Compared to the recent decades, there is an obvious difference in the way people think and act these days. In  movies for example, erotic scenes were completely prohibited but at present, it is almost close to saying that a movie without a sexy scene is like a fried chicken without a gravy.

Communication media have played and continue to play a major role in the process of affecting and, to a greater extent, changing the behavior, attitudes and life-style of the people.

This notion leads to the issue that violence showed by mass media affect, contributes or is exactly the reason behind all the violence that is happening  in our society.

But, media violence, however negative you may think of it, still has a positive effects to us.
We know that the never-ending adventures of super heroes always go along with fights and violence. This, according to a psychologist, teaches dependency to children. it also enable children to explore the inescapable feelings (fear, rage, greed, power-hunger) that they have been taught to deny and to reintegrate those feelings into a more whole, complex and more resilient self hood. why, in the first place, do parents tell their kids scary stories? its because, they know that their children can get lessons from it too.

In the movie business, the biggest-grossing films were the action movies (like Die Hard or Terminator), which means that people prefer this kind of movie than the comedy or drama. Others even prefer the R-rated films like Wrong Turn. This fact proves that more people are actually entertained or amused to this kind of movies. (or maybe because, it lets people experience radical things that they don't want to experience in real life but want to feel it through other people) Since producers do not take risk, they tend to produce action-filled or violent movies than the other types. In the end, admit it or not, it is still actually us who wants violence in the media. 

However, There are many factors that affects our understanding what we hear on the radio, and what we see in TV and prints: personal experience, society, level of education, upbringing, family setting and peers. Psychiatrist Serge Tisseron even said, "Just because a film has a murder scene doesn't mean that people are going to commit the act; that overstates the power of the image and under-estimate the role of the parents"
In the end, it is still us who choose what media to consume and determine what the the meaning of the messages will be.

The mass media is like a mirror. It reflects the people and its society. It shows us the reality. It awakens our senses that these things are really happening and it needs action. So, if we want no violence in the media, let us change our attitude: let's not patronize violent movies, and let there be no violence in the society.

So, violence in mass media? Justifiable.




*this is posted for a school requirement