These eight videos visually discuss outward expressions of violence in a mediated world endlessly saturated in deviant behavior.

Why do girls fight?  Is it because, as big media always loves to suggest, most women are Lesbians?  Is it because men historically attack them first?  Most likely, women fight for exactly the same reasons boys do.  But today, while cameras are involved in almost every aspect of adolescent life, we see cameras being used to both record and encourage these performances.  Examine this Bum Fights video.

While it is unlikely that these schoolgirls performed their violence for the security camera on their bus, is it a stretch to suggest that real violence can be physical expressions of violent behaviors consumed through media?  Is there ANY validity to media effects?

We are witnessing more extreme forms of violence by children.  Some of it is simply caught BY cameras, and some is being constructed FOR cameras.  If audiences create content… can content create audiences? Subsistence Living in a Mediated World sometimes means consuming exactly what you grow.  It also means learning to read corporate media oppositionally, in order to see how these issues are typically framed in news programming.

Consider visual literacy and grow better media communication.