children and media violence

television violence boys showed increased physical aggression and the girls did things through indirect aggression such as destroying someone’s things, and spreading rumors about someone else.

 

Media Violence and Children violence does cause children to become aggressive both in the shot and long term.  Newer sources such as television and the internet have made media influences more wide spread and its accessibility easer to obtain.  Kids and teens 8-18 years of age spend nearly 4 hours a day in front of the television.  Children who watch 1 to 3 hours of television each day were 60% more likely to be involved in assaults and fights.  The average American child witnessing 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on television by age 18.  Half of parents with children between the ages of 4-6 report that their children have initiated aggressive behaviors from television.  Children become desensitized to the violence they see.  A single exposure to violent media led to an immediate drop in concern or sympathy about aggressive acts perpetuated by others.  Children are not safe from the parental blocking technologies are insufficient due to the flawed television rating system.  Broadcasting has loosened their ratings in order to gain ratings.   Media ratings include increasingly more violent and sexual imagery, drug use, and harsh language.  1820 movies released in the time from 1993-2005 had become increasing violent in movies all rated PG and PG 13.  Video games are also becoming more violent than ever before. All this violence is what the corporate giants want us to buy.  The many different forms of media tell men that women need a big strong man to protect and rescue her.  In the movies and television we have seen the American hero going after the villain. 

 

                                                         Thesis

The focus of this paper is to show how the media has harmful effects on children and adolescents.  The media has masmarketed to our children and adolesents on a daily basis and this has effected children's phicial health and mental health. Our children are targeted by the media from birth.  The music and music vidios have encoraged early promiscuity through the sexually explicit content being shown and heard in the meda today.  An finally the violence in the main stream media has effected both young girls and boys watching and listening to the media today in a negative way  We need to change this if we want our children to view our young women men with respect in the future.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sexual music videos. in the media

 

After watching this video that had all kinds of popular music portraying women as being very sleazy, these women had hardly anything on and we paraded around as sex objects in the video.  When young girls here and see these music videos on a regular basis being played they start to belive that the way the media is portraying the women in this very sexual way they start to think that this is how women should be in order to attract the opposite.  This kind of music in the media leads yound kids to belive this is the way they should dress and act.  This teaches men to view women as sex objects.  It also shows men its ok to be violent to women.  The message that this kind of music is sending is that women don't deserve the same respect as men.   

consuming kids: The commercialization of childhood boys and giirls

in the video it discusses how young girls need to be pretty, sexy and beautiful this determines a girls worth this is how girls are betrayed in the media. the boys are potrayed as strong tuff and ready for action.  This is the reasons we have problems with depresion with youg kids today they are busy trying to me the young women or man the media potrays in the media. 

OBESITY

I found this video on YouTube that supported these clams it is called Health researchers have complained that advertising to children has a link to the rising obesity rates in the world. Pol, the video discussed how in the 1970’s there were 20 thousand advertisements for food, in the 1980’s there were 30 thousand advertisements for food and in the 1990’s 40 thousand advertisements for food.  With this increase over the years for advertisements of food with minimal to no nutritional value caused obesity in children.  This is when there started to be a noticeable increase in the obesity rates in young children.  Marketers know that children have a great deal of say in the American family today and they also know that 80% of children under the age of seventeen will choose the restaurant the family will go to and they usually pick fast food restaurants.  They also know that if our children nag us enough for something that eventually they will get there way.  The founder of Mc Donald’s one said that “were not in the hamburger business were in show business”  Kids go through a stage in development that makes them really want to fit in and the media companies are using there adds as a tool to tell our kids that life is about buying and getting things and this is the way to happiness to turn them into lifelong consumers.