Media Influence On The Media

Sports of old were merely competitive activities rooted in heroism and romanticism. Sports activities today, however, have no such innocence or simplicity. Currently in America, the activities that make up our sports culture is not only the competitive events themselves but the processes and issues that underlie and surround them. Entwined in our sports culture is the giant business of mass broadcasting. Indeed, sports and the media go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly, like Mickey and Minnie, Darth Vader and Luke. They are intertwined and depend on each other to continue to grow. Sports media includes television, radio, magazines, newspapers, books, films, and, now, most importantly, social media devices provided by the

Professional athletes making political statements and sharing thoughts on their viewed social issues has been around since games were first being broadcasted and gave these athletes a stage to make a stand. Along with those actions entered debate for sports fans who are stuck between whether athletes should or should not share their views on things “bigger than sports”.This has been missing from professional sports in recent decades but is now slowly once again becoming relevant. The presidency of Donald Trump along with Colin Kaepernick’s taking a knee to protest the national anthem are the two main reasons for the

History has changed. Ideas and standards have also changed. Back in the day, when the media or movies showed a hint or a dash of blood, the reaction of the average person was shock and disgust at the blood and gore shown. These scenes and clips shown have become more and more extreme over the years to the level of being hazardous to society. Even in the videogame industry, certain scenes that may have caused outrage and commotion fifteen years ago are now seen as childish and may even be considered as humorous. To put it candidly, most of the mass media has been used widely to its ability to influence and persuade, to glorify, and diabolize thoughts and actions of individuals. Yet people of this generation still spend a great percentage of

Athletes can cause political uproar in many ways, but should they? The article “Athlete as Agent of Change” written by Lonnie Bunch and David Skorton is a nonfiction piece discussing some of the actions athletes take to protest against a problem they see, particularly involving the government, using their influence on the populace. Athletes should use their fame to promote a political agenda, as long as it is peaceful. First off, everyone has the right to free speech, and as long as the protest is peaceful, they are within that right. Also, athletes can help influence the populace to bring attention to an important topic that is affecting the world or their lives. This article supports athletes using their fame to influence the public for

Malcolm X once said “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that is the power. Because they control the mind of the masses.” According to Study.com “Mass media consist of any means of communication intended to reach a general, public audience. Note that mass media is widely used to reference the entire public communications industry, including newspaper, magazines, flyers, billboards, automated telemarketing, radio broadcasts, television broadcast, internet articles, and social media posts.” (Dugger, Development of Mass Media) Mass media is in our everyday lives, and as Malcolm X said it has the power to make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent. That’s how powerful our media is, and news reporters are fabricating the story and twisting headlines and creating their own story. Isn’t about time the news starts reporting the facts? The media is racially bias because they sugar coat Caucasian people and their actions, they over represent African-American crime rates, and they always find a way to justify a Caucasian police officer killing an unarmed African-American male.

The sports industry has been around since the 19th century and since then has always been dependent upon sport communication. Sport communications is a powerful activity because it has the ability to influence public opinion. “Sport communication is defined as process by which people in sport, in a sport setting, or through a sport endeavor share symbols as they create meaning through interaction,” (Laucella, Miloch, & Pedersen p.10). In other words, as long as athletes keep playing their sports, they are usually considered role models. Their daily examples cannot only affect the engagement into sports, but also social and individual behavior of people. At the same time, the debate about different gender, racial, and national groups engaged in sports is very important because it defines what topics are present in the public opinion and which are discussed. Unfortunately, in today’s news sport communication is still maintaining status quo relative to the different minority groups and violence in sports.

The “Media” or medium is defined and described by encompassing television, music, radio, Internet and the newspaper to effectively communicate to populations worldwide. With all these mediums to ensure communication and information to communities globally, it has become a great staple in how many conduct their lives and communicate to others. While many would suggest that we are to not believe everything we read or see, could that mean that it has the ability to have a negative effect on some? And if so what age, demographic or social group could be considered to be more vulnerable to these effects?

Media is a very powerful factor in today’s world, it influences the way that the public thinks about situations and problems in today’s society. News and social media put out there own thoughts of a problem in the country. When they do this, it gives a perspective to the general people to base off of and make a conclusion on the situation. The media such as news on television and internet can be manipulating minds of the general public to believe what they say. Media actually has there own opinions and that is what they portray to the people.

Positionality Within the research, I will ensure that I do not become a problem that affects my research. This is because I have some views and opinions about whether the media is having an impact on children and these are views that I have even before I have carried out the research. This is because I have many young cousins that watch TV programmes and this differs from family to family. This is because some of my cousins watch more TV than others because of their parents’ rules. The behaviour between the children that watch more TV is very different to those who watch less. It can be seen that those who watch more TV are not as well behaved as those that do not. This shows that this can cause biasness when carrying out the research. To ensure that this does not happen I will look at both sides of the research which means that I will look at literature, books, journals and websites to look into the media having impact on children both positively and negatively. I will also ensure that my questions are not misleading to get the data I need and not the answers I want. By using mixed-methods, it will ensure that I can get facts as well as the views and opinions of parents. In addition, I am a student researcher which uses a various types of media on a day to basis and know that media has majorly evolved over the

The media played an immense role in shaping the publics resentment and negative attitudes towards the crime Lindy Chamberlin had supposedly committed, by picturing her as neglectful and murderess mother. The media had perceived Lindy in a harsh light and the public saw her as un-emotive and neglecting mother and for this she was vastly scrutinized. The publics attitudes towards her are based on her ‘unmotherly behavior’ because she did not act like a ‘grief stricken mother, have hysteric, go into pieces, require drug or any external therapy’. Rumors and theories were used and manipulated by the media in order to get the best ratings or most papers sold, eventually these theories became facts in the eyes of individuals such as the: ‘Azaria meaning sacrifice, she always wore black because she was a demons spawn…’ The media managed to elude the public as a survey conducted provides that 70% of Australians believed that Lindy Chamberlin was guilty, upon being asked why they though so, the responces given were unjustifiable, ‘you can tell jus by looking into her eyes’ or ‘mothers don’t do that’. Therefore this crime become even more confronting because the idea of a mother, whose nature is to nurture and protect killing her child was outrageous. Lindy provides that it was not that she was un-emotive, but the media decided not to exhibit images of her crying or looking upset. Therefore this crime exhibits that society incriminates individuals if they do not conform to our idea of

The state of childhood is difficult to define due to the conflicting views that are held within society. As outlined in Creativity, Culture and Commerce (2015) children are considered a special audience in relation to television and media consumption. This categorisation of this audience allows childhood to be defined as a developmental stage in which youthful participants are considered both ‘vulnerable’ and ‘corruptible’. These distinctive underlying connotations lead to an assumption that children “must be protected,” within media exposure and content (Potter, 2015: 3). In relation to these media definitions society reflects these culturally and socially by linking the well-being of the children with protection. As stated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority the age bracket of a child is any individual “being aged under 14 years,” (Potter, 2015: 7). This definition provides insight into the factors such as the schooling age that govern programming within Australia’s media industry. Due to these diverse definitions childhood is a complex term that reflects aspects of society through media and television consumption in which children are protected from different forms of content.

Mass media are the primary component of modern society. People customarily consume countless hours of television, movies, and surfing the net where they see examples and expectations of what men and women are supposed to be. Advertisements and magazines inform us of how we are supposed to look, relate to one another, and live. The influence of mass media manifests itself into our routines, our purchasing decisions, our politics, our opinions and emotions, and almost every other aspect of our everyday lives. This tremendous influence most certainly plays a colossal part in how we view gender as well. June Cleaver was the ultimate example of the nurturing matriarch that was supposed to stay indoors taking care of the home, and Edith Bunker was shown as what a dependent and passive wife was supposed to be. At the same time, men were shown as having the opposite characteristics. You had Clint Eastwood, Ward Cleaver, and the Marlboro Man exuding the strength, aggression, breadwinning characteristics of "real men". Boys and girls, men and women believed they were to identify with these roles.

Do people and the media transform the stereotypes and view of the LGBT community in a positive way?

Now days, the media has a negative influence on society, it targets the people that have progressive-liberal values and elaborates on situations. It seems as if everything you say is being held against you, and blown out of proportion by the news. The media does not honor the right for people to have freedom of speech. Everyone should be entitled to their opinion, and be treated equally. The media focuses more on making a story or statement, rather than sharing the truth.

Media outlets have been used through the years as a way to communicate and maintain the world together. They were often seen as something positive because they were able to provide information from all around the world to a person’s home. Nowadays the media has evolved to become an important role in society. As cited by Parsons, Reichl, and Pedersen (2017), while the media is often used as personal enjoyment and diversion it had grown to be a way in which individuals explore and expand their curiosity on subjects such as personal enrichment, self-awareness, and sexuality. However, negativity has also come with this popular trend. Since a young age, individuals are exposed to different messages through the media. The media have become a way to promote and incite stereotypes that might influence people into believing they must behave or look a certain way in order to be accepted into society. By promoting certain stereotypes, the media have also found a way to reinforce and reproduce certain gender norms. For instance, the role-learning theory supports this idea by mentioning that the images the media portrays eventually become the ideas that will influence individuals’ development of beliefs and self-concepts (Andersen, 2015). In other words, the media have developed the power to influence how people believe they should behave and look. In brief, some of the media outlets that have had the greatest impact on influencing the perception of gender in society are television,