Social Media Violence

“While fights can erupt at any school, the theory is that violence often shows its ugly head-first on social media before it occurs” (Solnik, 2016). Any Web site that allows social interaction is considered and referred to as social media sites. Today’s teens, like our students, has a portal for entertainment and communication, which has significantly grown in the last few years. “For this reason, it is important that parents become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents” (O’Keeffee & Clarke-Pearson,

In the article titled Violence Media Is Good for Kids Jones stated that “When we try to protect our children from their own feelings and fantasies, we shelter them not against violence but against power and selfhood” (Jones 184). This quote embodies how many teenagers have felt throughout time. In addtion, violence has been surrounding us for many years however people seem to blame the influx of violence on media. Further,

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.

Have you used social media to ask for what you want? Have you noticed that social media is the best way to publish the news to the world? Have you ever lost something to save someone’s future? Have you used nonviolence to ask for what you want and how it worked? Actually, social media is a small world where we can find everything that is going on everywhere, and it can tells the world about what you want to say in less than a minute. Also, using social media is part of nonviolent ways, and people believe that using nonviolence to achieve their goal is better than using violence because who use nonviolence usually win and get what they want. The United State is facing some protester who want to end the discrimination of the skin color because

“Nearly 1.5 million high school students across the country experience physical violence at the hands of a dating partner each year” (Duret). Teenage dating violence is on the rise. Due to recent advances in technology, abuse issues are more prevalent; technology allows room for students to lash out over text messaging and through social media. However, teen violence can be prevented. The government has established laws and campaigns to educate and protect victims. Teenagers go through many changes during their adolescent years and peer influence can make it hard to decipher between right and wrong. However, by high school, teenagers should be able to determine and understand healthy relationships; unfortunately, teenage dating violence statistics continue to rise at alarming rates.

Society plays a big role in a child’s development and the way they are going to be raised. One of the biggest solutions that can help is rehabilitation. This can help can help them and give them a positive transformation. Many see education is the key to youth rehabilitation. The youth involved in the juvenile justice system has a history of poor academic education. In rehabilitation, the youth has a right to receive education, such as getting caught up with their school work. Juveniles need a strong education programs, so they are inspired to finish their studies and pursue careers in the future. Another solution for juvenile justice is detention centers. A judge can send a juvenile to a detention facility. Detention facility are temporary housing for the youth who committed crimes. Detention sentences are usually short term instead of long term. It is a wakeup call for juveniles and won’t commit that crime again. Home confinement is another solution than sending them to prison. The juvenile can only leave their house for school, community service, or counseling. Meaning contacts can have an impact on the juvenile. Family treatment, such as interventions, with the youth can strengthen the family bond of the child and decrease any criminal activity in the

Like these types of violence, “electronic aggression is associated with emotional distress and conduct problems at school,” which can make the youth face deleterious problems in their life. (Electronic Aggression) People use emotional violence to basically kill the victim from their minds. The victim is not actually dying, but the feeling gets really close. The victim feels abused and that their private affairs are shown to everyone. The increase in technology does not come without side effects. Young adolescents “can use electronic media to embarrass, harass, or threaten their peers.” (Electronic Aggression) Teens do not even regard their peers’ emotions before they take these drastic measures. Almost all of the youth population are “becoming victims of this new form of violence.” (Electronic Aggression) If this continues, sooner or later, youth will also be victimized offline. When using technology, the youth are abused emotionally. When offline, the youth are also abused emotionally but are also abused physically. The youth who are victimized feel as if they are no longer are safe in the electronic world and the real

The ability to have cell phones, instant messenger, social networking sites, and picture/video tools online has made it accessible for adolescents to have instantaneous and inexpensive communication methods (Stonard, Bowen, Walker, & Price, 2015; Bryan, Sanders-Jackson, & Smallwood, 2006). Additionally, it has been found that adolescents use technology to establish, maintain, end, and reconnect dating relationships (Draucker & Martsolf, 2010). Several studies have found dating violence was committed through technology by partners checking messages without permission, checking their partner’s location, demanding online passwords, deleting ex-partners or un-friending them from accounts, coercion, harassing partners, threatening or blackmailing a partner by posting online information without consent, stalking, insulting partner, posting images or videos without partners consent, and restricting a partner from using technology as a tool to communicate with others (Drauker & Martsolf, 2010; Stonard et al., 2015; Thompson et al., 2013; Zweig et al., 2013). For example, Draucker and Martsolf (2010) reported technology facilitated escalation of arguments between partners, making it easier for partners to be intrusive and monitor each others behavior. Furthermore, in a qualitative study conducted by Stonard et al. (2015), it was found that technology

Recently our world experienced a string of unimaginable losses and inhumane violence. On June 12, 2016, we lived through a fatal massacre with the Orlando, FL nightclub shooting which killed 49 and wounded 53. July 3, 2016, a bomb detonated in Baghdad killing over 251 people. On July 5, 2016, and July 6, 2016, police killed Philando Castille and Alton Sterling. On July 7, 2016, 12 police officers were shot in Dallas, TX resulting in 5 deaths and 7 injuries. These are just what has happened within the last month. Within the last year, we've prayed for Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France; San Bernadino, California; Istanbul, Turkey; Yemen, Kuwait and the world.

According to the CDC (2014) and Hickman (2004), teen dating violence can be violence done to someone in person or electronically. We are learning through recent studies that social media is a new way to victimization and perpetration in dating violence (Jones, Mitchell, & Finkelhor, 2012). For example, in a study by Ybarra and Mitchell (2008), adolescents were being sexually solicited through social networking sites; 33% of the youth reported being harassed online, 43% were solicited through instant messaging, 32% through chat rooms, and most of the harassment was frequently completed through instant messaging versus social networking sites. In addition, text messaging solicitation was twice as high from 2006 to 2008 with sending unwanted

Today’s world has certainly changed over the years and with media expanding to platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, news has expanded to a vast majority. Over recent years, platforms such as Facebook have allowed the viewing of decapitations, rapes, bullying in schools, gang threats, and even murders to be broadcasted live. Seemingly more of such violence is occurring and being distributed over these social platforms. For instance, the recent live murder of an innocent man by Steve Stephens. A breakdown, or crime, for a moment of notoriety on a live feed is appalling in the least. How could social media, such as Facebook, allow a live airing of a murder and hold it as acceptable, or part of

Violence has progressively increased in the past decades, at an alarming rate in the United States. The top three leading causes between adolescent and youths are unintentional injury (accidents), homicide and suicide according to the World Health Organization. Media and entertainment play a huge part in child development, as technology has seemed to overpower today’s generation. Nearly, forty percent of the human populations have access to an Internet connection at home via any device type and connection, when in 1995; it was less than one percent. The first billion internet users were reached in 2005, the second in 2010 and the third just recently in 2014 (Manual for measuring ICT.., 2017). The statistic demonstrated how much we as a

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Adolescence are exposed to several media outlets which may fuel their aggression. Lyrics of a song, television, websites, and gaming are the main sources of entertainment for these young people. Although, they are all considered entertainment, these outlets can be dangerous for our young people’s minds. There have been studies done on these youth primarily from age 14 to 17 due to the rise in violence from people in this age range. This age is difficult to manage, with peer pressure and hormones these kids are very vulnerable. Instead of being outside and doing the activities kids were engaged in before the age of cell phones and internet, these kids are held up in their home feeding their minds with all types of violent media. Teen violence is a problem in America, as well as around the world. While this may be a debated issue, it is very clear to most ordinary people that there is a relation between media and aggressive behavior. “Teen violence erupts in a number of ways. It can be directed at inanimate objects, at other people, at animals, or at the

Children are a product of their environment and family at home, and is the foundation of human society. from the time, they are born they mimic the world around them which very early stages how they learn. Which in later years can become a determine factor and can lead to juvenile delinquency. Minors are more likely to become offenders in situation where they are not getting the attention needed at home. Especially in low income neighborhoods the significant factors within a