Impact of Media on Teenagers

The media can have both positive and negative effects on anyone especially teenage girls. I personally think one of the problems with the media is the unrealistic images that they put out there. They put these images out there and make it seem like if you don’t look like this you wont be happy, successful, or accepted by anyone. Duke University statistic says “40% of all 9 and 10-year-old girls have already been on a diet”. This is a huge problem today and a problem that is just going to continue to get worse. Many people don’t understand or know just what effects the media has on teenage girls. I hope you can see what it does to their body image, problems they get from it and the eating disorders they could possibly

Media has become a significant component within society. While media provides many pros, it supplies various cons as well. One very prominent fault that the significance of media has is its visual depiction of women. There is an abundance of media portraying women to have ideal bodies, and this undoubtedly has a negative effect on adolescent girls. Two of the many effects of media on females are depression and self esteem issues, as well as eating disorders. Unfortunately, body dissatisfaction caused by media is becoming more and more common.

“If we want to understand what is going on in our society in the 21st century, we have to understand media” (Newsom). Considering statistics publicized throughout the documentary, it is recorded that around 53 percent of girls in the age of 13 are displeased with their physiques. When they get to the age of 17, that number is augmented to 78 percent. This is a quarter percent increase in comparison, of kids not being content with who they are and their appearances. It is roughly projected that around two-thirds of females, girls and women similarly, have an eating disorder (Chicago Tribune). In addition, statistics are presented throughout the film to illustrate how much media has impacted the lives of many people. Since media is basically

The United States of America has endured many massacres throughout the countries existents leaving scars in Americans hearts that will never cease to exist. One of these scars was left on Americans during a massacre in Littleton, Colorado leaving fifteen people dead including two shooters and twenty one injured. Many Americans wonder who and why anyone would do such massacres, especially on their own country. Although social media, video games, and television can be used for education and positive influence; it is often blamed for such acts of violence including the shooting at Columbine. The issue concerning social media in American and its effect on their youth are likely to be debated, but there is

Mass media is designed to reach large audiences with technology. Its purpose is meant to give us entertainment and information we need to act as a society. Media is everywhere; there is no escaping from it. Almost every home in America has at least one TV, the internet, and a cell phone. You cannot drive down the street without seeing billboard signs. Checking out at the grocery store can be tricky if trying to avoid magazines. There are more forms of media available today then ever before; consequently, teens are exposed to a lot of information. The media is supposed to portray what is normal; therefore, it affects what society considers normal. Teens are much more impressionable then adults. What the media tells them is normal affects

Adolescents are an interesting population to work with. A lot of social workers avoid working with them because they can be intimidating as the filter on them is limited depending on the young person you are working with. I have been working with teens since 2007 and I have never experienced one being like another. For the young people, there is a lot that influences who they are as a person. The biggest influence will be their parents followed by their friends. Aside from that, there is religion, school, T.V/media, ETC. When doing an assessment it is important to gather as much information as possible yet be aware that this age range has issues that are more pertinent to this age than other age ranges. The biggest ones are body image and sexuality.

Aubrey also sees it as the main villain in this young girl phenomenon. Aubrey, communications professor of University of Missouri, reviewed a two-year panel study on how media increases self-objectification and self-sexualization. The study proved the cultivation theory, which states that television teaches the viewers to “adopt certain cultivated views of the world” (Aubrey 368). They had 226 men and women participants whose mean age was 19.6 who watched and read sexually objectifying television and magazines (Aubrey 370). Researches increased the duration of time those forms of media were being looked at throughout the two years. In result, both men and women had a significant increase in self- objectification. Both genders even began to focus on describing mostly only physical traits instead of internal traits after being asked to describe themselves when the study was finished (Aubrey 373-376). This emphasizes that television, a big source of media, can change how its audience think about themselves. Young girls who see the sexualized images on their television and magazines feel inferior and try to copy. Their perception of themselves alter and increase in objectification and sexualization. Self-objectification outcomes alone include “lower self-efficacy, lower intrinsic motivation, negative body emotions, and eating disorder symptomatology” (Aubrey). In the study, support was given that girls become more

The media which includes, television, magazines, social media, and etc., are influential to many teens,

Adolescence is a time where an individual’s sense of identity starts to emerge and a majority of their social norms are perceived. In this day and age, adolescents live in a world heavily submerged around media, which plays an important and habitual part of an adolescents' life. In a national survey conducted in 2009, adolescents on average spend more than 7.5 hours using some sort of media a day (Rideout, Foehr, Roberts, 2010). With this unprecedented access to the world, individuals are learning and connecting with many different people and ideas through the media (Brown & Bobkowsi, 2011). With different forms of media playing an influential part in an adolescents’ life, their perceived social norms may be seriously influenced.

Adolescent youth within the United States spend between six to seven hours a day with some form of media, including television, music, the Internet, and smart cell phones (Roberts, Foehr, Rideout, 2005). With sexuality being presented in such an insensitive manner, adolescent youth girls are being pressured to confine to society’s expectations at a younger age due to explicit music lyrics and media, consistently being displayed by different outlets. One of the biggest ways that young girls are affected by the media is through television and music content. Within most of our daily life, the social environment from what we view and understand has been mostly characterized by the mass media and internet which have also used musical elements to

My hypothesis was that if adolescents are largely exposed to media; they will be affected it to a point where they learn and accept certain things about sex through it. Independent variables would be the extent to which adolescents are exposed to the media. The dependent variables were the ways in which adolescents were affected by the media. I used resources such as Gale and SIRS to look up articles related to my topic. Eventually, I went out and used the information from my articles to help create questions for my questionnaire and interview. To research my population I used these two methods of research: a questionnaire and interview. I conducted my research in Cocalico High School. I asked my SAT prep class, civics and government class,

The results from this research project confirmed that the media have a huge influence and a negative impact on the teenage girls in today’s society.

In today’s society violence and sexual content and the media have become an issue. Over time media has been polluted with sex and violence and continues to affect millions of teens. Media nowadays includes television, books, magazines, newspapers, the internet, movies, video games, and so much more. Adolescence is a time of self-identification and personal growth. During this time, adolescence experience decreases in family influences and increases in peer influences, yet socializing factors typical of adulthood such as college, employment and relationships. Teens today believe what they see and hear in the media that comes from their celebrity idols and think that it is socially acceptable and because of that it makes

The media is a huge part in everyone's lives and they have a great influence on the actions we partake in on a daily basis. Though adults don't usualy fall into the pressure of the media, young children and teenagers ae highly sussestable to what the media is telling them to do and what's 'cool'. A major action glorified by the media is smoking and it pressures minors to take up the horrible habit as an attempt to be happy or some how be like their favorite celebrity. Media and holly wood especially have both contributed to an era of people smoking and are a direct cause for the increase of youth smoking today.

Mass media is the methods of communication, including television, radio, magazines, films, internet and newspapers, that have become some of society’s most important agents of socialization. In this paper I will talk about media and its effects on society today, things such as stereotypes the media portrays, the way media illustrates women and what that does to body images of women. I will also be talking about medias effects on teenagers, and sexualization in the media.