Nielsen Media Research

agreement with the opinion of Grossman, indicating that “… In recent times, the news media has cried out against violent media, painting it as the leading cause for youth violence. Following events such as the Columbine massacre (1999), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2007), The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (2012), and the (2012) Aurora shooting, news sources have vilified violent media, claiming that it is a primary cause of violent behavior in youths.” The young…

because of the reasons given. Much of the research done to investigate the matter has been a failure. First, in 2008, 97% of youth ages twelve to seventeen played video games while two thirds of them played an action game with violent content. On the other hand, more than half the parents wonder about the effect that video games have on their child. Also, the exposure to violent media an sometimes contribute to real life violent behavior. Much of the research done that associates games and…

consistent for the person's personality and the person's gender and the results were evident that listening to the more violent songs resulted in a more violent brain in most the subjects. While more research on effects of violent lyrics must be done, says Anderson, yet another type of entertainment media, when referring to violence, "now has been demonstrated to have some negative effects. Just how music can make you…

It is a natural occurrence that when we mess up or lose at an experience that we become angry and what to find something to take our anger out on. This is very prevalent when you are constantly losing by not doing the right things in a video game setting where when you mess up you are punished with having to start over. As videogames become more violent in graphics and in combat many parents are becoming more concerned on their child's behavior. Parents are more led to believe that this increase…

children that violent media is not good for them, they should not try to play it, and it has to be forgotten completely, but some of them still try to play it, and many of them has been addicted to violent games. In the article “Violent Media is Good for Kids”, the author Gerard Jones argues that bloody videogames, gun-glorifying, gangsta rap and other form of “creative violence” help far more children than they hurt, by giving a tool to master their rage. That means violent media is good.…

A Review of Bushman (1998) Question According to Matlin (2013), the emotional nature of stimuli can influence long-term memory. Research in this field has shown that anger and violence tends to reduce memory recall. One study that discusses memory in differing emotions was conducted by Brad Bushman. In this study, Bushman (1998) tested the effect of television violence and its effect on memory of television ads. This summary focuses on Experiment 1, which used recall and recognition…

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…

ease their minds. Quick video games or brain teasers could help alleviate stress and temporarily distract the mind from traumatic memories. Let’s help our veterans to end their fight by encouraging them to play these games and let's continue our research in other video game treatment…

I made the story “The not so colorful box of crayons!” In the story there are 3 boxes of crayons. There is the 64 crayon box and he is supposed to represent Jack. He represents Jack because he was getting the most attention from the kids. The kids would listen to anything he says. Such as when Jack told the kids to go and hunt Ralph and they all listened to him and when the 64 box of crayons told the kids to go “use” the old boxes of crayons. Use in in quotes because he wanted them to break the…

In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate on whether or not violence in video games is a direct cause of violent behavior. This topic was once again brought to debate in the article “Do Video Games Lead to Violence” when it was released that the 18-year old gunman from Munich, responsible for the death of nine people, commonly played and enjoyed first person shooter games. Those who are supporters of the claim that violent video games lead to violence say that there is a direct link to…