The shooting rampage at Virginia Tech have shook the world by storm and has created awareness to all of us about the violence in media. The reason behind this rampage have been closely relates to media violence where the Korean shooter was playing too much video games that contain violence at an extreme level. With researches done, this article explains to us that many of today's aggression behavior in young adults are due to media violence.
Teenagers and young adults are often influence by the things they hear, see or do. For an audience to read an understand a message that someone or something is try to convey, he or she must possess some background knowledge on that certain topic, ( Kress and Van Leeuwen 2006) If a teenager or a young adult have been playing to much games which contain violence or watching too much of shows that portrays a lot of violence, someday, they are facing a very high chance of being brainwash into thinking that violence is right. Is show in television, why isn't alright to perform it?
Kansas State University professor John Murray says that, "The most plausible interpretation of this pattern of correlations is that early preference for violent television programming and other media is one factor in the production of aggressive and antisocial behavior when the young boy becomes a young man."
I had my own fair share of getting addicted to video games but luckily i have caring parents to stop me. Parents play a big part in the aggression attitude among teenage and young adult are today. If they are exposed to the right medium of media , they will grow up knowing how to differentiate what's right and what's wrong . With that, they will know how to make good decisions in life.
References :
Research on the effect on media violence 2007, Media-awareness.ca, viewed on the 30th October 2007,
<http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/violence/effects
_media_violence.cfm>
Kim A 2007 , Msnbc.msn.com, viewed on the 30th October 2007,
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/>
Partenheimer, D 2003, APA Online, viewed on the 30th October 2007,
Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 1998, ‘Front pages: (the critical) analysis of newspaper layout’, in Bell, A & Garrett, P (eds) 1998, Approaches to media discourse, Blackwell, Oxford, chapter 7, pp. 186-219.
Teenagers and young adults are often influence by the things they hear, see or do. For an audience to read an understand a message that someone or something is try to convey, he or she must possess some background knowledge on that certain topic, ( Kress and Van Leeuwen 2006) If a teenager or a young adult have been playing to much games which contain violence or watching too much of shows that portrays a lot of violence, someday, they are facing a very high chance of being brainwash into thinking that violence is right. Is show in television, why isn't alright to perform it?
Kansas State University professor John Murray says that, "The most plausible interpretation of this pattern of correlations is that early preference for violent television programming and other media is one factor in the production of aggressive and antisocial behavior when the young boy becomes a young man."
I had my own fair share of getting addicted to video games but luckily i have caring parents to stop me. Parents play a big part in the aggression attitude among teenage and young adult are today. If they are exposed to the right medium of media , they will grow up knowing how to differentiate what's right and what's wrong . With that, they will know how to make good decisions in life.
References :
Research on the effect on media violence 2007, Media-awareness.ca, viewed on the 30th October 2007,
<http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/violence/effects
_media_violence.cfm>
Kim A 2007 , Msnbc.msn.com, viewed on the 30th October 2007,
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/>
Partenheimer, D 2003, APA Online, viewed on the 30th October 2007,
Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 1998, ‘Front pages: (the critical) analysis of newspaper layout’, in Bell, A & Garrett, P (eds) 1998, Approaches to media discourse, Blackwell, Oxford, chapter 7, pp. 186-219.
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