Negative Effects Of Violence On The Media

Age groups vary when it comes to the use of the media. More than half the children are exposed to the media by the age of ten. College students use their phones for nine hours everyday. With the way society is spiraling toward being heavily reliant on technology and people at every age being exposed to the media; negative outcomes on someones actions and their mental state arise. Media violence harms adults and children by encouraging aggression, desensitizing them to real life situations, and persuading them to believe that violence is acceptable. Being exposed to violent content at any age effects the human mind negatively resulting in aggressive personalities and unhealthy changes of their body’s blood pressure. The United States Surgeon

In the video games such as Rapelay, Prisonscape and Hatred characters do hateful actions such as raping and killing which makes the players have a visual understanding of what rape is which introduces them to the topic of rape while also making rape seem

Recently, so many mass shooting have been taking place and has been broadcasted immensely, there is no positive way to prove that others aren 't getting influenced on what they see. A mass shooting recently took place in Charleston, North Carolina where a young white male of the age of twenty-one killed 9 black people at their church because he was moved of the thought of racism that has been surrounding him through social media, video games and television. He specifically stated that the reason the shooting occurred was because “they were all black” (CNN