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Power Violence


The difference would be, the effect it would have. It would have a much greater impact if we were not exposed to violence in the media as much as we are. .
             Children are much more susceptible to this because of the amount of exposure they have at such a young age. This embeds a "numbing" agent into their brain that fades the definite line between multimedia and reality. The most common source of violence in multimedia is found in the television. When the TV first appeared back in the early nineteen fifties, shows were strictly regulated and monitored for content. What happened? Nothing supposedly. Television is still monitored and regulated just as it was when TV signals first came into homes around the country. So where did shows like I Love Lucy and I dream of Genie go? Well, we now have Friends and Darma and Greg to entertain us. But we forget about all of the other shows that are out there containing much more than jokes and laughs. Shows like LA Undercover and Dark Angle contain tons of great entertainment, but, with shooting, fighting, drugs, and killing. And yet, we watch Friends at seven and flip the channel to watch Dark Angle at eight without even twitching a muscle beyond moving our thumb to push the remote buttons.
             Even worse yet, is the fact that most of us allow our children to do the same. Lasn views all of this as what he calls "jolts". He states there is no particular reason for the violence and destruction other than to shock our system and to keep us glued to our televisions for the entirety of a show. "Random violence and meaningless sex drop in and out of the blue and without context." (Lasn, pg. 15) This is very true. Think of the last show you watched where someone was shooting. Try to think of why they were shooting. Can you figure it out? Probably not. Jolts are meant to keep us at the edge of our seats, wanting for more. They up our adrenalin and make us want to see the next few seconds of the show.


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