The Negative Impacts Of Television Violence And Its Effects On Television

* According to the National Television Violence Study, the context in which violence is portrayed is as important to its impact as the amount of violence. The study concluded that 66% of children's programming had violence. Of the shows with violent content three-quarters demonstrated unpunished violence and when violence occurred 58% of the time, victims were not shown experiencing pain. (14)

After reviewing many case studies about whether excessive or extensive violent television news coverage leads towards violent conduct is up for debate. Interestingly enough many scientific organizations have openly stated that violent media coverage causes aggression, and examined the association between media violence and violent behavior. It has been reported that there has been more than 3,500 research studies to prove that there is in fact a connection between media violence and violent behavior. Out of these 3,500 studies only 18 of them have not been able to relate media violence and violent behavior. Clearly there is overwhelming evidence to prove this relationship is accurate,

Television is the mainstream of our culture. Violence on television has been a topic of conflict since before 1950. There have been repeated debates on how to protect children from the harmful effects of violence on television. Television is one form of modern media that influences the everyday lives of people. Televised violence has a major effect on how children perceive the world and how they behave. "American television has become the most violent in the world. It is for this reason why researchers have focused their attention toward television violence" (Cantor & Hoffner 424-4-25). Children enjoy watching television and now with the increased technology of cable and movie

     The issue of television violence and its influence on children’s behavior troubles me. Television violence seems to be becoming abundant and violence seems to be increasing. This may be a dangerous form of entertainment, especially when young children become involved. The majority of television programs viewed by children contain large amounts of violence and inappropriate material. Children’s vulnerability poses as the main problem due to desensitization. Psychologists’ studies report that children become immune to television violence and adopt the behavior as a way of problem solving. Other people argue and say that television can not be blamed for the increase of violence among our society. They believe

Everyone is influenced and shaped by society. Society affects our perceptions, our consciousness, and our actions. A majority of the influence, especially on the younger demographic comes through the media; specifically through television. It is important to examine how violence in the media develops a pervasive cultural environment that cultivates a heightened state of insecurity, exaggerated perceptions of risk and danger, and a fear-driven propensity for hard-line political solutions to social problems. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate the impact of television and media violence, as well as the human cost of violent media, and the overall effects on society from watching TV.

Comstock, G. (2008). A Sociological Perspective on Television Violence and Aggression. American Behavioral Scientist, 51(8), 1184-1211. doi:10.1177/0002764207312009

There is no question that television and films these days are filled with violence and antisocial behavior. Virtually every show, movie or news story nowadays has some sort of violent theme. Studies have shown that for every hour of television, there are 6 violent exchanges shown, and this number increases to 14 exchanges an hour

By the age of 18, the average American television viewer has witnessed over 32,000 murders and 40,000 attempted murders on television alone (American Psychological Association). These statistics do not include such violence seen in movies or heard in music. To witness such an amount of violence is clearly unrealistic and exploitative. Violence is being used by television programs as a superficial way of grabbing and holding an audience's attention. Producers of television programs that show violence must take the responsibility of showing a realistic amount of violence on their shows. That is, they must not use gratuitous violence to appeal to male viewers, or else the violent crime rate in the United States will rise.

Advances in the network have grown tremendously over the past few years. Electronic devices, social media platforms, and false information from internet sources can have violent impacts on social environments. Television programs have also had a big impact on the violence in today’s economy. Violent programs such as The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, and Vampire Diaries have allowed the people of the American culture to say that the violence is okay. The American culture has taught its children that violence is a part of life and that we have to learn to adapt to it. In some cases, the adaptation is too much, and children's mental state is in jeopardy. It can cause mental disabilities and not being able to make good choices. Programming Networks have a lot of violence in their shows. “Advocates know the First Amendment prevents censorship of programming;

Our world has a variety of problems today, with violence being at the top of the list, you go anywhere and that is all you here about. Unfortunately it’s in front-page headlines of the newspaper and broadcasted on the news as top stories. Violence is a very big topic, although it is categorized into many small groups. There is juvenile violence, domestic violence, hate violence, terrorist violence, and violence displaced through various forms of the media. This research will be on violence in the media and does it affect our society. How we view television, has changed the world, no doubt in that. Turn your television set on and pick a channel at random; the odds are that half of the programs you come across will contain violent material. The statistics are overwhelming as I look on the internet, read articles, and look at the research. One of the things that most interests me in the violence on television, is the effects it has on children. Children learn by repetition while watching educational shows, so is learning violence on television an exception?

The newest forms of media violence are things that we use everyday like the internet, cell phones, music, even video games. Almost all youth spend more time each week watching TV. For example, about 90 percent of U.S. youth aged eight to eighteen watch TV and play video games, with boys averaging about nineteen hours a week. Annual surveys of college freshmen over time reveal that as twelfth graders they spend ever-increasing amounts of time playing video games, watching

Everyone has the right to free will. We all the the ability to interpret what is right and wrong. Television violence can not be your excuse to your actions because ultimately you have the final decisions in your life. Television is fake , just like video games, it’s not telling you to do these things or even watch it.

    We've all heard the numbers on the amount of television that children watch and the amount of violence that they're exposed to. In fact, sources that blame TV for children's conduct quote this kind of data profusely. American children and adolescents spend 22-28 hours per week viewing television  more than any other activity except sleeping (_Effects of Television_). These kinds of facts are strewn about with the hopes of convincing the public that television is to blame for children's misbehaviors. Sources like these have one thing in common: They believe that if television disappeared, so would many of kids' aggressive behaviors. Though arguing whether or not television is indeed an

          Due to violence on television, children become less sensitive to that pain and suffering of others or to become more aggressive to others. It also makes children more fearful to the world around them. (Abelard 1) Viewing habits of children observed for many decades deduced that violence on TV is associated with aggressive behavior, more than poverty, race, or parental behavior. It also reported that a TV show contains about 20 acts of violence an hour.

Violence has become increasingly prevalent in the media throughout the recent decades. Every major form of entertainment media, including movies and television, 24-hour news, and videogames, include aspects of violence. The reason for the large amounts of violence seen in the media may simply be that violent content is popular among Americans. Of the top ten grossing movie genres, about four of those genres contain violent content ( Nash Information Services, LLC). Plus, $25 billion were spent on videogames and more than $31 billion were spent on movie tickets in 2010 (Media Smarts). Also, most of the popular television programs of 2017 feature some kind of violent content (Rotten Tomatoes), some types of content including gore, death, or some kind of fight scene. There is so much violent content in entertainment