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  • Essay / Media and violence - 775

    In the era of globalization, the first power in this world is the media. It is very important to recognize that media violence has caused several problems in daily life, especially on television, because we can not only hear the sound, but also see the visual. If we think carefully about media violence, it finds its roots in the unease that is historically expressed each time a new means of entertainment or communication appears on the scene that appeals to the masses. We can see, as John Fiske wrote in his 1989 book Understanding Popular Cultural: "Represented violence is popular (in a way that social violence is not) because it offers relevant points to people living in societies where power and resources are inequitably distributed. and structured around lines of conflicting interests. Violence on television is a concrete representation of class (or other) conflict in society.” Furthermore, according to McLuhan, it demonstrates that “the medium is the message. In other words, in terms of transforming media (messages), our experience of ourselves and also of our society, and its influence is ultimately much more important than other content that is transmitted in its specific messages.” The determination of the media structure in the subjects of the human mind, and also secretly emphasizes in a broader sense on popular culture. According to Hornby (1983), the aim of the media is not to inform us as best as possible, but to attract the public as much as possible. As a result, this is why shock effects, or conscious and unconscious abstractions of this type, emerge. This is why it seems that people have been complaining more and more about violence in the media since...... middle of newspaper...... - the violence of good will, and that violence is therefore intrinsically bad and non-violence intrinsically good. Although such a proposition has some measure of validity, or at least plausibility, it is certainly not universally valid. » The issue of media and violence was discovered from a biased normative position that limits attention to violence through the semantic shield of legitimacy. . However, public perception is an important factor when communicating risks. It could be argued that the viewer's decision to choose what to watch is very important. Therefore, the media usually plays an important role in communication risk and also in shaping public opinion on an issue, not only by providing information but also by drawing public attention to issues, even by creating a sense of urgency around them..