In his essay, “Video Games Are Responsible for Increased Youth Violence,” author Ron Moten uses his experience working with troubled teenagers to uncover the negative effects of violent media. The problem he identifies is that violent media is responsible for desensitizing youth to violence, hence increasing crime in our society. Motten assumes his readers are educated and sympathetic, but uninformed of the threats posed by violent media. His purpose in his essay is to raise awareness of a connection between violent media and increased crime in society and to convince the audience that violent media needs to be regulated by laws. To achieve his purpose, Moten mainly uses ethos to appeal to his readers.
The experience of the dual emotional state seems to be very enjoyable to many, and so people keep watching these movies. Many people would substitute watching full contact sports like boxing and football for horror movies, because they share the concept of violence. A lot of people find enjoyment and thrill in violence, and it is more enjoyable when violence is directed against those people believe deserve this kind of treatment. Horror movies keep you attached until the end, because everybody wants to see the end of the
Media depicts the bullies like heroes.” Teachers see the violence transferred to classrooms. Usually the most violent person in TV, movies, and video games is the most notices and, therefore, the child are leaving that violence is good. In high schools, like the school Peter went to, the popular kids with more power tend to be the bullies. Children are easily influenced by their friends. Research has proven that bullies have above average self-esteem, good leadership skills, and make friends easily (Quotes about Bullying).
Violence is still making the headlines today for many reasons; first of all, violence sells. People are interest in finding out why or how some persons are killed or abducted. It seems that the population sees violence as ‘entertainment’. For example, most films are getting more violent than their predecessor. Secondly, violence is in our genes.
A psychologist Melanie Moore, Ph.D. said “Children need violent entertainment in order to explore the inescapable feelings that they’ve been taught to deny, and to reintegrate those feelings into a more whole, more complex, more resilient selfhood.” In other word, children need violent media to overcome their stressful feeling. Sometimes children pretending to have superhuman power and this help them to overcome their powerlessness and help them to build up confidence. In addition, he also talked about the little girl who exploding with her own fantasies and acted as a tomboy. In the classroom she wrote violence stories, and the more adults tried to control her
Some say it has changed for the worst; that it is a bad influence on others choices, whereas others say it still has the same typical concept. They fail to realize that reality television is simply just a documentary of people’s lives. Whether they choose to take each other’s heads off or make love to their best friends’ boyfriend, it will not have a negative effect on people’s life decisions or choices. When people think about Reality TV they begin to picture a group of people arguing and punching each other out simply because that is what reality TV has become today. For some reason the bickering and fighting on these shows tends to attract a large audience.
Environment influences prejudice through media such as TV shows, fairy tales and music. Firstly, television programs have great influence over the audiences' perceptions of prejudices. Since television was first introduced to the general population of the planet Earth, it quickly penetrated into everyone's lives. Due to its direct connection with the audience, television has great influences over the audiences' perceptions of certain concepts, such as their prejudices towards a particular idea. This influence is greatly emphasized when the audience is young children with no prior knowledge about these influences.
This is especially so for heavy viewers of TV. Cultivation theory also maintains that culture influences what is shown on TV so that there is a dynamic between TV and culture in that they can be mutually reinforcing, although this aspect has not been emphasized in previous research. However, it will become more important from a mental models perspective.Much of the early research on cultivation theory focused on the influence of TV violence on perceptions of social reality. According to cultivation theory, heavy viewers of TV should see the world as a more violent
Teenagers allow the media to influence them so they hopefully become popular and well known. On the other hand, not all aspects of the media are negative. For example, Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer are some of the positive examples of television shows. These shows help many children learn their ABC’s, 123’s, and different languages. Looking at some of the pros and cons of the media will help people understand how much the media can affect the youth and how we can help the youth overcome these influence.
Fact: The Media's Influence on Violence in Society "...the media help create and continuously reinforce the "social scripts" that adolescents act out in their daily lives. Much of what goes on in entertainment (movies and TV) is a reflection of what goes on in the news; the media echo messages young people hear at school - in particular, themes of violence and sex are constantly reinforced" - John Merrow, 1999. Introduction Violence in our society, perpetrated by criminals, mentally unstable and easily influenced individuals produce effects that are more far-reaching and destructive to society than the physical damage they produce. It has been proposed that the media, through news reports and fictitious depictions of violence, directly influence others to commit such acts themselves. It is proposed that, similar to a contagious disease, witnessing or reading about a violent crime often can pass the idea of such behavior along to individuals who may never have conceived of such a thing on their own.