Visual Violence Influence on Children COM/172 March 28, 2012 Visual Violence Influence on Children Exposure to violent television images impacts children’s behavior because the brain is in the process of physical and emotional development. Television is a very important part of society and most households have at least one television. Entire families rely on television for entertainment and children are exposed to television images since their very first days of life. It is important for society to re-evaluate the different aspects of the child development and the influence that violent television images have on the child behavior. Even if children are aware of the difference between reality and television images; their brain works differently.
I strongly believe that media on T.V has a negative impact on young children/teenagers. Everyday, we are bombarded with countless images and messages on our televisions and in public advertisements. We follow them, take-in every last syllable of whatever the media throws at us. Think about the most common shows of our generation: Gossip Girl, The Hills/City, True Blood, Family Guy etc. These are called ‘shame shows’, shows that give us what we want, but what they give us is so shameful that we wouldn’t even admit we love them to other people.
Violence in video games’ disadvantages A. For players’ health 1. Physically To evaluate how violent video games affect children, one must consider the techniques these games rely on and what literature shows about the games’ impact. Violent video can be so addictive to children that they’re parents cannot control it. Children who are addict are playing these games until 2:00 a.m. without eating or drinking.
Since kids are also watch tv, parents have more concerns of the way there kids think about violence they see, read or hear. Also the media violence can affect people in many ways.Some people start having serious fears of them being victims in real life. However, there are researchers that say they have discovered that when they show violence on television it shows children to be not be so sensitive to pain and suffering of other people. Crime drama has become one of the most popular TV genres in our society, taking up almost 20% of prime time. People like these dramas because they deal with themes and issues that they know from news and current events.Also important as the themes and issues that the dramas deal with are the things the characters care about and the way they act.
How can Advertising affect our children? “ Marketing cause strifes at exactly the most powerless age for kids to be in strife”-John Condry. In these days Television marketing has become a part of young people day-t-day lives, which can affect children. Because they are simply impacted by advertisements which substance unconsciously or consciously influence the family’s make a purchase behavior; because of kids requesting for the items seen broadcast on Television. Children can recognize many brands of logos that can impact them and with trademark loyalty effect starting at the age two (McNeal, 1992).
Vulgar language routinely appears in programs and movies which is accessible to youth. It is realistic and believable to younger youth which can lead them to aggressiveness. As with our American youth viewing these ideas, these images are imposed on the viewers, especially the younger generation. There is a huge amount of younger children that sit and watch television for many hours. In doing that it will handicap their brains.
Parents have the power to not make their children eat junk food and to decrease the chances of their child ending up with a long term illness. Children though have a much bigger power in getting what they want and that is called pester power. They constantly bother and annoy their parents and make a big scene in front of the public to simply buy a box of cereal with Dora on it because they saw it on television. So instead of listening to their child screaming they just buy it
Psychological and sociological studies continuously reveal that TV programming including advertising can have negative influence on the American youth. In recent years, the number of children and teenagers watching television has increased significantly. Lack of parental involvement has led the American youth exposed to violent, pornographic, and unintelligent programming. Unfortunately, there are major interests that respond to monetary gain by keeping this media outlet still operational than actually safeguard children and teenagers healthy mind. As a result on this family and society negligence on our youth, many children and teenagers have psychological problems that are expressed in different ways through inappropriate cognitive development and deviant behavior.
Censorship is used in television by ratings such as General audience, Parental Guidance Suggested, PG-13 strongly advises guidance for children under age 13 and R requires accompaniment by an adult for children under age 17, or 18 in some states. The media today is filled with entertainment because without entertainment
They say that video games take innocent young children and taint them with images of fiery destruction.” Video games are one of the hottest media sellers on today’s market, but how do they affect our children? “There is a game called, “Carmageddon”, whoever is playing the game must run over people, including senior citizens. If they beat the game, he or she will have killed over 35,000 people. Violence in video games has been a serious issue in the last several years. Parents are beginning to become more concerned about whether or not these types of games might cause their children to become aggressive.