The Media And The Harmful Effects Of The Media

ut also to society as a whole to avoid corruption, bad examples, and to ideally prevent bias.

I often wonder about our humanity given the current state of affairs in our nation and abroad. America has been a powerful and abundant nation through a lifetime of wars and financial crisis but today is a different time for many of us. What is the media producer’s role in our very own implosion? What is our, the “media user” role in it?

Media has become a powerful source of knowledge, and a great breakthrough in human history. Who can regret that media is a daily need in our lives. Media has the ability and control to adjust to all levels of knowledge in people. Media helps us to escape from our daily lives and our problems in times of stress. Thou Media as proved to be beneficial by educating, entertaining and informing us, it has also have its downfall, to cause many bad influences to the younger audience. Media has influenced us to conduct bad behavior, breed violence among teens and fear to the public, thus causing a lot of negative conflicts among ourselves. Television, Music, Internet, and more, are just some of the media exposure that needs to be censored and

There is a lot of controversy about how the media affects people, but in my opinion I think the influence we get is more negative than positive. The media is one of the things that impact people the most because in today’s society it is impossible to ignore. It influences the ways in which we dress, speak, act and think. Media is fed to us through movies, television, radio, social media, music, and magazines. I believe mass media is pressuring the way woman and girls want to look, twists reality, and is sexist towards woman without people even realizing.

When teens unlock their phone, read a magazine or turn on the TV, they see what the media wants them to see. When teens look at the media, they see celebrities with luxury life styles that they dream to have. These celebrities are then plastered onto the cover of a magazine and are called beautiful by the whole world. Not only does the media put out a false reality, but they also promote negative behavior and information. Teens are constantly being fed this negative information. Whenever teens get on any social media site they can see a video about someone getting murdered. From common knowledge they know that murder is wrong, but yet turn around and play games such as Grand Theft Auto that encourages this same criminal behavior. Overall, the media has such a negative influence on the world and with teens, like myself, just now getting an understanding of it, because our minds are manipulated from the content that it puts out.

The world that we lived in is all surrounding with media, people use the media every day and everything; such as watching television, using the computer, and talking on the phone. On the media we could learn and find out the information that we need. And we can also share our personal information on the media. Media gives us a lot of convenient in our life, but there are also some negative impacts. Media has a lot of negative impacts which it could be affected on children and adolescents.

The convergence of media, especially the more traditional media sources taking to the internet, has been both a blessing and a curse. The ability to report on anything in the world at a moment’s notice has transformed the idea of journalism. The reporters of today are of no resemblance of the reporters of the past. The folks who would spend weeks tracking down information and sources for a story now spend moments at a laptop accomplishing what they consider to be the same thing. This has caused the current news media to have issues with both integrity and accuracy. In the past, reporters would spend ample amounts of time gathering information, forming their thoughts, and writing the article. Even with the amount of time they spent on this process, there was even more time allotted for checking and double checking their facts to ensure the accuracy and morality of the story. Today’s journalists have posted articles just moments after an event. This can be helpful in many ways, but also harmful. The immediate gratification of posting an article negates any thought about

Cheerios is a household name that has kept General Mills restocking the shelves for years. Its advertised potential health benefits have made it even more popular over time. Yet that household name is not immune to the backlash from risky advertisement. In a day and age when it seems like anything goes, a simple commercial sparked a nationwide controversy. While the issue at hand may be about race, the following analysis will show that in any piece of media we could pick all day long at the potentially politically incorrect content within. While none of these other issues may have been noticed or addressed, the company was faced with the dilemma of continuing to air the content. One side always has to prevail, and in the case of this ad campaign it is on the side of equality, and they are not losing any sleep or loyal customers over the decision.

Catalonia was an interesting news story to cover, particularly because of its European implications. “The Guardian” newspaper, “Sky News” channel and “Aljazeera.com” are three distinct platforms I selected to monitor. This is mainly because of their reputation and political dissimilarities. These UK-based media platforms were expected, in such a case of Catalonia, to report this story in depth. My analysis of the coverage will follow the chronological order of these platforms, which is the same historical appearance of newspapers, television and Internet. This may also facilitate how we understand the strengths and weaknesses of each medium in covering this Spanish crisis.

problems. Though it seems to go unnoticed by most, the way that we are obtaining our

As I pondered what I would do for this action project I knew I wanted to steer more towards women in the media. I have always been curious about what the public thinks about certain things, what is trending, what the common thought is on a specific thing, idea etc. As I thought about what my main focus was going to be, I remembered talking to my family about what I was learning and discussing in my Gender and Women’s Studies class and brought up how there seems to be a stigma in today’s culture on how marketing companies make it seem okay to portray women in a negative way just to get their product sold. I thought more deeply about this topic because it has always bothered me to see how companies got away with altering model’s bodies, dressing them in risqué clothing, or putting sexist blurbs smacked across an advertisement in a magazine. I wanted to find a way I could subtly bring about self-awareness to my community around me.

Three roles were given to the media according to the Constitution and are roles that they must follow. However, the media has not been following those three roles and instead has focused on reporting other issues that have no importance at all. As a result, the media has been highly criticized since it has only been reporting only the government line on issues because the media is owned by six corporate conglomerates. Although the American media has changed throughout the years due to the media ownership, it has negatively affected the media in several ways.

The effect of the media on our daily lives is just too big to ignore. The media’s opinion can form and shape many of people’s opinions, specially those who don’t have a background on certain subjects. They would tend to chose a certain person from the media to feed them the information they need about certain things. In our case the thing many people may not know about it, is politics, to be more specific the elections 2015, the candidates, their policies, platforms, etc… . I will be talking about a specific point in the platforms on different parties. And I will be looking on how the media’s effect led to the choice

An evaluation of the last half decade shows that media and its influence on communities and society at large has expanded significantly with advancement of technology. It is apparent that in the world today, media has an influential role in the daily life of an individual. From the time that a person wakes up to the time they go to bed, they are surrounded in a world that has been developed by media. Initially there was the telegraph and the post offices, this was followed by radio, television, newspapers, magazines and now the most widely used the internet. It is important to have the basic understanding of the role of media in society at an individual level and from a holistic point of view.

Media according to Dictionary.com is defined as “the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people”. While the definition is correct at the same time it fails to recognize another form, which is social media sites on the Internet. An unprecedented amount of technology uses as tools of influence to convince citizens to purchase and consume on a regular basis with a usual pitch that if one does not than life suddenly becomes accustomed. The techniques that are used to draw consumers in are both blatant and subliminal in the messages that are being sent for a variety of reasons. Media is a part of everyday life for us humans now and now this shall be examined using myself with news, consumer products, and social media sites.