Summary for Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence The following article: Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence by Sissela Bok discusses the issue of whether violent media influences aggression levels and crime rates. Media violence has become the center of public debate on widespread beliefs. Public concern has been raised about the increasing rate of copy-cat crimes and how it induces viewers to try and reenact harm to others. First and foremost, Bok addresses public concern about a possible link between violent video games and aggression levels that are indicative of the intention to cause violence. Some are convinced that societal violence has intensified as violent video games have been introduced into the media and to generations.
In America, violence has become a part of everyday life. Violence leads to disasters, injuries, pain, and sometimes even death. The depiction of violence in so many forms of media like music videos has made America the leading country in homicide in many people’s opinion. All of these things are leading to creating more and more aggressive generations of people. Many aspects of what we call enjoyment have contributed to our obsession with violence.
In this essay I will be talking about how children are affected by television. Although many parents these days do not want their children to watch television, there are a lot of educational shows available today. Many parents may not want their children to watch modern television, and I would have to tell those parents that there are some shows out there these days that are very educational and they are aimed towards the young. Watching the educational cartoons can be very helpful for a child’s mind. There can be positive results emotionally, physically, and psychologically.
Compare and contrast the approaches of Cohen and Hall et al. to the role of the media in relation to social disorder. In modern society today, we are constantly faced with negative phrases such as ‘broken society’, ‘antisocial behaviour’ and ‘broken Britain’ which we see branded over the media every day. The explanation of social order and disorder is something that many sociologists have tried to analyse over the years. In this essay I will explain two approaches; that of Stanley Cohen and that of Stuart Hall et al.
The Hunger Games serves as an allegory for modern entertainment, economics, and government to criticize on society’s entertainment in violence and how it can provoke violence in society, government’s control by creating fear and weapons, and a criticism on the gap between the rich and the poor which creates a hostile relationship between first and third world countries and these ideas demonstrate that society is corrupt and young people are the only ones that can change it. In today’s society, people find entertainment in violence which can ultimately stimulate violence in society. Teenagers find entertainment in violent video games which can lead to acts of violence. About 97% of teenagers play games that contain little to no violence, sex, and drugs, and studies have shown that in some cases video games can cause teens to become violent and aggressive (Harvard’s) In The Hunger Games, The Capitol finds an immense entertainment in violence. The actual games make young adults in the novel become inhumane and violent in order to survive.
05 March 2014 Peters’ Censorship of Violence in Popular Entertainment Unjustified In Roberts Peters’ article “Censorship of Violence in Popular Entertainment Is Justified”, he writes about his personal concerns and his personal solutions to combat obscenity and uphold decency standards in the media. He believes that due to the many graphic and violent depictions in TV, films, music/RAP, video and computer games, the children in present society are easily influenced into acting out the media violence and turning it into real life violence. He believes that there are four main problems with media violence. The first problem is that is too much of it. The glut of media violence desensitizes viewers and contributes to the “mean world syndrome.” A second problem with media violence is that it can be easily imitated.
They also made it to were children networks don’t have many commercials and air mostly education programs so that children are learning instead of killing the cells they could be building. Addressing the violence on television they once adopted the Television violence act which expired in 1993 say that broadcasting networks had to limit the violence in their programs. They also made it possible to block programs by passing an act called the Telecommunication act making television manufactures make a special chip to let parents block things that were not appropriate in parents’ opinions for children to watch. Different censorings are the aspect of blocking the television shows and channels you would prefer not to watch. The more violent acts that individuals see on television the more death and crime rates go up in the United States.
Children, being easily influenced, will imitate the television characters. Television shows can also create a fear of the world in children. Finally, children eventually accept violence as the answer to problems. Television has a strong influence on children and must be controlled. Violence depicted on television is harmful to children.
Tyler Scarpa Eng101-Chambers 12/3/12 Persuasive Essay-Media Violence Columbine, Virginia Tech., rising violent crime rates and even the occasional school fight all have varying severities but, can all be linked back to one thing, media violence. Media today has a strong influence on society as a whole however; small children and young adults are the most susceptible to modern media’s influence. Children between the ages of four and eight are particularly vulnerable to media such as movies and cartoons. The reason for this is because their brains cannot yet discern between reality and fiction. When children witness acts of violence from the media, they begin to believe that it is normal and so they begin to act upon the instances of violence and anger they witnessed.
More ways of playing violent video games are created each year, but most of us have this question in mind. Do violent video games influence young people to act aggressively? Overplaying video games can have many disastrous effects on teen limiting gameplay can have multiple positive effects. Sitting in front of a TV screen shooting people can incite young players to act violently. Repetitive killing can train them to act aggressively.