As the title: “Adults and Children Together Against Violence” indicates, this web site’s mission is to mobilize communities and educate families to minimize the risks connected to children’s exposure to media violence and its consequences. Emphasize is put on patents and teachers, who should be aware of the importance of the issue, and should spread the awareness. This web site lists concrete advises, which help adults to protect their children, and some of them are: monitor what children watch, teach children how to analyze the media and become educated media consumers, show by their own behavior how to be good media consumers, share their rules about exposure to media with other adults in the family or neighborhood. The web site also encourages parents to talk to their children and teach them an important lesson such as: violence in the media is make-believe, not real; real-life violence hurts people; guns, bullets, knives, and other weapons on TV are fake; real weapons hurt or kill people.
All adults and mainly parents should visit this web site because they will find there concrete examples how to prevent children from negative effects of media exposure, and if they are interested, it navigates them how to get actively involved in their community as well.
http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/mediaviolence/index.html"The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying" web site concentrates on the children and media violence by providing many researches connecting to it, and try to stress the importance of the facts and results. It provides the analysis of television programing and answers important questions such as: Is the aggressive behavior on the screen rewarded or punished? Is the violence gratuitous or justified? Does it have consequences? Does the child identify with the aggressor or the victim? Does the child see television violence as realistic? Answers to these questions point to the negative perception of children about media violence. It is important for public to know what effects media violence has on children, and at the same time, how to prevent them. The website encourages parents to be informed, to set limits, and to use mediation and intervention.
http://www.deathreference.com/Ce-Da/Children-and-Media-Violence.html“Turn Off Your TV” web site analyzed changes in the level of violence in television programming. Three common themes with respect to TV violence were observed: violence drives the storyline, violence has no consequences, and TV is a world of good and bad. Three-year comparison showed that the number of violent programs increased, anti-violent themes decreased, number of bad characters who go unpunished increased, and programs with violence in realistic settings increased as well. All of these findings show that children are exposed to violence more and more during the years, which negatively affect them. The web site also brings to attention that violent behavior is learned trait among children, and children who watch a lot of television become aggressive adults. This findings are supported by concrete examples from television programs which should help parents to realize that content of shows aired on TV is not suitable for children, and they need to make steps to protect safe environment for children.
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