When television was first invented people didn't think it would be successful. Little did they know that it would become one of the most used products in the world. There are several debates regarding television, for instance if its a good thing for kids under 10 or younger to be watching more than 30 min of television every day or how people will change when they watch violent or disturbing things. What people don't know is that spending abnormal or normal amounts of time watching tv will affect you in some way. Even if you don't realize it. Watching television affects many important parts of your life that you may not even realize, It has a power of uniting people but can also be used to spread hate.
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One of the largest shoes of TV effect on teenagers is violence. With over 1,000 murders, rapes, assaults and armed robberies being viewed on television by teens each year, teens may have altered views of reality. When someone sees a lot of violence on television or in video games, It can sucume to real life violence and think that it's okay. With shows like the walking dead and american horror story airing with a new season every year, it slowly starts to influence teen minds and make them think that some type of violence is okay. For example the show “thirteen reasons why” talks about suicide and the side effects of bullying, after that show got released ‘how to commit suicide" rose 26% above what would normally have been; "suicide prevention" went up 23%; and "suicide hotline number" climbed 21%, based on CNN’s research. It can also give you a false view on reality and how the world works. Most of the time tv gives you a depicted way of how life should be for certain people and gives you a fake perspective on reality. Not only will they think that violence is okay but they will slowly develop anger management issues that will only worsen as they go into their adulthood years. The more aggression they see, the more they will succumb to it which is the reason why children with abusive parents will sometimes become abusers themselves. Another
In the articles "The Box that Changed America" and "Television Transformed" by Lauren Tarshis we ask why how did the tv impact americans culture. The first thing the tv impacted in americans culture is that the tv brought people together. "Tv was becoming a powerful cultral force that brought americans together." (Tarshis 21) The tv brought us closer because tv shows made us relate with eachother.
n Barbara Ehrenreich’s The Worst Years of Our Lives, she highlights a significant infection festering in American Culture: television as a main event, or only event in a day. As she says “you never see people watching tv”, and that happens because it truly isn’t entertaining. It substitutes for a life. The television has been pulling people into an allusion of a false reality and a seemingly boring life since its implementation. She essentially illustrates the negative impact television has on todays society.
How many of you watch or have watched a reality show like Keeping up with the Kardashians or Duck Dynasty? How much of that show do you think was real and unscripted? Were you offended about things that might have been said or done? Reality shows are having a negative impact on all people. If people don’t stop being consumed by these types of shows then our society will lose its morals or have a messed up version of morals.
Media affect teenagers the most because they spend a lot of time exploring things on it and this could harm them in a negative way. For example: when teenagers watch romantic movies, they could act differently to their love life because they got influenced by the things that they watched. Teenagers could change their behavior due to the things they watch on TV shows, movies, and videos. The young people of today appear to be excessively fascinated in viewing their most loved shows on TV or utilizing web-based social networking
There are many studies on media violence and its social effects. Most of the studies have indicated that children who are exposed to media violence are more likely to exhibit violent and aggressive behaviors. As the child observes the violence, he/she is motivated by the fact that the show is enjoyable without realizing the violent behaviors. As a result, they copy and identify the behavior, and this has detrimental effects on their social life. According to Boxer et al., the content of the media has a direct impact on its audiences (420).
Impacts of watching violent scenes to Children Does TV violence have a harmful effect on children? The violent scenes has a astonishingly negative effect such as cause violent and aggressive behavior among children, and make them become panic stricken to the outside world. TV programs are not all bad; however, data shows that the negative effects of disclosure to violence are powerful. First of all, aggressive behavior among children is caused by television violence.
Bad Effects of Violent Video Games: Most of the bad effects of video games because of their violence they contain. Thus children who play more violent and dangerous video games are more likely to have increased of aggressive thoughts, behavior, feelings and decreased in prosocial helping. The effect of violence video games in children is worsened by the games’ interactive nature. For the repeated cases of violence in video games, the child is in control of the violence and experiences in his own eye by killing, kicking, stabbing and shooting in games. Too much playing of violent video game will make the kid socially isolated.
“One may remember or forget these messages but briefly one takes them in, and for a moment they stimulate the imagination by way of either memory or expectation.” (Berger, 1977) as a result, teenagers are often depicted as lazy, rude, antisocial, violent, naïve, wild, irresponsible and mischief conductors by the society in real life because these particular images of youth have been constructed in their minds by the media. Films and TV shows that involves youths as the main characters, regularly promotes conformity. There are media effects that affect youths and the society based on the message and ideology sent in films and TV shows, this will be elaborated later on in my essay.
Sandra Assouad Ahmed Sokkary Farida El Hagin Omar El Battat Television and how it affects our society Television is one of the most important miracles of science. It is a telecommunication medium that is used for transmitting and receiving moving images and sound. Televisions can transmit images that are monochrome, in color, or in three dimensions. Whether good or bad, television has found its way into the lives of people all over the world and it 's an important part of life for many.