The media is known to represent young people in particular set ways, and it can be argued that the mass media only represents young people as being a problem group. However, this view ignores all of the positive ways in which young people are portrayed, and the ways in which media content is aimed towards young people. According to source C, young people are often represented as being a source of social problems. Activities frequently enjoyed by young people, such as playing video games and drinking with friends, are often totally demonised by the media. This results in extreme and inaccurate views of the activities of young people, that often relies upon scare tactics and the over exaggeration of rare news stories in order to make such activities seem worse than they are.
Many people outside of the industry believe it affects teen’s sexual activities and violence tendencies. A recent study in the American Academy of Pediatrics suggested that the display of sex on television can contribute to preadolescent sex. Rebecca Collins et al Ahmed 2 argued in their article that sex in entertainment can lead to teens having sex. She argues that when teens start to become sexually curious, the programming on television showing sexual content influences their idea about sex, specifically in regard to gender stereotype. The amount of sexual content on television is huge.
Often times, victims use drugs to "divert" and "distract" themselves from all the things they see, hear and experience. This becomes their "escape" to temporarily forget the hurtful things that they go through every single day. Discrimination. Studies show that LGBT teens are significantly more likely to experience discrimination in schools, workplaces and etc. 1/3 of LGBT youth who suffer from discrimination have reported the issue,
Children and young people are at risk of bullying when using the internet, mobile phone and other technologies as it provides an anonymous method of bullying by way of text messages and emails which can be emotionally damaging to a child or young person. Racist, anti-social and cult groups use modern technologies to preach and spread what they are and what they stand for, leaving children and young people very venerable to becoming part of their activity which is unhealthy, unsafe and often illegal. Children and young people are very venerable to predators of all natures using the internet and other technologies, by the encouragement of giving out personal information about them and others close to them, which will put not
Even more critical than the benefits of social networks comes the negative outcomes of such social medias usage. Some risks to usage of social network include cyber bullying in which adolescents are singled out as outcast and site such as Facebook or MySpace are used as a source of humiliation for those adolescent with the ability for posting of false commits, and allow hostile and embarrassing information to be posted without the approval of those involved. Another common negative impact for adolescent’s usage of social networks is the increase in sexting which is defined as “sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images via cell phone, computer, or other digital devices” (O'Keeffe 2011). With an average of 20% of teens having sent or posted nude or seminude photographs or videos of themselves (O'Keeffe 2011). With the
Do African-American teenagers believe in the consequences of sex? Or perhaps the home environment will most influence the possibility of negative sexual encounters? While studies suggest that many factors contribute to the increasing rates of unplanned pregnancy in African-American teenage females, the three most prevalent causes are the unwillingness of teenage African-American youth to use what they know about sexual activity, not believing in the personal negative consequences of sexual activity, and the influence of the home environment. African-American teenagers have an unwillingness to use what they know about sexual activity. Teenagers, especially the African-American teenagers, have been taught about sex.
Unfortunately, many of today’s television programs are violent. So does TV influence kids that violence, drugs, alcohol and sex are ok? How much violence, drug references, alcohol usage, and sex references does the average American child come across? How much of this do they take in? Hundreds of studies have found that children and teenagers that watch television may: • Become “immune” or numb to the horror of violence • Gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems • Imitate the violence they observe on television; and • Identify with certain characters, victims and/or victimizers Also, Extensive viewing of television violence by children causes greater aggressiveness.
Youth, Gender and Pornography A major research project has been launched in the Nordic countries which studies the way in which the spread of pornography is affecting the perception of gender by young people. The background for this project comprises changes in the cultural status of pornography that have followed in the wake of the development of new media. By Susanne V. Knudsen and Anette Dina Sørensen From newspaper articles, anthologies and a handful of recent individual studies, in which young people are allowed to voice their own opinions, we know that teenagers of both sexes watch pornography, their motives being partly curious, partly sexual and partly connected with their need for information about sexuality (e.g., Mossige 2001, Håvold and Moen 2003, Søndergaard 2002). On the other hand, we have no concrete knowledge about the way that increasing exposure affects children and young people, about their attitudes to what they are watching, and the way that this relates to their perceptions of sexuality and gender and to their own sexual experiences. The few Nordic researchers who have studied this problem disagree about whether exposure to hard-core pornography has any effect upon well-balanced children and young people and, if it does, what kind of effect we are dealing with.
Privacy is slowly corroding, and all this information can be obtained from any social networking site. Young adults who are struggling to find themselves can face some level of identity crisis. He or she may become involved in drugs or criminal behavior, which could result in negative circumstances. Many young adults find themselves in possession of an identity characterized by these rebellious behaviors. They claim to be non-conformist to show that they're different from their peers.
It depends how the teen react to the music. The negative effect that music can have on teens is that it encourages sexual activity. In the article “Degrading Lyrics Linked to Earlier Sex”, Daniel DeNoon talks about music with sexual lyrics and he says, "The more teens listened to degrading sexual music content, the more likely they were to subsequently initiate intercourse and progress in other, noncoital activity"(DeNoon). What DeNoon was talking about in this quote was how music teens listen has an effect on their actions. The lyrics with sexual content made the teens partake in sexual activities.