Module 2
Journal
Media Influence

We live in a society that depends on information and communication to keep moving in the right direction and do our daily activities like work, entertainment, health care, education, personal relationships, traveling and anything else that we have to do. So it’s important to be aware of what your kids are exposed to everyday and you should also try to look at things from different perspectives and not just from the on the media gives you. Young people are in a stage of life where they want to be accepted by their peers, they want to be loved and be successful. The media creates the ideal image of a handsome men and beautiful women and tells you what the characteristics of a successful person are; you can see it in movies and TV. The modern society today people are told exactly what to do from how they should look to what they should drive. It is nearly impossible for one to avoid this media propaganda in day-to-day life. Every day that we wake up to go to work or school media and corporate advertisements become a part of our daily life. It has become a constant influence and brainwashing in daily life. As we look at our society and culture as a whole, we see that violence does exist in vast amounts. The problem of violence is compounded by the constant saturation that media coverage often provides. The media creates an almost artificial world for young people who do not have a single family member or extended family member to provide any small measure of love and kindness towards them. We need to create an environment in which parents and child can easily live and play together, so we can draw their attention away from the enticing entertainment. If we find that it is often the latch-key children whose parents work that more quickly turn to violence, then can we create programs to keep these children otherwise occupied?