Violence in Media

INTRODUCTION Violence in the Media has grown in our society for sometime. The world is constantly flooded with violent images from the media. Including television, video games, movies, and music. There have been cases around the world that kids at the ages of two to eighteen years spend at least six hours per day using media. What types of media attracts most people? Murder, death, sexual exploitation, profanity, and lots of action to keep you at the edge of your seat. There have been studies that show that violence changes the affect on the frontal cortex of the brain. Less activity on the frontal cortex shows that the person has been exposed to more media violence than the person with more frontal activity. Kids who should be learning about sexual activity from their parents around their high school years are learning them early just by watching the media. Every TV show or movies you watch has at least one sex scene or even more giving the child early knowledge of sexual activity. The media such as today is so addictive that it’s hard to escape it’s influence. A 15 year old boy committed suicide when his father took his Xbox away from him. In my opinion it serves as a day to day function were you should watch television for a certain amount of hours. Many people believe that media is the main reason youngsters are committing violence in schools. The media is the main reason why teenage pregnancy is still increasing and parents are scared to let their kids go outside to play. The world we are in now is much different than it was years ago. There was no such thing as the video game “syndrome,” or addiction to playing them. Now researchers are calling it a disease for kids who spend numerous hours watching the media or playing video games. Most movies out right now share these three main topics; love, crime, and sex. Why is this? Movie producers and directors know that these are the movies people are most likely spend there money on first.