P.C. youth violence: "What's the internet or video gaming got to do with it?"

Denver University Law Review

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 689-698

  Everett, Anna ^a  

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1. This title paraphrases popular song lyrics from Rock-n-Roll icon Tina Turner's hit single "What's Love Got to do with it?" that appear on her comeback album Private Dancer. The intergenerational appeal of this song makes its rhetorical narrative appropriate for this study. See TINA TURNER, What's Love Got To Do With It?, on PRIVATE DANCER (JVC Records 1984).
2. For a thorough discussion of the antinomies and conflicts between youth and parent cultures, see DICK HEBDIGE, SUBCULTURE: THE MEANING OF STYLE (Routledge 1993).
3. The concept of the "digital dilemma" comes from a recently published study by the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. See THE DIGITAL DILEMMA: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE INFORMATION AGE (Randall Davis, et al. eds., National Academy Press 2000). They argue that, "[a]dvances in technology have produced radical shifts in the ability to reproduce, distribute, control, and publish information." Id. at 3. Moreover, they insist that the digital dilemma represents a nightmare for both publishers and authors, and for consumers. Id. at 2. For publishers, "[t]heir nightmare is that . . . the entire market can be extinguished by the sale of the first electronic copy" of data or information due to the endless reproducibility of digital texts. Id. They contend that, "The nightmare for consumers is that the attempt to preserve the marketplaces leads to technical and legal protections that sharply reduce access to society's intellectual and cultural heritage, the resource that [Thomas] Jefferson saw as crucial to democracy." Id. at 2.
4. In recent years, newspapers and TV have reported on the phenomenon of new media's erosion of their lucrative audience base. See Leslie Helm, Surf's Down on the Net, Survey Says, L.A. TIMES, Jan. 12, 1996, at D1. Despite noting findings claiming "a lot less 'net surfing' taking place than many had assumed, the article also revealed that "Internet users spend an average of 6.6 hours per week on the Net, usually cutting into their TV-watching time." Id. The study also found long distance phone calls, video rentals, magazine and newspaper purchases and listening to the radio were also significantly affected by the increasing popularity of the Net. Id.
5. In Carolyn Marvin's excellent work WHEN OLD TECHNOLOGIES WERE NEW, the gendered discourse of expertise in electrical engineering and telegraphy is convincingly presented. Similarly, Janice Radway's Reading the Romance alerts us to the masculinist condemnation of the female dominated book of the month clubs that flourished in postwar American society. In 1930, the Payne Fund studies attributed delinquency in youth to the influence of movies and comic books. For further discussion of deleterious mass media effects outlined in the Payne Fund Studies, see SHEARON A. LOWERY, ET AL., MILESTONES IN MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH 31-51 (1983).
6. In Carolyn Marvin's excellent work WHEN OLD TECHNOLOGIES WERE NEW, the gendered discourse of expertise in electrical engineering and telegraphy is convincingly presented. Similarly, Janice Radway's Reading the Romance alerts us to the masculinist condemnation of the female dominated book of the month clubs that flourished in postwar American society. In 1930, the Payne Fund studies attributed delinquency in youth to the influence of movies and comic books. For further discussion of deleterious mass media effects outlined in the Payne Fund Studies, see SHEARON A. LOWERY, ET AL., MILESTONES IN MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH 31-51 (1983).
7. DON TAPSCOTT, GROWING UP DIGITAL: THE RISE OF THE NET GENERATION 1-2 (1998).
8. Id.
9. Id. at 43-44.
10. J.C. HERZ, JOYSTICK NATION: HOW VIDEOGAMES ATE OUR QUARTERS, WON OUR HEARTS, AND REWIRED OUR MINDS (1997).
11. TAPSCOTT, supra note 6, at 44.
12. Id. at 44.
13. Brian Williams and Mary Kathleen Flynn, The News with Brian Williams (MSNBC March 20, 1999).
14. Id.
15. Id.
16. Id.
17. Id. This idea centers on social scientific findings on the harmful effects of films on children conducted in 1929 to 1932. A full discussion of the Payne Fund Studies appears in SHEARON A. LOWERY, ET AL., MILESTONES IN MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH 31-51 (1983).
18. Brian Williams and Mary Kathleen Flynn, The News with Brian Williams (MSNBC March 20, 1999).
19. Id.
20. Id.
21. Id.
22. See Mary Ann Doane, "Information, Crisis, Catastrophe," in Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Ed. Patricia Mellencamp (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990) at 222-239.
23. DOANE, supra note 16, at 226-27.
24. To this end, the TV executives borrowed a page from the 1930s film industry.
25. DOANE, supra note 16, at 225.
26. See FREDRIC JAMESON, POSTMODERNISM, OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM (1991); GUY DUBORD, SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (Black & Red 1983).
27. See FREDRIC JAMESON, POSTMODERNISM, OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM (1991); GUY DUBORD, SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (Black & Red 1983).
28. E. Anthony Rotundo, Boy Culture, in THE CHILDREN'S CULTURE READER 337, 337 (Henry Jenkins ed., 1998).
29. See Margaret Morse, An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television, in LOGICS OF TELEVISION 193, 193-221 (Patricia Mellencamp ed., 1990).