Topic > The negative effects of media and media - 1694

Therefore, the media has brought negative effects that will influence adolescents which could result in media addiction, behavior change and display of violence. First, the most obvious negative effect of media influence on adolescents is addiction (Nakagoshi, n.d.). The media acts like a drug that can easily make teenagers addicted. Furthermore, when adolescents who are still in school pay too much interest in the media, it will affect their education (Dunn, 2011). This is because adolescents believe that browsing media is important rather than reading books (Abhishek, 2015). Furthermore, teenagers don't realize that spending time on media has actually occupied them a lot throughout the entire day. If this situation persists, adolescents will receive a worse result and score. A quote from Aristotle (n.d.) said that “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” So, teenagers should put all their effort into education to gain knowledge. Furthermore, the media will lead teenagers to contract a variety of diseases. Reynolds (2012) indicates that a male teenager died after playing an online computer game for forty hours straight. The teenager was eighteen and was