Media & Youth
Media and youth
When I wake up in the morning, I listen to the radio while getting ready, I watch television or YouTube while eating dinner and listen to the radio while driving. Aside from me, if we see teenagers are almost always around the media. And as teenagers, their minds are a lot more absorbent to the things being spread by mass media.
How can media not influence people’s lives? We see Miley Cyrus singing with bikinis and doing all nasty things, hear about our favorite celebrities getting arrested for doing drugs and watching fake violent shows like WWE as well as the lyrics of some of the most popular songs. We see the people we idolize fall and hit rock bottom. We see celebrities in photos with no fat; perfect skin and told by media that is the beauty! The photos we are seeing are almost all photoshopped, those people do not exist. But yet our brain tells us we need to look like them, we need to lose a lot of weight no matter what.
Desperate Housewives is the most popular broadcast-network television show according to statistics. In Desperate housewives you have four beautiful women that are married. In that series you have: adultery; underage drinking; bisexuality; blackmail; children running away and so much more. If this is what the youth of today take as entertaining, they are going to try the same things, try drugs; try bisexuality, start to disobey their parents and everything else they are witnessing. When one witnesses a lot of fighting; death and violence on the screen, they can become so used to it that they will stop feeling any sort of remorse if they hurt someone else. The youth can stop having empathy for those who have been hurt or in a fight and finally little by little everyone will stop to feel for others.
Advertisements or some TV shows raise the standards of women and men on how they should look like. Media influence men and women to get the "perfect body shape" by using models. This is verified to be true because according to
When I wake up in the morning, I listen to the radio while getting ready, I watch television or YouTube while eating dinner and listen to the radio while driving. Aside from me, if we see teenagers are almost always around the media. And as teenagers, their minds are a lot more absorbent to the things being spread by mass media.
How can media not influence people’s lives? We see Miley Cyrus singing with bikinis and doing all nasty things, hear about our favorite celebrities getting arrested for doing drugs and watching fake violent shows like WWE as well as the lyrics of some of the most popular songs. We see the people we idolize fall and hit rock bottom. We see celebrities in photos with no fat; perfect skin and told by media that is the beauty! The photos we are seeing are almost all photoshopped, those people do not exist. But yet our brain tells us we need to look like them, we need to lose a lot of weight no matter what.
Desperate Housewives is the most popular broadcast-network television show according to statistics. In Desperate housewives you have four beautiful women that are married. In that series you have: adultery; underage drinking; bisexuality; blackmail; children running away and so much more. If this is what the youth of today take as entertaining, they are going to try the same things, try drugs; try bisexuality, start to disobey their parents and everything else they are witnessing. When one witnesses a lot of fighting; death and violence on the screen, they can become so used to it that they will stop feeling any sort of remorse if they hurt someone else. The youth can stop having empathy for those who have been hurt or in a fight and finally little by little everyone will stop to feel for others.
Advertisements or some TV shows raise the standards of women and men on how they should look like. Media influence men and women to get the "perfect body shape" by using models. This is verified to be true because according to