katarina peovic's List: Violence

• "I have 140 gigs of porn on my computer," one of his buddies says. "I was going to put it all on an external hard drive and pass it to all my friends. And I said this in front of my friend's parents."
• It is easier than ever to watch, create and share pornographic images and text, and as the first generation of web-savvy teenagers who have always had the instant gratification of DSL
• Naturally, adults are freaking out.
• Neither does risky sexual behavior in teenagers seem to correlate with the rise in technology, according to Dr. Douglas Kirby, a senior research scientist at ETR Associates in Scotts Valley who has studied adolescent sexual risk behavior for more than 30 years.

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• Sonia Livingstone's announcement of the preliminary findings of a major research initiative called UK Children Go Online
• 1,500 British children (ages 9 to 19) and their parents
• According to the study, children were neither as powerful nor as powerless as the two competing myths might suggest.
• Myth of the Digital Generation
• children and youth were using the Internet effectively as a resource for doing homework, connecting with friends, and seeking out news and entertainment.
• At the same time, as the Myth of the Columbine Generation might imply, the adults in these kids' lives tended to underestimate the problems their children encountered online, including the percentage who had unwanted access to pornography, had received harassing messages, or had given out personal information....
• Sonia Livingstone's latest book, Children and the Internet: Great Expectations and Challenging Realities, is being released
• , it combines quantitative and qualitative perspectives to give us a compelling picture of how the internet is impacting childhood and family life in the United Kingdom
• My book argues that young people's internet literacy does not yet match the headline image of the intrepid pioneer, but this is not because young people lack imagination or initiative but rather because the institutions that manage their internet access and use are constraining or unsupportive - anxious parents, uncertain teachers, busy politicians, profit-oriented content providers
• in recent years, popular online activities have one by one become fraught with difficulties for young people - chat rooms and social networking sites are closed down because of the risk of paedophiles, music downloading has resulted in legal actions for copyright infringement, educational institutions are increasingly instituting plagiarism procedures, and so forth
• late modernity can be characterised as 'the risk society'
• My book tries to show how society has created an internet that knowingly creates new risks for children, both by exacerbating familiar problems because of its speed, connectivity and anonymity (e.g. bullying) and generating new ones (e.g. rendering peer sharing of music illegal).
• I have worried about this a lot, for it is evident to me that, to avoid moral panics (a valid enterprise), many researchers stay right away from any discussion or research on how the internet is associated not only with interesting opportunities but also with a range of risks

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• It's upsetting to see a group of boys laughing as they watch one game character literally rip the guts out of another. But when you know more about the context, motivations and other factors involved, you may see this differently. Also, for politicians it's an issue that they can campaign easily on, even if the scientific data don't support their claims.
• I'm not sure, and this is dangerous territory to get into I suppose, but I feel, if I had a teenage daughter, I'd rather she played GTA than Miss Bimbo.
• the lead character is essentially on a quest for power and authority within a society where respect is garnered via actions rather than appearances.

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• Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media,

• The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1985 by four women: Tipper Gore,
• the music industry to develop "guidelines and/or a rating system" similar to the MPAA film rating system
• PMRC suggested
• The PMRC also released the "Filthy Fifteen", a list of the fifteen songs they found most objectionable

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• Tako je i sa nasiljem. Naša subjektivna ogorčenost pred činjenicama nasilja - bombaškog samoubistva, terorističkog napada, ubistva političke ličnosti - zaslepljuje nas za objektivno nasilje sveta,
• nasilje u kome smo svi učesnici i ne samo nevini posmatrači
• Mi konzistentno previđamo objektivno ili ono što Žižek naziva „sistematskim" nasiljem, endemskim našem socio-ekonomskom poretku.
• Ključna ambicija ove knjige je da spoji subjektivno nasilje sa objektivnim nasiljem, koje se nalazi ispod njegove površine i njegov je preduslov.
• Sistemsko nasilje je stoga nešto poput čuvene 'tamne materije' iz fizike", piše Žižek: nevidljivo je golom oku.
• vaj, postoji prepreka. Žižek zaključuje sa apologijom za ono što naziva, sledeći Voltera Benjamina, „božanskim nasiljem". Potonje je shvaćeno kao „herojska pretpostavka usamljenosti suverene odluke."
• Žižek nas savetuje da ne činimo ništa suočeni sa objektivnim, sistemskim nasiljem sveta.
• Mi treba „samo da sedimo i čekamo" i da imamo hrabrosti da ne radimo ništa: „Ponekad, ne činiti ništa je najnasilnija stvar koju je moguće učiniti."

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• t   also contains a scene where Carroll daydreams in class about bursting through   the door, dressed as an anachronistic Terminator (considering this is meant   to be 1960 something) and blasting his annoying classmates and sadistic teacher   away with a pump action shotgun.
• the scene cited in a number   of school shooting cases as triggering violent actions in those who watched   it.
• makers of the movie, along with the creators   of video game Doom named in a $33million lawsuit (later dismissed)   brought by the relatives of those killed by 14 year old Michael Carneal in Paducah,   Kentucky in 1997.
• as the film which triggered Carneal's actions

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• any tribute videos found on YouTube romanticise the killers who shot 12 pupils, a teacher and wounded 23 others before shooting themselves.

• It's an offence to seek out this content to view it for any reason," she said. "It's against the law."

• A website used by criminals to buy and sell credit card details and bank log-ins has been shut down after a police operation, the BBC has learned.

• I think one of my obsessions in game design is to de-familiarise violence.
• Most computer games involve violence, but it's almost never presented as something problematic. You kill, because killing is what you do in a computer game.
• o what I have been trying to do is to take violence, put it in my games, and yet make it a problem.
• ving to kill a wild wolf when you travel through the forest; but when you attack the wolf in The Baron, you must leave her child to die of hunger.

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• Videogames are addictive, violent and blood-soaked. People just shouldn't let their kids play games.