...In the media, reality TV stars like Snooki and Kim Kardashian are on the rise. Most channels on television have at least one reality show, from following housewives to remodeling homes of real life families. However, there are some reality programs that display bad examples, especially for young audiences that are keeping up with each episode. On MTV people see girls being drunk in public, addicts doing drugs, and young girls raising babies at young ages; these are situations seen on reality TV shows. Jeremy W. Peters’ “When Reality TV Gets Too Real” and James Poniewozik’s “Why Reality TV is Good for us” inform readers about what the general public can view on television and how it affects the minds of children. Reality TV shows such as Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant, Intervention, and The Real World all are bad for kids because they show inappropriate and explicit behavior, they send a bad message, and they humiliate people. For these reasons, parents should make sure their kids do not get the wrong message of how life should be. Reality TV shows are inappropriate and explicit. In Jersey Shore, Italians are portrayed as partyers and classified as Guidos and Guidettes. Actual Italians are disgusted since they think it is an insult to their Italian culture. Furthermore on MTV, young girls can be seen struggling with teen pregnancy. The show 16 and Pregnant follows expectant teens and their partners at a young age with a baby on the way struggling to maintain basic needs for themselves...
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...critical thinking approach is much more concerned with how societal forces influence and interact with individual forces. Some assumptions of the critical thinking theory are how the play of hierarchy plays a huge role in the exchanges of communication. For example, when I am talking to my friends outside of school or something, my way of communication will be a little more laid back with a lot of “slang” or acronyms being used between us. Although if I were talking to a professional adult or maybe even interviewing for a job I know that my ways of communication towards them would be completely different. I would have a more proper tone and I would be using a lot more elevated vocabulary to make myself look more intelligent and also to come across as a smart person. Cultural studies is an approach that comes from the critical approach. It’s a study showing how people can participate in their culture but yet also resist its powerful influences. Some examples of these cases could be workers trying to get back at their bosses for any reason and they maybe start to bad talk them to potential clients or even start spreading things about them. Critical scholars really believe that reality is a subjective and that everyone makes their own reality. Although some of these realities have physical consequences. For example, here in this country we have a social reality that movie actors are extremely rich just because they entertain us on TV, while teachers don’t get payed as much and aren’t...
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...“Our reality is never our own but is influenced by others.” FLAPC: In this expository essay, I aim to discuss how our reality can be our own although it’s often influenced by others. Our reality can be influenced by several external sources; the media, government, values, beliefs and perceptions. I’m aiming to connect to my audience of VCE students as they will have a better understanding of ‘Whose Reality?’ and the context, ‘Wag the Dog’ (a 1997 film directed by Barry Levinson). I aim to get my readers to recognise the large role that media play in influencing our realities along with how dangerous the collaboration of the media and the government truly is. In order to put forth my opinion I’ll write in a cynical tone to portray that the motives of particular people are bad, I’ll use factual (gun crimes in the US) and fictional (‘Wag the Dog’ and ‘Leaky Boat’) evidence and I’ll use proper terminology to add sophistication and credit to my piece. In this piece, I draw on examples from ‘Wag the Dog’ (1997 film directed by Barry Levinson), ‘Leaky Boat’ (2011 ABC documentary) and gun crimes in the US in order to illustrate the idea that people are easily influenced by external sources, especially when they have authority. ESSAY: Stephan Lewandowsky’s study shows that “weighing the plausibility of a message is cognitively more difficult than simply accepting that the message is true – it requires additional motivational and cognitive resources.” This shows why peoples realities...
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...William Viera 07/12/2013 Draft Paper #1 WC: 1,078 Michael Novak’s “Television Shapes Our Souls” We can all agree from Michael Novak’s “Television Shapes Our Soul” that television does influence our minds just as books, school and parenting does. A reason why it affects us individually is because of today’s vast variety of different programs on primetime television. All of us want to know what is out there in the world that we are not able to experience in our own regular lives. For example, we want television to inform us and educate. We can retain this valuable information and expect it to be there every time we tune into the specific program or channel. These programs have different paces and speeds to catch the attention of the audience. For example, educational programs are slower in order to be understandable. On the other hand, action programs moves a lot faster to catch attention. Reality TV shows are in today’s primetime now because we want to know how other people interact in different situations. On the contrary in a TV sitcom, Novak sates in his essay “television is simplified and homogenized”. Writers of TV sitcoms control what a whole culture is going to watch and thereby shapes people souls. In other words, they are always keeping the same script. This creates and shapes the mind of the audience to what is socially normal. Different programs have different effects on the audience. This is why some programs are more appealing to me than others. Mystery...
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...to explained what happened, lying about who it was and trying to calm down Truman. The last head line was "Classified". This newspaper headline was trying to tell people, everything was ok and that every things going to go back to normal after the whole running away and getting caught. The media has influenced us to think differently, to act...
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...for communication also brings along with it certain concerns linked to how people have embraced this form of communication. Reality shows are a type of Television shows which have gained continuous popularity over the years. Due to reality shows being linked to real life scenarios, they have grown popular among viewers who prefer them and willing to watch them as compared to other shows available on Television (Ford and Kosnik). Soap-opera, survival and wildlife documentary are just some of the popular reality shows aired on TV in recent years with each attracting its own audience but yet these shows are very unrealistic. Each Reality show will have a different effect on a viewer. Some People may like survival and wildlife commentary that tend to provide actual knowledge, while others like soap-operas. Soap Operas tend to attract more women than men. Some examples include Love and Hip Hop, The Real Housewives etc. These types of shows are more destructive to the family unit because they glamorize and over exaggerate family problems. Soap-opera’s mainly focus on creating shows that depict families and couples suffering from major disputes and stress. At home family problems should not be handled the way they are on tv(Wyatt and Bunton). While this may be overlooked by many people to be just a Television show, these reality shows have been identified to have a major effect on the viewer’s mind. Research shows that since Television began being viewed by large numbers of people in...
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...Effect of Reality Television on Today's Youth Kimberly Lindsey English Competition II Professor Lauren Higgins April 29, 2013 CAUSE AND EFFECT 1 Reality television has evolved over the past sixty years. They have went from clean practical jokes to a portrayal of an American family to how to party, lie and deceive. The more the focus is on partying, drugs, sex, vulgarerness, the more our young people will portray these traits. There needs to be more focus on good wholesome clean fun, that keeps the youth safe and healthy. The way to change the way our society is headed is to stop the programing that is hurting all of us. Reality shows of today teaches the youth that its alright to disobey their parents, its alright to party, do drugs, have sex with multiple people, get pregnant, and that the guys that don't have to stay around or take care of the situation they helped put the girl in. The cause and effects of today's reality shows far out weigh the advantages they have. Its hard to believe that reality shows have been around for almost sixty years. The very first reality show was produced...
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...Today many people understand that the media can influence us in different ways. Even if we don’t believe what the media say it still shapes the parameters of our experience. Study after study tells us that the media do affect us. Whether we recognize it or not, mediated images not only help to shape our view of the world, but shape our value and actions. Watching movies and programs on the television as we relax takes us away into this different realm—that is, there are parts in our being that feels we are the ones in the movie and sometimes we even feel what they are feeling as we get caught in the emotional excitement. The effect of media does not stop when the movie or program ends. And this lingering effect might just be the cause of behavioral changes in people. Thus our knowledge of the world becomes a complex blend of personal, interpersonal and mediated experience. Watching popular TV programs, movies or sitcoms we tend unconsciously to copy some life style images and bring it to our way of life. Imagistic advertising is qualitatively different from nonimagistic ad, because rather than lead us to rationally evaluate the price and quality of a particular product it focuses on our emotions and conscious and underconscious desire. Imagistic advertising compels us to organize our world and place value via commercial culture products. Silently we observe and order our lives using fashion. We come to understand who we are in the same way we come to understand the...
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...the most popular shows and cartoons that we mainly watch consist of different types of stereotypes. Not knowing what the media's subliminal message is at this moment, it plays a key role into what our children are taking in with everything they watch and how what they view as a child effects how they see other people. Heiner discusses this in his book that social problems and critical construction-ism affect the way we live today and in the future. There are three TV shows that i have watched and carefully analyzed that show how the media today, has twisted the way we see Television. Not even really knowing that what we are watching is a Guinea-pig instrument that the government uses to make us see how they want everyday life to be. For example these are some of the shows that use stereotypes in every episode to trick us and to make us desire to be like them just because of their gender, race or class. The Cartoon "Hey Arnold" was created by Craig Bartlett and was diversely a stereotypical show that was basically showing people how middle class/poor kids in the ghetto lived and told the adventures they had together. The main Character in this cartoon was a little scrawny low class white kid named Arnold. Arnold is well respected around the city that he lives in just because of his humble and well-mannered nature. He is a quiet kid that has group of friends that he kicks it with and they describe him by his funny shaped "football head". As you watch the show you find that Arnold...
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...historic art, classical music, traditional theater or literature. It includes many forms of cultural communication, including newspapers, television, advertising, comics, pop music, radio, novels, movies, etc. In the beginning of the 20th Century," High art" was the realm of the wealthy and educated classes while popular culture or "Low art" is commercial entertainment for the lower classes. In the 1950s and 60s the gap between them closed with the rise of Pop Art” (Kartha, 2011, p.1). Pop culture is so prominent in society that it is almost impossible to escape its influence. This is especially true in America. As a result of easy access, children absorb huge amounts of information presented by the pop culture world, which influences and shapes their identities. However, not all of it is negative and if parents educate themselves and monitor their children’s activities, pop culture is often a positive influence that helps mold the children of the future (Nixon, 2012). Three Major Trends in Popular American Culture One major trend is social networking; a popular way to socialize, network, and meet people. To be "accepted socially" belonging to a social network is essential. Some of the popular social networks are Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Twitter connects users to the latest stories, ideas, opinions,...
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...the age of 5 when this person saw an R-rated movie” and “...teenager had started inhaling cocaine after seeing it done in a movie.” (Schlessinger) According to the writer, the above actions are a result of children being over exposed to pop culture. Yes, it is possible that the effect pop culture can have on children can be more profound since it influences their developing morals, but that does not rule out the possible effects it can have on adults as well. In his own experience Carr states that, “[He’s] not thinking the way [he] used to think...[he’d] spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now [his] concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages...” (Carr) So it can be concluded that pop culture has a way of affecting not just the young and innocent, but also mature adults. In “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” Johnson proposes that, “...it [TV] is largely a force for good: enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down.” (Johnson 279) In a direct response to this article, Stevens contradicts the view of Johnson by stating, “watching TV teaches you to watch more TV” and “Johnson fails...
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...When I Grow Up: An Analytical Study of the Interpretations of Children on Pop Culture Elements found in Selected TV Commercials “TV takes our children across the globe before parents give them permission to cross the streets.” - Joshua Meyrowitz BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Advertising is a form of mass communication strategy created to promote the purchase of a certain product, message, or service in the market. It carries the messages that come to you from the people who pay for the media (Biagi, 2001, p. 227). It is also an act of popularizing something through mass media to attract the attention of the consumers, audiences, or mainly the public for higher sales and marketability. Tracing through the history, evidences of advertising is said to have started thousands of years before when people started trading things for survival. Thus, the rise of technology, industrialization, and capitalism triggered the success of advertising in the heightening state of competition worldwide and in every aspect; from commodities, to people and politics. The industrial revolution, according to some historians, is the root of commercial advertising (Campbell, 2002, p. 387). Because of the continuous occurrence of new products in the market and there is a need to sell them off instantly, businessmen tried the concept of large scale advertising to sell more. Over the time, manufacturers realized that if their products were distinctive and became associated with quality, customers...
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...ways. It’s given us ideas on how to be social, how things were in the past, economics, the invention of computers, also the invention of cell phones, and even game consoles. These ideas have changed our values and shaped American culture. Reality shows are a big part of American culture they show what our values have become from visual entertainment. Millions of people watch these shows regardless of how simpleminded they are, but in the same sense they make people talk about them. Things from our past such as the theatre during the 1920’s helped people through hard times. Theatre did this by letting them forget how bad their lives were, and in some cases gave people ideas on how to deal with the depression at the time. Visual entertainment media has had an effect on economics through the production of movies, and TV shows. Reality shows try showing how people act when they think no one else is around them. When in reality all they are showing, is that it’s alright to be in a culture, of acting horrendously. The invention of the following technological devices such as computers, cell phones, and game consoles, broadened people’s minds to a whole new type of entertainment to add to our culture. These inventions which changed American culture did make our culture rich with information, but in turn it has made people lazy. The more people tend to use these devices, the less they want to do anything else, which makes our values slowly suffer. The social influences of visual entertainment...
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...When Reality TV gets too real 1. Text 2, summary In the text “ ” We get information about . We get information about the bad behaviors and assorted crimes that has been going on in different Reality TVs. Some on the big crimes that are being showed in the episodes are alcohol, drunk driving, and under- age drinking, which also includes dangerous working conditions for children. Even though all of this might cause some harms in their afterlife, such a disregard, suicide and disturbance, it does not seems to be that important for the companies. They place more emphasis on the ratings and to catch people’s attention so they can get more viewers. But one of the problematic issues in the text is about the producers’ responsibility of the crimes and if they have the right to require intervention. teksten "Når Reality TV bliver for real". Vi får information om de dårlige adfærd og diverse forbrydelser, som har stået på i forskellige Reality-TV. Nogle på de store forbrydelser, der bliver viste i episoder er alkohol, spirituskørsel, og mindreåriges alkoholmisbrug, som også omfatter farlige arbejdsforhold for børn. Selvom alt dette kan medføre, at nogle skader i deres efterliv, sådan en ligegyldighed, selvmord og forstyrrelser, er det ikke ser ud til at være så vigtigt for virksomhederne. De lægger mere vægt på de ratings og til at fange folks opmærksomhed, så de kan få flere seere. Men en af de problematiske spørgsmål i teksten...
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...Television Media Abstract Television is an amazing thing. Many years ago, we had a black and white screen with big knobs, as bulky as a microwave for a television. Now, with technology so advanced, we have it almost paper thin and we sit in front of it just mesmerized by what we watch on the screen. We watch anything from the news, to reality television, to educational programs, and so on. It’s such a powerful tool that can have a big influence on most consumers because most of us sit in front of it either when we are bored or just want to relax. It is a phenomenon that has allowed us to see the latest news, advertisements, the latest movies, or even the most up to date current events that is happening throughout the whole world. History of Television There are different Era’s of the televisions. Prior to the year 1935, it was called the Mechanical Television Era. It was the first generation and was not completely electronic which displayed a TV screen and it had a small motor with a spinning disc and neon lamp. (Bennett, 2001) First Media Advertisement in the United States In the United States, the first advertisement shown on the television was for Bulova and it had showed for 10 seconds and was placed before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. The company paid only $9.00 for the advertisement. There are two main characteristics to television advertisement in the United States. The first task is to create a television...
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