Does the level of violence in the media promote violence within society or merely reflect it?
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Holly Sumner Does the level of violence in the media promote violence within society or merely reflect it? "It was a scene straight out of Oscar-winning American Beauty" This quote sums up my view on the media. It's a quote out of a magazine article about Kristin Rossum and the murder of her husband. The media is a source of communication. It includes television, cinema, video, radio, newspapers e.t.c. It is inescapable. The media plays a large role in society; it defines your life and the way you think. I will be proving this by analysing case studies I have done on films and magazine articles. The aspects I will be discussing to represent the role that the media plays in promoting violence within society are how the media presents the violence, how the audience responds to the violence, other factors which contribute to violence in society, my case studies and what they proved...

