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Effects of Media Violence

The effect of media violence seems to be a heated debate among researchers and the public as well. According to David Gauntlett, “despite many decades of research and hundreds of studies, the connections between people’s consumption of the mass media and their subsequent behavior have remained persistently elusive.” (Gauntlett, 1998). He also states “that the media effects research has quite consistently taken the wrong approach to the mass media, its audiences, and society in general.” (Gauntlett, 1998). I agree with this statement, I think that the environmental and cultural influences have been neglected in the majority of the research done on this topic.

In all the research that I have read through, I have found that the researchers involved have many disagreements. I went to the Media Awareness Network website and found an article where Andrea Martinez did a review of all the scientific writing for a Canadian Radio-television and......

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