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    The rampant pervasiveness of societal violence has been ascribed to the dynamic fluctuations within the modern world, one of which is the media's extensive use of violence. Media violence and its influence on society's operation has inspired fierce debates for countless of years, since the broad use of television from the mid-1900s through the flourishing industry of new technology that are accessible today. Several independent individuals, institutions, and peace advocates claim that the graphic

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    Media Violence      Within the last few years, media violence is rapidly becoming a “hot” topic among many researchers and parents. The recent upsurge of violence and shootings in our schools causes us to ask the question, “ Who should we blame for the hostility of our youth?” There are obviously no easy answers to this question, fingers may point to many different reasons. With the many different perspectives in this issue, I will discuss the three most important, blaming the entertainment

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    about violence portrayed in the media, I noticed that many violent images in the media such as movies, videogames, and music have inspired people to commit large amounts of violent acts, such as committing assaults and murders. It is proven that children can he affected by the violence in media, when they are at a small age. When adults, some can be more aggressive than others, and some may commit more crimes than others. Over 1,000 case studies have proven that media violence can have

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    links between media and societal violence are only to be assumptions of the public. For one thing there are many other contributors to violence; so, how is anyone really sure that media is at greater fault. Media violence these days is really just a replica to society's everyday life. Without such activity taken in real life there would be no ideas for music, movies, television, basically nothing for the news crew to talk about. So the real question would have to be, is societal violence a contributor

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    lives. One can argue that media violence contribute towards social violence where the effects place a huge impact in ones being. Television violence is not only a form of media violence; there are other significant forms of media that contribute to media violence which are computer games, comic books and music. In this essay I will compare the theoretical perspectives and methodologies of at least three different approaches to the study of the effects of media violence and how effective they are

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    Violence has become a major social disturbance that is continuously on the rise to become more common within the media. Movies, TV shows, video games and the music in this era are being heavily influenced by violent notions. Some of the most popular TV shows that are aired have a significant amount of violence engulfed in the scripting. Even games and music that are produced are commonly centered on a violent scheme. Media violence has become a sociological issue for many reasons. Media inspires

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    Media violence’s history began in the 1950s when television became a mainstream media; TV networks sought a simple successful formula to increase their revenues. In present day “an average of 150 acts of violence and about 15 murders entertain us and our children every week, and that does not count cartoons and news” (Gerber, G. 1996). The average American child has viewed at least 40,000 murders and 200,000 violent acts, according to the research of TV-Turnoff Network research. The excess of violence

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    Violence has been incorporated into the media over the past decades. Television, movies, and video games all depict violence in many different ways. The scary truth is that shootings, especially in schools, are occurring more often than they should. Individuals are wondering what influenced young men like Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris to go into a school and shoot innocent people; these two young men were the Columbine High School shooters. People are also wanting to know why young men like these

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    Media Violence in Current Society Yanan Yu Abstract This article reviews evidence of the media impact on interpersonal violence internationally. Media violence always is a controversial topic. There are several factors that demonstrate this impact: (1) A recognition that electronic media use now dominates most of young people’s time; (2) Evidence demonstrating violent media has multiple harmful effects on children, adolescents, and young adults; (3) The growing impact of media violence on

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    argued that such tensions as represented through media are more influential than others. There are many forms of tension dealing with the theme of truth and representation. It is this tension that is most often seen in the way media represents ideas such as violence and aggression. This essay will describe several areas in which different forms of media,interpret violence and influence tensions. In the context of media representations of violence and aggression , these tensions can range from seemingly

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