Additionally, a couple of examples a friend a family member brainstormed for media violence is domestic abuse and bullying. Domestic abuse correlates with all of the definitions of violence, and it deserves a rating of 4 or 5, depending on the length and severity of the abuse. The viewing of this type of violence may make the viewer think that abuse is okay, or it may make the viewer better aware about domestic abuse, and the problem that it is. Similar in the rating of domestic abuse is bullying. Bullying correlates to the definitions of violence, and should be rated either a 4 or 5 depending on the severity again. Also, the impact on the viewer is similar to domestic abuse. For example, teenage shows may portray the bullying as a negative
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For my action adventure show I picked the television series Castle, which is mainly about solving homicide investigations. For my children’s cartoon I picked Dora the Explorer, a children’s show about the main character going on an adventure with her friends. Furthermore, the show Castle usually starts out with a violent scene where the criminal kills their victim. Sometimes this is the only violent scene in the episode, but sometimes there is violence throughout the episode. Since there is usually the use of weapons, fighting, and sometimes drug/alcohol abuse, property destruction, and domestic abuse I would rate this show a 5 for violence. This is because there is a clear intent to kill and harm a person at the beginning of the episode. Even though there may be only one violent scene, it usually is the worst type of …show more content…
For example, Albert Bandura’s work and experiments argue that children imitate what they see (apa). So if they are watching media violence, they will imitate it. In addition, in 1982 the National Institute of Health concluded that some major effects for children watching media violence is becoming less sensitive to pain and suffering of others, becoming more fearful of the world around them, and being more likely to behave in harmful or aggressive ways towards others (apa). Plus, another study done by Rowell Huesmann, Leonard Eron and others observed that children who watched many hours of violence on TV when they were in elementary school usually showed higher levels of aggressive behavior when they became teenagers
For my action adventure show I picked the television series Castle, which is mainly about solving homicide investigations. For my children’s cartoon I picked Dora the Explorer, a children’s show about the main character going on an adventure with her friends. Furthermore, the show Castle usually starts out with a violent scene where the criminal kills their victim. Sometimes this is the only violent scene in the episode, but sometimes there is violence throughout the episode. Since there is usually the use of weapons, fighting, and sometimes drug/alcohol abuse, property destruction, and domestic abuse I would rate this show a 5 for violence. This is because there is a clear intent to kill and harm a person at the beginning of the episode. Even though there may be only one violent scene, it usually is the worst type of …show more content…
For example, Albert Bandura’s work and experiments argue that children imitate what they see (apa). So if they are watching media violence, they will imitate it. In addition, in 1982 the National Institute of Health concluded that some major effects for children watching media violence is becoming less sensitive to pain and suffering of others, becoming more fearful of the world around them, and being more likely to behave in harmful or aggressive ways towards others (apa). Plus, another study done by Rowell Huesmann, Leonard Eron and others observed that children who watched many hours of violence on TV when they were in elementary school usually showed higher levels of aggressive behavior when they became teenagers