Media Violance

Technology is a very important investment for human beings. Therefore, technology is improving more and more every day. Technology makes our lives easier. People are now capable to reach any information or person at any time they wish. For instance, one can talk face to face with their family or friend from across the universe on computers. People use technology every second in their life, like computers, internet, cell phones, TV, in other words media. Media is technology’s spoiled child because they grow together. Media is everywhere in our computers, internet, cell phones. Even though media is beneficial in all sorts of ways, like being informed all the time, some scientists think that it has bad impact on people especially children. Media violence is a big subject which has been still discussing by some professionals. There is no doubt that media has a big impact on children, men, women especially on children. It depends on one’s education whether they get affected badly or not.
Most of the parents claim that media violence, like cartoons, video games, movies, TV, has a violent and bad impact on their children, yet there is something that they don’t understand, it is their job to teach their children differences between fantasy and reality. Most researchers and investigators agree that exposure to media violence alone does not cause a child to commit a violent act, and that it is not the sole, or even necessarily the most important, factor contributing to youth aggression, anti-social attitudes, and violence (Definitions of Media (n.d.)). Children always have a super hero in their dream world which pushes them to behave like their heroes. For example, in 2004 there was a incident in Turkey one kid jumped from balcony with a umbrella pretending as superman, fortunately nothing happened. Parents should inform their children that those fiction characters not real. When children watch cartoons, they see how characters damage each other and it’s not hurting them, but children cannot understand that. That’s why parents should be more responsible. Children should understand these kinds of weapons or violent acts will hurt the other person in real life. Also, children should known that they will get punished according to their violent acts. Children are influenced by mediathey learn by observing, imitating, and making behaviors their own. Aggressive attitudes and behaviors are learned by imitating observed models. Research has shown that the strongest single correlate with violent behavior is previous exposure to violence. Because children younger than eight years cannot discriminate between fantasy and reality, they are uniquely vulnerable to learning and adopting as reality the circumstances, attitudes, and behaviors portrayed by entertainment media (APP, 2001,
November 5). One can agree that children are really affected by media in a bad or good way. I mean if we try to make a distinguish, sometimes children can see which is right or wrong by media. Parents think not to buy a product which contains violence, will solve this problem, but it’s not because children can reach these product anywhere. The important part is children have to learn what kinds of behaviors will be wrong. TV violence increases the aggression on children. Children imitate their “super hero characters” to be like them. However, this imitation is creating many damages or bad effects on children development. Their “super hero” always win at the end, awarding their super heroes make children more excited because they want to be like them. They think that if they do something bad, no one will die or damage, also they will reward. These children’s families have to talk and inform their children because of their bad behavior, but punishing the children because of their irresponsible behavior is not a solution. The punishment will make children more aggressive and children might try to take revenge from their families. V-chip technology, which gives parents a way to control what the TV will allow to be broadcast in the home, is a step in the right direction, according to the authors, but only if a content-based rating system is used that would actually allow parents to make judgments on the basis of violent content instead of the age guideline rating system used for many programs
The V-chip technology will be a way of reducing the media violence against to punish the children ( V-Chip, (n.d.)) Still I don’t believe that this could be the certain way to solve but it’s just a way to reduce. Children cannot be stopped or restricted easily, because children are always curious about everything.
There was a study about Acceptance of Violence against Women placed in
University of Manitoba, Canada: This seemed like just focusing on movie ratings. Students were randomly assigned to watch two different movies(2004, August 27). One of them was about violent-sexual and the other was about control feature length movies. Also there were students who recruited but had not sign up for the experiment were also used as a comparison group. After showing these movies to students, they made them surveys couple they later like it was nothing to do with the study. It was seen that acceptance of interpersonal violence against women, acceptance of rape myths, and beliefs in adversarial sexual relations increased.
According to this study, researchers are partially proved media impact on men against women, however, can media has that much of a impact on people. One can state that it is about yet again both parental and school education. More than 80% of the violence portrayed in contemporary music videos is perpetrated by attractive protagonists against a disproportionate number of women and blacks” (APP, 2001,
November 5). These music videos almost all the time use women figures which is kind of insulting for females. These kinds of videos will create some haters against to blacks. I think because of these videos African-Americans become potential criminal in society. Also, woman abuse is the other important point of view. Men are getting more aggressive because of media violence and sometimes they attack to woman. Also, some of men try to do some fantasies what they see on television. People are just blaming the media violence because of their belief system. One can think media sometimes shows the difference and try to teach which is good or bad. Just blaming the media couldn’t be the long lasting solution. Media is a tool that helps us keep up to date. Just imagine a media just they’re using happily ever after all the time. Wouldn’t it be unrealistic?
The answer is it will because if people never see what kinds of things are dangerous or what kinds of behaviors will be punished, everyone will have a potential to do bad behaviors without realizing it. The way it shows the dosage of the violence is really important. The entertainment should keep it in a safe way. One can agree with this idea because people just think that the only responsible is media or the federal government because media shows violent acts. One can also think everyone has to do something to solve this problem. Not doing anything, just talking will not help community. Everyone has responsibilities; everybody has to take a mission to end this bad effects.
Lastly, one cannot fully blame the media about its effects on people especially children.
It is parent’s job to control and educate their children. One cannot also say that media has no effect on people, yet again one can see that it is mainly about education. Women abuse is something unacceptable, media effects that too but If the countries education system was good and everybody at least graduate from high school or even give seminars about such serious problems which people highly suffer from such examples wouldn’t exist.