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Mass Media’s the New Negative Role Model For Teenage Girls
Many of us every morning watch TV, listen to music, are in school or work during the day. We share the latest news on fashion, world events; talking about a great new movie we saw with our friends or family. Then after school or work we plug into the world of mass media; TV, computers, and magazines. We do all of this without actually realizing the amount of media we are consuming on a daily basis. Can we imagine a time period in which we are not allowed to use any kind of media, including TV, computers, magazines or mobile phones? Many of us would agree that this isn’t possible due to our obsession with mass media. It is a fact that the media has an impact in our lives. However, how it does it is a mystery, and it revolves around our lives daily eventually influencing our values and preferences. If adults are extremely influenced by mass media, imagine the teeangers today. Adolescents are living in the age of technology where they view the media as another form of guidance especially teenage girls. Therefore, the mass media has a huge impact on growing teenage girl’s lives influencing them in negative ways. The mass media impacts lives of many, but mostly those of teenage girls. As kids are growing to become teenagers they go through puberty, a delicate time where they start finding out who they truly are. Teenage girls find more interest in their appearance and are quickly influenced by everything shown in the Internet, TV and magazines. This is important because what may seem completely normal in the media to many is actually not. A large majority of research and cases demonstrate an increase of deaths and self harm being done by teenage girl’s due to their lack of self- esteem and depression because of mass media. A recent study shows that the average amount of time spent watching television content among all 8-18 year olds is 4.29 hours in a typical day, and an estimated 33 million 12-19 year
Many of us every morning watch TV, listen to music, are in school or work during the day. We share the latest news on fashion, world events; talking about a great new movie we saw with our friends or family. Then after school or work we plug into the world of mass media; TV, computers, and magazines. We do all of this without actually realizing the amount of media we are consuming on a daily basis. Can we imagine a time period in which we are not allowed to use any kind of media, including TV, computers, magazines or mobile phones? Many of us would agree that this isn’t possible due to our obsession with mass media. It is a fact that the media has an impact in our lives. However, how it does it is a mystery, and it revolves around our lives daily eventually influencing our values and preferences. If adults are extremely influenced by mass media, imagine the teeangers today. Adolescents are living in the age of technology where they view the media as another form of guidance especially teenage girls. Therefore, the mass media has a huge impact on growing teenage girl’s lives influencing them in negative ways. The mass media impacts lives of many, but mostly those of teenage girls. As kids are growing to become teenagers they go through puberty, a delicate time where they start finding out who they truly are. Teenage girls find more interest in their appearance and are quickly influenced by everything shown in the Internet, TV and magazines. This is important because what may seem completely normal in the media to many is actually not. A large majority of research and cases demonstrate an increase of deaths and self harm being done by teenage girl’s due to their lack of self- esteem and depression because of mass media. A recent study shows that the average amount of time spent watching television content among all 8-18 year olds is 4.29 hours in a typical day, and an estimated 33 million 12-19 year