Social Isolation In Media

Isolation isn’t something that happens only to a distinct group of individuals, but can happen to anyone. For example, looking at a prisoner placed in solitary confinement, an elderly woman living alone and a bullied 18-year-old high school student; on the surface, they have nothing in common but they are all, one way or another, experiencing some form of isolation. It occurs to individuals when ¬¬¬¬they are removed from their interactive environments and they typically express behaviour ranging from moodiness to depression. Media, in the form of television shows and movies, is home to various examples of isolation. For example, the Korean television show ‘Angry Mom’ illustrates social isolation in the form of bullying (Ashbun, 2015). Although,
Social isolation, sensory deprivation and confinement are attributes that help with this (Gilmartin et al., 2013). Social isolation is basically the state when individuals are separated from their social networks and removed from their relationships. It can happen at work, school, or home and is typically an involuntary process. Sensory deprivation goes hand in hand with social isolation and happens when individuals receive a significant decrease in the number of stimuli that result with human contact (Gilmartin et al., 2013). For example, an elderly woman living alone would be experiencing social isolation because she is removed from her social relationships and cannot go out and engage in society as freely as before. She is also experiencing sensory deprivation because she isn’t experiencing the same amount of human contact because of her age or physical state. Behaviours that are associated with isolation include depression, anger, loneliness and anxiety (Gilmartin et al., 2013). The main way these attributes separate isolation from concepts such as voluntary seclusion and solitude is because isolation isn’t a voluntary process and the individual cannot enter and exit it as they