Connecting fast paced television viewing to losses in cognitive ability has profound significance for children’s social and learning development. I believe that the author made valid points throughout her article to discuss the shortcomings of the research study as well as the significance the research could have if the research study was broadened to a larger sample of children. The
Because of Sleeper Curve, according to Johnson, TV viewers need to improve their skill to watch modern TV shows with multiple plot lines. (279) Johnson believes that “the Sleeper Curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today, and I believe it is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down.”(279) In other words, Sleeper Curve is the main reason why it benefits the viewers. Johnson also stated that Sleeper Curves trained TV watchers, but the watchers also want a more challenging stories in the TV series. Thus, the ‘bad TVs’ also has to improve themselves so they can catch up. (289~291) I agree with Johnson’s claim of, Sleeper Curve makes the viewers improve so they Liu 2 can and will want to watch more TV shows.
Neil Postman strongly believes that due to the extent of technology we have today compared to the past 50 years, the idea of childhood is disappearing. This is caused by children being able to easily access ‘the content of the adult world’ through television that is unfolded all at once, making it hard to control the socialization of the young. Postman backs up his argument with figures that show in particular that children are fully engaged in crime and stresses how children lack a real childhood compared to the past 50 years. Although he tries and creates a stronger argument with statistics there is no definite relationship between crime and watching TV, this is just a correlation as other factors may be increasing crime. Sue Palmer is another sociologist that believes the increasing impact of technology and the media over the past 50 years is causing childhood to deteriorate.
In “Kid Kustomers” a selection from Eric Schlosser’s best-selling book, Fast Food Nation, he explains the increase in children’s advertising and states that advertising aimed at small children attempts “to increase not just current, but also future, consumption.” Throughout this text Schlosser gives many examples of how children’s advertising is effective and why it began. The reasoning behind this new increase in advertising aimed at children is because all of the companies noticed the potential amount of profit they could make off of this change. Adding children to their advertising aim was supported by companies because they want to create lifelong relationships with their customers, put pressure on future consumption of their product early,
(DL03) PSY 230 Research Paper: Current social issues in America Richard Recupero J Sargent Reynolds C.C. INTRODUCTION “ELECTRONIC BABYSITTERS” We are going to review the effects of a child’s cognitive, emotional, moral and physical development in today’s technological society. My research and thoughts include topics of excessive television viewing, texting, iPads, mobile televisions in cars and video games and how they are affecting our children. Included is some information about how violence in media also affects development. How do we aid in the development of children and are the roads we are traveling the wrong roads?
Advertising Toward Children How do we know what shoes we want to buy, or what brand of soft drink to choose? Advertising is how, and we may not know it, but we are around it every day. It is becoming a serious problem, however, because some of it is being aimed toward our children. It is unethical to advertise products toward children because they are more susceptible, and easier to persuade than adults. They also do not have the financial foundation to support their urge to spend money on the products advertised.
Even negative advertising is still advertising. In order for society’s views to be changed about child abuse and neglect, information has to be distributed. For people to change from looking upon a child as a piece of property to laws protecting them, mass media has been an essential tool of communicating to the world the pain and suffering of abused children. Whether it is a story of an infant being thrown across the room by a mother’s boyfriend or a doctor sexually abusing several Boy Scouts, the abused children are placed in our living rooms and in the forefront of the public’s mind by media outlets such as television broadcasts, newspapers, and the internet. The media is continually playing a vital role in telling
Web. 11 June 2012. Judith Warner wrote an articled titled “Parents Created This Problem, and Must Address It,” where she tackles the continually dangerous and rising issue of students who are using drugs to make them focus in school and on school work. The drugs being abused are most commonly Ritalin and Adderall, which is medication prescribed to people with A.D.H.D., but however are being used by a countless number of students. Warner argues that this is very dangerous to kids and the pressure of parents on their kids to do well in school
We should also start shipping online orders internationally as well. Thiswill greatly increase our profits while also spreading awareness of our new products. Target Market Strategy:Our target market is teens and young adults that want to experiment with new colors in make up. Almost all teens use the internet daily. To use this to our advantage, we plan to keep popular social media sites updated with our new products.
Gus Bolen Edgar Temam Writing 121 October 31, 2011 T.V: A Crisis for Our Youth Television is a powerful medium for appealing to mass audiences- it reaches people regardless of age, sex, income, or educational level. In addition, television offers sight and sound, and it makes dramatic and lifelike representations of people and products. Focused TV coverage of advertisements has been largely limited to fast food and other things to entice the younger audience into watching their show. However, too much T.V. for our younger generation is bad for their learning habits because it distracts children from homework for school.