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Media’s Affect on Child Aggression
Media’s Affect on Child Aggression
Media has evolved from having little or no violence to everything having to do something with violence. Before the age of five, children would have already seen/ heard 4000 acts of violence. Seeing and/or hearing this much violence believe it or not can make a child more aggressive. Even though many people believe that media doesn’t have a negative effect on youth, research has proven that media in fact does affect youth.
In 1950 only 10% of homes had a television today 99% of homes have a television. Some homes even have more televisions than phones (Eugene V Beresin, 2009). An average child has access to any television which means they can watch whatever. Some ask, “How can media violence change a child’s behavior or aggression?” When a child of a young age see’s violent acts they tend to try and reenact what they see. There have been cases in the United States where a child will see on the television acts of violence where guns are involved and when they saw an actual gun they used it. Children at that age are not able to tell the difference between fiction and non-fiction. When a child sees one of their favorite heroes on television they start to think and believe that is a good thing to be violent and carry weapons. They see that the heroes such as batman, superman, wolverine, etc get rewarded for their violent acts which lead them to believe that it is ok to be violent. By the age of 18 a child would have seen over 200,000 acts of violence and about 16,000 of those are murders. Tests also prove that an average child will spend more time watching television then they spend in school. (Eugene V Beresin, 2009).
Some think that media violence does not have any effect on children. 50 years have research has proven that media violence does in fact have a negative effect on children. Some critics argue that the violence that is shown in media is just for laughs. A child’s brain...
Media’s Affect on Child Aggression
Media has evolved from having little or no violence to everything having to do something with violence. Before the age of five, children would have already seen/ heard 4000 acts of violence. Seeing and/or hearing this much violence believe it or not can make a child more aggressive. Even though many people believe that media doesn’t have a negative effect on youth, research has proven that media in fact does affect youth.
In 1950 only 10% of homes had a television today 99% of homes have a television. Some homes even have more televisions than phones (Eugene V Beresin, 2009). An average child has access to any television which means they can watch whatever. Some ask, “How can media violence change a child’s behavior or aggression?” When a child of a young age see’s violent acts they tend to try and reenact what they see. There have been cases in the United States where a child will see on the television acts of violence where guns are involved and when they saw an actual gun they used it. Children at that age are not able to tell the difference between fiction and non-fiction. When a child sees one of their favorite heroes on television they start to think and believe that is a good thing to be violent and carry weapons. They see that the heroes such as batman, superman, wolverine, etc get rewarded for their violent acts which lead them to believe that it is ok to be violent. By the age of 18 a child would have seen over 200,000 acts of violence and about 16,000 of those are murders. Tests also prove that an average child will spend more time watching television then they spend in school. (Eugene V Beresin, 2009).
Some think that media violence does not have any effect on children. 50 years have research has proven that media violence does in fact have a negative effect on children. Some critics argue that the violence that is shown in media is just for laughs. A child’s brain...