Problem of violence in media

Kaunas, 2006m.
Reasons for choosing this topic
• There are more and more incidents of violence shown on TVs.
• People extort money by placing bombs in airplanes, rape, steal, murder and commit numerous other shootings and assaults. Where some of such fantasies came from?
• Over 1000 case studies have proven that media violence can have negative affects on children.
Hypotheses
Before starting to work some hypotheses were raised.
Violence is used in many ways in promos as a hook to draw viewers into the program. That is because violence is an effective promotional device. But severe permanent damage could be done to the children’s minds by such pornographic and sadistic material, in which detail is powerfully realistic.
There is a connection between media violence and aggression. Media encourage people to cause criminals.
Between 2000 BC and 44 AD, the ancient Egyptians entertained themselves with plays re-enacting the murder of their god Osiris – and the spectacle, history tells us, led to a number of copycat killings. The ancient Romans were given to lethal spectator sports as well, and in 380 BC Saint Augustine lamented that his society was addicted to gladiator games and “drunk with the fascination of bloodshed”.
Violence has always played a role in entertainment. But there’s growing consensus that, in recent years, something about media violence has changed.
For one thing, there’s more of it. Laval University professors Guy Paquette and Jacques de Guise studied six major television networks over a seven-year period. They examined films, situation comedies, dramatic series, and children’s programming (though not cartoons). The study found that during these years, incidents of physical violence increased by 378 per cent. TV shows in 2001 averaged 40 acts of violence per hour.
Other research indicates that media violence has not just increased in quantity; it has also become more graphic, much more sexual, and much more...

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