Does Mass Media give negative impacts to students aged 5-21?? and Y??

Question

Does mass media contribute to the social problems that we are facing now??

or it's just a medium?? and the persons behind it that is @ fault??

Please gimme your Answers..

Answer 1

Mainstream media only has a few purposes, to sell, to misinform and to entertain (to keep our minds off the truth), in that order.

Answer 2

Very much so. The media has desentised us to violence contributing to our high level of excptance in violence in the home and in the community. The constant barage of violence in mens sports like football teaches young men through their idols behaviour that tough and violent is cool. It portrays women as perfect figures and gorgeous rather than normal contributing to many eating disorder in young girls and the current obession women have with plastic surgery. The media also sexualises young girls in the cloths they wear and the way they look contributing to the younger interest in s*x. It offen portray women and men in sterotyped roles such as women washing cooking cleaning and washing while men are having a beer.This contributes to our thinking that this is the way we should behave as male and female. This is contributing to family breakdown as many women associate discontent with the imbalance of work within the home. This also contributes to an exceptance that is ok for men to sit around drinking. People on tv are offen are role models so they have a big impact on our behaviour.

Answer 3

yeah, as a 17 yr old student, i think it does.  i just did a term in english about the media, and for a while i seriously thought the media was evil lol.  yeah they do have a lot of negative impacts... body image problems, advertising with technology that makes people isolated, overweight and away from more important things.  just a few examples.