Media controversy is controversy involving forms of media, especially electronic media. Certain forms of media such as computer and video games, television programs, motion pictures, theatrical plays, comics, books, magazines, music, concerts, and Web sites, have been subjects of frequent controversy, involving parents and legal guardians, religious figures, and politicians. It is usually aimed at violence, profanity, sexuality, nudity, human castration, capital punishment, horror, drug abuse, thematic elements, and other forms of objectionable or controversial content. Occultism and religious content are aimed only by certain restrictive religious organizations. Electronic media are those communications mediums which are based on electronic or electromechanical means of production and most often distinguished from print media. ... Violence is a general term to describe actions, usually deliberate, that cause or intend to cause injury to people, animals, or non-living objects. ... Profanity is a word choice or usage which its audience considers to be offensive. ... Human sexuality is the expression of sexual feelings. ... Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. ... Castration, gelding, neutering, orchiectomy or orchidectomy is any action, surgical, chemical or otherwise, by which a biological male loses use of the testes. ... Death Penalty World Map Color Key: Blue: Abolished for all crimes Green: Abolished for crimes not committed in exceptional circumstances (such as crimes committed in time of war) Orange: Abolitionist in Practice Red: Legal Form of Punishment Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... This article is actively undergoing a major edit. ...
Media Restricton
Media restriction is often done by religious parents and guardians on the basis of the teachings of Christianity, such as RestorationistChristian denominations. Media restriction on the basis of Religions is a form of censorship, and it has created controversy among viewers born after 1975, especially when it comes to video games and Japanese animes. Religious organizations advocate media restriction. Rating system also form a basi for meda restrction. Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament. ... Restorationism is not a single religious movement, but a wave of comparably motivated movements that arose in the eastern United States and Canada in the early 19th century in the wake of the Second Great Awakening. ... List of Christian denominations ordered by historical and doctrinal relationships. ...
External links
'Ten things wrong with the media effects model' article by Prof David Gauntlett (http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm)
Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state).
Media (the plural of medium) is a truncation of the term media of communication, referring to those organized means of dissemination of fact, opinion, entertainment, and other information, such as newspapers, magazines, cinema films, radio, television, the World Wide Web, billboards, books, Compact discs, DVDs, videocassettes, and other forms of publishing.
The term "corporate media" is often used by leftist media critics to imply that the mainstream media is manipulated by large multinational corporations.
Mediacontroversy is controversy involving forms of media, especially electronic media.
Media restriction is often done by religious parents and guardians on the basis of the teachings of religion.
Media restriction on the basis of religion is a form of censorship, and it has created controversy among viewers born after 1975, especially when it comes to video games and Japanese animes.
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