In a series of articles published in the Journal of communication George Gerbner and his associates claim that heavy television watching cultivates conceptions of reality in viewers which are consistent in the world presented in television dramas but not in reality. ... (Gerbner 1978) This is best reflected in Gerbner's study on adolescents and their ideas on when it is right or wrong to hit someone. ...
Studies that exist rely on the counting of sex acts. ... However, television is omnipresent, and both newscasts and TV dramas now confront a child with political corruption, dysfunctional families, and ambiguous role models that challenge the moral affiliation between parents and their children. ... Programs reflected this new sad reality as a new generation of action-packed adventure shows either from primetime dramas to daytime cartoons, in which the "good guys" were virtually in...
With a significant number of studies supporting the causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children, we know the more life-like the violence depicted the more likely it will be learned (Buchanan). ... Studies of younger viewers who daily watch cartoons, police shows, and murder dramas with heavy doses of violence further relate to the potency of TV (Buchanan). ...
