Some of the examples of that violence to children are: video games, music lyrics and videos, and television. ... Music lyrics and videos contribute to a really important way to induce violence between people. ... In some cases, lyrics transmit potentially harmful health messages. ... When music lyrics are illustrated in music videos, their potential impact is magnified. ...
A recent study done by Anderson, Carnagey, and Eubanks (2003) tested the "effects of songs with violent lyrics on aggressive thoughts and hostile feelings."The study, which was divided into five experiments, had undergraduate students listen to songs that either had violent lyrics or minimal to no violent lyrics, but were the same length and genre, either hard or soft rock" (Anderson, Carnagey, &Eubanks;, 2003). ...
The media can largely be blamed for the worldwide increase in violence. The complex age of elaborate laptops, portable color televisions in every room, and pocket radio the size of a basic calculator have all taken their toll on society. Today the world has a variety of problems. Violence is aroun...
Video games have become more refined, more realistic, and more gruesome than ever. A large amount of developmental and psychological research has focused on the relationship between violent video games and the negative outcomes among children and adolescents, such as aggression, hostility, anti-social behavior, delinquency, decreased empathy, and video game addiction (Adachi and Willoughby). Several hundred studies have been conducted focusing on these issues and many results have been produced, showing that violent video games do have a negative affect on the psyche of the youth players. Thou...
A public boycott of violent programming, lyrics, and movies, apparently, is the only way to make the "production staffs accept media violence first and foremost as potentially damaging, rather than regarding it principally as potential entertainment- (Belson 527). ...
