First of all, strategies for critical viewing is going to help the viewer understand that media is often aimed at their feelings and not their mind. Just this little known fact alone, a viewer would have enough common sense to understand that in real life there are consequences for violence and murder, and movies are nothing about what the viewer should go out and do. Violent movies and video games do not sell the message, “this is what you should do”, it is the lack of guidance and the lack of discretion that the viewer did not have before watching or playing the game that makes them actually think that what happens in the game or movie is acceptable in the real world. I have read the classes responses to this question; us being adults, we seem to share the same agreement on this issue. This tells me that violence in video games and the like are not the major influence, and some of us choose not to participate at all in violence (games or real life), it is the fact that we know better that keeps us from not knowing the difference.

Shifa, you know you should cite your source. http://classatuopx.blogspot.com/2011/07/violent-media.html#!/2011/07/violent-media.html

oh, it was an mistake made unwillingly