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- 1. What the DebateHidesA an assessment of the media violence debate and the issues neglected due to its prominenceby Paige Howarth and Libby HallClick speakers for narration!!!!
- 2. Objectives:Define and explainthe media violence debateExplain the argument that says that exposure to violence in the media causes later aggression.Expose the weaknesses supporting the main arguments of the violence debateProve that the debate is actually just hiding social issues such as politics, elitism, and class differences
- 3. The violence-media debate:Doesprolonged exposure to violence in the media cause increased aggression and violence in young people?The media violence debate surrounds the question whether children’s exposure to violent television and other media leads to future aggressive behavior.One sides states that children's viewing of violent TV shows, their identification with aggressive same-sex TV characters, and their perceptions that TV violence is realistic are all linked to later aggression as young adults, for both males and females. That is the conclusion of a 15-year longitudinal study of 329 youth published in the March issue of Developmental Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA).and: Among the tenets that most psychologists embrace as self-evident, the negative effects of media violence on children holds a special place. Virtually every major professional organization concerned with the development of children has issued an unequivocal policy statement about the harmful effects of violent media,vs. The other side to this debate can be described by the view of Jonathan Freedman of the University of Toronto, who maintains "the scientific evidence simply does not show that watching violence either produces violence in people, or desensitizes them to it."
- 4. The Two Sidesof the DebateExposure to Media Violence Causes increased Aggression in ChildrenVsThere is no relation to media violence and aggression in children.The media violence debate surrounds the question whether children’s exposure to violent televsion and other media leads to future aggressive behavior.One sides states that children's viewing of violent TV shows, their identification with aggressive same-sex TV characters, and their perceptions that TV violence is realistic are all linked to later aggression as young adults, for both males and females. That is the conclusion of a 15-year longitudinal study of 329 youth published in the March issue of Developmental Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA).Among the tenets that most psychologists embrace as self-evident, the negative effects of media violence on children holds a special place. Virtually every major professional organization concerned with the development of children has issued an unequivocal policy statement about the harmful effects of violent media,The other side to this debate can be described by the view of Jonathan Freedman of the University of Toronto, who maintains "the scientific evidence simply does not show that watching violence either produces violence in people, or desensitizes them to it."
- 5. Weak Evidence forMost Popular Side“Media Violence causes aggression”, side of debate most popular among societyThe support for this argument is weak:Range of other factors
- 6. Misguided ConversationExposure causesaggressionOther ignored factors cause aggressionClass DifferencesElitismPolitics
- 7. Class Differences/Elitism andTheir Effect on Children and Later Aggression Class differences in television viewing usageRace ElitismThe otherThere are differences in the way the public applies the media to daily life. The lower class primarily use media for entertainment and escape while the middle class focuses on hard information – a prime example of socially stratified behavior. Theoretical attention should be paid to the proposition that an individual's range of spoken behaviors fits with the range of media behaviors, together forming a communication repertoire that correlates with social stratification.Previous research has indicated that a number of demographicfactors, particularly ethnicity and socioeconomic status, aresignificantly related to children's use of television. Yet thesefactors are often not integrated into research relating television-viewingbehavior to psychological and social variables of interest.In the present study of three samples of upper elementary schoolstudents, ethnicity was found to be a strong determinant ofthe amount of television viewed. Black children viewed nearlytwice as much television as White children, independent of parents'level of education, which itself was inversely related to viewingfrequency. No clear relationship was found between viewing frequencyand sex, birth order, or number of siblings, according to studies done by SeamoreFeshbach of Bryn Mawr College.Jib Fowles claims that an argument missing from the television violence debate is about “the Other”. In European society, the Other is of Oriental descent while in the United States, this figure is the Dark Other of African American or Hispanic American descent. He hypothesizes that in both television and in reality, the Dark Other’s culture, viewing habits, and behaviors are disparaged. The elitists of the society fear the Dark Other because of what they have come to stand for in society as a whole which include our fear of difference, of being prayed upon, of having our culture overturned and of invalidating our cultural identity. In the end, Fowles found that while we push away this Dark Other from our lives and television viewing, the elitists always end up beckoning the Dark Other back. Whites are fascinated by not only their dress and music but also their athletic prowess and behaviors. Whites call upon the Dark Other entertainers to portray the violent roles in television.
- 8. Politics and itsEffect on the Livelihoods of ChildrenWelfare LawsEducation Funding cutsAfterschool programsScholarship opportunities
- 9. ConclusionMedia Violence Debatehides the effects of class differences, elitism, and the neglectful politics
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