How Does Media Affect The Generation Gap

Media: Now-a-days right from children to elders, all are greatly persuaded by each and every kind of media. Especially, they are easily influenced by television, mobile, computer and internet allowing them to imbibe all that is shown without segregating as good and

According to Wartella and Jennings, “Research has shown that media—along with family, peers, and school—can be a major agent of socialization and learning (35-36).” New technology is the emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life (Henslin 58). New technology consists of computers, satellites, the internet, and the microchip (58). In extension this also includes things like e-mail, blogs, video games, e-cash, and podcasts. According to Henslin, “Socialization is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group—the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them (69).” A great example of socialization is the social class groups. The different groups have polar opposite attitudes, norms, and values. The upper class might value sports cars, and designer clothes while the middle class values ordinary, affordable cars, and clothes from a less expensive clothing store. New technology and its impact on the socialization process is present in people’s everyday lives, in fact it’s present in many parts of their lives.

It is no secret that the current generation is obsessed with media. You cannot walk anywhere without seeing teenagers, adults, and even kids using technology and social media. Everywhere you look there are ads to purchase the latest and greatest clothing, technology, or beauty products. Television standards have been lowered by the FCC and shows with explicit content have now taken over television leaving teenagers to idolize a lifestyle that is not to their best interest. But how does this media really affect us? What age is most drawn in and how does it change the outlook of their future? This would fall under evaluation research, I am seeking to find out the impact that media has on the current generation.

The mass media consists of any means of communication that has the ability to reach a large amount of people. The term ‘media’ can refer to movies, television, the newspaper, etc. It is because of it’s ability to out reach to a mass quantity of people that it is able to “reinforce and teach societal values.” At a young age, socialization occurs in that it involves the “learning of the values and the norms of society” and adopting them into their own personal values (Perse, 2001.) Children often have little life experience so they learn and imitate their environment whether that be the characters on television or societal institutions like their families or teachers at school. Adolescents are more susceptible to socialization in that they are at a period in which they are trying to find

Compared to the older generation of media and education to the contemporary modern day uses of media and education, these institutions are much differently based on the time period. My perspective of this issue is going to be much different than someone who is much older than me. The occurrence of dramatic events changes their perspective, this in other words is know as experiences. Our experiences make us who we are. Stereotype is a common term I use to describe a lot of the social issues that I continue to see throughout my lifetime. We all judge a book by it’s cover and the experiment by Jane Elliot called A Class Divided explains how humans in the previous age before the 2000s understand society. This experiment determines that humans don’t

Radio, television, film, and the other products of media culture provide materials out of which we forge our very identities; our sense of selfhood; our notion of what it means to be male or female; our sense of class, of ethnicity and race, of nationality, of sexuality; and of "us" and "them." These products of media help shape our view of the world and our deepest values: what we consider good or bad, positive or negative, moral or evil. They contribute to educating us how to behave and what to think, feel, believe, fear, and desire -- and what not too. The media teach us how to be men and women, how to dress,

As technological advances appear more frequent and people start relying on this technology it makes it seem that people under the age thirty are the “dumbest generation.” With this advancement our process of thinking and our comprehension changes. Because these new generations are dependent on technology we could see how the media affects people under the age thirty.

Media surrounds us almost all the time no matter where we are in life. Growing up we have so many different television shows and different DVD programs that are supposed to help us learn and develop more skills. Now in our teenage years going into the young adult phase we are being swarmed with different ways to access the media that is around us. We have smartphones, tablets, computers, television, newspapers, and magazines that allow us the ability to know what is going on in the world around us. So many devices can now access the internet and connect us to friends, family, and other people we may not even know across the world.

Further, the media has played a key role in influencing culture and its values due to its overexposure. Media can be viewed nearly anywhere whether it’s television, social media, or magazines. Each day, the media feeds us with new trends that society obeys. In

You see things in shows like girls playing with their barbies wearing cute pink outfits while the boys roughhouse in the background playing sports. The media has a very compelling influence on today's society, its shapes our perspective on life without us realizing it, all the while altering our behaviors and attitudes towards social norms. One example is If teenagers see unrealistic ‘thin’ or ‘muscular’ body types often enough, it can have an impact on their body image and dieting behavior. But it doesn't start with the media, of course, it starts with our parents  and their own gender orientations. As we grow up, other groups influence

While the media can connect us, it has many negative effects and influences on today’s society.

According to our sociology book Our Social World Condensed it states, " Agents of socialization are the transmitters of culture the people, organizations, and institutions that help us define our identity and teach us how to thrive in our social world". Throughout all of our lives, we all at some point had a experiences from the media that has shaped the way think about our social world. For instance if you were to go into any type market there will be some form of a printed page that may contain news around your area. Many of these news articles may in fact influence a possibly reaction towards the reader. When I was in my pre teen I rememeber reading a printed news article that dealt with the past issue of Kony army. But this army was composed of young childeren

It was fascinating to hear about the matters we’d discussed in class from someone who had experienced them. I could see, as I was interviewing my grandma, that media effected older generations as much as they effect us nowadays. Maybe we’re more consumed by media today but years ago, everything was new, surprising and effected people in ways they hadn’t expected. Newspapers, music, television and the internet have all gone through different stages and evolved into what we know as media today and unlike what most people assume, media has and always will greatly impact

People's perception of the world around is changing. Everyday a television is turned on and people are exposed to differing opinions. Sometimes people can get lost in all this, they would not be able to tell right from wrong. The younger generations will especially be hit with this more since they are growing up in such a dividing time of where every one person has a opinion. Yes, some of these opinions can be great, but a lot of them can be extremely awful. The media influences people’s actions, perception of the world, and thought process.

The agents of socialization discussed above (family, school, and peer group) are all involved in interactive and personal contact. Mass media on the other had are various impersonal modes of communication intended for large audiences (e.g., radio, television, motion pictures, newspapers). Mass media can have an enormous effect on our attitudes and behavior. The media influence socialization by providing additional and alternative role models as well as social norms and values. It appears that most influential mass medium today is television. A positive view of television is that it provides an excellent medium of instruction and an entertaining way of expanding the horizons of children by exposing them to places and events they may not be able to experience first hand. The negative view of television is that it makes children more passive and less likely to use their imagination; it stresses the unrealistic nature of many