With an influx of self-absorbed thoughts, high awareness of details, and great concern of others opinions, this egocentric stage can possibly cause even more imbalance stress and anxiety in adolescent years. The need to be accepted grows stronger and the invincibility personality starts to take over. Acceptance of peers is important for positive outcome in self-assurance and confidence. Teen peer pressure of being involved in a group or “click” of peers and trying to “fit in” can lead to mal-adaptive behaviors, i.e. Drug use, smoking, sex, breaking laws.
Name: Jean Smith Class: Writing 121 Professor: Mr. Horsh Date: 10//11 The Mass Media’s Influence on American Teenagers The mass media, including television, radio, internet, films, and newspapers have a great influence on people and especially on the younger teenage generation. It plays an important role in shaping the opinions and positions of the younger generation. America’s mass media produces, creates, and promotes multitudes of ideas and theories that teenagers all over America observe and take in for themselves. The mass media’s influence on the minds of developing teenagers in America is harmful, because it is detrimental to their development as an individual person. The mass media influences men, women, teenagers, and toddlers alike.
Reactions, feedback, conversations and debates are generated online as well as support and participation for offline events. Messages posted to personal networks are multiplied when shared, which allow new audiences to be reached. Although the presence of social media is spreading and media use patterns are changing, online political engagement is largely restricted to people already active in politics and on the Internet. Other audiences are less responsive. For example, television news together with print and online newspapers are still the most important sources of political information in most countries.
In some ways it can, but not without paying the price on relationships. Kircher (2011) explains that cell phones, entertainment and the Internet take up more time out of the average American’s week than they spend at work, not to mention the countless advertisements that are pushed upon them on a daily basis. This false reality is where most people are submerged and they are spending less and less of their time with each other. With the way that this culture is embracing and reliant on media and technology, it is completely changing how Americans are experiencing relationships, love and sexuality (p.69). Kircher (2011) also states how love is over-emphasized by the media when it comes to relationships in our culture today.
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
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.
Cameron Williams 11 April 2011 4th Hour Ms. Mason Music Affect on Teens The negative effects that music can have on teens are that it encourages sexual activity, causes hearing loss, and encourages violence, but positive effect that music can have on teens is that it can help them concentrate, it can help them have a positive mind and can help them do better in school. During teenage years, teens use music as an escape to their problem. But music can affect teenager’s life in a negative way, like causing them to go to jail, or even death, or in positive ways like causing them to become good writers, or entertaining them. Teens listen to different songs with different messages, some good, and some bad. It depends how the teen react to the music.
Both negative and positive social influences have had visual entertainment. I say this because there are some shows, music videos, and other videos, that have negative influences on us. Some of those things I feel has the biggest impact on kids and teens because a lot of the stuff they see, and the people who is doing it they look at is as their role model or the fact that
Merton stated that the strain theory was a way that individuals had developed a strain in society, certain individuals that lack the formality to gain goals or gain money and develop a particular status. Merton also stated that forms of media had heavy effects creating negative pressures on these individuals in particular it was stated that the advertisement industry was a significant cause, they are advertising and promoting elements of success and sense of achievement this therefore creating a negative impact on individuals causing them to gain what they want through the means of committing criminal acts. I can relate this theory to how young individuals might play video games. Some young individuals might play video games to escape reality and spend a few hours entertaining themselves through forms of playing games. There are many different genres of games that appeal to
Oppositely, conformity can be extremely harmful and can cause us to overestimate a perceived social norm. In this generation, drinking alcohol has been popular in some social groups depending on the values and personality traits of those in the group. All together, conformity is the most powerful source that drives consumers to oppose or favor drinking. With instant communication at the fingertips of every teen through social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, teens are strongly influenced by their peers’ actions. Through social networking, the power of popularity has been largely up scaled.