Censorship and Children: the Viewing of Violence and Inappropriate Material Most People Would Agree That Media Channelling Is Not Suitable for All Types of Audiences. for Instance, There Need to Be Some Limitations
Censorship and children: The viewing of violence and inappropriate material
Most people would agree that media channelling is not suitable for all types of audiences. For instance, there need to be some limitations placed on the type and contents of media which young children are exposed to. The media which is accessible to a wide and varied audience (television programmes being shown before the watershed) should not contain elements which might be offensive. This is the practice of censorship.
The average child watches three to four hours of television daily. Couple that with Internet surfing and the potential exposure to violence and inappropriate content is much greater.
Our society has been bombarded with violence from the beginning of time. Concerns about violence in the media have been around before television and the internet were introduced.
Back in ancient Greece, the philosopher Plato believed that exposure to the emotions of the arts (especially drama) would encourage people to act out violent emotions portrayed in the drama. As documented in his work The Republic, Plato believed strongly that the perfect life was comprised of balance and harmony in and that any stimulated emotions would result in an imbalance.
The first theorist to challenge Plato's idea was his well-known student, Aristotle. Aristotle’s view was the opposite of Plato’s and he felt that exposure to the strong emotions of the arts had a positive psychological effect on people. Aristotle thought it gave them a chance to let out any emotional frustrations that they might have bottled up inside.
“Nor can there be a doubt that the younger will not strike or do any other violence to an elder, unless the magistrates command him; nor will he slight him in any way. For there are two guardians, shame and fear, mighty to prevent him; shame, which makes men refrain from laying hands on those who are to them in the relation of parents.” (Plato, The Republic)
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Most people would agree that media channelling is not suitable for all types of audiences. For instance, there need to be some limitations placed on the type and contents of media which young children are exposed to. The media which is accessible to a wide and varied audience (television programmes being shown before the watershed) should not contain elements which might be offensive. This is the practice of censorship.
The average child watches three to four hours of television daily. Couple that with Internet surfing and the potential exposure to violence and inappropriate content is much greater.
Our society has been bombarded with violence from the beginning of time. Concerns about violence in the media have been around before television and the internet were introduced.
Back in ancient Greece, the philosopher Plato believed that exposure to the emotions of the arts (especially drama) would encourage people to act out violent emotions portrayed in the drama. As documented in his work The Republic, Plato believed strongly that the perfect life was comprised of balance and harmony in and that any stimulated emotions would result in an imbalance.
The first theorist to challenge Plato's idea was his well-known student, Aristotle. Aristotle’s view was the opposite of Plato’s and he felt that exposure to the strong emotions of the arts had a positive psychological effect on people. Aristotle thought it gave them a chance to let out any emotional frustrations that they might have bottled up inside.
“Nor can there be a doubt that the younger will not strike or do any other violence to an elder, unless the magistrates command him; nor will he slight him in any way. For there are two guardians, shame and fear, mighty to prevent him; shame, which makes men refrain from laying hands on those who are to them in the relation of parents.” (Plato, The Republic)
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