The first significant argument that Pascoe proposes is the “heterosexualising process” that is organised by educational institutions through various performances and rituals that reiterate gendered power and develop masculine identities. This is particularly exemplified by the opening phenomena of the Mr Cougar Assembly. Here, Pascoe uses the everyday normalities of a high school performance to show how young adolescent men view masculinity and how they achieve masculine identities by drawing attention to the failed masculinity or weakness of others. The weak masculinity being that of male femininity; the “high voices and skirts” worn imposingly by the
Page 1/8 30/09/2009 Essay Question: Students are to write a cultural critique essay on an aspect of culture that is particularly impacting young adults. The paper will follow the method laid out in Vanhoozer’s Everyday Theology.1 The critique will exegete the culture and give a biblical perspective on the subject. Approx 1750 words; 40%. Image created by Banksy on the 02/10/2008. Spray painted on the side of a building at the corner of Broadway & Howard Streets Soho, New York, USA.2 Graffiti is an unrestricted and uncensored form of expression that seems to strike a cord with teenagers and young adults, and the graffiti artist Banksy - in particular this image - makes an ideal text for a cultural critique that is particularly impacting young adults3.
The issue of teen sexting has been addressed several times in recent months with responses from Susie O’Brian, Jason Tin and an anonymous writer from a teen magazine. Suzie O’Brien’s opinion piece which was published in the Herald Sun on October 11, 2011, contends that teenage sexters should be educated and supported and not treated like criminals. Her direct tone targeted at the Victorian sex offender laws and police contrasts with the understanding and sympathetic tone applied to teenagers. In contrast, Jason Tins newspaper article published in Queensland’s The Sunday Mail on October 9, 1011, asserts that further action needs to take place to put an end to teenage sexting. While both articles argue similar points, Tin’s article differs to O’Brien’s in that his outraged and alarmed tone seeks to criminalize teenagers rather than support them.
In the documentary Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity, Jackson Katz discusses how images of masculinity in pop culture have changed over time, and particularly how in the 1980s and 1990s images of male heroes got larger and more violent. He uses many high Hollywood stars, for example; Humphrey Bogart, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as examples. By watching this short documentary I have learned how we are so easily influenced and shaped through a variety of things: family, community, media and society. Most of the kids of around the world learn at an early age to put on a so called "front" or "guise" to show only the certain parts and qualities that a tough guy possesses. At the beginning of the film there was a part of the documentary where young boys were defined as being manly: being tough, powerful, athletic, muscular, and rude.
Ahmed 1 Sami Ahmed Professor Grannis English 112 7 December 2008 The Medias Affect on Teenagers The rise of violence and sexual activity in teenagers has placed the entertainment industry under scrutiny. Parents blame the industry for exposing their children to inappropriate content at a tender age. The industry has argued that the rating system at place should give the parents control over the content viewed by their children. Now let us find out whether the content of the media has an affect on teenagers? Or if it is the parent’s responsibility to regulate what teens watch?
Palestinian Identity, Heavy Metal, and Punk music IV. Conclusion Lubna Dikeidek 1090082 Instructor: Hadeel Karkar Palestinian Adolescents, Heavy Metal and Punk Music, the Point Where they Meet Abstract This research examines the influence of Heavy Metal and Punk music on adolescents in matters of: adolescents’ mentality and relations. Heavy Metal and Punk music are a tool that can be used intelligently to cause specific types of influence on all adolescents. Heavy Metal and Punk music holds its own discourse that works as an institutional force to express people’s certain points of view on different aspects of life like politics and relationship with parents in a considerably unique way. The importance of this research lies in the fact that the adolescent layer is a very crucial layer in the Palestinian society.
Net Child Pornography According to Sex Offenders and the Internet, written by Kerry Sheldon and Dennis Howitt, “child pornography was considered to be a small and specialist issue-an adjunct to the broader problem of pornography of all sorts” (7). However, in the last decade there has been a considerable increase in child pornography. It led to professional and public awareness of internet use in exacerbating child sexual abuse. Ricky Martin is one of the professionals who work to stop the abuse of children worldwide. His foundation “People for Children” raises public awareness and influences public policy makers on issues such as child pornography, prostitution, and labor servitude.
next page To what extent do advertisements affect our sex-role perception? There have been many studies about exposure to media and its effects on human beings. In this study, we aim to look specifically at the effect of exposure to magazine advertisements on female college students’ sex-role perception. Sex-roles are “attitudes, behaviors, rights, and responsibilities that a society associates with each sex” (Holt & Ellis, 1998, as cited by Konrad & Harris, 2002, p. 2). Our perception of sex-roles could be either liberal or conservative.
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.
Ever since PongÒ swept the nation, scholars have been researching videogames effects on children. The most popular aspect of videogame research is whether or not games increase aggression. Violent videogames can also have a major impact on a child's thinking and actions. In many ways video games have had a negative impact on young children in today's society. New game systems like Nintendo Wii, X Box 360, or Sony Play station 3 are the new hype of the 21st century.