Digital Media and Technology Violence

This essay discusses the violence associated with digital media and technology, focusing on how such violence is portrayed, how people perceive it, and its effects on individuals. It highlights the rise of media violence in the 21st century, particularly in the United States, and examines instances of offensive messaging and racism. The essay also explores the faulty perceptions of the public regarding media violence and its physiological and emotional impacts on the author. The conclusion emphasizes the need for responsible use of digital media to avoid harmful consequences.

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Introduction
The current paper discusses about the violence associated with Digital, media and Technology;
manner in which those violence were portrayed to the world; how people must percept these
violence, and its effects on people.
Digital, media and Technology is something that has engrossed the attention of American
people, including men, women, and children very much in this 21st century. In today’s world all
the information whether they are about contemporary or current events come up in the digitalized
form in various forms of digital media as well as mobile and Web-based technologies. According
to the United States Department of Justice, violence in America has shown a peak, where far too
many Americans are found to harm themselves and others too because of their engagement in
media violence. School-age children of a certain age demographic are mostly found making foul
media messages in comparison to the other age groups or sections of people (Buckingham and
Willett, 2013).
The recent news published by The Slatest on November13, 2016 reported the media messaging
violence across the United States since Donald Trump was elected president. Numerous
complaints marking offensive remarks on racism was reported by The Slatest, where vandalism
was reported in the air. The video showing remark made by high-school students calling for
“White power” while holding a Trump sign, went viral across the States. These offensive
statements hurt the sentiment of many Off White Americans of every community, especially
Islamic countries and African-American citizens.

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Violence portrayal
The violence was somehow settled down by taking measures against the rioters. But the message
pointing towards racism still curtailed to remain in the minds of people (Bonilla and Rosa,
(2015).
Public's faulty perceptions
Public's faulty perceptions about media violence are not always right. As many times digital
media persons are found to indulge themselves in knowingly delivering content that influences
people in wrong manner to raise their channels and blogs PRP (Michel et al., (2016).
Its effects on me
As many of my friends are off-white Americans, the kind of effect it had on me was
physiological one; and I found myself in a situation where my blood pressure and heart beat
shoot up immediately. The other kind of effect which impacted me badly is an emotional one.
Due to this emotional effect, my faith towards the term community is now untracked. Also most
of the time the mere scene of violence causes an intense frightening response in me. Thus, it is
confirmed that the widespread use of violence in media messages are highly pathetic since their
consequences are always severe, and there is no easy solution provided to come out of this
pathetic effects.
Conclusion
There is a popular saying which addresses that excess of everything is bad. As digital media
comes in a machine-readable format, it becomes very easy to copy, store, share and modify it.

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On behalf of the humanity, people indulged in foul media messaging should restrict their action
without misusing the user-friendly Digital, media and Technology.

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References
Buckingham, D., & Willett, R. (2013). Digital generations: Children, young people, and the new
media. Routledge.
Bonilla, Y., & Rosa, J. (2015). # Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial
politics of social media in the United States. American Ethnologist, 42(1), 4-17.
Michel, A. I. G., Ruggiero, T. E., & Yang, K. C. (2016). How Public Relations Practitioners
Perceive Social Media Platforms?. Managing Public Relations and Brand Image through Social
Media, 1.