How Culture and the Media

Portray Violence

By Isabel & Giselle

Is violence glorified? (entertainment)

● Is violence glorified
or portrayed realistically?
How does media violence influence us? (crime)

● Does media violence affect our behavior?

“The 2 teenage boys who murdered 12 schoolmates
and a teacher and injured 21 others at Columbine
High School in Colorado before killing themselves,
he said, lived in a pathological environment. ‘Their
lives centered around violent video games”’ (Tanay).
● Does violent media give us ideas?
 Parkland, FL Shooter: Nikolas Cruz

● A broken human being

● A deeply disturbed,
emotionally broken individual
● Has significant mental illness
● Has gone through a lot in a
short period of time
● Is suicidal
● Fell between the cracks, we
have to save him now
 “Cultures define themselves with stories told
within those cultures.”

● How police finally found the Austin bomber

● At least 17 dead in Florida school shooting

● Sacramento Police Shot Man Holding Cellphone
● Dog death on United Airlines prompts legislative proposal &

policy change
● Does media influence our
justice system?
● Does media portray these
crimes differently?
Cyntoia Brown,
● Which one is the real
sentenced to life in
threat?
prison (ten years
ago) killed her
Brock Turner, sentenced to 6
captor, as she was
months
being drugged,
prison time for the violent rape
raped, and abused
of an unconscious woman
● What are common ways
people react?

“Children may become less sensitive to the

pain and suffering of others.
Children may be more fearful of the world
around them.
Children may be more likely to behave in
aggressive or harmful ways toward others.”
 March for Our Lives Speaker Edna Lizbeth
Chavez

● Lost her brother to everyday gun

violence
● “This is normal.”
● ”I learned to duck from bullets
before I learned to read books”
SEEING VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA IS NORMAL
Sources:
● http://www.apa.org/action/resources/research-in-
action/protect.aspx
● https://www.hercampus.com/school/gustavus/ha
s-social-media-normalized-violence-our-culture
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner
● http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/child-
adolescent-psychiatry/violence-media-what-
effects-behavior
● https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/12/01/c
yntoia-brown-and-our-twisted-system
● https://www.vox.com/policy-and-
politics/2018/3/24/17159698/march-for-our-lives-
edna-chavez-gun-violence
● https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2014/
12/10/mccall-violence-tv/20157729/
● https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi55