Does violence in the mass media have a direct influence on violence in Western society?

Answer 1

Firstly, why do you ask "western society" only? Secondly , there was no mass media around when Genghis Khan went raping and pillaging, or the first world war, so i would say no more than anywhere else in the world!!

Answer 2

Violence in the media could be filming actual happenings. The way this is presented can influence public opinion and hence (fingers crossed) political action.
Otherwise I am going with the classic 'it's not guns (movies etc.) that kill people'...
I would agree that the way in which violence is portrayed in the media can be adopted in reality, but the intention still comes from the person who does the act.
It is muddy water though. Psychologists and philosophers can deconstruct and completely undermine the concept of intention (even volition as a whole ), and the advertising industry puts a lie to the assertion that TV does not make you do something you would otherwise do.
The other angle is the approach considering the media as a whole as a manifestation of the Western social consciousness (if you believe in that sort of thing). In which case the relationship is the other way around and the media a mirror of a sort.
The reality is that it probably works both ways, but you still get judged for your actions whatever you read in Hello!

Answer 3

i imagine it is going any incorrect way round. i imagine the television depiction is right away hence of technique of society. If society grew to develop into faraway from this stuff, so might want to the media. i'm no longer hence of technique of goods that i'm instructed to i want to have. I have my own loose determination and that i choose to purchase what i want, no longer what i'm instructed. I watch courses that are not any further violent because i'm no longer a violent individual. Do I appreciate an action action picture often times? confident, yet do I enable it effect me? No. All of this has to do such as your determination to enable issues effect you.

Answer 4

Reality mirrors Fiction.

Yes, I believe it has a direct effect. TV, & expecially violent video games. This generation which grew up exposed to these games are indeed more hostile than the generation which grew up as, Hippies.

Answer 5

I would say yes. What it does is make vulnerable people watching think that violence is normal behaviour.

Answer 6

Yes. It makes me want to go out shooting people. especially readers of the Daily Mail and GMTV funny man Cheggers.

Answer 7

yell the scientific data suggests yes but apart from that humanity is just trying to find ways of destroying itself

Answer 8

violence has been around since day one so I don't believe it makes it worse

Answer 9

Yes, garbage in garbage out.