The Effects of Violence on TV.Did you hear about the recent Jones boro shootings in America where an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old shot down and killed four school mates and a teacher? The debate over the effects of violence in the media and computer games has been going on for quite some time, but it was only in 1997 that it reached significant status just after the killing of an 11 year old boy by a 14-year-old in Japan. The 11-year-old was decapitated and his head placed on the school fence. Toni Jupe, spokeswoman for the Adelaide-based pressure group “Young Media Australia”, says the violence is rampant and needs to be contained.