Negative Media Effects

Across the world, media has grown infectiously in society with the advance of technology. Media is usually described as a network of communication. It has a massive impact on society and affects our thoughts and beliefs. The majority of people relies on media’s information and transmission for their life activities, entertainment, education, socialization and anything else that they need to do. Though media sounds devastating in favour, many complain about it for increasing violence in society. They assert media exposure violence and cause a negative effect on their children’s behaviour. Since media has given a chance to explore social skills and other benefits, it is very disagreeable to blame media itself. In my opinion, other social effects

Here is an illustration of a little boy’s mother who had shared her story with me a couple of years ago. She was so horrified of her son’s attitude who was influenced by the TV’s violence. I assume many other mothers are suffering similar cases all over the world. In this manner, Craig A. Anderson in The Influence of Media Violence on Youth (2003), mentioned that the intense violent media occupied an excessive amount of time of many children and youth. He emphasised the latest research has shown that the mass violent media in adolescence creates aggressive behaviour in their future life such as physical attacks or spouse offense.

Expressively, Dr Christopher L. Heffner in The Psychological Effects of Violent Media on Children (2003), identified that children are mostly exposed to media because they want to keep distance with adults from the dreadful relation between them and they usually like to react in a harmful conduct towards them. Identically, he supported the exponents who contend that violent media is related to aggressive

He noted that the appeal of signification was mostly from discussion rather than conclusive responses. He believed “Social science has gotten itself into something of a scrape in the matter of television, especially in violence; none of the various sides of the argument about violence will permit social science to depart the field.”

In the Lancet (2008), argued that many social connoisseurs believe there is no connection between media violence and the real-life aggression. It indicated the impact of violence in media on adverse behaviour in children and youths have been considered and discussed over time. Based on some research, violent images upsurge the short-term fearful behaviour mostly in younger boys and there is no sign of the long-term aggressiveness shown. By closer look at the evidence exposed to media violence, commitment to any crimes in society is denied