Nonfictional Tv Suicide

However, as highlighted by the Time to Change initiative, media depictions have continued to portray mental health in stigmatising ways. Research has suggested the media continues to present false, misleading, stereotyped and negative information to the public about mental health. This occurs through various media sources, including newspaper articles, films and portrayals of mental illness in TV programs.

Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess different sociological explanations of suicide. (21 marks)

Television has been criticized as “a vast cultural wasteland”. Tv is supposed to be something that people use for fun and entertainment not a way to get away from your problems. Now with that being said this quote is trying to say that tv is useless. I think the reason that some people think that tv is useless is because of shows like SpongeBob and family guy. Sponge bob is a very popular kids show that has been around for years but doesn’t benefit the people watching it in anyway. In fact, watching a cartoon like SpongeBob can damaged the mind of many people and children with the stupidity that’s done on the show. Then you have a show like family guy where the things done can be called stupid but at the same time the things done are realistic but the only problem with a show like that is that it’s very inappropriate for kids to watch because of all the inappropriate behavior and violence that that is shown in a show like that. Another problem with tv isn’t the tv it’s the people. The shows are there to watch and to enjoy but it’s up to the person to watch it or the parent to allow their child to watch that. I don’t think that tv is a vast cultural wasteland because there are many different thins to see and watch and learn you just have to watch the right shows and use the right channels. Sometimes watching tv can even be fundamental.

Television executive Lauren Zalaznick, gave a presentation called “The conscience of television” for TED Talk which she discussed past five decades of the highest standing shows on air. Zalaznick runs studies which go to great lengths on how the topics of television shows changed from decade to decade and how viewers changed the reason of watching based on what was happening in the world. Television’s conscious effects our emotions, challenges our values, and influences our views on the world by what we choice to watch.

In an effort to explain the four major philosophical approaches to ethics different characters in TV shows and movies can be the source of behavior for the explanation. A different movie or TV show character will be used to identify and explain one of the four major ethical approaches and how the ethical behavior could be also legal or illegal in nature.

The leading cause of suicide is depression, as stated by the Suicide, Prevention Awareness and Support NPO. Whilst depression does have a genetic these cultural somethings are amplified due to social media. People construct a facade appearing happy and those who don’t experience the same happiness doubt themselves, often leading to depression and other negative feelings. Media portrays a false sense of reality perpetuated by a societal need to fit it. Those who chose to commit suicide often do so out of isolation and thus this exacerbates the negative ideology around suicide.

Besides that, the Australian Press has made up a decision to evaluate the standard of media when dealing with suicide cases (Canning 2011 para. 6). Julian Disney, the Council of Australian Press, stated, “There are a lot of vulnerable people (mental health issues) that can be affected by these kind of news and it is common for those people to copy it” (Canning 2011 para. 3-4).

The stigma society, TV and the world places on a suicide is just as bad and devastating s the suicide itself.

Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess different sociological explanations of suicide. (21 marks)

Suicide has had ramifications in adulthood. A story by Fox News in Helena, Montana reported on a murder suicide. The victims’ daughter discusses how her father, Augustine, was in “denial about having mental health problems” (Fox News, 2015). Mr. Bournes cut off communication with his daughter and killed his wife and their three young children, set their house on fire and killed himself.

 Detail 2: How the Internet/Social Media Has Had an Impact on Suicide in Young Adults

The media is and has been one of the strongest outlets of perpetuating negative mental illness stereotypes. Since the invention of the television and its spread to every American household by the 1960s, television shows have manufactured an image of the mentally disabled as dangerous and unpredictable . The shows depict the mentally ill as very violent; “One in four mentally ill characters kill someone, and half are portrayed as hurting others .” The ways in which mentally disabled are filmed within a show also differs from the ways that non-disabled characters are shot. Studies show that they are usually filmed “alone with close-up or extreme shots, reinforcing their isolation and dislocation from the other characters ” and from society. In movies, like One Flew Over the

Media coverage glorify the killer’s crimes which provides inspiration for others to pursue similar crimes or worst. One may notice that there are several mass shootings that can happen in a span of a few months. As a result, the public finds the same news coverage but with different people. With this continuous series of events. one may find that a wave of “copycat suicides” will occured in their own community. This wave of suicides occurs when someone commits suicides when a suicide is publicized (Herz). Vice president of research for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Jill Harkavy-Friedman, claims that “The more characteristics you make available for modeling, the more likely that modeling will occur” (Herz). Harkavy-Friedman

Can you believe that reality television has actually been around since 1948? Most of us may have thought that this idea of real television just came about in the last decade but actually it’s been around for quite some time. In 1948 Candid Camera was the first reality show to be broadcasted on television. Many considered this to be the “granddaddy” of the reality TV genre (History of reality TV). This show actually began in radio broadcasting. Allen Funt was the man in charge of this whole new production. He started by simply taping complaints of men in service and broadcasting them over the Armed Forces Radio. This is what later became known as the television show, Candid Camera. Candid Camera was known for

With the ongoing advance in technology today, it is no surprise that the media is becoming an even greater source in acquiring and sharing information. But exactly how accurate are these reported information? As mentioned in Otto Wahl’s, Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness, Americans tend to retrieve most their knowledge about mental illness through the mass media (Wahl 3). When it comes to mental illness, it is safe to say that much of society views the mentally ill as deviants who are capricious and potentially dangerous. Or at least, that is how they are sometimes portrayed in movies, books, music, magazines, etc. Those who are knowledgeable about the severity and seriousness of mental illnesses often view the