Easy access to an endless stream of violence, combined with encouragement of violence on social media, is distorting people’s attitudes toward it, an issue that is difficult to solve through automation, experts say.
Violence has always been a part of the human experience, but has never been available in such quantities for entertainment, the experts noted.
In contrast with fictional violence in movies and video games, social media provides anyone the ability to see real violence, with effectively no restrictions on age. Additionally, it’s often presented as entertainment, with flippant, crass, or cynical commentary, and mixed with other random content described in online parlance as “brain rot,” explained Jeffrey Blevins, professor of media and journalism at the University of Cincinnati and an expert on social media content….