The Effects of Mass Media

// January 28th, 2008 // Media

The Effects of Mass Media

In this day and age, Mass Media is all over. It surmounts the activity of the people. It shapes, forms and influences the buying decisions of the majority through its incessant advertising schemes bombarding our daily existence and it seems that there is no stopping it. As a result, this leads to the invincible effects of Mass Media to the society and its people.

The effects of Mass Media in the present time is both extraordinary and dreadful. On the positive sense, Mass Media makes the lives of the people at ease, along with Information and Communication Technologies, they produce a breakthrough and innovative standard of living for the people to embrace and to live by.

Yet for the young people especially for the teens, the upshot of Mass Media to their lives is in some manner destructive. Mass Media is by some means damaging their innocence of reality and their genuine perception of the outside world.

Teens of today were consumed by constant media messages. Anywhere they rest their eyes they will be exposed to countless advertising and marketing messages. Predominantly, the entertainment media largely influences these young people to act and behave in a certain way that will subsequently be accepted by the society and the people around them.

Mass Media exposes different revolutionary sides of reality and of life. Still, it becomes the most celebrated and widely used by the people in this day and age.

In due course, the effects of Mass Media will forever strike humanity and modify its way of living.

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What mass media system do you expect to go through a huge change in the next several years?
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16 Responses to “The Effects of Mass Media”

  1. ramintute909 says:
    January 28, 2008 at 9:56 am

    What’s the name of this song? ;)

  2. PiscesJ88 says:
    January 28, 2008 at 10:09 am

    I was searching Google for information on Mass Media, ironically I am also doing Mass Media. It is for my College English Composition Argumentative Essay and I loved this video and the music added a nice touch. This could be one side of my argument. Thank you for posting this video.

  3. nidhigupta148 says:
    January 28, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Good one.

  4. hilary_fan_1616 says:
    January 28, 2008 at 10:28 am

    One of the first positive effects I can think of at the moment, is probably that mass media keeps people informed of any recent events within a short amount of time. When, for example, a politician is assassinated, you will hear this immediately, so that you will know what is going on. Media keeps you informed.

    I belive that mass media has affected our society both positively and negetively. It has programmed our thoughts,how we dress and how we relate to one another.Certain images shown on television influence kids to misbehave,disobeying parents under the impression that its cool.Disobediance leads to distruction,that leads to teenage pregnancy, drug abuse etc.On the other hand mass media can persuade young kids positively:if you tune to programmes that motivates positive force.

    http://people.artcenter.edu/~chuh/SP03web/WRITING/effects%20of%20mass%20media.html

    http://articles.famouswhy.com/mass_media_have_both_harmful_and_beneficial_effects/

  5. Tekoo says:
    January 28, 2008 at 10:38 am

    turn you into an addicted sheep… look at texting… i dare you to take it away from somebody that has done it 21 simotanous days…

  6. Ymya says:
    January 28, 2008 at 10:40 am
  7. nBDiR4KLY says:
    January 28, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    GREAT JOB bro! nice

  8. kristine m says:
    January 28, 2008 at 4:46 pm
  9. Navy SEAL - 42 says:
    January 28, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    we know instantly when the worlds stock markets crash.

  10. corrrdoba says:
    January 29, 2008 at 8:49 am

    good job and great song

  11. Kristen K says:
    January 29, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Nope'

  12. ChuckHitler says:
    January 30, 2008 at 7:14 am

    great video. i am going to do something similar. for my broadcast journalism project.

  13. 911truthseekers says:
    January 30, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    FUCK FOX NEW, FUCK GLEN BECK, AND FUCK oREILLY, THEY ARE ALL TRAITORS!!!! Angels and Demons is a hollywood coverup! Illuminati masons and skull and bones 6 million is a pure lie! YOUTUBE DELETES ACCTS THAT EXPOSE THE TRUTH TO 9/11, OR ABOUT JFK, THE ILLUMINATI, MASONS, SKULL AND BONES, ISRAEL, AIPAC, CFR, HOLLYWOOD COVERUPS, MUSIC COVERUPS, MIND CONTROL, EXPOSE THE LIES AMERICA! WE MUST FIGHT NWO! AND FOR THE RECORD, HE WAS ASKING A GREAT QUESTION!!! EXPOSE THE TRUTH! PROTOCOLS OF ZION!

  14. serious_gurl says:
    January 30, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    The effect of Media on us today is a stealthy thief. As we read our daily Newspaper, the advertising sometimes takes up the whole page. We search for the rest of the article, hidden back beneath the ads. When we turn the Radio on during the ride to work, verses of songs can overwhelm us with the vulgarity and crudeness, casting us into a foul mood for the rest of the day. As we drive down the road we are still being contacted by advertising. The Billboards tell us where to stay, where to shop, and how to get to the racetrack. The Magazines we read now have articles we would not want our children to read. The racy and risqué now is commonplace, causing our children to grow up with way too much information. Our children and teenagers have used Games and gaming to such an extent that they now feel violence is normal and acceptable. The games children play with on the Internet seems to be destroying the value system we desire to teach. When we go online to surf the web we are bombarded with inappropriate Internet pop-ups and emails. Buy this, play the casino here – we will even give you money to start. Then, when we get home our place of peace, yet the Television is on, inciting our children, and toys there are. On TV they age can watch the ill manners of the Bart Simpson show, playing at a time that is not appropriate, the dinner hour. This show is adult humor, yet there it is when our little ones are still up.

    We need to evaluate the trends of today. Does the influence in our family’s lives build stronger healthier families? Or do the TV, Radio, Magazines, Internet, and Games tear down what we are trying to establish, a good moral home place, family values that are taught and learned at home. Is what we see, what we are about to become? How much does what we see stay with us?
    Lets think about it!

  15. Joshua H says:
    January 31, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Mass Media's effect on people's perception of crime or violence – do you think people are more numb to it now because it's shown so much on TV and in newspapers?

    effect on language – this is a good one – come up with slang that has come from tv shows and become popular (i.e. , talk about how allowing certain curse words has made them more mainstream, how tv spreads things faster than they would if there wasn't tv, maybe even throw in the short lived wave about ebonics and how it was covered on the news. You could also talk about children's tv and how things have changed – children are learning spanish from Dora and songs from tv – most kids don't even know nusery rhymes any more. You can add other forms of mass media into this by saying it has also affected written language – there are a few websites online that talk about how many typos there are nowdays in the newspaper/magazines, etc. and how computers and IMing has taught kids wrong spellings/shortcut spellings, not to capitalize, use punctuation wrong, and not even construct full sentences (I'm guilty of it too!)

    effect on trends – without TLC and HGTV would there be such an interest in home improvement? Without Dancing with the Stars would Ballroom still be a lost art? Without all those commercials and magazine ads would kids still want all the toys/video games/phones, etc?

  16. _"jona"_ says:
    January 31, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    Besides sexually driven, obese or anorexic socially handicapped under achievers

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