The Effects Of Media Violence On Violent Entertainment

I chose this topic because I want to be a videogame designer and I wanted to defend my right to create what I want. Unfortunately, after researching this topic it is clear that it is no longer possible to say violent media is completely harmless. Videogames and television do have harmful effects on children and young adults. Research has been done since the 1950’s and almost all studies show clear evidence that media violence does cause increased violent tendencies, desensitization, and antisocial behavior – which is the same as sociopathic and psychopathic behavior, it does not mean introverted.

Violence has become a major social disturbance that is continuously on the rise to become more common within the media. Movies, TV shows, video games and the music in this era are being heavily influenced by violent notions. Some of the most popular TV shows that are aired have a significant amount of violence engulfed in the scripting. Even games and music that are produced are commonly centered on a violent scheme. Media violence has become a sociological issue for many reasons. Media inspires people in dramatic ways, which poses an issue when what is being portrayed is violence. Society grasp ideas through many ways, media being one, and accept them as norms. When media is broadcasting violence, people will accept it as being a normal aspect

With children having easier access to media and a wider variety of content, the possible negative influence on health issues such as sex, drugs, obesity and eating disorders is increased, along with the influence of violence (Media para 3). The viewpoint claims that children learn their attitudes toward violence at a young age and that makes it difficult to reverse and modify these attitudes (Media para 1). Several studies have shown that violent boys tend to watch more TV, choose more violent content and get more enjoyment out of it (Cutler para 3). Because of all the love in boys for violent television and games they tend to grow up in a violent aggressive way and have a greater chance than someone not a fan of violent media to make the wrong

Media violence has been tremendously growing and attaining the hazardous extents. Two-thirds of TV shows contain some kind of violence. Most self-involving video games contain some violent matter in it. For example, if you manufacture guns, you do not need to give any advertisement, because it is done by the amusement industry. Aggressive behavior, desensitization to violence, hallucinations, and fear of being mishandled were caused by the media violence, was explained in a 2009 Policy Statement on Media Violence, by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The increase in aggressive behavior happens by watching violent video shows on TV, and by playing violent video games.

The current study is a replication attempt to test the hypothesis that listening to music with violent lyrics would cause aggressive thoughts and feelings. Previous research showed that violent media influences thoughts and feelings in participants, causing increased feelings of aggression. Within this study, 80 participants were collected, 40 were female and 40 were male, with an average age of 21.29. Forty-five percent of the participants self-identified as Caucasian. Participants were exposed to either a song with violent lyrics or a song with non-violent lyrics. Participants were then asked to provide ratings of state hostility. The results indicated that participants who listened to songs with violent or non-violent lyrics reported similar ratings of hostility. This implies that further research should be done on the effects of violent media on individuals.

In present day society, the realm of intense and violent video games along with their media counterparts is ever changing, and this transformation is leading to the most expressive and realistic viciousness a child can be exposed to without actually harming another human being. Furthermore, due to this tremendous level of ‘realisticness,’ the inquiry of whether or not the violence portrayed in these video games and television shows leads to an amplified level of aggression and other types of violent behavior in their participants and viewers has become a forerunner among both psychological and parenting authorities. The purpose of this paper is to give an honest assessment of the various studies performed on this topic, as well as to

Imagine that a gentleman and his wife are walking home after a night out on the town when all of the sudden a dark figure approaches the couple, pulls out a fully loaded revolver, and with the simple twitch of his finger a bullet is engraved into the head of the man; leaving the woman in a paralyzing fear and open to a world of pain and agony, or even worse, sexual abuse and murder. This shouldn’t be too hard of a scene to imagine due to the frequent occurrence of this situation in films, television shows, music, and video games. It is the constant portrayal of violence that today’s “entertainment” carves into the minds of its viewers that can occasionally have an impact on their mentality, and even their actions.

The data was collected primarily through self-reported surveys and the research was conducted through several studies from experimental manipulations, longitudinal studies, and meta-analysis. The methods in this study included 2,550 students and six separate models in order to compare data with a study measure that hypothesized that aggression can be linked to things such as: watching action movies, playing violent computer or video games, and using the Internet with violent content. Slater et al. (2003) proposed that adolescents experience the “downward spiral model” or “negative feedback loop” meaning that there is a back-and-forth correlation between aggression and violent media where while adolescents who are already aggressive tend to seek out violent media, the violent media exposure may also be a factor in increasing aggressive behaviors in interactors. Results show that violent media content reinforces aggressive and antisocial behaviors, especially in males. The models that have been presented has showed that exposure to these violent media content does affect adolescents in a sense that they have increased measures of aggressiveness.

Media violence exposure has been investigated as a risk factor for aggression behavior for years. The impact of exposure to violence in the media the long term development and short term development of aggressive behavior has been documented. Aggression is caused by several factors, of which media violence is one. Research investigating the effects of media violence in conjunction with other predictors of aggression such as; environmental factors and dysfunction within the family household, is needed in order to better understand its contribution to aggressive behavior. Furthermore, the debate of whether or not how media violence leads to aggression has received renewed attention following tragic events; Sandy Hook, Umpqua Community College in Kosenburg, Oregon, 2012 Aurora shooting, traumatic news coverage, a 8 year old boy intentionally shot and killed elderly caregiver and countless other events; all of these casualties were caused by media violence.

Since 1982, the National Institute of Mental Health, along with other reputable health organizations has collected data that connects media violence, with violent acts. Conclusions deduced from this data prove that violent programs on television lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch those programs. Television violence affects young people of all ages, all socio-economic levels, and all levels of intelligence.

With the growth in popularity in films, media has been a major influence in people’s lives. In recent years we see movies and tv shows impacting the way we talk, move, and even think. In recent events, theories on violent behavior have emerged with the belief that media is causing it. The issue becomes even more serious when“...watching violence in the media becomes enjoyable and does not result in the anxious arousal that would be expected from seeing such imagery.” ("Violence in the Media."). A lack of anxiety leads to apathy in people when it comes to doing violent crimes themselves. People become so used to watching violence and crime that it becomes apart of their lives and could influence them into behaving the same way as a character in a movie or tv show that they watch. This is especially true for children because they are watching these types of shows and movies while their minds are still developing. Violence in media is a serious issue because as media influence grows, the bigger the chance that crime rates will go up do to the impact it has on children in such an early stage of their life, and parents of these children need to get involved to stop the promotion of violent behavior.

Media violence, in some cases, can be a real issue in today 's society. However, we can not blame all of the reality violence on media portrayals. Media Violence is just as it sounds, the art of violence through media. (1)The official definition of media violence is visual portrayals of acts of physical aggression by one human or human-like character against another. As there are many things that can promote violence in the world we live in today, this could be part of the reason that what happens, happens. However, There are many things that happen on our world that can, or do spark off reason as to why we live in such a violent place. Media violence has increased by a certain amount since the 1960’s, and shows no signs of slowing down. I personally have two different views on if media violence is the reason that violence occurs so often in real life today. My first view on this is that no, I do not think this is the ultimate reason violence is so common in today 's society. I do not think that this is so, because with the population of people that are exposed to this media violence, I feel like violence would be yet even much more common than it already is. However, there are always those crazy people who do get a wild hair from some t.v. show they enjoy, or some video game they play, that promotes violence, causing them to learn from it, and acquire a violent behavior, which is what I ultimately believe is the case for most people.

Media violence, in some cases, can be a real issue in today 's society. However, we can not blame all of the reality violence on media portrayals. Media violence is just as it sounds, the art of violence through media. The official definition of media violence is visual portrayals of acts of physical aggression by one human or human-like character against another (L. RowellHuesmann). As there are many things that can promote violence in today 's world, this could be part of the reason that what happens, happens. However, There are many things that happen on our world that can, or do spark off reason as to why we live in such a violent place. Media violence has increased by a certain amount since the 1960’s, and shows no signs of slowing down. I personally have two different views on if media violence is the reason that violence occurs so often in real life today. My first view on this is that no, I do not think this is the ultimate reason violence is so common in today 's society. I do not think that this is so, because with the population of people that are exposed to this media violence, I feel like violence would be yet even much more common than it already is. However, there are always those crazy people who do get a wild hair from some t.v. show they enjoy, or some video game they play, that promotes violence, causing them to learn from it, and acquire a violent behavior, which is what I ultimately believe is the case for most people.

Essentially since media is more violent than ever, and children and youth are getting more attracted to violent media. Studies on violent media shows a clear evidence that violence on media rises the possibility of aggressive behaviors in both short-term and long-term situations (Rowell Huesmann, Moise, Podolski, & Eron, 2003). Most researchers agree that aggressive behaviors are more disposed to the harmful impact of violence on media. The negative effect is much larger for younger children because they are not able to to differentiate the imaginary from reality. In addition, Bushman (1995) argued that only particular type of children and youth were negatively influenced by violent media these are labelled as high aggressive personalities. Aggressive-minded individuals fascinate by aggression more than non- aggressive personalites. Children who heavily exposure to violent media are more likely to act in an aggressive way toward others. Violent media is a risk factor that put children and youth in a high risk of developing aggressive behaviors that may last into their adulthood (Rowell Huesmann, Moise, Podolski, & Eron, (2003). Therefore, parents have wanted to understand the negative impact of violent media, particularly on children, adolescents, and youth. Thus, this paper underlines some negative effects of violent media on individuals.

Initially the purpose of violent media is to entertain people. However, its content encourages violence and teaches how to enjoy cruelty. When playing video games, players must kill another human being to score. The more time they spent on it, the more they familiarize themselves to brutality. As it can be addictive, it also detaches players from human contact, which leads to lack of empathy. As a result, players will have difficulty to differentiate fantasy from reality and start dreaming about killing and scoring in real life. That’s why most school shooters are great video gamers. I will support my thesis with evidences and quotes from expertise.