Media+violence



**Violence Effecting People Due To Media **

“Shoot him dead. Kill all these people. These are a couple of phrases a lot of children hear everyday on TV, in music and in the movies. Should it be put to a stop, just toned down or neither? It has not been proven yet, but I believe entertainment influences violence in children.” Movies such as “ boy’z in tha hood, Scarface, juice, gangs of new York, an other such mafia or gang violence movies are what is effecting kids today showing them that its ok to fight an kill people thinking it’s fun an fine. There is all different point of views on this subject such as certain movies should wipe out violence completely, some should just tone it down another just believe since it’s still not proven that it effects the children’s psyche that they should leave the media how it is. I think it is appropriate seeing how every movie has a rating an should be parentally advised, especially since young children are like information sponges For example, the movie Natural Born Killers was blamed for the mutilation of a 13 year old girl, in Texas, by a 14 year old boy. NBK was blamed for a lot of crimes, such as, a teenager shot a store clerk leaving her a quadriplegic. Movies are not the only forms of entertainment being blamed for violence. There is also video games, hardcore rap, trash talk shows, hate rock, and violent TV. Movies these days just reflect real life because these days its just the world we live in that violence is the way an path many people choose an the media just doesn’t help an life doesn’t help with the media violence so it’s like a mutual partnership.” Certain characteristics of viewers (e.g., identiﬁcation with aggressive characters), social environments (e.g., parental in-ﬂuences), and media content (e.g., attractiveness of the per-petrator) can inﬂuence the degree to which media violence affects aggression, but there are some inconsistencies in re-search results. This research also suggests some avenues for preventive intervention (e.g., parental supervision, interpretation, and control of children’s media use). However, extant re-search on moderators suggests that no one is wholly immune to the effects of media violence.” Yes it’s true that violence is our most popular form of entertainment but I think until certain age it should be withheld because even though there is not any proven fact that these movies or media affect the children there’s is a lot of coincidences leading to it being a big cause of kids being so aggressive an violent different movies effecting children differently I believe for example. “ Boyz in the hood” is about a group of black kids growing up in south central los Angeles an only one of the 4 boys has a father to guide him through life an there is shown that there is much black on black violence or just everyday violence in general a lot of shootings an fights and I think an average kid growing up in a ghetto such as that can relate to that and anyone can see why the violence happens an how interesting the violence makes the movie but shows how even in a good way violence can affect people because after seeing the movie it shows you that you can choose to be on the positive side of the movie where the main character with the father end in the movie being alive rather than taking the chance of killing someone, or being on the bad side where 2 of the kids once grown up get shot dead after killing a gang of men. So yes violence in movies effect children I believe since they say children do everything they say when they are young and also it’s as if these days TV raises a lot of children especially when parents have to work twice as much just to make a money as they use to, so the with the TV raising kids an seeing these movies is not helping at all they will reflect what they see , another example of movies effecting a kids behavior is “ In reports the results of the research team’s extensive interviews of 820 adolescents from the state of Michigan – 430 high school students from rural, suburban and urban communities, and 390 juvenile delinquents held in county and state facilities. The adolescents were about evenly split between male and female, minority and non-minority. Parents or guardians of 720 of the youths also were interviewed, as were teachers/staff of 717 of them. After collecting the data, researchers analyzed findings by integrating “violent media exposure scores” into cumulative risk totals. Their findings: high violent risk scores “added significantly to the prediction of both violence and general aggression.” So violence in movies can be taken both ways but don’t find its just terrible it’s a lot to do with the person’s ability to handle certain things can keep fiction from their personal reality.