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Invisible Children

Posted inGeneral, Media

Simplification and child soldiers: Turning victims into victims

Reader Blog by Reader Blog 27 March 201227 March 2012

By Kelly-Jo Bluen Watching violence on TV screens does not sensitise viewers to the reality of the conflict. Rather, it serves to numb viewers, to instill within them a sense of fatigue and, most pertinently, from the vantage point of passive observer, to allow for oversimplified ethical polarisations of good vs. evil. These are the […]

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