...effects of the media’s portrayal of sexuality on adolescents’ sexual lives? It is certainly evident that adolescents are directly affected by the media’s portrayal of sexuality. For instance, the media has a growing tendency to depict young adolescents acting in sexual and mischievous ways. Media that is deemed as appropriate for adolescents also contains sexual content; both directly and indirectly have an influence on them. Sex is all over the media and as a result adolescents are being greatly exposed to it. Adolescents have a higher probability of becoming involved in sexual activities, and added social pressure is placed on these adolescents since the media often times depicts it as a cool and trendy thing to do. The opposite holds true as well; it is not cool and untrendy to not be involved in sexual activities. The media’s portrayal of sexuality can cause adolescents to believe it is okay being promiscuous and/or sexually active. What are some negative and some positive effects of the media’s portrayal of sexuality? Some of the negative effects of the media’s portrayal of sexuality pertain to the fact that it causes adolescents to become sexually active at a young age and subjects them to the possibility of disease, and pregnancy. There are additionally some positive aspects, too. For instance, the media’s portrayal of sexuality exposes adolescents to the potential outcomes of being sexually active. The media certainly promotes adolescent sexual behavior in many...
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...o What are the effects of the media’s portrayal of sexuality on adolescents’ sexual lives?What are some negative and some positive effects of the media’s portrayal of sexuality? o How has the media’s portrayal of sexuality affected your life? The effects of the media’s portrayal on sexuality on adolescent’s lives are vast. Most media in today’s society portrays acts of sexuality as commonplace and expected. It shows young girls being flirtatious and having sex. It shows young men as sexual predators or pressuring the girls. It is far and few between that a show displays age appropriate sexuality for it’s viewers. The media also represent’s young gays and lesbians more readily than it would have years ago. I think this is a good idea since that demographic of viewer base has increased greatly. This increased awareness for young people has both positive and negative impacts. The increased awareness of the effects of sexuality in early ages such as pregnancy and STD’s are more prevalent than in yester years. However, the increased stimuli of sexuality leads to more exploration of our younger generations to have sex earlier than they should be and producing babies at a younger age as well as they are contracting more STD’s. I think the media’s influence on our future generations needs to be tempered and that is the job of the parent or caregiver. The media’s portrayal of sexuality has not has as great an effect on my life as it could have as I do not watch much TV and tend to...
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...Adolescent Sexuality and Modern Media ENG 122 August 5, 2012 Adolescent Sexuality and Modern Media Adolescents are greatly influenced negatively by media of today, whether that is adult television, music, or the World Wide Web. Our society is consumed by some form of media today, which could be the overabundance of reality shows on TV or by the use of Facebook which is exposing the youth to sexual content and innuendos. With the freedom of speech engraved into the United States Constitution, to ask that the media be regulated is almost impossible. Parents need to be held more accountable for what their children are exposed to, and if they are involved in some form of media that could be questionable, parents should have free resources available to assist in explaining the consequences of the negative behavior. Does today’s modern media truly have an effect on our adolescent girls and if so, in what ways. Girls from the ages of fourteen through 18 are doing unquestionable things today that you did not see in the ‘80’s. TV programming has taken an extreme jump from the simplicities of cartoons, comedies and sitcoms to the unregulated exposure of today’s reality, and its consequences. When one turns on the TV, channels that have been geared towards our younger generation, for example MTV and VH1, these channels initially consisted of music videos, have now turned into Pandora’s Box, with programming consisting of 16 & Pregnant, Jersey Shore, Basketball Wives...
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...are used to portray an image, change an idea or shape an attitude. These thirty seconds or more of flashy attractions draws viewers in on the attitudes and values of which people hold in society. It promotes particular beliefs and ways of thinking. Such beliefs that are promoted through TV commercials can be the encouragement of changing one’s appearance in order to look similar as a certain celebrity. On the good side, TV commercials display positive behaviors and role models that young girls and adolescent girls can aspire to be. In contrast, many of these TV commercials have a negative influence on the life of young girls and adolescent girls. TV commercials targets young girls and adolescent girls through the use of different outlets that glorify unrealistic expectations, distorted body image and sexualization in which leads them on a path of self-destruction. TV commercials can promote positive behavior. Dove is the first “beauty” company to promote to young girls and adolescent girls that they should be comfortable with their own body. Their marketing campaign helps to establish self-esteem and a good body image. It shows “real women” as role models who are happy with themselves even though their body may not be what is typically thought of as beautiful. According to the article, “The Dove® Campaign for Real Beauty”, Dove states, “Dove® kicked off the second and most iconic phase of the Campaign for Real Beauty in June 2005, with advertising featuring six real women with...
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...Running head: THE EFFECTS OF MEDIA IN SOCIALIZATION The Effects of Media in the Socialization of Children and Young Adults The Effects of Media in the Socialization of Children and Young Adults The media today are a powerful tool in modifying the behavior of children and young adults. This behavior can be seen as negative or positive depending on the situation. Children’s development is influenced by many factors but as Lund (2003) noted the significance of the mass media cannot be overstated: “The accumulated experience of media exposure contributes to the cultivation of a child’s values, beliefs, dreams, and expectations, which shape the adult identity a child will carry and modify through his or her life.” Studies investigating Social Learning Theory, done by Baker (2007, p.26) have consistently reported that children can model roles and behaviors seen on television. Media play a significant role in the socialization process, body image, and moral judgments in children and adolescents. Cartoons on television are some of the first factors of socialization in a child’s life. Although many adults feel that cartoons are obviously fantastical, unrealistic, and therefore harmless to children, the research evidence proves otherwise. “According to developmental literature, children before the age of ten years often have difficulty differentiating between reality and fantasy”(Baker...
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...AMERICA’S ATTITUDE TOWARD SEXUALITY Rebecca Kelly Independent Study October 21, 2014 “Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.” -Napoleon Bonaparte “Playin' a fool's game, hopin' to win; And tellin' those sweet lies and losin' again; I was lookin' for love in all the wrong places; Lookin' for love in too many faces”. –Johnny Lee, 1980 Every night many Americans turn off their lights and lock their doors to prevent unwanted intruders from inviting themselves into their relatively peaceful homes. But what do they do next? Studies from the National Sleep Foundation suggest that 95% of families use some form of electronic media1 before getting a few hours of restless slumber. What they do not generally take into consideration, however, is that the shows and movies that are being watched are completely counter-productive to the doors that have just been locked and have consequently created a false sense of security. Certainly, one would not voluntarily invite an audacious woman who had just shown up on their doorstep into their home with barely any clothing on any more than they would a man with a ski mask and machete. Yet some people willingly subject themselves to this sort of viewing on a consistent basis. Beyond that, there are many children and adolescents left alone to their own devices with unlimited...
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...group and peer pressure. The importance of peers and media in middle childhood and adolescence can influence them to have risky sexual behaviors. Due to the need for acceptance during adolescents, children are more likely to act upon certain risky behaviors they wouldn't otherwise act upon. The media is the biggest influence in adolescents that promotes sexual behavior. Sexual explicit behavior affects an adolescent by initiating early sexual tensions and leading to drastic consequences they aren't ready to accept. The Need for Acceptance Adolescence is a time when children are trying to understand their identity in their society. As most of their time is spent in school, children feel like they need a sense of acceptance and belonging in a particular peer group. The need for this recognition leads them to make certain choices; they feel like they need change their attire, how they talk, and how they behave so they can be accepted into a group. Certain groups have higher expectations and joining them increases social statuses, adolescents get too...
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...felt an annoyance with the lack of desire and action to stop it. Most of the male friends I have are entertained by this type of media and enjoy the images they are shown. The images in music videos definitely reflect standard adolescent heterosexual male fantasies. For example, the song “Stacy’s Mom”, by Fountains of Wayne, presents a young boy obsessed with his friend Stacy’s mother. In Dreamworlds, the narrator describes the mother as a woman who, “obligingly undresses in full view of anyone who happens to be watching, receives a public, full body massage, and of course practices her stripper moves in the dining room table” (Jhally, Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video). After seeing these erotic images, the young boy goes into the bathroom to pleasure himself while he visualizes the mom in his head making it clear that males should identify with adolescent desires. Music videos portray femininity in a negative way and masculinity in a more appealing way. On the femininity side, sexuality is very important. Jhally describes the image of females as “ravenous creatures who desire sex at all times” (Jhally, Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video). Women are seen as incapable of being alone, needing men for emotional stability, and they define themselves by how desired they are by men. Contrasting that is the portrayal of masculinity through power, force and intimidation. Men in the videos are constantly seen using women in whatever ways they please...
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...Comparing and Contrasting Essentialist Approaches to Social Psychology with Social Constructionist Approaches to Social Psychology. A widely recognised definition of social psychology is “an effort to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others” (Allport, 1985). However, how to measure this, the research methods to be used and what constitutes useful evidence has caused much debate in the history of social psychology. This essay will compare and contrast the two epistemologies of essentialist and social constructionist approaches to social psychology and the research methods of quantitative and qualitative used in each approach. Essentialists’ view of the world is that the properties possessed by a group are universal in that group and do not depend on context. However, a member of a group may possess other characteristics that are not required to include it as a group member but, it must not have characteristics that preclude it from being a member of the group (Burr, 1995). For example, essentialists believe that personality consists of a number of traits and personality of an individual is established by the level of each of these traits. Essentialists also believe that these traits remain more or less stable over time and it is our personality that influences behaviour (Maltby, 2010). As essentialists are able to classify groups as such, they use quantitative research...
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...A Biennial Report of the Kaiser Family Foundation 2003 X SE ON TV Dale Kunkel, Ph.D. Erica Biely Keren Eyal Kirstie Cope-Farrar, Ph.D. Edward Donnerstein, Ph.D. Rena Fandrich 3 SEX ON TV 2003 A BIENNIAL REPORT TO THE KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION DALE KUNKEL, PH.D., ERICA BIELY, KEREN EYAL, KIRSTIE COPEFARRAR, PH.D., EDWARD DONNERSTEIN, PH.D., and RENA FANDRICH UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA FEBRUARY 2003 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors wish to convey their sincere appreciation to a number of individuals who have played important roles in supporting and facilitating this research. At UCSB, Charles Mullin directed the videotaping effort that captured over 1,000 programs for analysis with diligence, dedication, and careful precision, as he has done consistently over the years in his work on this project. Emma Rollin generously assisted in this effort, assuming primary responsibility for several of the channels studied. The staff at UCSB’s Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research accomplished all of the financial aspects of the study helpfully and expertly. Tim Schmidt, Jan Jacobson, Jan Holtzclaw, Monica Koegler-Blaha, and Nicole DuBois all contributed to the success of this study with their “can do” approach to the many challenges posed by administrative bureaucracies. At the Kaiser Family Foundation, Vicky Rideout has been an invaluable partner since the outset of this ongoing project tracking sexual messages on television. Her vision...
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...Research Method in Communication The effect of sexual scene in EX movie to Dasein and TAR college student from age 18 to 24 Lim Bee Yee DMC 102- 054 Suzie Lagis 1 August 2011 Content 1. Introduction 3 2. Background to Research 3 3. Problem Statement 4 4. Research Objective 4 5. Research Question 4-5 6. Significance of Research/ Contribution to the Body of Knowledge 5 7. Literature Review 6-8 8. Methodology 8-9 9. Finding 9-19 10. Discussion 19-20 11. Conclusion ...
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...Yes, children do hear explicit sexual references on the national news at some point. If I was a reporter and a parent, I would put parental control on the television at a certain time so my children would not hear or see any explicit sexual references. Also, when sexual references are being released on the air such as the news children should be in school at that time. This can help balance the responsibility to report the news and protect young children at the same time. According to an article by the National Institute of Health, there is growing concern about young people's exposure to sexual content through television and other electronic media and about its potential effects on their sexual attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Researchers...
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...overlook the bad messages the music industry, specifically rap music gives to the adolescents and children, it influences them to have sex at an early age, become drug addicts, and engage in violence. Music is apart of life, it brings people together and brings people apart, in a sense that they get so lost in a tone of a song that they mentally escape reality, thus bringing people apart in a way. Even though this is a fact not many people listen to the lyrics of the song they love so much. Adolescents, are usually those who do not think about the message about their favorite song. Teenagers in today’s generation would say that the music they hear does not effect them in any way shape or form. On the contrary it affects them without them without noticing with subliminal messages. Rap music in particular has the greatest impact on young people to this day....
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...22 Carter, C. (2011) “Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond,” in Ross, K. (ed) The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN-10: 1444338544; 365-82. ISBN-13: 978-1444338546 Sex/Gender and the Media From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond Cynthia Carter Introduction In the early years of second-wave western feminism, many gender researchers and feminist scholars distinguished between the notion of sex, defined as biological differences between male and female, and ‘sex roles,’ referring to certain behaviors and characteristics attributed to each sex that was a social construction. The resulting media research centered on images of women in the media (much less emphasis was placed on men) in order to draw attention to inequities in their portrayal in relation to men (in quantitative terms as well as in terms of the use of stereotypes). Since the 1970s, however, the scope of social constructionism has greatly expanded in feminist theory. Some suggest that the distinction between the biological and the social has, as a result, eroded to such an extent that it is no longer possible to understand the difference, while others question the need for this distinction. For instance, in queer and transgender theory and feminist cultural studies, theorists have sought to make strange the ‘sex/gender’ distinction. The key argument made is that biology is no less a cultural construct than gender socialization into...
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...(Holubcikova etc 1039). Young people tend to kill themselves because of bullying. This is very traumatic. Seeing oneself as an overweight person may be linked to suicidal thoughts. Adolescents definitely endorse bullying which is a...
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