Media And Media Violence

Violence is an extensive problem throughout our world, but media violence is one of our greatest complications. Media violence has had a substantial impact on the lives of today’s adolescence. There always seems to be some type of violence being administered out into the media. There has been a heavy amount of research done on media violence to determine if it influences children to be aggressive or show violent behavior. “Research on violent television and films, video games, and music reveals unequivocal evidence that media violence increases the likelihood of aggressive and violent behavior in both immediate and long-term contexts” (Anderson). Such research displays violent behaviors caused through violence in music, video games

“The advent of video games raised new questions about the potential impact of media violence, since the video game player is an active participant rather than merely a viewer” (APA). As an adolescent starts to actually engage and participate in violent activities, they are beginning to open themselves up to a greater potential of aggressive behaviors. Violent video games can teach children that violence can be a solution to fixing a problem and they can be rewarded for it. “People who played a video game that rewarded violence showed higher levels of aggressive behavior and aggressive cognition as compared with people who played a version of the same game that was competitive, but either did not contain violence or punished violence”(“Violent” 71). Video games have become so cutting-edge that imitating the violence being acted out in the video games has affected the way of their aggression. Bruce Bartholow concludes that “Video games often require players to simulate violate actions, such as stabbing, shooting, dismember someone with an axe, sword, chainsaw, or other weapons”(3). With all the new video games constantly coming out, it all replicates the many violent situations that can occur. “All of them consist of the same exact violence. Whether it be crashing cars, drinking underage, or killing people randomly. All show illegal actions for underage kids, and makes them seem do able.” Since these situations in video games make them probable to actually happen, kids realize that if they can do it in virtual life, they could do it in real life as well. In the game, Grand Theft Auto, players are able to kill any one include police officers. “There was a direct lawsuit in Alabama, suing the makers and marketers in this game because they believed months of playing this game led a young teenager to go on a rampage and kill 3 men, two of them being