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  • Viewing Of Televised Violence
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    Televised Violence is Here to Stay One of the most heated issues debated, ever since the invention of the television, is the effects of media violence on society. Many try to wipe it out, but will undoubtedly fail. It has great educational and entertainment value. There have even been studies showing that viewing television violence will actually relieve stress. For these reasons, televised violence, including fights, with or without weapons, resulting in bloodshed, will never diminish. Many par...
  • Harmful Effects Of The Media On Children
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    The Impact On a Childs Behavior Media vs. Parenting What impact does sex, violence, drugs, etc. in the media have on children? What can we do about it? How do we balance the tension between freedom of expression and the need to protect children? When you talk about the media and whether or not it is harmful on children, you must examine the whole industry and all aspects of its effects on children. It is that the media as a whole is not as harmful to children as some intense other can, but over ...
  • Media Violence To Some People
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    Critical Thinking Recent attention in the media relating violence and children has created much controversy and debate. Our society has brought much focus on violence in the media and how it has effected children of all ages and races. High school shootings and increasing crime in small towns all over the country has brought forth the question of whether or not children are exposed or desensitized to too much violence in television, movies, news, and other sources. Many people feel this violence...
  • Correlation Between Media Effects And Violence
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    The debate regarding the media's relationship to violence in society has been a hot issue for most of the past century. From the beginning of the wide use of mass media, from films to radio to television, researchers have tried to explain any association or correlation between media effects and violence. Of particular interest and concern has been the issue of violence in the media and the impact that this has on children. Although important research efforts have increased our understanding of t...
  • Contribution Of Media's Exploitation Towards Society
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    The Media Motivation According to Bernard Ca~naberal, 'Communication remains God's great gift to humanity without which we cannot be truly human, reflecting God's image (Ca~naberal). ' Freedom of speech is implicit in individuals possessing their own free will. Because of their free will, individuals have expressed their thoughts, desires, and aspirations through the mass media. Communicating freely with others affirms the dignity and worth of every other member of society. Meaning, freedom of e...
  • Significant Exposure Of Children To Media Violence
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    Does media violence have a negative effect on children? On September 11th, 2001, millions around the world crowded around televisions across the globe, watching the horrific scenes of terrorism that had struck New York City, Washington, D. C and Pennsylvania on that ill-fated and now infamous morning. Our sense of security and impenetrable protection crashed 110 stories to the shaken streets of New York City. We watched with shock and horror, disbelief and grief as the images were repeatedly fla...
  • Half Of The Violence On Television
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    Violence in the Media Violence has been a part of society ever since the days of the caves men, but only recently has television lifted its ban on the graphic depiction of violence. American children and adolescents are being exposed to increasing amounts of media violence, especially in television, movies, video games, and youth-oriented music. Video game violence, children's cartoons, and music lyrics have become increasingly graphic. In movies, action films depict vivid precise murders, rapes...
  • Watch Violence In The Media
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    'It has been calculated that American kids see about 200,000 acts of violence and 25,000 murders on television by the time they reach age eighteen. ' (Schleifer 18) Arrests of people under the age of eighteen for violent crimes rose forty-seven percent from 1988 to 1992. (Miller 174) The American Medical Association conducted a study that found a direct relationship between viewing and homicide. (Miller 176) Does this kind of overexposure to violence have a significant effect on children and tee...
  • Media Forms Values
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    'Communication remains God's great gift to humanity without which we cannot be truly human, reflecting God's image. ' (Ca~, 1993, 44) Freedom of speech is a right of individuals as they possess their own free will. Because of their free will, individuals have expressed their thoughts, desires, and aspirations through the mass media. Communicating freely with other affirms the dignity and worth of each and every member of society. Freedom of expression is essential in the attainment and advanceme...
  • Violence In The Media
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    Violence in the Media It's the ever-present question that has been asked by authorities, educational institutes and parents alike. Does violence in the media influence the behavior of society? Some say yes, others say no. Other questions posed that I will try to clarify in this essay are those to do with what, if anything is being done to control this virus. To fully comprehend these questions we must first understand what is meant by violence in the media, and whom it effects, if anyone at all....
  • Media Violence With Violent Acts
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    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. Today's children view vast amounts of violence on television....
  • Children's Exposure To Media Violence
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    Children and adolescents in the United States are exposed to violence in increasing numbers each year. This may seem like an obvious statement, but consider the following: The average child watches 21 to 23 hours of TV per week. This means that by the time this child reaches age 70, he will have spent 7 to 10 years in front of the television. And with regular Saturday morning children's television containing about 20 to 25 acts of violence per hour, it is no wonder the average person has viewed ...
  • Watch Violence In The Media
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    It has been calculated that American kids see about 200,000 acts of violence and 25,000 murders on TV by the time they reach age 18. (Schleifer 18) Arrests of people under the age of 18 for violent crimes rose 47 percent from 1988 to 1992. (Miller 174) The American Medical Association conducted a study that found a direct relationship between viewing and homicide. (Miller 176) Does watching this kind of overexposure of violence have a significant effect on children and teenagers The answer is ye...
  • Violent By Media Violence
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    Columbine Shooting April 20th, at Columbine Senior High School in Littleton, Jefferson County, Colorado, two teenage gunmen entered the school and began shooting. The enormous amount of media coverage that these events typically get serves to perpetuate the same kind of crime elsewhere. I see a major problem in the routine, continual violence that these children see everyday in the news, both print and television, and a responsibility on the part of the media for the type of information that it ...
  • Effect Of Violence In Media With Children
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    Is the media to blame for society's problems This is the question that has been asked ever since television became a household necessity. There are many different types of media today ranging from newspapers, to television programs, video games and stories. There have been many arguments upon arguments about this issue, and over thousands of studies have been conducted. Unfortunately there isn t one single result, there is only an array of supposed answers to this undying question. When presente...
  • Violence In Movies And Television
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    Lights, Camera, Violence! "Packed with nonstop action and adventure!" We hear this quote all the time when previewing movie trailers. It seems all they show on these trailers are the violent scenes, for example, the blowing up of police cars, the gunfights, and sometimes even worse than that. Why does this interest us? I believe it is because happiness and tranquility does not grasp the attention of the audiences anymore. An example of this is how well Bad Boys 2 did in reviews as opposed to Fro...
  • Mass Media
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    Pornography in the Media It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television, and now serves us world-wide via the ever-popular Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of its existence, it has contributed greatly in ways that both enlighten and enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful source o...
  • Media Violence In Youths
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    In modern society, children have access to many different forms of learning stimuli. Some of which are positive, while others are negative. [INCOMPLETE SENTENCE] Media can be a very influential element in children's lives. Children's behavioral patterns are greatly affected by imitation, desensitization and an increase in violent feelings. On average children spend 1,023 hours per year watching television (PTC). As a result children are increasingly susceptible to acts of violence portrayed in v...
  • Violence And Television Programs
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    It is everywhere you look. Turn on the television, it's there. Go to a movie, it's there. Even a cartoon that a five year old watches is filled with it. Media violence. Movie plots often revolve around violence and television programs are making violence increasingly more popular. The witnessing of daily acts of violence is now taking a toll on the youth of today. By the time a child turns 18, they will have witnessed 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence on television alone. Often times, ...
  • Media And The Youth Violence
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    Youth violence is problem that is very apparent in society today and too often the media is blamed as the source of that problem. Whether it is in schools, playgrounds, or living rooms across America children are displaying violent tendencies while interacting with their peers. In some cases the violence reaches extreme levels of tragedy and destruction. Senseless tragedies, such as the Columbine High School shooting, as well as many other school shootings that have occurred across the nation ha...

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