Holding Social Media Accountable For Violence. Today’S

THESIS STATEMENT: The world’s media today seem to have more violence than ever. Video games have vivid depictions of accident catastrophes, fighting and murder. Television news programs generally lead with a violent story in order to gain an audience. This is free society people can stay what they want. ‘’ Media violence has many negative effect on youth today to commit crimes in society.’’

Meanwhile, media has it advantages and disadvantages dealing with criminal cases, but it also effects the way the criminal justice system is viewed. On the other hand, interaction with social media allows opportunities to solve crimes, creates more ways to commit crimes, and create bias within our American society. In general, the word

Bushman conducted three studies to test his hypothesis that “high trait aggressive individuals are more affected by violent social media than that of low trait aggression.” (Bushman. Web. 1995). These three studies were conducted empirically with 420 psychology students. Study one gave the students a film description, and then they chose of which to view. These films have not been shown in theaters or televised. They were given scores on the “Physical Aggression subscale,” which results from a questionnaire testing verbal and physical aggression, anger and hostility.  (Bushman. Web. 1995). The participants with high trait aggression were more likely to watch violence than the opposed. Study two, “participants reported their mood before and

The media constantly covers school shootings and in return, school shootings gain followers who become admirers of the offenders. A network of school shootings do in fact exist and a majority of these followers are dedicated to the Columbine shooters. The Columbine shooters were the first of school shooters to distribute and broadcast information online. Since then, many school shooters have used social media sites, including YouTube, to upload images and/or videos prior to going out and shooting individuals in schools. School shooting fans on YouTube have created a small-world network in which they use the Columbine shootings as a uniting factor of their network, write short positive statements on school shootings, and partake in long discussions about school shootings. These small-world networks for school shooting fans are easy to find but hard to control or eliminate. Due to this, the existence of these networks increases a possibility of support and justification for potential offenders and provides potential offenders with ideas and plans for future

The author, Darren Beals, did not modify my opinion on the topic of violent culture but he presented evidence from several point-of-views. The media, internet, parents, and television all could be part of the problem Beals did not choose a side he just elaborated on their involvement in the "Kipland Kinkels's shooting spree." In 2004 "Students age 12-18 were victims of about 88,000 violent crimes at school, compared to about 309,000 away from school," states the National Center for Educational Statistics in 2004. No one factor can be the blame for violence determined in a situation such as this. There could be a variety of contributing factors.

A few weeks ago, on October 1st, 2015, eight students and a professor were shot and killed by 26 year old Christopher Harper-Mercer in a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College. The shooter also shot and killed himself. The world has become a much different place than it was a hundred years ago. Technology has been increasing faster than at any other time on this planet. But with this change, it seems as if the sanity of people is at an all-time low. People now react quicker to hard times or a bad situation. The creation of the internet, especially with social media, is the perfect tool for humiliating people more than was ever possible before. This humiliation has caused an increase in violence, especially in gun violence. Something

In the mean world syndrome video, several points are discussed about how violence in the media affects viewers. Although violent crimes has decreased over the years, the media has been showing more violent acts than before. Children have been affected by this phenomenon and it has had a disturbing effect on them too. The media should be more proactive with being fair and less damaging in the future.

This book agrees with other sources that media play a large role in violent behavior going

John Leo’s “When Life Imitates Video” is a persuasive work against violent media with children. Many of Leo’s points are first person with reaching correlations between violent media and life violence. Leo states that many of school shootings are related to video games. One of facts, he states is that because of shooters aiming for heads means they received that from videogames. Even if that was true, the way he states it may not have been the correct way. Leo’s stretch of the correlation between both real-life violence and media violence was unsupported. Leo’s work was supported by personal opinions on each issue at hand. If he could add statistic into the work, then he could have appealed with the ethos and pathos of the work. His major point to consider is that violent media is an opening for real life violence. As media violence creates a sense of violence being an acceptable thing in society, and it must be stopped at the source. While the need to stop violent media to prevent major massacres or school shootings is important, it’s also equally important to understand that it isn’t the only thing to create these incidents. Many factors contribute to these incidents for the future.

Hate speech provokes violence to inflict harm upon a targeted individual or group to a certain degree where it can be done subconsciously or purposefully. This issue worsens as it appears on social media where users interact and share posts in forms of vivid graphics or media. Studies have shown that in the United States, by high school graduation, the average seventeen year old will have seen 18,000 murders in movies and television (Christians, 2005). This statistic excludes the convenient use of unlimited information on the internet, which is not as closely monitored as aired television or paid movies. Because both mass and social media follow the trends in terms of entertainment as a part of the American culture, research shown by Christians (2005), a professor at the University of Illinois in Communications, indicates that “exposure to violence in the media is linked to long-term negative

In America’s daily consumption of media a strange trend has developed in the last couple years. It seems that whenever a real life tragedy occurs many news outlets and politicians tend to place the blame, not in the instigator of these violent acts, but instead in the media they consume which they believed made them this way. "I think there's a question as to whether he would have driven in his mother's car in the first place if he didn't have access to a weapon that he saw in video games that gave him a false sense of courage about what he could do that day." (Murphy) This quote taken from an 2013 debate on a bill to ban assault weapons gives us all the information we need. Violence in media and how it affects violence in real life is misrepresented

The development of social media (television shows, Facebook and video games) has increased tremendously in the 21st century, and its influence in daily lives has also affected young teenagers and their parents’ contemplation about violence. In the past, the function of social media was to discover hidden events and tell parents the right way to raise and educate their kids. However, in the 21st century, young teenagers can see violence on television shows, movies, YouTube, and Facebook as if fights, sexual conduct, injuries, drug use and deaths are for entertainment. In Maggie Nelson’s essay, “Great to Watch,” she argues the idea of “video and image flow” can lead to different understandings, distractions, and even problems, which explains the Broken Windows Theory introduced in “The Power of Context” written by Malcolm Gladwell that people engaging in certain kind of behavior (crime and violence) are evoked by a feature of the environment. Video and image flow via social media in the 21st century can induce crime. In the age of distraction, young teenagers are easily misled by things they see, hear, and contact with in their daily lives. Societal behaviors exposed via social media raise awareness of kid’s health and safety to parents in the 21st century; however, exposing societal behaviors not only protect kid’s safety by warning parents, but also cause violence to young teenagers that those protections become meaningless,

I live in and around Richmond Virginia, A place some would consider the northern tip of "the bible belt", and a place that is mostly pro-gun. With the recent spate of shootings, mass or otherwise, it is widely believed that the number of deaths caused by the incidence of gun violence in the U.S. has exponentially risen. While gun violence, or the incidence thereof, has risen, our reaction to it has been deepened due to our constantly, consistently interconnected state. Gun violence is rising, and the advent and perpetual use of social media, coupled with a 24 hour news cycle, and a thick atmosphere of political divisiveness are deepening the wound.

In this era of internet connectivity, access to an array of violent media stimuli is readily available. Scientific exploration of the effects of such exposure on real world violent behaviour carries potential ramifications for the safety of global communities. Media violence is understood here as stimuli that includes depictions of violence or calls to violent action and includes image, video, television and gaming. Violent behavior is defined as behavior causing emotional or physical harm expressed verbally or physically. Whilst there remains no causal proof for the

            In recent times, the news media has cried out against violent media, painting it as the leading cause for youth violence. Following events such as the Columbine massacre, news sources have vilified violent media, claiming that it is a primary cause of violent behavior in youths. This analysis provides firm research on the subject from the opposing and supporting sources, giving a thorough definition to the term “violent media” and  brings forth evidence that other psychological effects and environmental factors are more significant causes of increased youth aggression than violent media.