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  • Essay / The Negative Effects of Media and Media - 1694

    Therefore, media has brought negative effects that will influence adolescents which may involve media addiction, behavior change and manifestation of violence. First of all, the most striking negative effect of media influence on adolescents is addiction (Nakagoshi, n.d.). Media acts like a drug that can easily make teenagers addicted. Furthermore, when adolescents who are still in school become too interested in the media, it will influence their education (Dunn, 2011). This is because adolescents consider browsing media more important than reading books (Abhishek, 2015). Additionally, teens don't realize that spending time on media actually takes up a lot of their time throughout the day. If this situation persists, adolescents will receive the worst result and the worst score. A quote from Aristotle (n.d.) said: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” So adolescents should devote all their efforts to education to gain knowledge. In addition, the media will cause adolescents to contract various diseases. Reynolds (2012) states that a teenager died after playing an online video game for forty hours straight. The teenager was eighteen years old and he