...The use and abuse of psychoactive substances have long prevailed through history. For decades society has known about psychoactive substances and many are presented through media as a norm. Throughout, the American popular culture, the media frequently documented these substances through movies, songs, TV shows, TV commercials, etc. Both society and the media have implemented good and bad stereotypes of drug use. On one side, they indicate that media cannot portray more than it is actually shown in the media. On the other hand, longitudinal studies support a connection between media portrayals of drug use and other drugs among children, adolescents and young adults. For this said, I decided to choose one of America’s popular movies, Scarface,...
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...Influence of Entertainment Media HUM/186 October 21, 2013 Shaun P. Herness Influence of Entertainment Media Every day Americans search websites like TMZ.com and blogs, or buy magazines at stores to see what celebrities are doing. Some Americans instead of buying or searching the web tune in to E! TV to follow celebrities’ lifestyles. This trend has become more common with all the available entertainment media. Entertainment media is easy to find online, stores, and television. E! TV has the show “Keeping Up With The Kardashian.” This show has become part of the American entertainment media culture, from teenagers to adults tune in to watch it. This is a reality show that is based on the life of a Hollywood family, including their personal problems, vacations, and even more explicit situations like divorce and sexual conversations. This reality shows has become a trend in Hollywood and the American people believe that they are living the life of these celebrities. The entertainment media does not only affect the American culture it also affects what people are doing. Woman and teenage girls are looking at this media to compare what they wear, how they look, and how their lifestyle is. Teenage girls use the media to shape their body like their favorite celebrities, and in many occasions it has affected their health. Teenage girls are suffering of eating and emotional disorders. In the last couple of years entertainment media has become extremely popular and the American...
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...Abstract Adolescent substance abuse is a major problem in society. There are many risk factors that can contribute to adolescent substance abuse. One of the main risk factors is peer pressure. When adolescents start at a young age there is an increase in health problems, addiction, and over all poor social outcomes. Parental influence has substantial effect on adolescents because the adolescent sees their parents and they learn by their example. Media plays a role in the use of drug and alcohol use among young people. Many school systems have implemented programs that teach adolescents about the problems of substance abuse that is funded by the government. The community health nurse helps provide education in the community. The cost for substance abuse can be astronomic. Emergency room visits, treatment programs and even court costs lead to billions of dollars annually. The key to prevention is education. Adolescent Substance Abuse In society today adolescent substance abuse is a growing problem. There are many risk factors that can lead to substance abuse. It is important to understand the reasons behind why the adolescent begins the experimentation of drugs and alcohol. Media plays a role in adolescent substance abuse. Many times advertisement and movies betray alcohol or drug use as fun and not addictive. Many times the people are happy and having a good time. This gives many young people the wrong idea about substance use. Substance abuse among young people between the ages...
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...of Social Media on Society and Teens Tyler Clementi, 18 was a regular freshman who was passionate about playing the violin and was still very new to his gay identity. Instead of enjoying college life at Rutgers University, his first semester proved to be a disaster experiencing the tauntment of tweets and statuses from other students behind computer screens and key boards. Cyberbullying is not the only negative effect that social media has on teens and society but she shares the biggest impact. It can be used through so many ways especially through social networking sites. All media sites construct reality that has powerful, yet subtle implications. The media has the ability to influence how teens and society think, shop, dress, behave, judge people and feel about other individuals. Some of these influences cause social and health issues. Social networking is not safe enough to protect anyone that has access to the internet. Social media has become very superior to the daily lives of society that has negatively affected society because of its influences of cyberbullying, the judgement of others and the promotion of drug or alcohol. Social networking is a very common way for people of different groups, age and ethnic background to connect together. It can become more of a community online that is only on the internet. Social media sites are usally free to sign up and join with no cost to connect with others. The question may be how the companies of social media gain many...
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...the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, “Socialization” is the process by which we learn to become members of society, both by internalizing the Norms and values of society, and also by learning how to perform our social roles as workers, friends, citizens, and so forth. This process of human development is said to be based on the concept of “Nature vs. Nurture”, that is the comparative importance of heredity (nature) and the environment (nurture) in the causation of human behavior. The mass media, which refers collectively to all media technologies such as the radio, internet, television, film and smart phones, has the ability to constantly communicate messages to extremely large audiences across the globe and therefore is a major influence on the way the environment affects our socialization process. Mass media is a significant force in moderrn culture; sociologists refer to this as mediated culture, were the media reflects and creates culture. Although family is suppose to be the most important agent of socialization the development of new technologies has bridged an increasing gap between the older and younger generations. Newer generations are drawn into the entertaining and appealing world of technology and are being constantly bombarded with messages from a multitude of media sources, these messages not only promote products, but moods, attitudes, and a sense of what is and is not important. With lesser and lesser interaction between the older and younger generations cultural...
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...The media in American society will often attempt to make people believe that their lives should be similar to fairy tales. The reality many Americans face is far different from what is depicted in the media. Expectations of having a perfect body or being able to spend money without worry are seldom found in the average person's life. Nevertheless, the media will flaunt these expectations to a great extent. The media proposes that these expectations need to be met in order to avoid being deemed a failure by society's standards. Movies and television are perhaps the biggest tools the media will utilize against society. Movies often try to subtly sell their ideas of what a perfect human physique should look like. Women are depicted with gorgeous looks and bodies as if they represent the standard of what all women should strive to look like. The expectations for a man's body tend to deal with how physically fit they are. In the eyes of the...
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...Alcohol and Drug Abuse among Adolescent Nyria Madison Liberty University Coun 620 Abstract Around the world we are finding that most adolescent are experiencing drugs and alcohol. Adolescent who are experiencing the use of drugs has been a factor for decades. This has become a major trend in this world as of today. This paper will discuss the standpoint of adolescent alcohol and drugs. This paper will also identify and inform you on the common predictors of adolescent substance abuse. In addition, this paper will review ways on how substance abuse can lead to become a negative behavior from the adolescent micro, mezzo, and macro system. This paper will focus on how peer, family characteristic, and individual and factors connection with substance abuse in adolescents. It also will demonstrate a relationship that links to factors in at risk youth. However, researchers has shown that most adolescent and at risk teens are influence by drugs and alcohol because of their peers, family and individual characteristic. Introduction Society today has a huge trend on Alcohol and drugs among adolescent. This has become a huge impact on at risk teens. However, adolescent may reflect on drugs because of plethora circumstances. Adolescent may believe that alcohol and drugs may help them to cope better with their problems. According to McWhirter, Alcohol and other drug involvement and use among adolescents have been a society and public problem for decades (McWhirter...
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...Substance Abuse – Pre-midterm Notes Week 2 (First lecture) – 9/10 * Substance use vs. abuse * Use * The legal enjoyment of your property within socially acceptable norms * i.e. you don’t drive under the influence – that’s not socially acceptable * Consumption of any psychoactive substance * More neutral * Includes * Social drinking * 1-2 drinks on any one social occasion * Abuse * Any use of illegal drugs * Ex. Any use of crack cocaine – never legal * Used both objectively and pejoratively with the intention to vilify consumption of illicit drugs * Use that is harmful and puts the user at risk * Have been used interchangeably by the media * Alcohol use in that context * Social drinking * 1-2 drinks in a day, in any one social occasion * Problem drinking * 3-4 drinks a day * Alcohol abuse * 6-24 drinks a day * What is a drug?: Defining the term * 3 categories: Illegality, Medical utility, Psychoactivity * Medical utility * Used to treat or heal the mind or body * Medicalization: prescription of currently illegal substances for medical purposes * Marijuana in 14 states * Heroin in some countries * Not all substances have medical utility * Categorization by government ...
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...Media and its Influence on Teens Benjamin Morgan COM/172 September 12, 2012 Judith Arent-Morency Media and its Influence on Teens The media surrounds society in a major way. Most people within society are influenced by television, movies, and music whether they realize it or not. The violence in these forms of media can have a heavy impact on a child’s learning process which can carry on into adulthood. Children view cartoons which contain high levels of violence that then teach the children violent behavior without consequence, because parents often do not explain what fantasy is and what is real. All forms of media can have a substantially negative effect on society especially teens. Parents are the key to preventing such major influence by talking with children and teens and help them understand what is right and wrong. As society has grown so has technology. Before television times were more easy going; people were happy to help others, and they had a sense of safety in the community. TV, movies, and music have all changed this. More people break laws and are dishonest, most of society does not feel safe as it is evident by locking of doors and constant upgrades of security measures. TV has greatly influenced these changes. Television promotes alcohol, drug use, sex and violence on a daily basis. Violence has become more prevalent in primetime television; the average child will see thousands of simulated murders before they...
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...Thesis Statement and Outline What is your thesis statement? Many people use drugs, but what we don’t realize is the affects that legal and illegal drugs has on society. Is drug use ever ok? Do legal drugs pose more of a threat than illegal drugs with today’s society? It is a fact more people die from prescription drugs use than illegal drugs. You hear about drugs in social media, movies, from friends and peers. Not everything you hear is true it is up to you to decide. I. Introduction Children are taught at a young age that illegal drugs can harm you and lead you down a path of addiction. But what they don’t tell you is that legal drugs which are prescribed are just as dangerous and kill at least 106,000 people every year.(cdc.gov,2013) II. First main point legal drugs vs. illegal drugs A. Supporting details Do legal drugs pose more of a threat than illegal drugs with today’s society? 1. Subdetails 11 percent of American use prescribed drugs(cdcNovenber2100) 2. Subdetails 10,0000-20,000 Americans dies due to illegal drug use B. Supporting details Is drug use ever ok? 1. Subdetails The media paints an biased picture of legal drug use 2. Subdetails The public does not know the effects of legal drug use III. Second main point Hearing about drugs on the news, from social media, friends, family and peers A. Supporting details the media has always painted a one-sided picture ...
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...Playing With A Powerful Medium: The Media’s Role in Shaping American Society American stereotypes are far from scarce. The most recent ones I came across were in the blog called Tobsy says on “10 common German prejudices about the USA,” where certain typecasts about Americans were listed, such as being extremely superficial and the need for everything to be in an XXL (houses, cars, burgers, breast implant, etc). It’s quite fascinating how prejudices can sometimes be so precise. The American society as a whole has no one to blame for our habits and lifestyle except ourselves, well maybe the media might also play a small part in shaping our minds to be this way. The statistics on media use in this country is staggering. In this day and age, the average American adult uses 6.43 hours a day in media attention, with American teenagers using up to an average 7.48 hours a day. It is therefore kind of hard to deny that the media has become an intricate part of American society. All the media we are exposed to influences our decisions on what’s important, what to enjoy, and even what to wear. It’s no coincidence that the total advertising revenue in the United States was 285.1 billion dollars in 2008, which was approximately 44% of the worldwide advertising revenue. Why are these advertisers paying so much money, especially in America, to get their products out there? It’s because it works. Advertisements are out to persuade audiences to buy their products...
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...between Culture and Entertainment Media. There are many ways entertainment media has shaped American culture and brought new values over society. Entertainment media today is a lot different from what our moms and dads grew up listening to or watching. In todays’ world our version of entertainment contains a lot of profanity and nudity, seeing this has caused our generation to believe that using profanity or walking around with body parts showing is what we are supposed to do. Back then there was black and white movies now we have color, when it was black and white movies there was less drama and killing or if there was killing in the movies it was never shown; now we are able to see people getting killed on movies...
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...with a blind eye, but when looked at on a large scale, our population’s ignorance from our entertainment, inaccurate beliefs, and media will be the downfall of our misunderstood world. Ignorance often defines and influences our morals and social dramatic instances. We let our ego control our actions by only doing things if will be amusing or influential to our piers. This kind of thinking causes us to avoid seeing as things as they really are, instead we just agree with the majority’s view. The reason we think in this sense is because of our fear of the unknown. It is a fear that is not necessarily scary and normally we don’t even realize its existence, but when our ignorance begins to fade, we see how corrupt and self-centered our world is becoming. Ignorance mainly grows from our media that often solely influences our minds. For example, what we consider entertainment is drama, comedy, and reality shows on television. The drama people see usually effects how they think and how they look at others, though most people never take time to realize that all television drama is staged and made out to be the way the producers want it to be portrayed. Comedy we see today is very crude and filled with drugs and alcohol and use situations that would be out of context in real life to be funny. This gives a message to viewers that doing drugs and drinking alcohol is funny and is the thing to do to have fun. This may seem like a view that you would only affect children,...
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...the topic of illegal drugs will be traced across three different television serials that vary in genre. In each programme illegal drugs are a pivotal element to the storyline, with close reference to youth involvement. This analysis will investigate how different televisual forms shape the way illegal drug use is understood and made visible across three different genres of television with reference to youth involvement. In addition, this analysis will discuss to what extent this representation of illegal drugs assists in legitimating themes of drug use and how these representations have shifted throughout history. This analysis will explore the representation of illegal drug in Workaholics, 90210 and Arrow. The mass media are commonly seen to reflect and shape social attitudes and behaviours; therefore it is likely that representations of teen characters in film and television will assist in defining what normative behaviours and actions are for teen viewers (Stern 331). This contributes to the argument that television can influence and young viewers are using these representations to authenticate their behaviours according to the dominant values represented on television. The repetitive portrayal of drug use on television can be seen to glamorise drug use and provide an overabundance, and inaccurate representation of drugs (Long et al. 96). As it is more commonly discussed and glamorised, it becomes more likely that young people will associate substance use and alcohol with being...
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...The media has a tremendous influence on today’s society. The public absorbs the information that the media throws at them and tends to use it as a bar to set societal standards or normalcies. It has been scientifically proven that about 95% of the American population owns a TV set and watches it for 3-4 hours per day. By the end of the last century over 60% of men and 50% of women read a newspaper each day and nearly half of all girls, from the age of 7 read a girls magazine each week. (Jade 2012). The media is a very important aspect of life in our culture. Through this idolization of media, pressure is inflicted onto the public to live up to these expectations that are set. The epidemic proportions of drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction, and unsafe weight among women have led theorists to posit the existence of mechanisms that are capable of impacting a large number of women. The media is one such mechanism that has an ever-increasing influence and reach on women around the world. In the United States, negative body image issues are well established in the female culture. The media and peer pressure are key catalysts that...
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