How History Has Changed Over Time

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.

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.

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.

Many things contribute to how a woman feels about her body. Peer pressure, family history, and age all play important roles in how people feel about how they look. The media can also play a dominant role on body image, as it almost always ties success, health, and happiness with being thin. To clarify body image, it is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or picture yourself in your mind. With the constant exposure to media images of the “ideal” female body it is presenting an unrealistic “ideal” difficult to achieve and maintain it can lead to depression, lower self-esteem, and increases unhealthy eating habits.

The term bias is relevant by critics in news outlets because people wonder why the shooting of 17 year old teenager airs by the means of showing a picture of the victim at age twelve. Bias occurs from these types of actions. This type of action carries into political markets by looking at the way major media outlets can be measured by their types of broadcasts. Some may be more liberal and others conservative. More specifically, the leading liberal outlets are Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and CBS evening news; the leading conservatives are Washington Times, Fox’s News special report, and ABC good morning America (Dubner). From a peoples perspective if they want to find a media outlet agreeing with their favorite political personality like President Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton they can look into the more liberal outlets; as for republicans they seek out conservative outlets (Dubner). News bias is prevalent in organizations with the use of dramatic and personalized aspects of events by focusing on individual actors (Bennett 42). In my opinion mainstream media has become bias to agree with the narrative that is more attractive to the audience or headlines that divides the two major political parties.

In today’s modern social and public media children can come across many different forms of unwanted profanity and bad practices. As this becomes more and more prevalent children are slowly becoming more and more accustomed to hearing and seeing profane things. Children are being impacted in a negative way when crossing negative and profane media. This media can lead to children developing a sense of fear, lack of respect towards their piers and others around them, and a desensitizing of emotions and thoughts.

The first headline that we saw was, “The best place on Earth” and they were talking about Seahaven. They used this headline because Truman low key wants to leave Seahaven and he is searching for Lauren Garland who is in “Figi.” And they don’t want Truman to leave. The next headline we saw was, “Who cares about Europe,” which that was the headline because Truman wants to leave Seahaven and explore but they do not want Truman to try and leave. Which those were the only two I had but all the headlines were to try and talk Truman into not leaving by talking about how great Seahaven is and how everywhere else sucks.

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.

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.

The last several decades saw an explosive growth in new technologies, leading to the adoption of the internet, mobile devices, and many others that allow easy access to information. More than ever before, the latest news and breaking events are more accessible for everyone at any time and place. The prominence of the media on people’s daily lives, whether it is from a newspaper, television broadcasts, to websites accessible from the internet, is even greater than before. There has been concerns over the media in the past; many feel that its power and the potential to influence the public should not be ignored. The emergence of new technologies, which allow easier access to the different forms of media, means that these concerns are even more relevant today. The aim of this paper is to explore one of the consequences of media influence on the public, namely, the concept of “moral panics,” and discuss and the importance of said consequence, as well as the motivations behind them.

When it comes to culture and society and its relations to the media, many theorists have come to develop an understanding of how it is that media has changed or is changing our understanding of modern society. The media is commonly known as the different modes of communication, which is the ability to communicate through a specific type of mode in which information has to pass from point A to B. An example of media taking effect is seen in the use of newspapers and how it is used as a medium to inform people of events happening around them. In addition, Marshal McLuhan and Raymond Williams, developed two different theories towards the development and effects of the media. McLuhan explains his theory through his book “The Medium is the Massage”, which explains how the media is the medium for everything we interact with. On the other hand, William rejects McLuhan’s idea through his article “The Technology and Society”. In his article, he states how McLuhan’s theory is in error because his theory gets rid of technology from society rather than explaining how they both interact with each other. However, both of their theories are very important when understanding how media has allowed humans to communicate, interact, and change the world we live in.

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.

In every woman’s life, the media holds a strong influence on how she views herself. Whether it be a celebrity’s secret anti-aging cream, at-home workout plan, or new clothing line, women look towards the media to impact their decisions on their appearance. Although positive effects can come from letting advertisements guide one’s judgement, sometimes false advertisements can have a negative impact on how a woman perceives herself. People in charge of commercials, magazines, and other ads distort their publications in ways that critique someone’s physical appearance, otherwise known as body shaming. The body shaming done by the media today can lead a woman to not only a mental illness or an eating disorder, but can also lead to a sense of

In the course of the most recent couple of decades, the media scene has changed drastically. The most essential change is from an old media model of television to another media model of narrowcasting. TV alludes to media speaking to the overall population and is exemplified by system TV, radio, and daily papers. Narrowcasting, made conceivable by television networks, Internet, and satellite radio, is focused to particular gatherings of people.

In this day and age, most anyone can find out just about anything, on any subject, at any time with just a few clicks of a button. The act of gathering information used to be a much more tedious and physical endeavor. However, these days it can be done with ease thanks to the enormous developments in mass media distribution over the last century. The major mode of information distribution has went from mostly print to internet and everything in between. The amount of people reached has grown dramatically from a few hundred to millions in an instant.