Recent years have opened up a new window for technology to impact the lives of millions across the globe at the same time. This innovation has provided for the fast spread of news and information through the gateway of media. With open access for anybody, and often unfiltered information available to all ages, our early generations are getting tastes of reality, sometimes earlier than they can handle or even process. Though there are plenty of positive and encouraging pathways led by the media, according to an article published by Psychology Today, media studies show that bad news far outweighs good news by as much as seventeen negative news reports for every good news report. If a child is frequently exposed to crime and violence related media,
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Culture is not only being a part of a certain race or ethnicity, it is the way of life and the activities of a group of people. The group could even be of different backgrounds, but also hold something in common that they can relate to such as music, religion, and language. In music especially, lifestyles are sung or rapped about, and though not all focus on negative topics, some encourage and show off a dangerous and violent way of living. This, of course, can impact the listening ear to idolize the gangsters, womanizers, players, and drug dealers. When culture is represented poorly, a child could get the wrong idea of what life is really supposed to be like or what is considered appropriate …show more content…
H. Lovibond’s article “The Effect of Media Stressing Crime and Violence upon Children 's Attitudes” published by Oxford University Press. The main hypothesis stated that exposure to crime and violence mass media, starting with comic books specifically, would influence the child in the direction of acceptance of the ideology of violence and that exposure to wholesome and constructive moral values influenced the child in the right direction, turning away from a path of crime and violence. With this guiding the investigation, evidence supporting the hypothesis was found in using a simple
Culture is not only being a part of a certain race or ethnicity, it is the way of life and the activities of a group of people. The group could even be of different backgrounds, but also hold something in common that they can relate to such as music, religion, and language. In music especially, lifestyles are sung or rapped about, and though not all focus on negative topics, some encourage and show off a dangerous and violent way of living. This, of course, can impact the listening ear to idolize the gangsters, womanizers, players, and drug dealers. When culture is represented poorly, a child could get the wrong idea of what life is really supposed to be like or what is considered appropriate …show more content…
H. Lovibond’s article “The Effect of Media Stressing Crime and Violence upon Children 's Attitudes” published by Oxford University Press. The main hypothesis stated that exposure to crime and violence mass media, starting with comic books specifically, would influence the child in the direction of acceptance of the ideology of violence and that exposure to wholesome and constructive moral values influenced the child in the right direction, turning away from a path of crime and violence. With this guiding the investigation, evidence supporting the hypothesis was found in using a simple