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Makale Özeti:
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The influence of media violence upon Russian teenagers is rather significant.
About half the teenagers were positive about its demonstration: they enjoyed films, television
shows, and computer games containing on-screen violence and they admired the characters -
including "bad guys". A third of the teenagers were not sure about their opinion of on-screen
violence, although they claimed to not be attracted by it. Just 18% of teenagers discuss and share
their opinions with their parents. The influence of Russian schools upon the teenage relationship
with on-screen violence is minimal.
The findings of our analysis:
- on the whole students are more tolerant than the teachers to screen violence (men
outnumber women).
- entertainment is the leading factor attracting audiences to violent scenes in both groups;
- watching violent programs in high spirits is for students three times oftener than for
teachers;
- both students and teachers are most likely to watch and discuss violent scenes together with
friends;
- students do not like watching violent programs alone;
- 1 out of 5 teachers is eager to watch violent content media with their students, 1 out of
3 teachers is ready to discuss it with the students;
- on the average, 1 in 10 students would like to share this activity with the teacher;
- students talk about violence on the screen twice as much as teachers;
- 3 times more students than teachers reported that their aggressiveness increases after the
violence seen on the screen;
- images of the screen violence linger in girls‘/women‘ mind longer than in boys‘/ men‘;
- about half of the respondents reported that they remember scenes of violence for a long
time;
- both the majority of students and teachers tend to believe that screen violence affects the
increase of crime in society;
- one third of teachers and students agree that most violent media texts should be banned;
- quarter of teachers and students think it is necessary to prohibit all violence on the screen;
- 5 times more students (vs. teachers) think things should remain like they are now, and 1 in
10 pupils consider that even more violence can be shown.
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