The Effect Of Pokemon On Childrens Culture

The Effect Of Pokemon On Childrens CultureThe impact on childrens civilization of anime, manga, video games and trading cards of Pokmonjapans touristed burnish industry is actually vigorous in recent years. The popular culture consists of anime, manga, video games and trading cards. These media have a great impact on childrens culture in Japan and also other countries. Pokmon is a very successful case. Pokmon first appeared in the game of the Nintendos Game Boy, and then quickly diversified into manga, anime, movies, trading cards and toys in those years, and Pokmon phenomenon is appeared in Japan in 1996. These products revolved mainly around children and youths and had impacts on them. This essay leave examine the impact of Japanese popular media culture on childrens culture using Pokmon as an example. The impacts which will discuss in this essay are effects on childrens literacy, the social effects, effects of addiction and violence. I will use two case studies to argue some effects on childrens literacy. Data have been collected from two obligates. The author of the articles was a primary inform teacher and she collected data from the classes she was teaching. Besides childrens literacy, in that location are many impacts in other aspects. Furthermore, negative impacts are much more than positive impacts. This will be discussed at the end of the essay, also the future of childrens culture under the influence of Japanese popular culture.The anime Pokmon is diversified from its video game. This anime dialogue about Satoshi, a 10 years old boy, and his friends travels the world catching Pokmon and battling Pokmon trainers. This is the primary source of the essay.Allison, A. 2004. Cuteness as Japans Millennial Product. In Tobin, J. Pikachus Global incident The Rise and Fall of Pokmon. shorthorn Duke University Press 34-52Anne Allison is a Professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University in the United States, specializing in contemporary Japanese society. Her current seek is on the recent popularization of Japanese childrens goods on the global marketplace and how its trends in cuteness, character merchandise, and high-tech play pals are remaking Japans place in todays world of millennial capitalism. In Cuteness as Japans Millennial Product, she finds that Pokmon is a successful case of childrens entertainment product with media mixes. Its success follows the previous waves of successful Japanese products which started in the late 1980s, and have impacted childhood consumption around the world. These products impacted childrens lifestyle in new interactive ways. Pokmon is game-based makes it more interactive than a mere anime or movie. This article provides breeding that nutriments my line of productss, children buy lots of Pokmon-related products other than video games or comics, and Pokmon create or facilitate a car park culture among children.Arthur, L. 2001. Popular Culture and Early Literacy Learning, Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2(3) 295-308Dr Leonie Arthur is a senior lecturer in early childhood education at the University of Western Sydney. She has taught in long day care, preschool and school and is an active member of a number of peak early childhood organizations, including Early Childhood Australia. She soon works with undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Western Sydney in areas of early childhood curriculum and literacy. This article reports on research findings which indicate that while childrens category and community literacy experiences and texts are increasingly digital and connected to popular media culture experiences and texts in educational settings are predominantly book-based and generally exclude popular media culture. In practice, childrens literacy is affect by television, videos, computers, comics, trading cards and magazines rather than childrens books. It also examines the role of popular media culture in childrens lives. This arti cle provides embody for my arguments which related to childrens literacy and violence media restricts childrens creativeness and promotes violence.Buckingham, D. and Green, J.S. 2003. Structure, Agency, and Pedagogy in Childrens Media Culture. Culture and Society 25(3) 379-399David Buckingham is the Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, London University. His research is on childrens and young peoples interactions with television and electronic media. Julian Sefton-Green is the Head of Media Arts at WAC Performing Arts and Media College, an informal learning centre in North London, England. He has researched and written widely on many aspects of media education and new technologies. The authors point out that Pokmon as a phenomenon is a controlled and calculated commercial strategy aimed manipulatively at the childrens market. They examine some positive and negative effects of the Pokmon phenomen on on children. Pokmon engages children visually through television, video games and as extinguishrs through the range of products available. This article provides information that support my argument, Pokmon create common culture among children, makes children spend lots of money to collect valuable trading cards and children bully others to grab their cards.Ito, M. 2006. Japanese Media Mixes and Amateur ethnical Exchange. In Buckingham, D. and Willett, R. Digital Generation Children, Young People, and New Media. Mahwah Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 49-66Mizuko Ito is a Japanese cultural anthropologist who is an Associate Researcher at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. Her main professional interest is the use of media technology. She has explored the ways in which digital media are changing relationships, identities, and communities. She sees the move toward new media as an interaction between long-standing and emergent media forms, rather than a shift from old analog to new digital media while most of the essay explores the low-tech media of trading cards and comic books, The article is about young peoples relationship to media. Ito argues that these analog media forms are being newly infected through digitally enabled sociality. She also examines the trading cards activities. This article supports my argument that children play trading cards class whenever they have time and a people as their competitor.Marsh. J. 2009. composing and Popular Culture. In Beard, R. and Myhill, D. and Riley, J. and Nystrand, M. The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development. London SAGE Publication Ltd 313-324Jackie Marsh is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the role and nature of popular culture in young childrens literacy development. She has conducted research projects that have explored childrens access to new technologies and their emergent digital literacy skills, knowledge and understanding. This chapter examines the potential role that popular culture can play in writing curriculum in schools. She examines how popular culture affects children and young peoples written texts in classrooms. She considers the adaptation of out-of-school popular cultural writing practices for educational purposes, and explores the way in which these practices are challenging the boundaries of writing as it is instantiated in the curriculum. This article provides information that support my argument, popular culture restricts childrens creativity/McDonnell, K. 2000. Kid Culture children and adults and popular culture. Annandale Pluto Press.Kathleen McDonnell makes her living writing in a variety of genres, from playwriting to junior fiction to social criticism. Besides her many books, she writes articles and tactile sensation pieces for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Chatelaine, Macleans, and Utne Reader, and also contributes to CBC Radio and Canad a AM. Her plays have been produced throughout Canada. She explained that the reason she writes about children I find that childrens stories are usually the best medium to state what I want to say and about because I have a burning interest in kids and their culture, how they think and feel about the world theyre ontogenesis up in. The book explores children and popular culture and help adults better understand the role of popular cultures plays in childrens lives. Kathleen McDonnell offers a balanced and engaging perspective on the power and influence of childrens culture. This book supports my argument that trading cards encourage gambling addiction.McGray, D. 2002. Japans Gross National Cool. Foreign Policy. June/July 2002 44-54Douglas McGray writes about social and political issues, science, and culture for the New Yorker, This American Life, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the Los Angeles Times, Wired, and Time. He is a contributing writer of Foreign Policy magazine. He spent the spring of 2001 in Japan as a media fellow of the Japan Society. In Japans Gross National Cool, McGray argues Japans street culture, from fashion to art to music, has become ever more vivacious and is having an unprecedented influence on the rest of the world. He analyzes what made Japan a superpower more than just a wealthy country. He examines the globalization of Japanese culture. This article provides information of how Japanese popular culture affects other countries.Squire, K. 2003. Video games in education. International Journal of Intelligent Simulations and Gaming (2) 1.Dr. Kurt D. Squire is an abetter _or_ abettor professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the Games, Learning Society Initiative, and best known for his research into game design for education. The article examines the hi grade of games in educational research, and argues that the cognitive potential of games have been largely ignored by educators. Contemporary deve lopments in gaming, particularly interactive stories, digital authoring tools, and collaborative worlds, suggest powerful new opportunities for educational media. Squire analyzes educational games refers to some checklists ad frameworks. He promotes case studies and design experiments as a research method that doesnt study isolated variables. He states that there are four concerns of video games, which are encouraging violent or aggressive behavior, employing destructive gender stereotyping, promoting unhealthy attitudes and stifling creative play. This article provides information that support my argument, popular culture restrict childrens creativity and children imitate violence in media.Willett, R. 2004. The Multiple Identities of Pokmon Fans. In Tobin, J. Pikachus Global Adventure The Rise and Fall of Pokmon. Durham Duke University Press 226-240.Dr Rebekah Willett is a lecturer in Education on the MA in Media, Culture and Communication and the MA in ICT at the Institute of Educ ation. She is a member of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. She has conducted research on childrens media cultures, focusing on issues of gender, literacy and learning. Willett discusses the multiple identities of Pokmon fans. She uses a cultural studies model to make sense of the personal identity work children do in their story writing. She finds that Pokmon thrives in childrens culture by providing a variety of subject positions for children to adopt as they perform and shift their identities in a variety of context in their daily lives. This article supports my argument, children use too much dialogue and insufficient amount of description when writing story because of popular culture, and children isolate others who do not familiar with Pokmon.Willett, R. 2005. Baddies in the classroom Media education and narrative writing. Literacy 39, 3 142-148.Dr Rebekah Willett is a lecturer in Education on the MA in Media, Culture and Communication and the MA in ICT a t the Institute of Education. She is a member of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. She has conducted research on childrens media cultures, focusing on issues of gender, literacy and learning. This article relates findings from a classroom study focusing on childrens media-based story writing. The study examines how children write their own stories under the effects of media, that is, how they consume media and how they produce new media texts. Willett finds that childrens media-based stories make explicit some of implicit knowledge of new media forms. Baddies in the classroom Media education and narrative writing provides information that support my argument, children write too much dialogue and insufficient amount of description, story with unpronounceable names and incomprehensible plots, also unnecessary violence.