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    director and specialist in the study of violence through the media, argues that exposure to violence through video games is effecting the youth of America. To Anderson’s dismay, there is little research and scientific studies directly focused on this topic, due to the fact that an influx of video games throughout the nation has only occurred recently. However, Anderson continuous to believe, based off other meta-analyses studies, that the issue of violence being portrayed as entertaining rather than

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    sought-after target for acts of violence. After the Columbine shooting, the media thrust the idea that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s tendency for violent video games, not to mention screamo music and somewhat goth subculture, were partly to blame for the terrible day in history. “Approximately 90 percent of kids in the U.S. play video games, and more than 90 percent of those games involve mature content that includes violence.”-(Time Health). The link between violent media and aggression in video games

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    the Media In today’s society, the media has a strong effect on young children and teens. Kids and the media tend to be an ongoing concern. Young kids in our society tend to overdose on the television, music, and video games. The media’s presence in children’s lives is very pervasive. Television, which once controlled children’s media utilization habits, is now merged with video games, cell phones, computers, and other connected devices. As a result, children are fully submerged in the media at a

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    especially in children. In the article, “APA Congressional Testimony on Media Violence and Children”, Jeff J. McIntyre claims that the substantial exposure of violence in the media is affecting the minds of younger children in a negative way. This essay will explore how popular culture creates complications towards a younger generation, as explained by Jeff J. McIntyre, in order to explore the different ways in which violent media is being promoted and affecting

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    Fergusion (2012), “The effects of violent video game exposure, both positive and negative, on various behaviors are still highly contested within academia and the general public” (p. 608). Violence in video games is often wrongfully perused as a topic of extreme criticism pertaining to an individual’s act of violence in today society. Examples of such would include the shooting that occurred in April 2007 at Virginia Technical College; where Jack Thompson and Philip McGraw asserted that violent video

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    When it comes to the topic of violent media being beneficial for kids, most of us will readily agree that there is an ongoing debate on whether or not children should be exposed to violence. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of whether violent media can help children express their rage and other feelings that they are taught to deny. Whereas some are convinced that exposure to juvenile violence in the media is harmful to children, others maintain that it can help them

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    Jacob Cleland Composition 2 Wolcott 20 April 2016 Does Violence in Media Affect Children? Violence is an increasing problem in today’s society. An act of violence can hold major consequences for society. With increased access to firearms and explosives in today’s society, it is important to know what exactly can cause a child to become violent in the present and later on in his or her life. Many variables are involved when children are growing up that may lead them to become more violent. These

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    come. Currently, violence in the media is being talked about because of many violent related video games and movies that are possibly hurting our young children’s developing brains. Violence in the media is not important because it is one way to provide graphic news in magazines and televisions. Another way is through violent video games. Media violence needs to come to a halt. According to Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania,“The amount of gun violence shown in PG-13 films

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    as a society, consume media. If we look back through history, we can see violent imagery portrayed in books and art. However, after some violent school shootings, people have attempted, and failed, to pin the blame on violent media and even predict if, and when, it will happen again. However if we look at the violent tragedies, and more specifically the people who have committed them, we can see other causes for this violence. Although it can cause issues, violence in media does not cause violent

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    second phase the variable "television violence" was introduced, from which it is shown to groups of television broadcasts fragments containing violent episodes in order to differentiate the cognitive and emotional impact and how they are made later. Fragments that lasted between 5 and 6 minutes each, with the scenes as they were issued on television were used. For each group two blocks with two pieces each were prepared. Fiction vs Real images and physical violence vs Social. The objective is to analyze

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