated that
behavioral effect by making less music simply stimulates parts
sensitive towards viewers to of the brain that associated to

violence and making teenagers more reading, math and

likely to approve of premarital sex development

-Can set up parental controls

-Up to 75% of videos contain
sexually explicit material and more
than half contain violence that is
often committed against women.
(American Academy of Pediatrics,
1996)
for family members under age
13, this software that can limit
and protect the children from
exposed to such violence
media.
-Parents needs to make sure
that the parental controls is
turned on at all times which
can keep their child safe from

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Najmi
(Moderator)
(Mahazan)
- Children are unable to
distinguish between fact and
fantasy and may view
violence as an ordinary
occurrence.
-Women are portrayed frequently in adult entertainments such as
a disrespectful manner that affects Nicki Minaj music videos.
childrens attitudes about sex roles. Good music such as
Mozart or Beethoven can
-Music lyrics have become enliven and enrich the lives of
children and the people who
increasingly explicit, particularly
care for them.
with references to sex, drugs and
violence. For examples, rap song and
Nicki Minaj lyrics songs that are
controversial.
Its quite astonishing for young
people nowadays to listen to
symphony music. Music should be a
medium in fostering positive value,
yet in an acceptable sense to all type
of people. Mr Mahazan, you may
continue your points.
(Muzammel)
- In retrospect studies have also - Being a children means they
shown a twelve percent increase in need to think more. What are
aggressive behavior after watching they need to think? Politics?
Absolutely no! Childrens brain
violent television as well.
need to be stimulated through
animation. Many advertising in
TV shows that imagination will
stimulate a bigger pictures in
their life. As example, we all
- Children who view media violence
know Sir Isaac Newton create
are more likely to have increased many Law such as Law of
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 feelings of hostility, decreased Motion. How did he get the
emotional response to the portrayal amazing ideas? The apple
of violence and injury that lead to falls on his head. When apple

violent behavior through imitation. falls on his head, he started to

imagine how did the apple fall,
what causes the apple falls.
- This is similar to the studies of
By imagine, he successfully
domestic violence where children
created many principles that
who are exposed to violence either
still being used up until now.
become offenders or victims
because they believe that what they
are exposed to is the norm.

(Faqrul Razi) -Because television takes time away (Shafie)

- Media also can influence from play and exercise activities, -Eating together as a family
nutrition on children children who watch a lot of tend to makes the children to

television are less physically fit and eat healthier foods like fruits,

more likely to consume high fat and vegetable and whole grains
and avoid watching television
high energy snack foods
while eating.

-Television viewing makes a

significant contribution to obesity
because prime time commercials
encourage unhealthy dietary
practices (Ostbye, 1993 and Certain,
2002).

-Commercials for healthy food make -Buy healthy foods at home to

up only 4% of the food make sure available foods in

your fridge, freezer, cupboards
advertisements shown during
and pantry are what your
childrens viewing time (Dietz and

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 Gortmaker, 1985). children will get used to
eating.

- Eating meals while watching -Parents should become a

television is improper since it can good role model that can

influence their childrens
lead to less meaningful
eating habits in a positive
communication and poorer eating
way..
habits. Children should eat at the
dining tables when eating and
parents should supervises their
behavior.

(Mahazan) (Shafie)
-The aim of this review is to
-Children will tend to be like
consider the research evidence - There are many superheros
a superhero what he see
from a public-health perspective. out there in movies. For
on movie. Its could be
example Captain America by
harmful to them because
- A search of published work Marvel. Captain America show
need to do dangerous
revealed five meta-analytic a good example to people
activity.
reviews and one quasi- which is he forbids people
systematic review, all of which from cursing each of team
were from North America. members and shows a good
example of leader. Avengers
-There is consistent evidence that also shows a good example of
violent imagery in television, film teamwork and being together
and video, and computer games to accomplish missions.
has substantial short-term effects
on arousal, thoughts, and
emotions, increasing the
likelihood of aggressive or fearful
behavior in younger children,
especially in boys.

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(Farhan)
- Internets negative -The amount of time spent
influence on children watching television and sitting in
front of computers can affect a
childs postural development
(Salter, 1983).
-Excessive amounts of time at a
computer can contribute to
obesity, undeveloped social skills
and a form of addictive behavior
(Canadian Pediatric Society,
2002)
-Other concerns include
pedophile who misuse the
Internet to lure young people into
relationships. There
is also the potential for children to
be exposed to pornographic
material.
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(Shafie)
-The Internet has an
enormous potential for
providing children and youth
with access to educational
Information.
-No data suggest that
television viewing causes
weakness of the eyes. It may
be different when a child is
closely exposed to a computer
screen for a long periods,
although there are no
definitive references to
support this claim.
-Parents can use technology
that blocks access to
pornography and sex content
on the Internet, but one must
be aware that this technology
do not replace their
supervision or guidance.
-Parents should be
encouraged to reflect that
there is potential for more
good than bad, as
long as one has the
knowledge to tell the
difference.