Digital and Media violence: The effects of media and digital violence on children and teenagers Ever since the first television was invented in 1929 technology has come a long way to help people get distracted and distress themselves from their daily activities. However, because of the increase in technology there has also been an increase in violence in the media not just on the news, but in movies and social media as well. Even though television and the media has made it a long way it’s not the only thing becoming popular, ever since the first video game in 1950 the gaming industry has made many big bucks from children wanting to buy the latest best game they can afford. Now there is an infinity of activities that anybody can do to distract
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Many parents who may understand the issue or have experienced firsthand would agree. Media violence does cause children to become more aggressive and violent while others who are probably parents who have not gone through what other parents have or just people who don’t even have parents at all would disagree and say it’s a false claim media violence does not affect children even less with the idea of children becoming more violent or aggressive. The way I decided to write a paper about this came from curiosity, I use to wonder what would make children to become more violent while at the same time I noticed now there are more images of violence on T.V, Movies and video games and with the increase growth of children watching or playing games no a day made me wonder if there was any correlation between the two. And because I want to pursue a career in psychology in helping children and families is what made me become even more with the subject. In this paper, I will be discussing the effects of media and digital violence towards children and how this can affect their future in the long run. I say media and digital violence does cause children to become more aggressive and with the help of studies already done about this subject will help explain and give the reasons why children are affected by media and digital …show more content…
This is what we would call relational aggression which has been known to lead to negative consequences for both the victims and the perpetrators an example being the feeling of loneliness, depression, and social isolation. Just the act of watching physical violence on television influences relational and verbal aggression, its especially found with preschoolers, children, teenagers, even adults. A study made in Nigeria about children who watch television experience negative effects especially for the average Nigerian child watching 3-4 hours of television a day, children are vulnerable and cannot distinguish the difference between what is reality and what is fantasy. Another study also done with Nigerian children show how games like mortal combat or Wolfenstain 30 increases a person’s aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, children are most likely to become more aggressive playing with video games because of how interactive games are and how much the game requires the player to sort of connect with its character linking it with an increase of aggressive behavior. The more time spent with media violence the more aggressive behavior progresses. Therefore, even though not all children are affect by the effects of media violence
Many parents who may understand the issue or have experienced firsthand would agree. Media violence does cause children to become more aggressive and violent while others who are probably parents who have not gone through what other parents have or just people who don’t even have parents at all would disagree and say it’s a false claim media violence does not affect children even less with the idea of children becoming more violent or aggressive. The way I decided to write a paper about this came from curiosity, I use to wonder what would make children to become more violent while at the same time I noticed now there are more images of violence on T.V, Movies and video games and with the increase growth of children watching or playing games no a day made me wonder if there was any correlation between the two. And because I want to pursue a career in psychology in helping children and families is what made me become even more with the subject. In this paper, I will be discussing the effects of media and digital violence towards children and how this can affect their future in the long run. I say media and digital violence does cause children to become more aggressive and with the help of studies already done about this subject will help explain and give the reasons why children are affected by media and digital …show more content…
This is what we would call relational aggression which has been known to lead to negative consequences for both the victims and the perpetrators an example being the feeling of loneliness, depression, and social isolation. Just the act of watching physical violence on television influences relational and verbal aggression, its especially found with preschoolers, children, teenagers, even adults. A study made in Nigeria about children who watch television experience negative effects especially for the average Nigerian child watching 3-4 hours of television a day, children are vulnerable and cannot distinguish the difference between what is reality and what is fantasy. Another study also done with Nigerian children show how games like mortal combat or Wolfenstain 30 increases a person’s aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, children are most likely to become more aggressive playing with video games because of how interactive games are and how much the game requires the player to sort of connect with its character linking it with an increase of aggressive behavior. The more time spent with media violence the more aggressive behavior progresses. Therefore, even though not all children are affect by the effects of media violence