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Media Violence and its Impact on Behaviour

Media Violence and its Impact on Behaviour

Introduction

In general, people are interested in violence and even disgusting want this information to be in touch with them. This feeling can come from a simple curiosity, as a self defense or even the instinct of revenge. For example when an offender is killed people feel calmer to be less poor person on the street. Another reason to justify the fascination with violent subjects is the possibility of escaping the violence contained within each. As the adult can not express the violent instinct he absorbs this information through newspapers or TV to a certain extent alleviates this feeling. Somehow through this vent is beneficial because it relieves the person desire in front of television.

It is inferred that living with this kind of news becomes a problem from the moment that the information become part of people's lives as something routine or normal, i.e., the massacre, tragedy, heinous crime makes It is banal in daily life. The situation is worse when violence comes to the attention of teenagers, since they are at risk of growing with this type of information finding that attitudes shown are normal. As adults they will display aggressive and totally without references attitudes within a human vision. However, it is necessary to emphasize that the relationship between media and violence and adolescence can not be perceived through a unique approach. It is appropriate to clarify in advance that aspect we focused on in this study can not be taken as capable of elucidating the mentioned relationship in its entirety.

Discussion

The means of mass media (radio, television, newspapers, cinema, and photography) are one of the most characteristic features of modern society. Media requires significant events, for this reason the violence, with all its load of bloody and great level of cruelty that comes to assaults causing outrage in the population, is an excellent subject to be approached mass shape and sensationalized by the media communication. In an exaggerated degree, the media conveys the violence in various types of programs, such as movies, news programs, many cartoons and children's programs. Unfortunately the child audience is reached in brutal fashion, and this excess of violence just influencing the behavior of children (Fisch,2004).

In its formative stage children tend to imitate their parents, teachers or "heroes" who are close. If most of the time she spends in contact with television, therefore there will be identification with what is presented and passes the information to accept as true because I still can not discern between right and wrong. Logo will eventually present in their behavior what they learned through the identifications. Thus violence can facilitate aggressive and antisocial behavior in children, this can be exacerbated in adolescence and well into adulthood. The great importance given by the media to crime, stimulates youthful mind perverted the adventure. However, the media also offers valuable training tools personality. It is unfortunate that the spaces reserved and dignified ethical side of human thought when, ...