The Killing Screen

In recent years the question of impact of violence in the media on children has acquired an extremely serious edge. The reason for this is the sudden appearance of multiple modes of transmission: television, cable TV, video and the Internet. Violent and aggressive material is now easily and abundantly available in the market and the world our children are growing up in is changing faster than they are growing up. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of communication. The advances in technology the convergence of technologies and the sudden boom in the electronic media have changed our lives drastically.

With the growth of the electronic media in India, a child's exposure to television and violence on television has increased phenomenally with a negative effect on children. The present paper is an attempt to understand the gravity of the killing screen on children.