Media , a grace or indignation ?

                       Today, we live in media society , in which information media are shaping our minds deeply , but this affection can be either positive or negative , and the opinions of people who are connected to the field of media studies are devided between those who say that media have harmful effects on society and amplify perceptions of a problem in society , and those who say that media's positives are more than negatives , and that the role of media is very important nowadays , for it inform  , educate and enrich the humand mind with a variety of experiences and knowledges .

                      Media have always been a source of moral panic , fear , and anxiety , and the most of people consider it as the main reason behind the Anti-social behaviors that occur in our society , because some peolpe are imitating all what they see on media , especialy in violent Tv programs .  In 1993 , in Britain , two 10-year-old-children abducted and murdered a 2 year-old child James Bulger , the abduction had been captured by security camera in the shopping center where  James disapeared and the child killers were quickly captured , and  at the trial , the judge Mr Justice Moorland commented : " It is not for me to pass judgement on their upbringing , but I suspect that exposure to violent video films may , in part , be an explanation " , in other words , judge Moorland blames media for transmitting the violent scenes to those children .

                     For other people , media plays a main role in educating , informing , and shaping the society positively , for they believe that media can help young people put current images and messages about aboriginal people into perspective by helping them understand how the media work , why stereotyping exists , how decisions are made , and why it matters "who make it " , media education is not about  consuming and imitating blindly , it's about  recieving media images with an active and critical mind . Moreover , Anti-social behaviors that some relate to media effects  are not necessarily produced  by violent Tv programs , Because violence is deeply embedded in human make-up , it's within the society , for instance ,  let's get back to 1912 , in France exactly , when  Nicolas , a 10  year-old-child  killed his little brother  by hitting him  over and over to the head with a hammer  until he died , and take into consideration  that media at that time were not as flourished as today , so the reason behind this crime  was - as some psychologists declared  - the violence the child absorbed from his parents fights  . Thus ,  media are never the reason behind the violence  and anti-social behaviors that we encouter everyday in our society  .

         
       As we've seen , opinions about media effects vary from a person to another , but still , the thesis which claims that media is the reason behind the anti-social behaviors is not trustworthy at all , for the reason that it is not yet  confirmed by scientists , because  you can't actually accuse  violent Tv programs without providing scientific evidences .

By : Cholay Amine