When it comes to children’s affect upon American culture and values sports and video games have a big role in that field. Children adapt to environments and the type of entertaining media they grow up around. If a child is constantly around sports activities and is entertained that way then most likely they will have a passion for that type of entertainment. Younger children that have a favorite sports player or someone they look up to will most likely try to follow that persons fashion trends and how the athletic individual might portray himself to children. Also, children that are involved in playing video games might absorb tendencies from what they are involved with while playing video games.
Social influences of entertainment can be both negative and positive. Social influence involves one’s opinions, behaviors and emotions so any atmosphere an individual is around will most likely conform to that person’s behaviors. Entertainment can socially be positively influenced if the entertainment is positively distributed. If it is not positively distributed then it can have a negative effect on some people.
Entertainment media is a reflection for societal behaviors and attitudes upon how it reflects to people individually and as mass groups as well. For
References: Social media (2012). Publication of Library technology reports (6th ed.). King, David Lee: Author. | | |