Media And Adolescents

The media, including movies, television, video games, and more, is an extraordinarily prevalent entity in everyday life. Media displays many distorted images of real life, yet presents it as the ideal image of life. Those who watch the media are highly susceptible to forming false beliefs about what behavior trends are acceptable. Those who are most susceptible are children who are still forming schemas and experiencing schema accommodation; unfortunately, children between the ages of 2 and 11 watch television for an average of 28 hours a week (Calvert & Huston, 1987; Huston & Wright, 1996). Children are constantly reinforced and taught to follow gender roles, stereotypically classifying boys as macho and strong and girls as gentile and emotional. The purpose of this study is to further insight into the images popular media, specifically movies tailored to be enjoyed by children, shows to its viewers, specifically children.

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.

The Representation of Teenagers in the Media Throughout the media we see representation of teenagers. This can show teenagers in positive and negative lights. Teenagers are found in magazines, advertising, television and films, and they are targeted by newspapers and magazines etc. There are two different newspapers reports from the ‘Daily Mail’ and the ‘Dorset Echo’ that are part of this representation.

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.

As you’re walking down a street you may notice a young group of girls or women walking and they see a huge billboard of a beautiful model. They might stop and stare at her and then discuss about her perfect her body is. Not knowing in the next five minutes they’ll be comparing their bodies to the model and feeling bad about themselves wishing that they had her body. Not to mention, that the photo may be photoshopped to make it seem as her body is perfect, or she had plastic surgery to fit the idea of having the perfect body. The fact that the media thinks they’re encouraging young girls and women to embrace their beauty, they’re influencing them that they have to have a perfect body in order to get attention. The media has put a lot of pressure on young girls and women to look perfect and second guess their bodies, when plastic surgery is never the answer to build their self-esteem up.

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.

The media causes society to change their perception on social class and power in the world. This is because there are two important used themes in the media that impact its audience, which in this case is young adolescence and teenagers. The two commonly important themes that are used is power and social class. The media shares commonly used themes in young adolescent films and television shows. As a result, the audience connects with its characters therefore having an emotional impact on the audience. In young adolescent life, there are a lot of changes that happen to that individual. Everyone wants to be accepted. The media shows that each adolescent is ranked in a social class which then results in how much power that adolescent has. Consequently

There is no doubt that the media powerfully influences modern society today. Whether it is television, magazines, celebrities or musicians, the world of pop culture creates role models for society to look up to, whether or not those influences are good or bad. The impact media and pop culture has on young girls also proves to be very significant, as young females are affected by wanting to be the ideal girl in the modern world, and fulfill those standards in order to feel happy about themselves. Articles such as Wonder Woman by Gloria Steinem, Escape from Wonderland: Disney and the Female Imagination by Deborah Ross, and The Globalization of Eating Disorders by Susan Bordo, all represent that

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.

Unlike previous generations who were “introduced” to the internet, television and social media, the present generation is “born” in it. By this statement, it is implied that children today are much closer to technology and media than adults are, and so, are more likely to be affected by it. Perhaps, the highest impact on the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development of children and adolescents is by media due to its ready availability through Smart phones, tablet PCs and other portable devices. This paper attempts to evaluate some of the influences of media on various aspects of child and adolescent development.

Violence in the media has become a hot topic of discussion due to its potential effects on young audiences. While content on broadcast networks such as ABC and NBC is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), premium channels like the Home Box Office (HBO) do not fall under their jurisdiction and therefore do not need to obey such regulations (Title 47). A prime example of graphic violence on television that falls outside of the FCC’s purview is found in the HBO hit series Game of Thrones. The ninth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, “The Rains of Castamere”, is well-known as one of the most violent episodes in the show. This is mostly attributed to a specific scene in this episode, known by the book readers as the Red Wedding. The scene is one of the most violent scenes in all of Game of Thrones history. The Red Wedding scene was quite controversial after it aired in 2013, with some arguing that it was too violent, even for an HBO television show. Others stated that they thought the violence was necessary considering the historical references mentioned, and the way the book was written. I believe that the purpose of the violence and gore found in Game of Thrones, and more specifically “The Rains of Castamere”, is to replicate the way modern audiences think of the Dark Ages. It also stands to entice the original readers of the novels who would expect the violence of the show to live up to that in the books.

Everyday television, film, advertisement and music industries deliver contradicting messages to young girls around the world, especially in well technology developed nations like US. They create mayhem and confusion among adolescents, who are trying to find themselves, fit in and safely pass into womanhood stage. At home and school girls are being taught how important it is to obtain education, career, learn responsibilities as well as how to become great mothers and wives, take care of the house and act like ladies. But as soon as they turn on TV, open a magazine or log into the Internet they are being taken for a roller coaster ride, which may seem like a lot of fun at first, but going further it becomes a struggle and pulls teens further and further away from their culture and values presented by loved ones. They are being flooded with fake images of happiness achieved by purchasing a certain product, ability to fit in by wearing fashionable clothes and leaving a moment without worrying about the consequences that will follow reckless behavior. Media are guilty of supplying young minds with garbage just to make a quick dollar and don’t care about the future of next generations. In my essay I would like to provide some examples how television, film, ads and music create whirlwinds of emotional and cultural contradictions in young girls.

For my Teen Media Experience, I created a Google Form for my students and asked them to fill it out. The Google Form contained a wide variety of questions broken down to specific categories that I felt were most prominent in the daily lives of adolescents: media in general, social media, music, and reading materials. Within each topic, I added questions that ranged from their favorite source of that particular media, how they use it, why they use it, what are the pros and cons, etc. This allowed me to further understand my students on a below the surface level as I mentioned to them that this Google Form would remain private and that I would be the only one to see what they put. The results I received from my students were remarkable in the sense that there was not too much diversity in terms the types of media they used; however, there was a lot of different perspectives on how, why, and the pros and cons towards those types of media.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I am Ben Roberts, here to speak to you about the impact of media on children today at the United Nations Youth Forum. Media has been unfairly portraying kids in a stereotypical manner for a while now, with kids being shown to be juvenile delinquents, class nerds and jocks and yet always failing to describe the difficulties of growing up or just being a kid. Often in media it is exclusively adults, adults and more adults. This is what Gigli believes to be true, as was written in her text from 2004 that analysed the media consumption and the messages for children. However, there are many examples of not-overly-flawed, but realistic and human portrayals of kids and teenagers – you just need to know where to look for them. One example is from young-adult fiction author John Larkin 's book The Pause, whose main character is Declan O 'Malley. While he does make many mistakes throughout the duration of the book, such as attempt suicide due to depression, he is rarely shown as a nuisance to adults and is portrayed as being a good class member, as he wants to become an English teacher. Because of this, Gigli 's text from 2004 is not quite as relevant today as it was in 2004. The book The Pause that was published in 2015 reflects many different social issues, causing Gigli 's text to have a diminished meaning which somewhat invalidates her claim that children require more realistic portrayals

The media’s impact has a way of shaping the teenage mind in a ways that are very effective to their behavior. This behavior is not just seen with teens that live in harsh neighborhoods. These behaviors are seem in teens everywhere from every background and culture. Violence in today’s society is looked at as such a normal thing but it really has a huge effect on the violence that teenager encounter as well as a change in their cultural beliefs. Teen culture is changing in big ways as the media continues to provide more ways to show and encourage violence. The impact of the media’s view on violent crimes has a strong impact on teen culture and teen violence.