Media Influence 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

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

I am writing you in order to discuss the negative portrayal of teenagers in today’s media. Overall, I fell disheartened about how we as young people are demonized by the media. As you may know, bad press quickly escalates to sweeping statements and stereotypes.

As a teenager, I have spent a decent amount of my life watching television, movies, browsing the Internet and playing video games. This has shaped the way I think. These sources are wonderful ways of retaining information, but we need to be careful of how we receive it. Not all information we perceive on TV and the Internet are safe and trustworthy. I believe that the information that occurs on today’s media shapes people’s mind into thinking a certain way. The commercials and advertisements on TV offer a false impression of people. Stereotypes in all kinds of media create thoughts in our mind that may not be true. Video games, TV and movies have an influence on kids. Even though the media is the place where we get our information from, we need to learn to filter the good from the bad. The media is a contributing factor in shaping our minds through

Now more than ever, media has become an ever-present part of everyday life. While certain aspects of media can be positive, such as the increase of social and political awareness among kids, many aspects provide a very negative influence, especially for children. Ellen Goodman described the media as “an increasingly hostile environment” for kids. The media, and television in particular, can negatively shape a child’s view about themselves and their world, from promoting unrealistic standards of beauty to normalizing violence.

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.

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

There are three basic schools of thought concerning the media’s impact (or lack thereof) on adolescent development. One argues that adolescents’ knowledge about the world, attitudes and values, and behavior are influenced by the content to which they are exposed. According to this view, the media shape adolescents’ interests, motives, and beliefs about the world—a view known as cultivation theory.

Media often shows risk taking behavior involving teens, however messages shown can often be too complex and/or too mixed of a message to leave a morally correct idea in a teenagers developing brain. Media can really be any entertainment source based on communication, being defined (by Google) “as the main means of mass communication (television, radio, and newspapers) regarded collectively.” It does attempt to show behaviour such as taking drugs, hoon behaviour and violence among teens as a morally incorrect thing to partake in, however some attempts to display such acts as so, often do not result in success.

As a person that has consumed a lot of media and a student of media, I understand the impact it has on the youth. For example, when I was a teen I was an athlete and as most teens boys I wanted to date girls. Body spray was the fad during that time period and ads

The powerful media is considered a leading influence in our society both directly and indirectly. Media is available and readily accessible today more easily than ever. Printed materials, television, sound recordings, internet, and radio all fall under the umbrella of the big bad – or seemingly bad word – media. Is media bad? How is it controlled? And where does this all stem from…? These are some of the major concerns parents are faced with in raising children in today’s times.

When teens unlock their phone, read a magazine or turn on the TV, they see what the media wants them to see. When teens look at the media, they see celebrities with luxury life styles that they dream to have. These celebrities are then plastered onto the cover of a magazine and are called beautiful by the whole world. Not only does the media put out a false reality, but they also promote negative behavior and information. Teens are constantly being fed this negative information. Whenever teens get on any social media site they can see a video about someone getting murdered. From common knowledge they know that murder is wrong, but yet turn around and play games such as Grand Theft Auto that encourages this same criminal behavior. Overall, the media has such a negative influence on the world and with teens, like myself, just now getting an understanding of it, because our minds are manipulated from the content that it puts out.

In today’s society, there are a number of factors that affect a child’s ability to learn. The media, for good and for bad, is the primary teacher of American youth. This environment reflects life itself, sometimes in a corrupt way, including the positive and heinous parts, along with the beautiful and hideous parts, as well as the charitable and violent parts. It is almost impossible to protect American youth from experiences reflecting the adult world when the media invades homes and becomes so much a part of everyday living. “American teenagers spend 31 hours a week watching television, 10 hours a week online, 4 hours a week reading magazines, and 17 hours a week listening to music” (Miss). Even though mass media is a huge part of a

Negative effects of Mass Media for teenagers,  The exposure of sex images and excessive portraits of violence in movies and dramas have instilled negative thoughts and taboos in the mind of these teenagers for they have been consistently getting increased exposure to things which are not suitable for their age.