The Negative Impacts Of Popular Culture

Media and technology have been known to grow and spread at an unbelievable rate. Over time, media affects the way people in a society think and directs current trends in pop culture. Technology constantly allows for easier methods of doing things. An example of something that has grown very popular over time is video games. One of the first games was Pong, a game involving a ball that bounces across the screen. Comparing this to today’s high-definition role-playing games that most every child, teen, and young adult owns is a large shift. Film is also a growing media. The concept of moving pictures on a screen was mind-blowing when first introduced and is now second nature. It is commonplace because most people these days are already born with

It is a well-known fact that technology and media outlets today play a major role in a person’s life. Generally, a person has access to the media through cellphones, computers, radios in a car and television. It may be perceived by some, even within a technologically advanced society such as America, that media has no effect upon enhancing cultural relationships, though many social networks do indeed connect cultures.

The evolution of mass media has affected our social institutions: family, religion, morality and education, on an unprecedented scale. For most of us in the American culture, the new forms of mass media are entwined with both of our personal and professional lifestyles. Understanding how the development of these forms of mass media has been and continues to influence our American culture is vital. It will help us appreciate the role media plays in our life and will also help us to be more informed as citizens, consumers, and employees. Barnett, 2004 noted that “The Internet is the decisive technology of the Information Age, and with the explosion of wireless communication in the early

In today’s society, media is present in our lives 24/7 allowing it to have a major influence on our culture in both positive and negative ways.

Mass media have profound of impact socialization in modern, high-income societies or both children and adults. The media function as socializing agents in several ways: inform us about events, introduce us to a wide variety of people, provide an array of viewpoints, make us aware of produce, documentary and entertain us. Sociologists refer to this as a mediated culture where media reflects and creates the culture.

The media has proven to have a large impact upon the choice of an ideal influence for society. From the research I have conducted it interested me how much the media has become significant to setting social opinions. The difference between my role models and my Grandmothers or Mothers displays the increasing ability of the media due to advancing technologies.

According to Rethinking Popular Culture and Media, popular culture is the Polaroid snapshot or Facebook photo page that documents our lives in the social world; it is the backdrop of day to day life. The role of web/technology provides all the shared popular culture experience. Children are the targeted audience. Children ages 2-11 see at least 25,000 advertisements on TV alone, a figure that does not include product placement. (Marshall, Sensoy, Para 3,2011) Whereas media of previous generations may have referred to newspaper, magazines and books, today’s media includes an explosion of online/global networking systems (Twitter, Facebook, Bebo, YouTube). With society having numerous ways to see and share popular culture, access through so many

Popular culture is not all beneficial, however, teenagers in the modern day are so consumed by it that they are willing to risk their lives along with the lives of others. Teenagers are willing to text message while driving or crossing the street, which is life threatening because their mind and eyes are focused on their cellular phone instead of the road. They feel a burst of excitement whenever they receive a text message, making them constantly want to check their phones. The media, in this sense, has consumed modern day children and teenagers for the worse part. I for one am one of those teenagers, who put my life at risk to check my phone while driving. While I took my eyes off the road for a second, not paying attention to the road, I rear-ended the vehicle in front of me. Although the crash was mild and consisted of no injuries, it could have been much worse. Many teenagers are yet to experience a life changing event due to the media, and therefore do not realize the consequences of being so consumed by it.

Media is always an alternative story. Media is no longer being a part of the culture, but it creates cultures. In "Convergence Culture", Jenkins’s claim that “when people take media into their hands, the results can be wonderfully creative; they can also be bad news for all involved” (para. 39). Indeed, media brought human so many benefits and profit. However, like what Jenkin said, they can be the problem for the society. For me, if put two sides of the media’s outcome in the balance it would always be equal. Due to the development of technology, from first black-white television to the smart phone with many functions. With the phone on hand, people can connect to everyone, watch, listen, and learn. So who would control our activities on

Peggy, it is true that many people are influenced more by the popular culture than Scripture in terms of their worldview; ergo, America is at a crossroad. Church’s’ are in crisis considering they are embracing the PC culture out of fear of offending minorities (e.g., LGBT community) in order to avoid possible consequences rendering them homophobic or racist. Many people have become desensitized to sense and sensibilities; thus, they have lost their moral compass. The Media and Hollywood have played a huge role in morally bankrupting America. Through movies, magazines, and TV, liberals promote a cult of idealized beauty that is so extreme as to be unimaginable. We must listen to Hollywood airheads like Gwyneth Paltrow and George Clooney

Do you ever feel like our media impacts the way you live? If it does, it probably has a negative impact. The media in today’s society has a bad influence on America’s teenagers- especially girls. It sends wrong messages to its adolescent viewers about today’s society and culture. The media should act as more of a positive influence towards America’s teenage girls.

One can view the media as a site of change, but also as means of perpetuation of ideologies and norms. Media use images, words, characters and representations to convey ideas and values(Geraghty, 2000). Media representations are constructed and play an important role in conveying ideas and ideologies. The media always had an important impact on people’s perceptions about the world. In previous generations, even during the last two decades of the 20th century, the great majority of the social forces that were affecting our self-perceptions and thus our personal identities were parents, schools and communities. The media usually sent healthy messages about who we were and about the world we were living in. Any bad influences that of course

Media influence is the force by which ideas are injected into people’s lives shaping the very culture of society. This influence is masqueraded through hidden media message, resulting in a change in its audience which can be positive or negative, abrupt or gradual, short term or long term. Although mass media’s influential effect can reach a wide ranged audience as an agent of socialization the responsibility to contain what it releases has not been of importance. “The media’s socially significant obligations are formally ignored.” (A.S. Zapesotskii, 2011, p 9). Media messages can be exerted through many different outlets such as TV shows, music, movies, commercials, news, magazines, games which are all gravitated to entertain audiences ultimately offering personal gratification that can sometimes blur the lines between reality and

Media has revolutionized. In today’s everyday life, most people use media. The use for media can vary and does vary. Media plays an important role in impacting culture, economy, and the overall view of the world. Although the use of social media is wide, people have realized the effects that media has on people who use it. Being aware of media can be a wise option, even if media is used effectively. Media effects identity in different ways, it has positive, negative and both aspects.

The worth of media is a very controversial topic. Media has given us the ability to do things in new and creative ways such as how we learn and accomplish our everyday tasks. However, we do not always know how to interpurate this information. The technology available today is constantly impacting and influencing society in tremendous ways. Many of the impacts that are accocated with media are addressed in negative ways, but can be seen from a positive perspective as well. In the current generation, media and its influences can be found everywhere. These influences widely impact today’s adolescents and maturing teenagers because they are still developing into adults. Medias purpose is not only to inform us, but to allow us to mold ourselves in how we want to be perceived online. Also, it allows us easy access to unbelievable amounts of information. Living in an era known as the “information age” is riveting, but what are we suppose to do with all of this new technology and information?