VIOLENCE IN MEDIA AND ITS FFECTS

Violence in Media and its Effects

Violence in Media and its Effects

Introduction:

Concern about the negative effects of prolonged exposure to violent television programming emerged shortly after broadcasting began in 1946. By 1972 he had accumulated enough evidence for the U.S. Surgeon General to discuss the violence "television, in fact, have an adverse effect on certain members of our society"

(1). other scientific bodies have reached similar conclusions. Six most important professional societies in the U.S., the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Medical Association, the American Academy of ...