The results of a longitudinal study tracked 700 male and female youths over a fifteen-year period. They found that those who as children were exposed to violent television shows were much more likely to later be convicted of crime. All other possible contributing environmental elements such as poverty, living in a violent neighborhood and neglect they were factored out of this study. Researchers also said that media violence can affect any child from any family
Purpose: Due to the scope of the issues children face in the 2000s, greater planning, collaboration, and program implementation across disciplines and agencies is required. Listed are a handful of the many reason why: • While their parents work, millions of children in the United States lack safe, affordable, quality child care as well as early childhood education. It is estimated that 7.5 million children are at home alone without supervision; most often after school when they
Consuming Kids. After watching “Consuming Kids,” and hearing the various insights of many industry professionals, it is no doubt in my mind that mass media creates a social reality, and a backwards one. This commercialization of childhood is a lot more than selling just products and services, it’s a society issue which has direct impacts on human development and relationship. This commercialization of childhood involves marketers and advertisers doing everything they can to influence the 52 million kids under 12 that hold a buying power totaling $42 billion dollars a year. The mass media aims and is successful in getting a brand in front of a child’s face 24-7, whether it be through brand licensing, product placement, viral marketing internet, videogames or many other ways.
Annaly Aviles Jeremy Voigt AP English, July 26, 2012 What life is now? In the novel “Amusing ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman, he indicates that the television has greatly impacted our culture. The main big argument that Postman has, is how television has overcome the printed word. This has become a big problem because it has greatly affected economics, politics, religion, and education. Children are so used television entertaining them that they expect the teachers to entertain them the same way, so they are unable to learn as they would without television.
Such children are likely to suffer health and social problems. It is estimated that an obese child watches an average of four hours and nine minutes of television each day. That is four hours that a child could be bonding with their family or taking action in some physical activity. According to these researchers, many analysis confirms a direct relationship between obesity, television viewing and lack of physical activity. I have noticed that in the U.S. there are a lot of overweight children for many reasons.
Television gives a distorted perception of beauty. Every day we see hundreds of advertisements telling us we have to look and act a certain way to be accepted, to be beautiful. Because they send powerful messages about physical perfection everywhere we turn, the media is considered the most influential medium in existence. Research by the Impact of the Media on Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents reveal that, on average, a child or adolescent spends between six and seven hours per day viewing the different types of media. The powerful words in magazines are usually next to pictures of thin, beautiful models and celebrities.
What caused this behavior in the child? As reported by several doctors and psychologists, video games contribute to aggression and violent behavior in children of all ages. All around the world, video games are selling faster than books. Many newly released titles remain on the shelf merely minutes before they are snatched up by an eager teenager, ready to master every technique and aspect of the game. Gamer ages range from two all the way up to late adulthood.
Video games primarily serve as a source of entertainment and although they have been quite influential on our generation, video games have had a lot of negative effects on the children of today. Since the start of Atari in 1972, the video game industry has expanded into a 10.3 billion dollar a year market and will only continue to expand with the growth of technology. And although these games provide much entertainment, it does not come without a cost. This pastime can become an addiction, carrying with it, many negative effects. Aside from the extreme amount of time wasted, video games teach players questionable life lessons.
Jeff Williams 11/21/11 Power and Influence of the Media Every year the average American citizen is exposed to more than a million advertisements of the media. The media helps to depict the ideal American society and societal norms. Major media companies such as the Disney Corporation and Hollywood are constantly setting the standards of people’s everyday lives. If on average we see approximately 3,000 advertisements every day, Americans are directly influenced on how they should dress, act, and view themselves. Many Americans are influenced to take a stand on controversial topics such as homosexual relationships, and the consistent but yet discreet degrading of women because of what they see in the media.
Do children become violent watching violent program on T.V? Among all the mass media, television violence is one of the main factors for both short-term and long-term effects upon children (Huesmann and Eron,1986 as cited by Slotsve, et al., 2008). According to some findings in research, the amount of hours children spend in watching Television has drastically increased by years. American Psychological Association gave a report on television and American society saying that by the time an elementary child leaves school, the child would have seen at least 8.000 murders and more than 100,000 other kinds of violence on television (Huston, et al., 1992 as cited by Smith, Marilyn E. 1993). It can be stated that most children spend more time watching TV rather than with parents or in the classroom.