option #1: the video
I watched the video and it really just proves the point that our lives are completely media saturated. From the time we are born until we are old, our lives are 100% completely media saturated and no matter what we do we aren't able to change that. The media begins to expose us to all of their ways when we're young in hopes to start us early and make us become addicted to the media. The media targets kids because kids are the ones who are the easiest to be influenced and they will be influenced for life.
The media tries to persuade its audience to view life the way the media thinks it should be; full of material things and logos. They envision our culture to be something it should never be. It tells kids that they need the latest video game to be cool and young girls that they need to look a certain way to be beautiful. The media sets standards for everyone, whether people realize it or not. The media has a hidden agenda. The media doesn't allow its audience to be an individual or to stand out. According to the media if you are different then you just don't fit in with the rest of the world.
Media saturation has caused many changes throughout our society and affects each and every person in our society whether you as a person realizes it or not. Personally, I think it's very wrong and that people need to be able to rely on themselves and not the ideas of others to form their own opinions about what they think is right and wrong.
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Ashley I really agree with your ideas. The media has totally saturated the youth industry and is trying to take over as soon as kids are born. I really found the conformity point you made interesting. I never really realized it before how the media tells you that nonconformists are bad or weird. They portray people in stereotyped groups that shows everyone fitting in somewhere and if they don't, they must change to be like everyone else, like the movie, "She's All That."
ReplyDeleteI slightly disagree because I think people can somethimes stop media influence but I agree that it is very difficult.
Good ideas.
I also watched this video and I agree with you, the media has saturated our lives, and in an extremely unhealthy way. The fact that our media is leading younger generations into unhealthy behaviors is appalling. Our society needs to realize that our media is teaching our younger generations to be consumers and to be complete conformists, slaves to the dominant culture.
ReplyDeleteOur society needs to take action to stop this before they make a generation who is completely dependent on the media and has no self control. We are told we are the future of the world, but what i want to know is, why are they trying to destroy the future, by destroying our abilities to be individuals. Individuals form our country, without people who can think for themselves, and come up with new ideas, how do they think the future will be?