Not so much violence..but example of effects from Season 3 Jersey Shore

Snookie was only held in jail for a few hours and then after being processed got to leave. (Season 3 of the Jersey Shore)

The Effects

When the people who watch Jersey Shore see that their favorite cast member get into a fight and nothing happens to them, or if they just get throwen out of a club for it, these people may think "Hey, if they can do this and not get into trouble than maybe I can too". Or it can show viewers that, okay these people are famous maybe if I act this way I can become cool or maybe even famous. Even when a cast member gets arrested they easily get out of it, which is not the case for everyone, exspecially people who may not have money for bail. It also seems that violence is what makes the show to keep it interesting for viewers. The difference between Jersey Shore and the Real World is that Jersey Shore is always drama and violence with the same people, and the Real World is just throwing a random selection of peole into a house together and see what happens.

The Real World D.C.

     The Real World D.C. didn't have to much violence. When there was violence it was mostly verbal. This 2010 seaon of the Real World was the least violent out the Real World: Cancun and the Jersey Shore episodes we watched. The most violence that there was, were intense arrguments between a roomate Josh and his long distsnce girlfriend. Other arrguments were when the women roomates were arrguing with Josh about him cheating on his girlfriend. Other verbal violence from this season were between roomates Ashley and Ty who liked each other but had their fights. Also there was a fight between roomates Emily and Andrew. The fight between them Emily and Andrew made Emily feel uncomfortable and scared by him, to the point that she left the house to go sleep in a hotel. The other roomates felt that Emily took it to far and that she just didn't understand how Andrew was joking. The good thing about that happening was that it could actuall show veiwers how certian forms of violence can offend people and make them scared.
     

The Cast of the Real World D.C

(left to right)

Ashley, Ty, Emily, Andrew, Mike, Callie, Erika, Josh

As Cancun Goes On

As the Real World Cancun went on we found that any violence even drama was revolved around one roomate. The problem was that no one liked her and they wanted her to leave they did what ever the could to get her to leave wich cause alot of verbal violence. But what to of the male roomates were trying to do was get her to hit them or fight someone, becaus if she did she would get taken off of the show. I would say they did try to work things out with her, but the peace never last.The only way they saw to solve it was to get her to leave. It makes me wonder if that was the right thing for them to do. Also if someone who was maybe having a similar problem, would they try to get someone in trouble to get away from them?

The Cast of the Real World Cancun

Good Start to Cancun

The 2009 first episode of the Real World Cancun had no violence in it at all. This was because, the new roomates didn't know each other yet. It was the first time they all met so no personalities crashed yet. On the first day the new roomates said "I love my roomates....so far". This implied that they knew eventually there would be people that they wouldn't like. As our study went on we found that to be true.

Ronnie and Sam at the bar before the boardwalk fight

"Boardwalk Blowups"

     Boardwalk Blowups. This episode of Jersey Shore from season one was very interesting. It was the only episode from our whole study that had physical man vs. man violence. When the whole cast was at a bar a man was annoying them all, than continued to instagate Ronnie and Sammie while following them down the boardwalk. Ronnie than got into a fight with the guy. Once the fight was broken up Ronnie just walked away because. he said he didn't want to get arrested. What is this saying to any young man or anyone who watches Jersey Shore? Could it make them think that it's okay to get into a fight as long as you can get away and not get caught?
     Also in this episode, while at a bar, Snookie gets hit in the face by a man who she thinks is taking their shots. This was the only violence that was physical between a man and women. What made this most interesting was that at the end of the show there was a memo saying how hitting a women is a crime and you will get arrested for it, also if you know anyone who has been beatten by man you should report it. It was good that MTV put this memo at the end of the episode, but there is so much violence in so many other episodes and shows that it makes me wonder why the would only do this when a man hits a women. Why not what women are fighting each other?  Also, why is it  okay for a women to be mad and hit a man and not get looked down at for that?

What was Studied

Our study was to find how much violence was in two of MTV's popular TV shows, Jersey Shore and The Real World. We looked at episodes from 2009, season one of Jersey Shore and 2010, season two of Jersey Shore. Than we watched episodes of The Real World D.C (2010) and Canucn (2009). The total amount of violence from 6 episodes of each show was 38 acts of violence. The type of violence we looked at was physical and verbal, between man vs. man, man vs. women, and women vs, women.