The Impact Of Media On The Upbringing Of Society

Violence has progressively increased in the past decades, at an alarming rate in the United States. The top three leading causes between adolescent and youths are unintentional injury (accidents), homicide and suicide according to the World Health Organization. Media and entertainment play a huge part in child development, as technology has seemed to overpower today’s generation. Nearly, forty percent of the human populations have access to an Internet connection at home via any device type and connection, when in 1995; it was less than one percent. The first billion internet users were reached in 2005, the second in 2010 and the third just recently in 2014 (Manual for measuring ICT.., 2017). The statistic demonstrated how much we as a

‘Empire’s main characters are the ‘Lyons, a successful African American family in the hip-hop music industry, who fight over who will run the family’s business: Empire entertainment. Power, sex, drugs, and violence are among the key plot points; however, Empire consistently includes social issues that affect the African American community within the plot. Lucious Lyon (Terrance Howard) considered the “king of hip-hop” and his ex-wife Cookie Lyon (Tarji P. Henson) are the founders of Empire. Together they had three sons: Hakeem (Bryshere Gray), Jamal (Jussie Smollett), and Andre (Trai Byers).’

Children today spend an average of forty hours a week consuming all types of media, while parents spend an average of seventeen hours a week with their children (Steyer 44).

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 masses” (Ruddy, 2002). Malcolm X, a prominent African American human rights activist, strongly believed that the media played a vital role in how they make society perceive events and people. An issue that is present, historically and currently, is media contributing to racism. When news is reported involving certain races, stories are sometimes distorted in a way that creates a negative perception of that race. In result, society’s stereotypes, assumptions, bias’ and beliefs can be altered. Further, media reaches masses of people through a multitude of outlets. For instance, radio, television, advertisement, internet, and social media are all mediums that can depict a race poorly given the opportunity. Through an analysis of specific instances throughout history, it will be clear to see that Malcolm X was able to identify an unfavorable power the media has. All in all, media has the capability to foster bias and also misrepresent races involved with public news in order to create an image they favor to be shown to society.

Media influences through many types of communication systems and has a massive effect on people’s life, but are Americans fully aware that food industries generally targets children? The lawsuit brought by two teenagers, Ms. Bradley a 19 years old, weighs 270 pounds, Ms. Pelman a 14 years old, weighs 170 pounds, was whether McDonald’s was responsible for their obesity because McDonald’s did not provide the necessary information about the health risks associated with its meals that they eat. Placing the blame into the fast food industry for allegedly contributing to their obesity and health problems. The media through many types of advertisement promotes unhealthy foods, high in saturated fat, large amounts of fructose sugars, salt, as the ideal food options. Many may agree that it was their own wrongdoing that contributed to their obesity, but what about if people would give the teenagers some credibility to their allegations. Therefore, people can take into consideration the theory that media has a huge negative influence on what American children eat. Media influence is something people should certainly always be aware of. Children on a daily basis read magazines, listen to the radio, watch television or check their online social media for the latest trends in the world, children are opening themselves up to be programmed by the media routinely. Why are children the main target by the food industries? Media has a negative influence on children’s food choices through

It is normal for humans to be egocentric, even when we do not realize that we are acting in this fashion. Merriam Webster’s defines egocentric as being “concerned with the individual rather than society.” This means that a short and simple definition should be something like, only being concerned with what you want, and not caring about the wants of those around you. A similar word sociocentrism means “a tendency to assume the superiority or rightness of one’s own social group.” A simple definition for this would be, the view that your social group is better than others. So now that we have these two concepts and their definitions, how are they promoted throughout the media?

Media. What is it? How does it affect us? Why does it change us? Lots of people think that the media of ours is a significant element in just who we're. Some people believe that it can alter an individual throughout the lifetime of theirs. Through the years the press has experienced a severe impact on modern society, an influence consequently astounding we do not detect its existence sometimes. The media is essential to our civilization; we're many in the middle of the media. Every & each day a lot of peoples connect to media of many methods. Media is frequently described as signifying a channel of communication. We to be a modern society soak up press coming from a multitude of forms, including the internet, billboards, newspapers, magazines, radio, and television.

The media are full of countless things, they have completely changed the world we live in and are now a part of our everyday lives (Bookman, 64). With television, radio, newspapers, books, etc… working their way into our everyday lives it is almost impossible to live without the media. Along with it being persuasive, informative and a great source for entertainment, it also has a large binding influence on societies all over the world. Media aspects are radically reshaping the world (Marina 240) and though some may argue that media has more negative aspects associated with it, there are many positives to it as well. One of the positive aspects of the media is the binding influence associated with it and how it is changing our society making the world one large global village — the world as a single community. We now see everything everywhere and it is causing the world to change in the way that people are adapting to new cultures they may not have even known about in past decades.

Media has an impact on many of the population’s everyday life. It comes to no surprise that the media is closely related with body imaging. There are thousands of advertisements out in the media that depict images of beauty and physical attractiveness which are unrealistic. The masses see these images and think that they are achievable thus lowering the self-esteem of many. Many of these commercials and advertisements fall under the category of the following: weight loss, clothing, cosmetics and physical fitness. The way beauty is portrayed in the media causes low self-esteem and dissatisfaction in peoples’ outward appearance and sets unachievable goals for many. This is not just a recent issue at hand, “throughout history, the standard of female beauty often has been unrealistic and difficult to attain. People with money and higher socioeconomic status were far more likely to be able to conform to these standards. Women typically were willing to sacrifice comfort and even endure pain to achieve them” (Derenne, Jennifer). Such high standards for beauty, especially in women, are unattainable for most. Many models presented in the media are well below what is considered a healthy body weight, and often photoshopped to fit the “ideal body.” This makes it extremely difficult for anyone to achieve contentment within themselves.

Media today has massive influential impacts all over the world. Every house has a sort of media such as Television, radio, newspaper, Internet, and other media channels. Media have been demonstrated to elevate or to raise doubt about perspectives of social groups, including those characterized by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and sexual personality (Scharrer 171). Gender prospective is one of the most effected elements. It has shaped the way people think of themselves and the way they see the other gender. Women and men have been represented in many different perspectives, which helped to develop the gender gap and differences between those two not only in their daily life but also at workplace. Media today play main role in creating the glass ceiling through emphasizing on one character and ignoring the other characteristics that women have. Bligh mentions that the recent research emphases on the interaction between two obstacles that might impact women in politics: undesirable arrogances about females ' efficiency in leadership positions and media interpretations of women candidates (561). Even more, when media fail at presenting women full character, media would starts criticizing women who cracked the glass ceiling more harshly than any other man who has the same position.

As the world becomes a global village due to technology our society changes with it. We become more and more civilized that our way of life must change to match the changes in our world. One of the most common changes that have hit our today’s society is media. Media has penetrated through all barriers including our war fronts and areas where man never thought to have penetrated. As media develops through the years and technology expands more media outlets open and so the society has and continues to move away from the mainstream media (CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, ABC, etc.) to local media and different websites to get their news. The trust society had in Television and the mainstream media to provide true and uncontaminated reports has faded and therefore society is moving away from these to where they believe they can get news first hand. In this paper, I will attempt to explain why in today 's media many people don 't just rely on the major networks but go online for news (Local, National, and Global). Could this be splintering our views and causing more anger? Should it be regulated? I will also attempt to express my opinion on what the business of news is becoming in the next ten years.

Since you know this world is a pure chaos in many forms in any name you can reference to. We, Society, are the most distinctive cultural patterns and organized group of persons connected together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes you can name of. There is many problems are happening nowadays, which it seems worsen than in the past generations. Most of problem causing I am seeing in this generation is Media itself are playing a significant role in our society today. 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. Television, Camera, Computers, and other large to small things are the goal to interfere to numberless of different goals, strategies, and other existence by trying to set for the range from entertaining to educating which end up in confusion big time. What I see is what media nowadays are showing are mostly women, race oppression, sexism, and perfection.

Technology has made various types of media available to this world. Photography, radio, television, cable, internet, and many more. Not only has it been expanding, but it has been modernized into our daily life. People use the media everyday for learning, exploring, reading, social media, music, the news and so much more. It becomes a tool that we use everyday. However, media may change a person 's life, both good or bad. The consumption of media can alter a person 's perspective of their life. Because the media is becoming more popular and is developing faster everyday, a person can be controlled and influenced by what they see in the media.

There are many types of media that are constantly being shown in this time of era, such as, films, documentaries, music videos, and advertisements. The public tends to attach themselves to films and music videos when there are controversial ideas that rise from these forms of media and advertisements sometimes receive the attention but after time passes on we forget them. Aunt Jemima is a famous individual who has been through many changed over time, which at first, she looked like a terrifying African American lady who had a creepy smile but as time passed, her appearance changed to fit into this society’s norm. From this we are likely to think that this types of ethnics and racism has been eliminated in this decade. However, even in 2016 these advertisements do not clearly present us with this much racism but we do have advertisements that present this idea of undermining one race but showing it passively. Hence, we can state that form of racism has definitely decreased in the portrayal of advertisement but there will always be a form of racism presented to the audience in one way or the other. To justify this statement, we will be analyzing these five advertisements from the year 2011 and year of 2016. Also the reason I chose this topic to discuss is to shine light on the reality that, although films and TV shows take over the viewers we are constantly being bombarded with advertisements everywhere we go, thus being aware that these advertisements still circulate in our