The media nowadays plays a big role in our lives. Whether printed or broadcasted it is present in everyone’s life, regardless of their social class. Examples of media are things such as TV, Internet, periodicals, music, and periodicals. A common assumption is that an individual have the power to choose, but are we really making our own choices? Or are we being influenced by the media to make our choices without even knowing. To what extent does media influence the way we live? Are the rules society impose on us being reinforced and applied to us by the mass media?
The television certainly was the greatest invention from the past century. With it, we were able to watch and witness various important moments of our history, such as the first American man on the moon.
In the western world, millions of people watch television everyday. It became part of our cultural habits. We use television to inform, entertain, and sometimes even learn as schools and teachers adopted it, as part of their teaching techniques.
Every person regardless of age has its own favorite show or movie they can not miss. Children usually enjoy cartoons, adults have a big variety of shows to choose from. Incidentally is our taste, influenced by who we are?
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They have different strategy to manipulate our choices. Better the commercial, easier is the way for marketers to convince us of the quality of their products and how it could improve our lives. Companies, spend thousands of Dollars to advertise their products on the mass media. We cannot trust anything we read, see or hear. For example, the rapper Eminem caused a big repercussion with one of his songs, where he reproduces a fight with his wife killing her afterwards. Parents and teachers, have noticed that kids nowadays, who watches television everyday are far more aggressive than the ones of their own childhood. Therefore, we should be very careful choosing where we get our information from, and how reliable that source can be. Thus, kids like to play by interpreting their favorite cartoon’s characters.
Next, music and its industry, also influence us. We all do that, it is natural in our society to get inspired by what we see on TV. The newspaper keep us informed of what is going on in the world. It has given an opportunity for people to meet others, resulting sometimes into something further, such as friendships and even weddings. These negatives sides of television affects more children and teenagers than adults. In addition many movies with sexual, violence and strong language content, are shown on television during the morning and afternoon, which are usually times when children watch television. Chat rooms, also have its positive sides.
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