New generation likes to use social media as self advertisement and sometime they share very personal information. By doing this, their future privacy fells endanger and can affect badly in their mind in future which is not a good thing for the society, widely for the nation. Also, social media is hurting our society by spreading misinformation faster than any other media. Author Amanda Thomas shows a statistics in the
Many of the ads today give an image that in order to be happy and satisfied in life you have to be sexual or look sexy to get ahead. These ads are giving the wrong impression to our very fragile and susceptible young women. I believe
This one is greatly affected by the media. A majority of musicians have problems with drugs, alcohol, public disorder and infidelity. Most come from broken families with toxic environments. They reflect their emotions in the songs they write which greatly influence listeners. The media likes to capture rock musicians using drugs at wild parties and acting irresponsible to get attention from people and increase magazine sales and ratings.
Now that television is playing a crucial role in elections candidates not only have to sound good but look good too. "because of television's celebrity system, Presidents are losing their distinctiveness as social actors and hence are often judged by standards
Television will continue to be used for many reasons. These reasons could be furthering education, educating oneself on the happenings around the world, and giving people new ideas to help themselves. It’s apparent that when television is used in the right manner, people will always profit from it in a number of ways
They have made bad decisions in their life and they are getting publicity out of it. Is this really the type of thing that you want your child to be looking up at? Seeing these popular movies, television and teen icons influences us to think that it is cool to be pregnant at a young age. The media is influencing us too much, we follow whatever the "trend" is and we don't think for ourselves. Casual naked people dancing around, thin and built models, and teen pregnancy is subconsciously affecting us to think all of this is okay.
Not only do the competitions cost a large amount of money but they also cost the children their confidence and other emotional issues. Competitions claim to boost self esteem and encourage self confidence but they do the opposite if you are not the winner. The pressure of winning put on them by their parents causes more stress than normal children would have to handle. An article in Current Events titled “Kids on the Catwalk?” states, “Some psychologists say pageants for kids are inappropriate. ‘Pageants force children to focus too much on themselves,’
“The construction of gender stereotyping of both males and females in the media is based on outdated and unfounded beliefs and therefore has had and continues to have a detrimental impact on society.” (Yes!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUyfD1F7k1I Women are subjected to many stereotypes in today’s society. Movies and television shows suggest that all women are airheads, whose sole purpose in life is to please men and rear children. Magazines and other advertisements push photographs of very slender, over groomed and “sexy women” into our minds. Men’s magazines write articles on how to seduce a girl into sleeping with them.
“Lindsay Lohan: A Psychobiography” Many people attribute a celebrity’s demise and dangerous downward spiral to the effects of their elitist lifestyle; the life of a celebrity is perceived to be one of high glamour and fashion, and is usually characterized by excessive partying. However, while this notion definitely plays an important role in the train-wrecks of noted celebrities, such as Mel Gibson, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan, there is another, equally important factor that must also be considered. Perhaps a child star, thrust into the spotlight at a very young age, was in fact suffering other traumas in their own private life, which in turn had an effect on how they behaved and how they were viewed in the public eye. Per the mention above of her name as a noted “train-wreck,” Lindsay Lohan is one actress whose disastrous lifeline should be inspected with respect to the potentiality that some other event(s) in her private life, too, played a detrimental role in the crass decisions she made. At the young age of three, Lindsay was thrust into the media spotlight when she was signed to Ford Modeling Agency, where she was featured in over one hundred ads for companies such Calvin Klein and Abercrombie Kids.
The media is constantly bombarding us with images of celebrities with extremely thin bodies. Models, actresses, singers, presenters, socialites, and reality TV stars often appear in magazines and on television looking very thin-sometimes even emaciated” (1101). On the streets of New York or the grocery store down the block, there are magazines and pictures everywhere with the famous stars that teens look up to. Ultimately, images and examples such as these prove the media is forcing the “thin ideal body” on young women which causes bad