The Media And Its Impact On Society

“Since media are part of the political class and talk mostly to the political class, the myth of popular polarization took root and grew.” (Fiorina, Abrams, Pope, 2005, p. 167). Recently media has played a huge role in the country’s politic; they share information, report events, and frame opinions.

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.

Throughout the years the use of technology has increased, and expanded. Mass media plays a vital role in society. Mass media can be defined as any means of communication, to an extremely large group of people. Technological advancements have been extremely beneficial for prior generations, the generation we now live in, and will be for the future generations to come. Such as, providing news for the world to hear, entertainment, and much more. Some examples of media would be television, films, newspapers, and the Internet. Unfortunately along with benefits, there are disadvantages concerning gender discrimination, and sexism. Such as, women feelings forced and obligated to stay at home with their children instead of working, and the representation of beauty involving both men and women. Examples of how the media can accomplish this would be through the use of advertisements, movies, magazines, and the radio. The media has an enormous effect on people within society today.

Now, it seems that media coverage is the opposite. News stories today are ones that involve scandals, polls, and the personal lives of the candidates rather than policies and issues. It is concerned more with profit than it is with educating the American people well, so they can make an informed decision. Today’s media has deteriorated in value to the public who wish to choose the best president for America, but has increased in value to the news networks, who make a large amount of money off the presidential election. The media has become a calculating business firm, who chooses what stories to run based on the money the stories will bring in rather than which story is more important. And, the stories that are making the most money, are those that entertain the American people. Therefore, the media has become biased toward stories that entertain rather than send an important message. Thus, the coverage of the presidential election has little value in

If the News badgered the candidate with bad issues and common living being affected the media has to stay involved to make sure the candidate can come back with the correct issues they may stand for in America. The News media plays a dominant role in who will win because most American want to know that their vote matters and the next candidate can help the bad and the good by shaping America with the right judgment once in office. The information that media portrays the political race as the most important media that shapes America. The reporters usually report about others political view not just the Presidential Candidates, the Congress and House of Representatives who always voice their opinions about

Many American’s were surprised with the results of the 2016 Presidential Election. With Clinton predicted to win with more than seventy percent of the votes, so many Americans were upset or troubled to wake up to Donald Trump as their new president-elect. After the results of the election, violence has broken out throughout the country, mainly targeted at minorities. With the country in an uproar, one may think, how does this sort of situation happen? One could blame the media for this lack of information or surprise outcome of the election. The media has changed this election from the way we view our candidates to who we predicted to win through social media, journalistic bias and people’s internal filter.

Women around the world face overwhelming oppressions in their daily lives. That is not news to anyone and these oppressions have occurred for so much of history, that it is often times overlooked by the mass majority; even the younger generations of women do not know the types of oppressions that they will soon have to face. To combat this, FCKH8.com, a well known organization that sells t-shirts and other merchandise with witty anti-racism, anti-homophobic, and pro-feminist catchphrases on them, created the video, “Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism”. As the title implies, the video contains little girls, ages six through eleven, aggressively yelling “FUCK,” towards the camera while rattling off facts and statistics about some of the oppressions women face because of their gender. The comment section of this video is erratic; the viewers often have conflicting views about the meaning of the video as well as whether or not it was successful in its purpose. One thing is for sure, the video makes an impact by using several rhetorical devices including word choice, pathos and logos; all which separate it from other pro-feminism videos that exist.

Throughout American history, it is clear to point out the United States have elected presidents to stand as the countries’ leader since the birth of the young nation. In most cases, the election is seen as a race between two parties even though there are others on the ballot. The vast majority usually did not know much about the other candidates until the turn of the century. Then, when media and information became easier to access it turned these elections into social media wars putting candidates at each other’s throats. The best example of this is the current election and their unruly debates, but when these debates came about they were not as cutthroat as they are now. Media throughout the years has forever altered the way in which these debates have gone about and how the presidential candidates are perceived. Media has tarnished the way politics and debates are run today from how they began.

It is ambiguous that the 2016 Presidential Election has been one of the most publicized elections that our country has experienced. Both Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump used media as an effort to defeat one another. The true question one should ponder upon is how media affected this year’s election. Did social media serve as the Electoral College by determining the candidate who will rule our country for the next four years? Experts have said that this previous election has utilized media more than any other election. If you took a look at Instagram and Twitter on Election Day, you would have seen Donald Trump reminding his followers to vote for him and Hilary Clinton submitting her vote at the polls. Candidates can share messages with the public as propaganda. They do have to buy access to the reach millions of people anymore, the world is simply one click away. According to Lang (2016), two-thirds of 18-29-year-olds said that social media has helped them become more educated about politics. When Trump announced his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States in December, the news produced more social media involvement that any other news about the election. Trump specifically has used social media networks more than Hilary Clinton has. Social Flow quoted, “It's just going to get bigger in the main election. The number of free media exposure given to Trump -- whether that's on social media or more traditional news media -- I think is absolutely the story of the election. We've just never seen anything like it before” (Lang,

In the 2016 election, not only were several viewers choosing to watch only one news station, thus making them ill-informed on a few issues, and biasing them towards the other party, but fake news stories were circulating around in an attempt to make one candidate look worse than another. The entire election season seemed to be one accusation after another, and the media seemed to enjoy it. From Clinton’s emails to Trump’s tax returns, hashtags such as “#hillaryforprison” and “#dumptrump” appeared leading to political battles between supporters on either side and a constantly swaying public opinion on either candidate. In the end, the media was a revelator for the character, preparedness, and intelligence of each candidate and a country was left

People have relied on many forms of media when it comes to politics. This year’s election was a step in a different direction. The path that this election was carving was one that was beginning to be heavily traveled. It was the road that many people gained their information about the election their reliance of social media. With the candidates of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party and Donald Trump for the Republican Party, many people were uncertain who they were going to vote for as their next Commander in Chief. Some of the people who were uncertain who would get their vote knew about the ethical problems that Hillary had and the inexperience in the realm of government for Trump.

Over the past thirty years there has been an increase in power throughout the media with regard to politics. The original purpose of the media was to inform the public about relevant events that occured around the country regarding politics in the United States. The job of the media is to search out the truth and relay that news to the people. The media has the power to inform the people but often times the stories given to the people are distorted for one reason or another whether they are good or bad for the candidates. Media is now not only Newspapers, radio, magazines, etc but now media includes social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc where Media is now not only used to inform but as well

“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

Opinions about the 2016 United States Presidential election are everywhere, and often have a particular stance that expresses a strong opinion and viewpoint on the issues regarding Presidential-Elect Doanld Trump- as his controversial use of social media platofroms such as twitter and his own website that promoted his slogan “Make America America great again” provoked different emotion across the country. But despite his own self-promotion across different platform, how did Donald Trumps campaign become so widespread noticed by not only by the United States but the World?

Media bias had a big role in the 2016 presidential election. In this world of information, media had a big role transmiting the news and events to a very demanding audience. And the word “bias” was trending throughout the whole election. But, what is media bias? Media is bias when it fails to be fair and objective while reporting. With the idea of a biased media in the table, it is interesting to know how people chose their media intake, and what is their perception about it. Studies have shown a growing distrusts toward the “mainstream” media.