Mr. Mariano
MASSCOM A52
9 July 2013
Mass Society Health: An Annotated Bibliography
Mass society theory is an idea that media has strong influence towards people, it plays a role of shaping people’s mind and perception of the social world and it is also to manipulate people’s action with delicate, subtle and effective ways (Baran and Davis 2006, p.43). With this, Mass Society Health states that various forms of media may infer health-related issues on people especially children. These issues may constitute the leading cause of health hazards and can cause negative effects on its viewers. On contrary, there can also be whooping advantages that media can present to the society when it comes to media and health advances.
Strasburger, Victor, Amy Jordan, and Ed Donnerstein. “Health Effects of Media on Children and Adolescents.” Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics 125.4 (2010): 756-767. EBSCO. Web. 30 Jun. 2013
Strasburger is a renowned American pediatrician and is a Professor of Pediatrics at University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Amy Jordan is a director of the Media and the Developing Child sector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Ed Donnerstein is from the Department of Communication at The University of Arizona. In this paper, the authors intend to explain if media have health effects on Media and Adolescents. It presented different observation on how the youth get influenced by different media technologies such as television and gaming consoles. It also explains that the aforementioned technologies bring influences and new learning on the viewers such as health information, sexual messages and violence which may involve either positive or negative implications on mass society. Using different questions for surveys, the authors found out that television is the most popular form of media exposure for the
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