im doing a presentation on the media's influence on teens and i thought it would be interesting to see what you all thought?
do you think the media has a positive or negative influence on teens?
UMMMM yes of course it does. Think about it how many people dress and act like their favorite movie and music stars? A better paper to do would be on the kids that arent influenced by the media and why not. However in order to do this paper you would be required to travel to the Dutch area of PA (Amish Country) in order to find them. Media does more than affect the kids in society it affects everyone of all ages. Like anything else there are both positive and negative affects on us all because of the availability of this media and information.
its not a paper, just a quick 10min presentation...
LETS FOCUS ON... how magazines affect teens; mainly how they see themselves and their bodies...
DISCUSS!
I think it really depends on the person, alot of people (particulary young girls), feel underacheived by the images they see of famous people. This can develop into a number of different disorders (anorexia nervosa, clinical deperession etc). But a large part of that particular population could also just be driven further to make themselves and their body look better. Therefore it has a slightly negative, but probably overall positive outcome for young teen females. I think males are much less likely to be afflicted with any of these types of feelings, they're more than likely checking out britney spears rack then feeling bad about themselves. It also is a way for people to gain a sense of fashion for themselves. Seeing somebody famous in something will make you want to wear it. Really there is no way you could argue that mainstream media doesn't affect/influence the population.
Walk down any coridor of any mall in the US and tell me that media doesnt play a role in teens life. They all want to be just like the person the idolize. Sometimes its as simple as buying the clothes that they wear other times its as complex as falling into an eating disorder to be the same size as their idol. Teens are submitted to endless bombardament of what they are supposed to look like. The ads in all of the magazines they buy are of the picture perfect model as far as they are concerend and most of them dont have the knowledge to understand that the photos are touched up by artists. The ads about weight loss products are shot in reverse actually. The models after picture is shot first then they gain the weight and shoot the before picture. The most recent craze is celebraties having abs airbrushed on themselves then wandering around with bare middrifts. Ad executives know exactly who to target and how to target them. One recent commercial for acne creame features Jessica Simpson to help sell their product. There is no doubt that the media affects teens but it is not restricted to just the teens.
The problem is not limited to teens; full-on adults seem to be easily swayed by what magazines/the media tell them is beautiful.
Men/boys are stupid for having their definition of beauty defined by a magazine.
Women/girls are stupid for believing it.
Do i think they are influenced? Yes. But i think the blame is more on the parents for not teaching them that 99% of everything that the media feeds you is bull@!#$ to make them a quick buck.
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It only affects you if you:
a: allow it to,
b: are that un-savvy that you don't realise you're being sold everything every second you watch television.
c: are that stupid to allow someone else's opinion to supplant your own good judgment.
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Television, Magazines, Radio.. All of these mediums hack and slash reality and put a pretty window dressing over things. I'm consistantly amazed (and saddened) when kids start starving themselves(by vomiting, abusing laxatives or ipecac, using "natural antagonist" branded tape-worms) to try and live up to a totally false standard.. Those people only need to look beautiful for that photo/video shoot, and after that, who cares? The same thing goes with the commercialism.. A fast car, a hot woman, and "real man" behind the wheel.. Lifestyle commericals are peddling a fallacy on you every day. The answer is this: you make your own fortunes, and no car, no trophy woman, no huge house and not even your own body is going to make you happy forever... You make your own happiness, you're the only person that knows what you want out of life, and if you can't figure out what you want on your own, you're a pretty sorry excuse for a human.
It's one of the reasons I LOVE the "Real beauty" (or whatever its called) Dove commercials, and the pics of celebrities when they have no makeup. Reality is state I live in and generally prefer.
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^^^ "It only affects you if you:
a: allow it to,
b: are that un-savvy that you don't realise you're being sold everything every second you watch television.
c: are that stupid to allow someone else's opinion to supplant your own good judgment"
you forgot
d: you are a lemming, and want to do what your "friends" do
but that's not inherent to teens...adults do it to.
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