In “The Merchants of Cool,” the author investigates the rising fascination with teen pop culture. Teenagers are constantly vying for attention, causing them to imitate popular celebrities. Major corporations try to capitalize off this, showing productions and advertisements to influence them further. The era of family friendly programming has no longer any place in primetime television; shows such as Dawson’s Creek and Cruel Intentions have completely infiltrated the TV schedule to reflect teens’ all-consuming fascination with sexuality. One of the major networks responsible for influencing pop culture is MTV, telling kids what’s cool.
These companies will use beautiful models, sexuality, and bad behavior to make it more appealing to the younger crowd. Little do these companies know, the promotions they produce influence the youth. They add these ideas to the everyday lives of teenagers. Many youth believe that what they see on TV, what celebrities sing about, and the image music videos portray are real and catch their attention, making it seem normal to be this way. Teenagers allow the media to influence them so they hopefully become popular and well known.
Reality TV has had high rating since the beginning because of the entertainment it provides for all viewers. Numerous people compare their lives to the ones on reality TV, because many wish to be them or many just choose to judge their way of living since it is on aired nationwide. In “The ‘normal’ Narcissism of Reality TV” by Jean M. Twenge she explain how narcissism shown in reality TV affects the younger generation’s view of the world, by making narcissism seem normal. Narcissistic people on reality TV have affected the younger generation and the obsession they have of themselves. Twenge states, “To many older people, it’s funny.
02/24/2012 The Effects and Influence that Pop Culture has made on Reality TV Do you like watching reality television? Apparently many Americans do. Interestingly enough, According to Variety magazine, typical reality show viewers are in their mid-teens through mid-twenties. Viewers have diverse reasons for choosing to watch reality shows. The actual viewing of these shows has various effects on the viewers and our society in general.
Some popular and well known junk foods that we teenagers love are: Chewing gum (if not sugar free), any candy related to chocolate, cookies, potato chips, Drink lots of sodas including energy drinks, and eating at any fast food restaurants that are close by. When it comes to junk foods and drinks, learning how to control yourself is hard, but important at the same time. Nutritious meals are often being missed and replaced with these foods that are high in sugar and high in fat. Controlling what you eat is very important. When making your own food choices, junk food can have an effect on your appearance.
They’re counting on youthful viewers to help maintain the life of the genre. Violence, language, disorientation of reality, and stupid stunts seem to mark a lot of reality television Larry(2007). What's even more disconcerting is reality TV's emphasis that it's real and its contestants are ordinary citizens. Unfortunately, our generation has more media exposure than our parents had when they were growing up. The negative outcome reality programming has affected: illiteracy, behavioral changes, insecurities, and disrupting the social balance in society.
Today, plastic surgery has become in high demand among males and females, teenagers in order to look their physically best. On the other hand Hassen-Biber talks about a critical illness among teenagers and adults called Bulimia Nervosa. Although the authors approach different situations among teenagers and adults in which they put their lives at risk in different ways, both authors agree that one major reason for this issue is the American media. Blum focuses on make over shows and plastic surgery. “Extreme makeover shows us people being made good-looking enough to be on television.” (pg.
Positive ads such as “friends don’t let friends drive drunk” and the NAACP slogan “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” will help raise the conscience level of young people and make them think more about how their actions affect other people. Making advertisements such as this government promoted and allowing them to air during the peak viewing hours of television will expose them to a large group of the target population. Since the emergence of facebook, youtube, blogging, vloging etc children have been exposed to more than they have ever been in the past. The big powerhouse sites such as
There are also advertisements directed towards children through television and magazines. In all reality it is an individual’s choice to become obese because of their decision to walk into these restaurants and order food that are delicious at the time but is very harmful for their bodies. To begin, do grocery stores really need fast food joints in them? I understand that it makes more money because people are hungry either before or after their long shopping trip. However this makes it hard for those who are trying to make a change in their lives and eat healthier foods for whatever reasons.
Maher Issa Mrs. Anderson ENG 112-4436 Feb. 12th 2013 A Demonstrative Analysis of “The Dangers for Teens Online Are Exaggerated” Technology impacts an individual’s life in many different ways. As time passes by, technology improves in a great number of ways. However, there are cons to the advancement of technology. The internet, in particular, has cons such as the violation of one’s privacy or the usage and intention to fulfill atrocious and immoral goals. It has even reached to an extent that many authoritative figures ask parents to be careful and to monitor what their teenage children are doing online as well as encourage them not to let their children spend too much time on the internet.