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.
The development of the prefrontal cortex during adolescence permits them to engage in sophisticated thinking. For example, they are able to compare different possibilities, they are able to monitor their own thought processes and comprehend abstract logic. Therefore, when it comes to making decisions, adolescents are able to value possibilities and consequences better than a child, but still not like an adult. Despite of the improvements in decision-making and cognition, adolescents are still driven towards risk-involving activities. As per Steinberg (2013), this could be explained by the time gap between the development of the limbic system in puberty and the prefrontal cortex maturing years after.
Children and adolescents see these icons and want to emulate what they see and hear, because the ideology effect they have on youth. Customarily, advertisers have used TV programs and movies for ad placement because of the influence they have on children and adolescents (Committee on Communications, 2006, p. 2564, para. 1). Alcohol Advertising It is estimated that underage drinking accounted for at least 16% of
They will also begin to develop moral values, which will come into greater focus during adolescence (Berger, 2010). Children in the adolescent stage of life will also deal with a variety of challenges that can change the way they function in their environment (Berger, 2010). Some of these decision-making challenges may include peer pressure, sexuality, and other inter-adolescent relationships (Berger, 2010). Many developmental changes occur during middle childhood and adolescence that will impact children as they mature into adults. The environment they are exposed to will help shape the people they will become.
Television allows people to know what’s going on in the world, it gives people endless hours of entertainment, and it even has a certain value in advancing people’s knowledge on certain topics. Whether or not people take advantage of the perks of television is the choice of the lifestyle they have chosen to lead, but the option is still available to them at any given moment. Many people could say that television is ruining American society, but that is hard to believe, seeing as it is probably the strongest, most widely available tool anyone has to get the word out about whatever they wish to say. With this being said, it is obvious that
The more violent acts that individuals see on television the more death and crime rates go up in the United States. It shows that most long-term exposure to acts of violence is the major cause of homicides assaults and other acts of violence in the country. Nine out of ten child programs have acts of violence in them before children will have reach the age 16 they will have witnessed 200,000 acts of violence and 33,000 murders. The violence can be decreased by teaching our children early on that violence is not the key we should not have to censor what we
Consuming Kids. After watching “Consuming Kids,” and hearing the various insights of many industry professionals, it is no doubt in my mind that mass media creates a social reality, and a backwards one. This commercialization of childhood is a lot more than selling just products and services, it’s a society issue which has direct impacts on human development and relationship. This commercialization of childhood involves marketers and advertisers doing everything they can to influence the 52 million kids under 12 that hold a buying power totaling $42 billion dollars a year. The mass media aims and is successful in getting a brand in front of a child’s face 24-7, whether it be through brand licensing, product placement, viral marketing internet, videogames or many other ways.
Abstract Television’s effect on viewers is a subject that has been thoroughly studied in the last twenty years and whose impact reaches farther than most people realize. Many studies have focused on how television programs that appear to be “real,” such as news and soap operas, alter the viewers’ perception of reality. However, the most recent trend in reality television is overtaking the networks and polluting viewers’ minds with distorted pictures of reality, leaving behind an even bigger effect than regular television. Viewers can't seem to get enough of the torture, embarrassment, temptation, and drama of other regular people being placed in unrealistic settings and manipulated for the world to see. This paper describes the negative effects of reality television viewing on individuals, such as violent or aggressive behavior, substance use, sexual activity, and insufficient academic performance.
That ‘70s Show Alejandra Carranza Professor: Lever May 15, 2014 Some might not agree but the media plays a big role in today’s society. More and more families own a television if not a television a laptop or video games. The affect of media is overpowering and widespread. All over the world, the media has impacted children and adults; it has been a powerful force in influencing individual’s insights. Especially if “the average American spends about 33 percent of his or her leisure time watching television” (Renzetti and Curran, 151) it gives us a picture that Americans are far by entertain by the media instead of doing something productive.
Many have more. One study found that 32 percent of children age’s two to seven had television sets in their bedroom. This number increased to 65 percent for children ages eight to 18. Although television can be an educational tool for student, exposing them to information and situations that they cannot experience first hand, social scientists and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have raised specific concerns about the effect of television watching on young student development. Areas of concern include: inability of young student to distinguish between television fantasy and reality exposure to television violence, especially where violence is not shown to have any serious consequences exposure