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Media Violence Turning Good Kids Bad: Fact or Fiction?

Cultivation as defined by George Gerbner, “is the building and maintenance of stable images of life in society,� (Electronic Storyteller). It is this idea of cultivation that researchers are becoming more and more concerned with when it comes to media violence and the effect it is having on our culture; is it possible that video games, TV shows, and expensively produced films are influencing our behaviors and decisions? This has been a topic of debate since program broadcasting began in 1946. There have been millions of dollars donated and thousands of research studies and experiments conducted to see if this cultivation theory of Gerbner’s was, in fact, true. Is Gerbner accurate in saying that through the images and ideas we express in our media we have cultivated a society of insecurity and fear; aggression and dependence? What is media violence really doing to our society?
Media violence goes beyond the common......

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