Does the Violence in our media reflect the desire for violence or is it a side effect of its presence in our lives?

The Purpose

The purpose of page is to analyze where violence really comes from. Videogames and movies get blamed for the reason behind school shootings and other violent acts, but there is statistical evidence that just watching a violent movie doesn’t make you violent. In fact, according to a study called “Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 124, no. 2, 2009, pp. 677–734 from Dahl and Della Vinga there is a decrease in violent behavior after watching an intense violent movie. This page’s purpose is to straight out the public opinion, deliver real facts, and figure out why violence is so mainstream now a days.

The Final Report

Process

The name of my campaign is “Does the Violence in our media reflect the desire for violence or is it a side effect of its presence in our lives?” and its intention is to bring up where violence in the media originates from, if we as human beings crave it so it fills the demand, or if it is put on air to get attention and we have grown accustom to it. My genres are a short story, a twitter, and a Wattpad account. I tried to include a Facebook group with little to no success due to the difficulty getting people and groups to join it. My intended audience is initially parents, they are the first line of defense against their kids displaying violent behavior, even if it is what they constantly see on tv or in movies. I have a secondary audience of teenagers and those who actually seek out the violent media I’m talking about, in R rated movies, videogames, and tv shows. (Myself belong to that group) I decided to write the short story because it didn’t two different things. The first thing it did was bring the reader into the conversation I was trying to have, plus people like stories so I thought it would also help bring in more people. Also, seeing how it could effect people and seeing real world applications and ways violence drastically changes lives makes it a real issues and bring it to the forefront of concern. I made the decision to use Twitter because I had an established brand as a student, and I would be able to better communicate with those in my secondary audience. The Facebook was intended to be aimed toward getting parental attention but being on small page, not verified or run by a professional I think I got looked over. Via advice from Mrs. Bradley I decided to switch to a Wattpad in order to get my short story out there for reader and other writers to see, bringing more eyes to my topic. I used Logos in some tweets by using statics of studies conducted to show the hard facts of my argument. I also used some Ethos in tweets, quoting professionals to gain some credit when it comes to discussing my topic. I relied pretty heavily on Pathos in my short story in order to connect with the audience to bring them into the mindset of how serious this issue is. I utilized a lot of websites, Twitter, Facebook, and Wattpad while also keeping all of my writing in Microsoft word, as a standard way to type my work.

Promotion

I posted my genres on Twitter and Facebook originally, then adding Wattpad instead of continuing the Facebook page. I posted links to my Wix and other sites on each of my accounts (Tweeting a Link to the Facebook and vice versa). Wattpad doesn’t have a social media aspect but I linked to it in my Twitter. This really became my main social media account for promoting. I used the hashtag #MediaOfViolence on the tweets using quotes and stats to tie is back to my campaign of the media spreading the hate in everything we watch. Thus far I’d say Wattpad has been the most successful, I got a few views and reading of my story right after posting. I followed a lot of writers, probably around 144 accounts in order to get attention to my short story further drawing attention to my page. I started sending out tweets linking to my story on approximately April 13th, after finishing my story and figuring out exactly which genres I wanted to do (the game plan before was quite different). After getting no response on Facebook, which was set up just after I started my tweets, I was pointed towards Wattpad, which I made on approximately April 18th.

Reflection

The genres were different because instead of delving into hours of research I got to go with a more creative side and develop a story, which I really enjoyed. A negative difference, for me at least, was having to be stalled by having to wait for a response from my audience. It was a very different experience, having to try something and hope it works and if it doesn’t changing something and just trying and waiting for any sort of response, or even admitting defeat and trying again if there is no response at all. The promoting was definitely far more stressful than researching for me. I really had to consider what my audience would want ad how to get people to interact with my page. During project 2 it was about databases which don’t need interaction or to be prompted, rather the user needs to figure out what to search in order to find what they are looking for. The only similar experience I had was when I interviewed my professor, but she was very easy to work with and responded to emails promptly and within my deadlines. My audience in the remediation of Project 3 had no idea I have deadlines, or even that I’m trying to get into contact with them. It almost felt like I was going to have to put up posters in order to get them to see y page and acknowledge my work, only by them stumbling upon it or looking for it intentionally (as we did our research) would they actually follow me back or read my story. Again, I’d say promoting was the most difficult, the rest flowed pretty well. I enjoyed writing the narrative and the tweets weren’t too hard, it was getting the attention of my audience that proved difficult. Honestly, If I could go back I would have changed my topic to something a bit more generic and gotten more specific as I researched and began project 3 because I started specific which gave me little room to change or explore. Which made me stuck in a box, unable to see if something else or another aspect of my idea would be more effective in answering my initial question.