VIOLENCE in the Media!!!!

All of us that view television know that there has been an increase in violence shown on television. Whether it be daytime dramas, the news, cartoons, even sports for that matter, there has been an increase in violence all over television.

Cartoons have recently gone up in violence especially in super hero cartoons. Such as Batman, X-men, Superman, Spiderman, Justice League and others. I recently had a chance to see the action superhero cartoon Spiderman on Disney XD, and to no suprise their was a lot of action in the cartoon. Mainly violence, from Spiderman being thrown around by villains and various buildings being blasted and torn apart. As usual we know Spiderman as comedic superhero, so there was tons of verbal violence and as always physical violence in the episode.

Here's a lil clip of all the action I analyzed!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLXyoIcKRzA

 

As you can tell from the graph there was plenty of physical violence that was acted out in the cartoon. Not really to much verbal violence or intimidation going, but a lot of punching kicking and of course web slinging because we are talking about Spiderman. Nonetheless very violent, and my guess would be that numerous kids were watching there is no mistake about that.

Now violence in the entertainment industry has gone up by a ton most recently in sports. The most popular entertainment sport to attract a lot of attention has been cage fighting, most notably UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). As a sports fan I can't lie, I love UFC its very competitive and real competition in there. Now some people say that the UFC is nothing but senseless fighting, but as a sports fan and I'm sure many other sports fans will agree UFC is "Grrreeeeaaattt" for sports. Truth be told its better than boxing in my opinion. Now I recently also content analyzed this as well, using the same categories as with the cartoon.

 As u can tell from the graph, the content analysis is even more revealing for Cage Fighting because the violence is real and actually encouraged in this type of setting. Yes, a lot of people do watch the UFC including children and my guess is the more they watch the less sensitivity there will be towards it. Desensitization theory and Sensitization theory both explain the possibilities of what may happen to children if they keep watching this type of content. In both the cartoon and cage fighting, kids maybe like many people become desensitized to it and it just may become entertainment to them like everybody else who watches it. On the other hand, they may become very sensitized to it and may be scared by it and not want to watch it all. Even when it comes to real life situations as well, they become so sensitized that they runaway when they see a fight ensue between friends or family, or they just may see as a form of entertainment and laugh. All in all Violence has definitely rose in the past couple of years in television programming!