17 September 2013 How Violent Media Affects Children’s Behavior Media these days are becoming very violent. Children are our future. There are many incidents involving children being influenced by violent media now a days. Violent media can be found in video games‚ movies‚ and even music. First of all‚ some parents may think “Just because my child kills people in video games‚ does not mean they will end up being a serial killer.” Well Dr. Phil states‚ "The number one negative effect is they
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The influence of the Media on Children Counseling 448 Interventions and Advocacy for Children The Media Is a Significant Environmental Influence Time spent watching TV by age/per week: Children aged 2-5 average 25 hours Children aged 6-11 average 20-28 hours Children aged 12-17 average 23 hours "By adulthood (18 yrs}most Americans have spent more time in front of the television set than in school‚ and far more than they have spent talking with their teachers‚ their friends and their parents." Time
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MEDIA VIOLENCE: POSITIVE AFFECT Violent video games and television shows has been the source of entertainment for years. Violent video games made its first appearance in the early 1970’s. In 1972 Sony released a very popular game‚ Call of Duty. This game series‚ gave many people‚ especially youth‚ aspirations to join the military. In 2004 Icon Productions released of the most realistic movies in history. The movie Passion of The Christ depicted a very clear and precise way that people were treated
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Feb 2013 Do Video Games Promote Violence? Video games are being blamed more and more for violent acts people cause after playing them in extreme amounts. These violent video games are becoming more popular around the world among children‚ teens‚ and young adults. These games promote aggressive acts like shootings‚ theft‚ and drug use. As video games get more sophisticated and realistic‚ it becomes more like the real thing which desensitizes people to the violence‚ blood‚ and gore. The most famous
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The documentary Domestic Violence and Children details of the many consequences and effects that children who are exposed to domestic violence face. Many of the children suffer long lasting symptoms due to the devastating events that they witness. The documentary gives insight to the perplexed lives of those involved while showing the personal accounts of the children and their mothers. Before viewing this documentary I was aware that domestic violence could have it effects on the children in the
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Analysis of “Violent Media is Good for Kids” Gerard Jones’ essay “Violent Media is Good for Kids” was a very interesting paper. He opens with a story of him as a child‚ “alone and afraid” of the rage that was inside of him. His parents taught him that violence was wrong and that rage was something that could be simply overcome. Jones’ main argument was aimed at parents‚ saying that they are stifling a child’s natural instinct of anger and rage. He wrote that “we send the message to our children
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XXXXX page 1 Ms. XXXX XXXXXXXX Prep Writing 2 XX September 2011 The Negative Effects Of Media On Our Youth Of all the different types of media out there‚ television seems to have the biggest grip on our youth. Consider these startling statistics from studies by Dr. David Walsh. For example‚ the average house in America has 2.6 television sets and 56% of children have a TV in their room. Teenagers spend ½ hour a week with Dad alone‚ 2-1/2 hours a week with Mom alone‚ 5 hours
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According to Christopher J. Ferguson in ¨Video Game Violence and Pseudoscience: Bad Science‚ Fear‚ and Politics¨ from Skeptical Inquirer‚ Video games are not the cause of violence in young children or teens. This article presents the fact that there is no proven evidence of video games causing violence in children or young teens. It goes through and discusses the theory of how video games cause violence and gives an example most people use when trying to prove it. When Reporting about all of the
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Do videogames contribute to gun violence? In modern society‚ many people like to play video games. Some people even become addicted to it. They don’t go to work‚ and they just play video games all day. I think video games are good for killing time and entertainment‚ but we shouldn’t play too much. Playing video games does not help people for anything. Many people also think that playing violent video games would make people become violent. According to a survey‚ a whopping 75% of polled parents
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VIOLENCE IN TELEVISION‚ MOVIES‚ AND VIDEO GAMES SHOULD NOT BE CENSORED Television‚ movies‚ and video games have a great influence on the minds of today’s youth. But‚ what exactly are the effects of such an influence? Certain people have exaggerated the effects that these media have on today’s youth. Many people‚ including government officials‚ have singled out these three media sources as the cause of some types of violence simply because it is an easy target for laying the blame. The truth is
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