The media is starting to desensitize the world, shows portray characters that do good but in bad ways, also it’s not just in shows but everything around us such as video games, and a study has shown that these things do affect certain functions in our brain. In this we will see how bad media violence has gotten.
A study has shown that video games affect the part of our brain that controls behavior. For this study they had 20 men come in ten weren’t allowed to play video games, and the other ten were asked to play video games for a week. After a week they did a few tests and it showed that the men that had played video games for a week had low activity in the part of the brain that controls behavior and emotions. The fact that video games were able to have that much of an affect on our brains after just one week shows that this is important, and it seems that the more gruesome they are the better they are for business. …show more content…
It’s some that is widespread throughout everything, and it seems like hollywood and other media influences will use anything that can get them attention. One journalist brings out that,”Characters aren’t presented as perverts, rather, they’re complex genesis, creative and tormented, ever misunderstood.” Truer words have never been said. People look at these good guys and even though they’re doing something bad it’s applauded. Also in 2007 a fashion blog said,”Torture is the new black.” Not only is this in mainstream media, but it has also been woven into the fashion industry. Torture is something that has been publicised as necessary or cool, but that certainly is not the
A study has shown that video games affect the part of our brain that controls behavior. For this study they had 20 men come in ten weren’t allowed to play video games, and the other ten were asked to play video games for a week. After a week they did a few tests and it showed that the men that had played video games for a week had low activity in the part of the brain that controls behavior and emotions. The fact that video games were able to have that much of an affect on our brains after just one week shows that this is important, and it seems that the more gruesome they are the better they are for business. …show more content…
It’s some that is widespread throughout everything, and it seems like hollywood and other media influences will use anything that can get them attention. One journalist brings out that,”Characters aren’t presented as perverts, rather, they’re complex genesis, creative and tormented, ever misunderstood.” Truer words have never been said. People look at these good guys and even though they’re doing something bad it’s applauded. Also in 2007 a fashion blog said,”Torture is the new black.” Not only is this in mainstream media, but it has also been woven into the fashion industry. Torture is something that has been publicised as necessary or cool, but that certainly is not the