Media 's Influence On The Media

Everyday we see many images in the media and they suggest what we should be like. While the media says how we should act or look, these suggestions invade people’s thoughts. The images the media portrays make it hard to break out of socially constructed stereotypes in our lives. The media reflects dominate and social values of people’s lives. The media also portrays gender by creating stereotypes and gender roles showing how men, women, and transgenders are seen as deviant. In the media, men are portrayed to be “masculine” while females are shown to be “feminine”. Transgenders are viewed in many negative ways and they are stereotyped. Gender stereotypes are expressed more in mass media because it reaches large audiences. The media can influence people to think that what they see is reality. Most of the time the media shows men to be more dominant than woman. This is a way the media influences people to be someone they aren’t.

Journalism is an industry that provides a source of information and news for the public, while popular culture is a source of portrayal of the image of the journalist. Popular culture provides a glimpse and “shapes the people’s impressions of the news media”, whether it is portrayed in a positive or negative light. There is no denying that popular culture possesses a large effect on what the public perceives and thinks about journalists and the industry through how the characters, plotlines are presented. Sociologists have even argued that “popular culture’s depictions…of real world professions” have a major influence on the public’s realistic perception of that respective field. Thus, it is not a surprise that in the 1930s, journalist organizations deliberately advocated positive portrayals of the press in Hollywood. An example of a film that stands as a positive representation is The Front Page. Although the film presents reporters and editors “lying and hurting innocent people”, the audience is able to fall for their unique charm and charisma—they are brash, fast-paced, intelligent, composed, independent, passionate and investigative. They embody what America ultimately champions: self-reliance, drive for action and accomplishment. However, popular culture also perpetuates negative, unlovable notions that “journalists [are] hard drinking, foul-mouthed social misfits concerned with only twisting the truth”. In novels like John Andross written by Rebecca Harding

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

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.

“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 's power. Because they control the minds of the [people]” (Malcolm X). The message of this Malcolm X quote is that society can control the mind of the individual. This is true. For many years, society has influenced everyone worldwide both negatively and positively. That is because society has the ability to control the individual’s decisions. They can control the individual in making their decisions that could affect people’s lives worldwide; it also has the ability to control their decisions that could affect the individual’s life. You might be thinking “But why should we care about this topic? This doesn’t seem really important to us” well it’s important because we all can relate to this as everyone has been influenced by society at least once in their lifetime. Just ask yourself this. Have you ever simulated a role model that you had by just copying the actions that they do just because you wanted to be just like them? Have you picked up habits from society that is around you like family or peers that has affected you in your life? Have you ever maybe tried something you found from your family members or from the Internet to get your personal needs? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are involved in this conversation. But there’s a problem. There’s an argument going on about this topic. The controversy of this topic

Humans have been a focus for marketers for over 100 years and at the rise of the twentieth century, mass media became widely recognized. In a period of mass availability, people today have entry to more media outlets than ever before. According to media scholar Jean Kilbourne,“the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements a day and watches three years’ worth of television ads over the course of a lifetime” (back cover). It is all around us, from the shows we watch on television, the music we listen to on the radio, and to the books and magazines we read each day. Media is the number one source for advertising. Advertising is “a manipulative enterprise that uses subtle techniques to persuade consumers into accepting whatever sales pitch [that is] presented to them (Blades, Oates, and Blumberg 3). The vast majority of people do not think that advertising has any influence on them. To their surprise, “this is what advertisers want the general population to believe; however, if that were true, why would companies spend over $200 billion a year on advertising” (Kilbourne 33)? The media has full control to decide what the public sees and how it is portrayed.

The media immensely affects how issues are perceived in the society. To constantine the cultural set up is, in actuality, to dismiss the world "as seems to be," and rather to demand twisting it to people’s inclinations, as though authority and predominance were outmodelled. The act of technological metamorphosis in culture is due to the media and its uses in our daily lives. Every conventional society comprehended the unprecedented change and viewed affliction as securely attached from, and vital to, the postulation of independent people.The media directs the political structure, the modes of business operation, the dressing code and even the behavior of different industries.

With reference to academic sources and focusing on one particular example of your choice, how do the media challenge or reinforce traditional ideas about gender.

Information and news media have radically changed the way our society both consumes, and views the news today. It used to be that we would reach for our morning paper, or turn on the evening news after a long days’ worth of work to catch up with the events going on around us. I can recall a time when I would sit down with my father to watch the evening news. Those days have since evolved into something not many could have predicted. News and information is now available to us whenever we please, accessible via a smartphone, tablet, computer, even all-day news channels keeping us up to the minute current with events. As such, the media networks have an obligation to its consumers to report accurate, and unbiased stories. With that said, many news organizations exist for the sole purpose of shaping and serving specific political ideals. With the explosion of electronic media outlets, the ways in which we consume news, and how news is generated, is ever evolving.

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,

Sports have always been a leisurely activity, and a way to escape the reality of the world. But the actions that certain athletes, teams and fans have taken, changed the potential that sports now hold. Whether it is athletes that kneel during the national anthem, athletes that hold a fist in the air before the beginning of the game, or fans who protest in unity; sports can be used to spread political messages. Even so, the media has an influence on the way people perceive the message being displayed, and in a sense, it may be up to the media whether or not they want to help spread the messages being sent in sports across.

Our basic perspectives about our world, issues, culture comes from the media influence we’ve been exposed to our entire lives. The power the media has over our attitudes, values and beliefs is incomprehensible. Which is why it is crucial to remain critically aware whilst reading media articles, and to always question and draw opinions on what you are being told. As we venture into adulthood, it is important that you are mindful of the power of an author’s positioning in the media through several techniques and effects. This leads us into the deconstruction of the Article ‘Same Sex Marriage debate is disgusting and Dangerous’ by Andrew Bolt to signpost how an author can persuade you into succumbing to their invited reading.

The media controls society, whether we agree with this or not. Their depiction of acts constitutes our image of the world around us. They shape the public perceptions, and create moral panics. Human by nature are attracted to violence, as proven “[b]y age 18, it is estimated that the average child will have seen approximately 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on television alone” (Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1999). This shows violence is a part of our daily lives. This is entertaining to people and therefore the media picks up on this and reports it religiously. Stanley Cohen (1972/1980), Goode and Ben-Yehuda (1994) laid out the ways in which the media captures our attention, and capitalizes on it in many instances to push their own agendas. This and the cause of moral panics is a repercussion of the problem frame.

Unrealistic body image and eating disorders are perpetuated by the media in women of ages 5-24

And religion means group of people are following same rule of the community. When science is the innovation of different tools which are known as technology. And media is the one of the powerful tool of this world, they can do anything. Media is the way to translate different news, videos, music over the people. I think media influence the most about the sexuality. Media influence me by showing different sexual stories in the newspaper, by posting videos and picture on the website, and by watching different sexual videos on movies influence the most about sexuality. It is a positive influence because we can get the knowledge about sexual precaution and awareness. Television programs influence about sexual values most like, precaution about sex, like HIV or another such a dangerous risk by sex. So people can get the knowledge about the precaution and next time they can careful about that.Sexual arousal is conduct that creates sexual excitement and builds the possibility of climax. Sexuality alludes to sexual conduct, and the considerations and emotions the individual has in connection to that conduct. Each general public controls the sexuality of its individuals, by implanting it in the organizations of family, religion, and law. The center social game plan inside of the organization of the family is the conjugal relationship. Contemporary examinations of sexuality underline that sexuality is not simply an organic wonder whose character is the same crosswise over time and