Media And Its Effect On Society

Looks don’t matter, beauty is only skin-deep, you’re beautiful just the way you are. How many times have we heard this, yet we live in a society that appears to contradict this very idea. If looks don’t matter then why do women and girls live in a society where their bodies define who they are? If looks don 't matter then why is airbrushing used by the media to hide any flaws a person has? What exactly is causing this, why do we feel like we are just not beautiful the way we are? Its the media. It’s because the media promotes a certain body image as being beautiful, and it’s a far cry from the average woman’s size 12. The media may be great for entertainment but it also has the power to destroy a woman 's confidence and self-esteem. Young women are bombarded with this unrealistic standard everyday and everywhere. It gives them a goal that is impossible to reach and the effects are devastating. What is even worse is that society has become so accepting of the idea that size 2 is what defines beauty and perfection. And that needs to change.

I often wonder about our humanity given the current state of affairs in our nation and abroad. America has been a powerful and abundant nation through a lifetime of wars and financial crisis but today is a different time for many of us. What is the media producer’s role in our very own implosion? What is our, the “media user” role in it?

Growing up, children are predisposed to TV shows and literature that tend to shape/place ideas in their mind as to how relationships form and what a relationship consists of. The famous saying goes that opposites attract and it is never more prominent than in the media of today 's society. It is evident in various comic books, animes, cartoons, and well-known books acknowledged by people of different ages. Opposite attraction is shown in the media as a very natural and constant occurrence while this tends to get overexpressed it still holds some truth in everyday relationships.

Mass media is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world for creating, changing or perpetuating society’s ideas about an issue or group of people. It works both blatantly and subconsciously by deciding which issues are important, how to frame those issues, who to show as affected by them, and, increasingly, providing personal commentaries on the matters at hand. Because the majority of media outlets are owned by corporations dominated by white heterosexual men, many minorities are portrayed in ways that perpetuate negative stereotypes – if they are portrayed at all. Even though men have made great strides in regards to power, but with the black male they continue to experience both misrepresentation and underrepresentation in the modern

These days, sexism in the media is one of the top issues confronting women in Canada. Female political candidates often experience a toxic environment that can adversely affect their campaigns. The constantly changing media scene regularly permits harmful remarks to exist without responsibility. The under-representation of women in media is an all-inclusive wonder. Despite the fact that there have been improvements, women still fall behind men in numerical representation in government. The sexual orientation depiction studies have recorded that the media have been careless in reacting to sex equalization. Women are either overlooked totally or are lessened to imperceptible status through under-representation in innovative and basic

Unfortunately, in today’s society people do not have the time, dedication, or the urge to simply google everything that passes through their ears. When people get news/current events by unreliable sources (social media) they fail remarkably when it comes to being skeptical of everything. Today’s media is being politically fueled, provoking biased news coverage, especially now that the United States is about to have its Presidential elections in November. One specific candidate, Donald J. Trump (GOP), has been targeted by the media by being called slurs. As a result, I realized exactly how biased the media is.

problems. Though it seems to go unnoticed by most, the way that we are obtaining our

"It occurred to me I was approaching the project in the wrong way. The only way to tell the story was as a black comedy, or better, a nightmare comedy, where the things you laugh at most are really the heart of the paradoxical postures that make a nuclear war possible” –Stanley Kubrick (Phillips, 97)

Media today has massive influential impacts all over the world. Every house has a sort of media such as Television, radio, newspaper, Internet, and other media channels. Media have been demonstrated to elevate or to raise doubt about perspectives of social groups, including those characterized by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and sexual personality (Scharrer 171). Gender prospective is one of the most effected elements. It has shaped the way people think of themselves and the way they see the other gender. Women and men have been represented in many different perspectives, which helped to develop the gender gap and differences between those two not only in their daily life but also at workplace. Media today play main role in creating the glass ceiling through emphasizing on one character and ignoring the other characteristics that women have. Bligh mentions that the recent research emphases on the interaction between two obstacles that might impact women in politics: undesirable arrogances about females ' efficiency in leadership positions and media interpretations of women candidates (561). Even more, when media fail at presenting women full character, media would starts criticizing women who cracked the glass ceiling more harshly than any other man who has the same position.

Media is where people today get most of their information. Children learn most of their gender rules through the television they watch. Media is a reflection of the society we live in. Advertising is a form of media. Since advertising is meant to appeal to society, it is a direct reflection of society.

These ideologies are so prevalent in recent society that they have swayed the minds of those who were not interested enough to take a side on an issue, and this has caused a large increase in the amount of people who still believe in unlikely conspiracies or hoaxes. This has caused a large uproar and scepticism of the government, and with more evidence proving the governments secrecy, and conspiracy theories coming true, the citizens of countries are getting more paranoid of their own country and others around the world.

As the world becomes a global village due to technology our society changes with it. We become more and more civilized that our way of life must change to match the changes in our world. One of the most common changes that have hit our today’s society is media. Media has penetrated through all barriers including our war fronts and areas where man never thought to have penetrated. As media develops through the years and technology expands more media outlets open and so the society has and continues to move away from the mainstream media (CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, ABC, etc.) to local media and different websites to get their news. The trust society had in Television and the mainstream media to provide true and uncontaminated reports has faded and therefore society is moving away from these to where they believe they can get news first hand. In this paper, I will attempt to explain why in today 's media many people don 't just rely on the major networks but go online for news (Local, National, and Global). Could this be splintering our views and causing more anger? Should it be regulated? I will also attempt to express my opinion on what the business of news is becoming in the next ten years.

The media doesn’t just show us the news and what is going on in the world. It shows us exactly what they want us to see, hear, feel and believe. Therefore we need to be aware that our own lives are not tainted in a negative way through this communication between ourselves and an industry trying to diminish our sense of individuality and shape us into what they themselves want. My research delves into the in-depth processes in which messages are delivered to our eyes and ears, through the news, newspapers, magazines and radio in what the effects of the conglomeration of these corporations has on us as a society and especially on children’s innocent minds. With the introduction of new improved technology, our society has expanded radically, and so has our use of communication and the way we communicate (Crothers, 2007). The media and the use of this technology plays a significant educational role throughout society as we adapt to new ways of learning through the new instruments made available for us. Our culture and the society in which we live, evolves together through these new enhancements and opportunities that technology and the media has allowed as well as our understandings of reality (Crothers, 2007). Over the last few generations the growth of the media and the improvement in technologies has radically changed the way we live and how we live. Text based literacies such as newspapers, books and magazines were what catered our society’s information across the world,

According to Dictionary.com, “media” is defined as "means of communication that reach and influence society or people widely."

“Mass media is a significant force in modern culture. Sociologists refer to this as a mediated culture where media reflects and creates the culture” (“The Role and Influence of Mass Media”, n.d, para.2). Media has affected to the most area of human life include relationship, education, careers, and entertainment. There were a lot of researches about the impacts of media to society from negative to positive effects; however, researchers were not pay attention to the impacts of media in inequality. It is also the important effect of media to society, but it show unclearly in other reports or researches. That is the reason why our group choose this topic to research and present. In fact, sometime people can recognize the inequality in some