From: Max M (maxm@maxmcorp.dk)
Date: Mon Nov 16 1998 - 00:59:09 MST
From: Patrick Wilken <patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au>
> I once thought about doing a study on
>effect of television violence on children, but gave up for the same
>reasons: most children watch television violence, the backgrounds of those
>who don't are too exceptional use as a comparison.
Well I have also thought about this.
If TV is a really great source of violence, then the natives of Rwanda must
really have been watching a LOT of TV before they went out with machettes
and killed several hundred thousands of their fellow citisens with
machettes.
I do believe there is is latent violence in most societies, and naturally TV
is a source of inspiration for a few individuals, but generally I think that
together with other media it can have a leveling effect. Exposing the
biggest problems in society so that it is possible to act upon them before
they becomes reason of massviolence.
Thus you can argue that TV is a source of less violence.
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